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Show SCENES IN NAPLES. Same of the Incidents of the Street Life at the Neapolitans. The commonest people of Naples Bel. flora 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 it laughingly reasonable in price ani varied in kind. Besides the ever present macaroni the principal articles of food are the frutti 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 aB kinds, maize dumplings, so called Epighe, and finally the national meat food, called braccinole, 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 all kinds, and they would be quite lost witLout their portion of struffoli, a rather tough cake made principally of honey. Then nothing appeals to the laz-zaroni laz-zaroni appetite 60 insidiously as tho 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 all, a questionable dainty to uneducated palates. The lazzaroni women are seldora beautiful and generally not oven 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 country coun-try as seen in Rome and in the Cam-pagna, Cam-pagna, whose trim figures, graceful movements and frequently charmingly fascinating faces bo often greet the eye of the traveler. Their fullness of form, proud bearing and fine profiles are all oonspicuously absent in the wives of thr lazzaroni. And how could it well bt otherwise? Are they not "beasts of bur den" for "beasts of burden?" Are th? facchini, by reason of their occupation, much more than this? Home and Cour |