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TALY
PAINTING COPYRIGHTED 1893 ARBUCKLE BROS
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GRIND YOUR
-ITALY.se
No. 12
TALY the sunny, the land of blue skies and genial warmth, pos-
COFFEE
sesses a picturesque people. They are poor but happy, careless,
light-hearted, impulsive, impetuous, affectionate, sanguine, emo-
tional, languorous and generous. Pomp and circumstance dazzle
AT HOME. them. Ribbons, gewgaws and bright colors enslave their fancy,
Numerous pageants and mimes are celebrated throughout the
year by the Italians and into the vortex of this innocent dissipation
It will pay you well to keep a small cof the children of Italy throw themselves heart and soul. The great-
fee-mill in your kitchen and grind your {est of these is Carnival Week. For six days the people masquerade
coffee just as you use it--one mess at a and jollity free and unrestrained rules. There are races, games of
time. Coffee should not be ground until all kinds, mummeries and horse play. Every point of vantage is
the coffee-pot is ready to receive it. Cof, decked with flowers and all means employed which fancy can suggest
fee will lose more of its strength and Business is suspended and on the last three days vehicles may not
aroma in one hour after being ground traverse the streets. For the nonce noble and clown, dowager and
than in six months before being ground. } peasant-maid meet on a level. The gondola, the most graceful of all
So long as Ariosa remains in the whole boats, glides over the lagoons and canals of Venice. The gondoliers
berry, our glazing, composed of choice who propel them excel all other boatmen. Wondrous is their skill
eggs and pure confectioners' A sugar, {and dexterity and their boats thread the waters as though they
closes the pores of the coffee, and thereby were endowed with life itself.
all the original strength and aroma are Music is to the Italians as the breath of their nostrils, even
retained. Ariosa Coffee has, during 25 { their children evoke from the violin, the harp and the flute melody
years, set the standard for all other roast-to thrill the most unsentimental, and their voices in song are pathe-
ed coffees. So true is this, that other tic and sweet. Who could believe, yet such was a fact, that owing
manufacturers in recommending their to this wonderful susceptibility to music
by Italian children, a society
goods, have known no higher praise than was formed, known as the Padrone, for the purpose of teaching
to say: “It's just as good as Arbuckles'." } children music and then making mendicants of them.
Gambling is a universal Italian propensity. Go where you
ARBUCKLE BROS., will, in every street and square of every city and village, you may see
the devotees of gambling throwing dice or playing cards. Indeed
dice are of Italian origin
as cards are claimed to be.
This is one of a series of Fifty (50) Cards giving a pictorial History of the Sports and Pastimes of all Nations.
NEW YORK CITY.
KAUTMANN & STRAUSS,
