A GARDEN IN VENICE 



Among our young women visitors are some 

 who are fond of mulberries, and we advise the 

 prettiest ones to pick with their lips. This may 

 be, and often is successfully done, but not always, 

 as lips with teeth no longer white, and tips, 

 stained dark red, of upturned tilted noses so often 

 show. There are simple ways, as old perhaps as 

 the days of Adam, of getting rid of stains on 

 pretty lips ; but the frocks, and it's well worth 

 knowing, will only yield the colour that betrays 

 their mistress's fancy to the smoke of burning 

 sulphur. So even the oldest habit may be worth 

 repeating and the commonest match have a merit 

 of its own. 



The Feast of the Redentore is the mulberry 

 sacrifice or triumph. It is held on the third 

 Saturday and following Sunday of July. A couple 

 of days before we have a visit from the monks of 

 the Monastery of the Redentore, who seek our 

 flowers and fruit. We give them branches of 

 either, with which are made large garlands of 

 Mantegna type for the decoration of the church 

 and doorway. These mendicants, for they are 



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