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Show THE CAPITAL OF BULGARIA. I By This Account, Not a Pleasant Place to Live In. In a recent book on "Cities" Arthur Syraons wrlteu of the capital of Bulgaria: Bul-garia: "There la Bomethhu; dry, hot and fierce In Sofia which Is at once ordinary, sordid and almost startling. i nu houses are for the most part mien houses as ono might sec In any small town In any country, hut at a corner on the main street there is a mosque and around the mosque something like a village fair. Wooden booths are set up at each side of the street, wooden palings surround empty spaces or open upon cafes In which tiees grow or upon one-story houses or upon a llttlo 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 the sarafs of Constantinople. Constanti-nople. At upper wlndoWB above tho shops you see men working sewing machines; ot the edge of the pavement pave-ment little dark bootblacks. Kurds, sit with their wooden blocks beiore thorn. .Men pass selling water, grapes ond nuts; a woman passes anil then an other, carrying a huge dark green melon In her arms, solemnly, like a royal orb." |