, 1890-05-22


landowners superintendent, an
ignorant, illy-paid, bestial fellow
himself, cares Tor number
Of tho animals needed In
the fields and where the 'massara'
(literally, ncld-house womanl cooks
the little needed for the laborers.
These "nnsserle'' nre the uglicst
0ne-story stone buildings imaglna-
BILE. They arc invariably set on an
elevation 60 escape us much as pos
sible the universal malaria. Qund-
drlateral stone walls perhaps thirty
feet squure rise seven or cight feet
high. A portion OF the front viii
be covered with un almost Hat metal
or slate roof. Then from the rear
wall vaulted arches extend toward
the front. These usually cont tain
three compartments. One, the lest
OF all, Is provided with stone
managers extending all along II for
oxen, horses or donkeys; In anot her,
the ''massara" warns the slop given
tho laborcrs; and In the last, are stone
benches ON which the laborers take
their midday siesta and sleep at
night. These swarm with vormin !;
are tilthler aud more desolate than
any prison known to man; and
stand ,unrelieved by vine, shrub
or tree, repulsive and forbldding
siihouettos Of stone against "A blue
Italian sky.
Five other characteristic features
of Southern Italian pastoral scenery
suggest, rs with the ''messarie,"
human activity and contlguity to
si,n ~, ~ ~s,JJ",,i,,a ioynaI,,aal ~
tbs .,aio u or raised earthern or
stone threshiny floor, shaped like u
followed truncated cone, where the
grain Is trod out by piindioided
oxen ,ne e,sterna OF c's,ern ,' lor
o.voa',s '.,''a m"'u, ~. .he dna,i,@,, @
'ma ~, uso r,,n,,,r ~. u,e sun,,an vJ min ,on
s,ass ana',,i, ,na s,'r,.na viii, az.
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Summon f'''
PEASANT LIFE.
But where do these one to two
million peasants of Southern italy
Iivo ~ the countrv nossesses M
aah,,s ,r ,,a h,Ils,,i.. M nas,,,na
.a.m'h ,,,a,.. i,' ~ ILL 80 Evar,s,
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d.nrai,, ,ion. ,,, ,Ee S.raosns y, as
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