Show I SCENES IN NAPLES Some of the Incidents of tho Street life ol tho Neapolitans Tho commonest pepple of Naples seldom sel-dom buy anything from the stores or shops but patronize peddlers and street hawkers almost exclusively At the portable port-able kitchen booths a bill of fare is offered of-fered to the hungry wayfarer that is laughingly reasonable in price aiii varied in kind Besides the ever present macaroni the principal articles of food are the frutti di mare sea fruits in eluding mussels polypi and sea spiders all regarded as most tempting delicacies by the ever hungry lazzaronie Then there are roasted fishes of ail l kinds maize dumplings sy called spighe and finally tho national meat food called bracciuole which is really a dumpling or cake made of lamb meat and lard Snail soup is another delicacy as well as cheese with bacon la pizza Like all southerners the Neapolitans show a marked fondness for sweets of nil kinds and they would be quite lost without their portion of strnffoli a rather tough cake made principally of honey Then nothing appeals to the laz zaroni appetite so insidiously as the famous fa-mous Euster cake of Cassatello which is sprinkled most temptingly with fluid pork fat and whichwhole eggs are baked shell and all a questionable dainty to uneducated palates The lazzaroui women are seldom beautiful and generally net even pretty They are usually poorly built with swarthy complexions and irregular features fea-tures Now and then 0110 finds a lustrous pail of ojes of great beauty but rarely Tho Neapolitan women are not to b compared with the women of the country coun-try as seen in Home and in the Cam pagna whoso trim figures graceful movements and frequently charmingly fascinating faces so often greet the eye of tho traveler Their fullness of form proud bearing and fine profiles are all conspicuously absent in the wives of tho azzarouL And how could it well be otherwise Are they not beasts of bnr den for beasts of burden Are the facchini by reason of their occupation much more than thisHomo and Genii |