The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-10-30
SCENES IN NAPLES.
Some of the Incidents of the Street Life os
the NeaDoIitaus,

Some of the Incidents of the Street Life ot
the Neapolitans.
The commonest people Of Naples sell.
dom buy anything from the stores OF
shops, but pstronize peddlers and street
hawkers almost exclusively. At the port
able kitchen booths a bill of fare is Of.
fered to the hungry wayfarer that is
laughingly reasonable in price and
varied in kind Besides the ever present
macaroni the principal articles of food
are the frutti di mare, "sea fruits, " in
cluding musseIs, polypi and sea spiders,
all regarded as most tempting deIicacles
by the ever hungry lazzaronie.
Then there are roasted fishes of al
kinds, maize dumplings, Sc called
spighe, and finally the national meat
food, called braccinole, which is really o
dumpling or cake made of lamb meat
and lard. Snail soup is another delicacy
as well as cheese with bacon (la pizza(
Like all southerners,. the Neapolitana
show IA marked fondness for sweets OF
all kinds, and they would be quite lost
without their portion of strufoli, a
rather tough cake made principally Of
honey. Then nothing appeals to the laz'
zaroni appetite so insidiously as the ia.
nous Easter cake of Cassatello, which
Ia sprinlxled most temptingly with fluid
pork fat, ana in which whole eggs are
baked, shell and all, questionable
dainty to uEeducated palates.
The lazzaroni women are seldom
beautiful and generally not even pretty.
They are usually poorly built, with
swarthy compilations and irregular fea-
lures. Now and then one finds a lustrous
pair of eyes of great beauty, but rarely.
The Neapolitan women are not to be
compared with the women of the couR
try as seen in Rome and in the Caro-
pagna, whose trim figures, graceful;
movements and frequently charmingly
fascinating faces so often greet the eye
of the traveller, Their fullness of form.
proud bearing and fine profiles are ali
oonspicuously absent in the wives of thu
lazzaroni. And how could it well be
otherwise? Are they not ''beasts of bur
den" for "beasts of burden?" Are the
facchini, by reason of their occupation,
much more than this?-Home and Cous
A government export trade in wives
has just been begun for the benefit Of
western Australia. A consignment Of
so young women, sound, good looking,
under 20 and carefully selected, was
sent free recently in order to provide
wives for the colonistA
why is He so Irritable?"
This question is often heard and
nearly as often unanswered.
1t is not always remembered, as il
should be, that the occasion of i'll
temper and irritability is often to bt
found in the physical condition Of the
persons affected. What is the use o
trying to "harmoniZe" a man whose
liver has gone back Oh him? II maj
is tortured with rheumatism, how Cal
he be expected to be affable and agree
able2 Can a confirmed dyspeptic bt
expected to be cheerful and always
ready to tell a funny story? The only
way to remove the difficulty is TO get a
the cause. Dyspepsia, rheumatism
impure blood and liver troubles YielC
to Hoods Sarsaparilla; this is why j
is sn effective tranquilizer. peacefu
messenger, and preventative of do,
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