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Show I THE CAPITAL OF BULGARIA. By This Account, Not a Pleasant Place to Live In. In a recent book on "Cltlos" Arthur Symons writes of tho capital of Bulgaria: Bul-garia: "Thero is something dry, hot and llorco In Holla which la at onco ordinary, sordid and almost startling. Tho houses are for tho most part such houses as ono might seo In any small town lu any country, but at a corner on the malu streot 'thcro Is a mosque and around tho mosque something llito a village fair. Wooden booths are set up at each side of tho street, wooden palings surround empty spaces or open upon cafes In which trees glow or upon one-story houses or upon a llttlu wooden theater. Money-changers, with their glass cases or gold and silver coins and coin earrings and rings outside their shop windows, suggest sug-gest already tho sarafs of Constantinople. Constanti-nople. At upper windows above tho shops you see men working sewing machines; at tho edge of tho pavement pave-ment llttlu dark bootblacks, Kurds, sit with their wooden blocks bctoro them. Men pass selling water, grapes and nuts; a woman passes and then another, an-other, carrying a litigo dark greon melon In her arms, solemnly, like a royal orb." |