The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-04-12
Some of the Incidents of the Street Lifs oa
the Neapoiitans.

Some of the Incidents of the Street Lifs "a
the NeapoIitans.
The commonest people of Naples sci.
dom buy anything from the stores or
shops, but patronize peddlers and street
hawkers almost exclusively. At the port.
able kitchen booths 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 fooe
are the frutti di mare, "sea fruits, " in
cluding musseIs, polypi and sea spiders
all regarded as most tempting delicaciea
by the ever hungry lazzaronie
Then there are roasted fishes OF ali
kinds, maize dumplings, So called
spighe, and finally the national meat
food, called braccinole, which is really .
dumpling or cake made of lamb meat
and lard. Snail soup is another delicacy
as we'll as cheese with bacon ia pizzal
Like all southerners, the Neapolitana
show ID marked fondness for sweets OF
all kinds, and they would be quite lost
without their portion of struffoli, a
rather tough cake made principally OF
honey. Then nothing appeals to the laz'
zaroni appetite so insidiously as the fa-
nous Easter cake of Cassatello. which
is sprinkled most temptingly with fluid
pork fat, and in which whole eggs are
baked, shell and all, questionable
dainty to uneducated 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 b.
compared with the women of the com
try as seen in Rome and in the Cam
pagna, whose trim figures, graceful
movements and frequently charmingly
fascinating faces so often greet the eye
of the traveller. Their fu1lness of form.
proud bearing and fine profles are ali
conspicuously 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 Ceus
-,
Two Famous Old Apple Trees.
The decayed stump is all that remains
of the famous mother tree, the Oldest
known specimen of the Rhode Island
Grooming. A few rods southwest of the
old limekiln ON the northern verge Of
Fruit Hill, on Frederick w Winsor's
farm, stands younger tree. Mrs. Win
sor's great t-great-grandfather, Nehemiah
Smith, planted the mother tree, of which
the other is limb wrenched while load
ed with fruit from the parent stock, dur
ing King George IFS reign, in 174S, and
was therefore 141 years old when it was
cut down in 186990, and its life from
the seed must be nearly $50 years
The present tree, the daughter tree"
SO called, is limb Of the mother trunk
and was broken off in the September
gale of 1915, and which, from an elbow
thrust into the moist, rich soil, took
root and became independent F. NJ.
Perry of Canandaigua, N. Y, famous
nurseryman and pomologist, pronounc,
ed the fruit of these trees the finest Of
the Greening family and procured hun
dreds of scions from the stock to intro
luce into New York and the middle
states. Providence Journal.