Photo by Emil P. Albrecht 



THE "FESTa" OE SANTA MARIA DEL CARMINE IN THE QUARTER OE GENOA DEVOTED 



TO HER SERVICE 



The small boys in uniform are from an orphanage and are in the care of sympathetic 

 Sisters of Charity, who allow them a full share of the sights. In the foreground is ^the 

 ice-cream vender. "Gelati" is our own familiar "hoky-poky," from the Italian "gelare," to 

 freeze ; hence, frozen. The piazza is full of booths — all sorts of medals, pictures, and souvenirs 

 calculated to catch pious fancy, and a great many things pandering to more fleshly tastes. 

 Against the house in the background a shrine and altar with a picture of Our Lady_ have 

 been erected for the morning service. The gap between this house and its neighbor is riot 

 a caiion, but an average Genoese street. Between the hill and the sea Genoa can build 

 nowhere but into the air ! 



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