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Show SCENES IN NAPLES. tome of the Incidents of tbe Street UX the Neapolitans. The commonest people 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 ii laughingly reasonable in price and Varied in kind. Besides the ever present macaroni the principal articles of foO$ are tho frutti di mare, "sea fruits," in eluding mussels, polypi and sea spiders, all regarded as most tempting delicacies by tho ever hungry lazzaronie. Then there ate roasted f shes of aB kinds, maize dumplings, so called spighe, and finally the national meat food, called braccinole, which is really 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 Neapolitan! show u marked fondness for sweets ol all kinds, and they would be quite lost witlout their portion of struffoli, a rather tough cako made principally ol honey. Then nothing appeals to the lazzaroni laz-zaroni appetite bo insidiously as the famous fa-mous Easter cake of Cassatello, which ia sprinkled most temptingly with fluid pork fat, and in which wholo eggs are baked, shell and all, a questionable dainty to uneducated palates. The lazzaroni women are seldom beautiful and generally not even pretty. They are usually poorly built, with swarthy complexions and irregular features. fea-tures. Now and then one finds a lustrouf pair of eyes of great beauty, but rarely. The Neapolitan women are not to b compared with the women of the cona try as Been in Borne and in the Cam-pagna, Cam-pagna, whose trim figures, graceful movements and frequently charmingly fascinating faces so often greet the ey of the traveler. Their fullness of form, proud bearing and fine profiles are all conspicuously absent in the wives of th lazzaroni And how could it well be 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 Coub |