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Show SCENES IH NAPLES. Stoais of the Incidents of th Street; U aj the Neapolitans. The commonest people of Naples set. 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 of. fered to the hungry wayfarer that u laughingly reasonable in price and Varied in kind. Besides the ever present macaroni the principal articles of food i ! are the frntti di mare, "sea fruits," including in-cluding mussels, polypi and sea spiders, all regarded as most tempting delicacies by the ever hungry lazzaronie. Then there ave roasted fishes of all I kinds, maize dumplings, so called ppighe, and finally the national meat food, called braccinole, which is really s dumpling or cake made of lamb meat and lard. Snail soup is another delicacy as well as cheese with bacon (la pizzaj Like all southerners, the Neapolitans Ehow i marked fondness for sweets of all kinds, and they would be quite lost without their portion cf struffoli, a rather tough cake made principally of honey. Then nothing appeals to tho laz zaroni appetite so insidiously as the famous fa-mous Easter cake of Cassatello, which is sprinkled most temptingly with fluid pork fat, and in. which whole eggs are baked, shell and ali, a questionable dainty to uneducated palates. The iazzaroni women are seldom beautiful and generally not even pretty. They are usually poorly built, with j swarthy complexions and irregular features. fea-tures. Now and then one finds a lustrouf ?air of eyes of great beauty, but rarely, he Neapolitan women are not to t compared with the women of the com try as seen in Rome and in the Cam pagna, whose trim figures, graceful movements and frequently charmingly fascinating faces so often greet the eye of the traveler. Their fullness of form, proud bearing and fine profiles are ali conspicuously absent in the wives of th-Iazzaroni. th-Iazzaroni. And how could it well bt otherwise? Are they not "beasts of burden'.' bur-den'.' for "beasts of burden?" Are th? facchini, by reason of their occupation, much more than this? Home and Coo |