New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-13

->u-sua. rms esSa Dnshrnert was weii "oH'n
IooI-i1,o mon . His showroom was an enormous
Dr,hroIlo npfolded over big wooden box, the Do1
-syviug for a store-house. Upon tho under nde OF
thu nmbrolIa no had managed to hang eoupio On
Inrared bats fit for al sizes and conditions OK men
of the peasant Glass; Bright blue hats WIFI ScslO'
feathers in the band seemed TO sell moss hoadliS'
and il was with astonishing ghbness that inc 0eet
would warrant each hat to hold its color aeSihSS
the fercest sun. As saw ono after announcer "
these hats 90 out from under the umbrella upon the
heads of the purchasers, i fancied could see IL
breias am reminded of the cateTpillar,green un-
bYeias which were sale at one place. Iney VIZ VIZ
made Of Oil-coth and were waTIahtea ~ hH to
scare the rain away. There were other uInpIeua9
sold too in great Plumbers. Italians are wOnderlI
people for umbrellas Women carry them Wheh
t6ev 90 TO the spring for water. One may see them
holding the umbrellas high above the huge copper
kettles which they carry on their headS. 10
other day saw q woman carrying the CORPSE VI an
infant TO the cemetery, balancing the collin on her
head Over the colin she held an enormous RSen
oil-cIOth umbrella. ,, ,a
seemed TO DO for chairs and the reason was evident
enough when came to go home. for All aIOng tho
road we saw men and women sitting In the cuauns
which had been bought at the fair. Rested, tie
women would mount the chair or chairs as the case
might be, upon her head, hang upon the lsgs OF y
the pitchers and other crockery, the new shoes and
tbe bundles Of dry goods, and tRudge along again.
There is one funny thing about Italian peaSans
women. They do not ordinarily wear their saots
V biie walking on the highway. They save them TO
make a show of in town. just before tneY come
into town they sit down by the Foadslde' %iHe
of coarse voOllen socks from somewhere ABOUT
their persons. and over the socks draw on tnelr
boots or, if they haven't boots they sup thoF ''es
into the pockets Of their wooden slippers
MIRTH AND MISERY IN CONTRAST.
Without stopping to examine everything In the
roarket-ulace we passed through the city till we
came to another great square in which the sport Oh
the dav was going on. It consisted principally OF
dancing; dancing on the bare ground. The datcers
were country people who had come to town spe-
cIally to enjoy the dancing. There were about
twenty distinct circles of dancers brass Dand
of eight pieces furnished the music for the most
pretentious circle, and from this band there was
gradual scaling down till for the last place there
vas active competition between a one-armed i'd
der. whose bow was fastened to him by means of
half a pair of tOngs, and the owner OF most dis
tressed and rasping ACCORDION. The dancing was
very good for its kind. For the most part 1t was
eontIa-dancing and the dancers shook themselves
about az if they had no expectation OF living into
the soreness and stiffness of the MORROW. Inc
women commonly danced in their stocking feet, ana
II really made an unsccugtomed observer shuoder
TO see them stubbng their light fantastic toes about
in the sand and gravel. The men seemed happy
while dancing but the women on the contrary
looked miserable The reason was obvious. Com
paratiyely few of the women standing about could
be prevailed upon to dance, and the few who would
dance we're kept in almost perpetual motion.
On the edge of the square wtro located the catch
penny fellows who always find their way to fairs
There was even a catch-penny woman. Her means
~ getting wealth was table of zinc with half
dozen brass discs fastened upon 1t: For cents
che allowed one TO pitch ten iron disks az her tabie.
and in the event of a pitchers covering OraSS dlsa
with the iron Ones 50 that none OF the brass shOWeu
she gave a franc. She won two francs from the
Notwithstanding delegation from CarraTa. close
ly her was the man with the brass ball and wooden
min game and next Go him the man with the arr
gun the latter casting enviOus glances ag telloW
across the way who coming money win steei
bow and arrow. OF beRgars there seemed count
,Iess number. They had come IN from all the coun"
Try Tor miles abOnt. And what beggars they Were'
too Prescott says that in Mexico before the con-
Ourgt IL was quite n common thing Tor the people
20 breed human mOnstTositics, and that fathers
yyoUld disiuure and defOrm their own children Tor
the sake Of the liberal price that was PAID Tor such
monstrosites ut the national museum. IL seemed
as though some OF the beggars at the Plctrasanta
fair we're hneal descendants of these Tretehed
MeXicans There were Others who seemed To have
nothing tho matter with then; women whose only
claim 70 charity was that they bad from ten to
thirty sick children dependent on them men VINO
eculd only hinsiy hack their claims by pleas tDab
thew had not tasted food for fIOm three to SIX
month"; To well dressed people these beggars at
IN he'd themselves like lecches. they got alma
almost ii ct ayis. Il with feelings of intense
satisfaction that gave the last desperate menol-
cant who attacked MS Just as we were starting
home all we bad left, an American army and
navy cent"