, 1890-06-05


offtnslveiy show object 10 omen.
Inou'hcn strangers. In the very
early morning, while tho gray N yet
Upon ,ne water, and the purgllng Of
tne tues is liko the chuckling Of
nignt imps In tho dark retreats Of
the lowest arches and angles; then
~ IL that the oldest and most fas.
cinaihg proccssions pnss and repass
away down there la the shadows
nencatil your window. Scores oi
little long bargcs loaded with
vegetables from tho Hat, out
,ying Islands arc on Their
way TO tho market at the Rialto.
'ihelr sails are red, with blue tips
ana yellow center pieces, and most
lgrotesquc figures of Madonnas are
painted solnewhcrc on their gaudily.
coiored aterns. These bargcs are
propelled by poles In the hands OF
men In purple, pink, blue and orange
garments, and very often bare
headed peasant woman IN piled In
with the vegetables. Hero aud there
randalo, lighter and more grace
tui bark than the gondoln, darts by,
IL ~ rowed by two mon with tas-
sclcd caps, like the Biscayan fisher.
men. A half dozen goats are tied
head and tail to tho gunwale, and
women and children nro milking
these on their way to the
next customer. Bnrcas with
soldiers speeding 10 or from
guard changing fill the shad.
owy way with din Of chatter.
Ing profanity. Here ARE four nuns
with bowed heads being rowcd on
Some errand Of mercy. Again whole
families Of the lowlicr classes, espe-
cially pious through some common
bereavement, are sitting out to be
present Mt some very cheap and carly
lnpss. Here come u crowd Of
boats with villagers, vegetables,
fowls, fiagons Of milk bestowed In
dewy wisps OF grass, roles Of butter
In last years sweet, white corn.
husks and numberless and namcless
stuffb for the mercato. They are
fr0m the mainland hamlets, and
must have been astir at midnight,
Following these is n curious iproces.
sion of g0ndolas piled higher than
the gondoliers' heads with house
hold goods and the people owning
them who are thus moving,
follow In their own gondolas,
suggesting a funeral OF household
goods cut short In its cortege,
There are frlars with huge baskets
In their gondolas setting out to the
markets to buy and beg for their
brethren aud the poor; tired fisher
men with boat loads of cleaning
fruit of the sea; sailors subdued and
sullen after IN all nights registering
on their way back to their dogs
life and the ships; messengers with
the nights collection of kilograms;
bakers in white linen caps and
shirts, with boat loads of black,
brown and white bread; water-car-
riers with huge casks aud flagons OF
water. butchers, iccmen,
grocerymen, all In boats making
their first morning rounds; and all
Of them down there upon the water
In the shadows seeming like some
weird and silent maskers In n
dream.
Titan gives his BELLA" In the
Pitt gallery, that light, heecy and
almost transparent gcldcn-red hair,
commonly known as Venetian.
This il another OF those pretty Nene-
tian mysticlsms which IL is un-
pleasant to dlssipate. / have seen
perhaps 10000 women In Venice
Among nll these no Venetian wom-
an was crowned with hair OF any
such color. Out of Difference to II
late freak on the part of Pntti, there
were English, French and American
DANES whose heads were glowing
beacons OF the Tition style. The
women of Venice have square heads
with wide foeheads, deeply-sunken
and lustrous eyes, with Wide, arch
ing brows which meet, tiny ears aud
hair the texture, color and quality
of IA farm-horsc's black tail whose
outer and exposed iilamoD Is have be-
come rusty, dusty and gray In fly and
plowiny time. There are three
classes from which to choose your
typcs of Venetian women, and from
none Of these will you find the ideal
faces and forms of poetic painting
or the artists pencil. The first com
prise the women of the aristocracy;
ilip, tall plain, patient, grave, list
lcs-. ambltionless, vacuous, silent.
They remind one OF the .Iewesses Of
Algiers In their languid mapncr,
Dut DOt-t~r Ilont vi ioTNituTf
almost pathetic beauty. They seem
to exist as merely passive beings in
a hateful present, dolciully regard
ing the dead glorles of "A vanished
past. In the second class are chiefly
ihe brusque, strnpping, square
bodied wives and daughters OF the
small dealers, relic showmen and
petty politicians Of modern Venice.
They are loud-volccd, wide,jawed,
brazen-faced; regard the social revo-
luton which has put them nt the
front of the decayed aristocracy as II
gladstone, heaven-sent dispcnsation,
and mimic the last years Paris and
London fashions with an atliuencc
and enthusiasm worthy OF their ox-
traordinary vigor and assurance.
The third class IL of course tho
lowly. Its women are bare.headcd,
bare.legged, bare-breasted creatures
with pudgy little faces, tiny noses
and eyes, tiny mouths with puck
cred, proiruding lips, nccks with II
tendency TO goitfe, and with no
more perfection of symmetry about
their bunchy, sqiaw like forms than
Won will find In the humpy, head
peasant women from
BULGARIA and lower Hungary who
are weekly landed at Castle Garden
in New York. These glory In
immeuse flat, crescent-shapcd ear.
rings. metal braces upon arms and
ankles, huge strings of gaudy We
netian beads, garlic aud babies.
This is not pleasant picture, but 1t
a a true one. All these faces have
n,nre or less of q plalntive look