In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . ng the other a hunchback son. Her face took on a lookof seriousness. So the tourists stopped kodaking the girl cripple fell into a wasting, lingeringIllness. The flower woman had to stay at home muchof the time to carefor her, and theregular patronsturned to other ven-ders. Then the lit-tle girl died and shecould again give allher time to flower-selling. But it wastoo late to gatherher patrons again;and she had lost herold place in the lineat the supply gar-dens. So she gaveup bouquets andfresh roses and car-nations and
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . ng the other a hunchback son. Her face took on a lookof seriousness. So the tourists stopped kodaking the girl cripple fell into a wasting, lingeringIllness. The flower woman had to stay at home muchof the time to carefor her, and theregular patronsturned to other ven-ders. Then the lit-tle girl died and shecould again give allher time to flower-selling. But it wastoo late to gatherher patrons again;and she had lost herold place in the lineat the supply gar-dens. So she gaveup bouquets andfresh roses and car-nations and beganto sell lavender. Then the hunchback boy, who hadalways earned a few soldi, dropped one day intothe cloudy waters of the river that ran under thebridge. Antonettas face to-day is no longer beautiful; herjoyousness is gone. She lives in a stanzaccio thatcosts her ten dollars a year for rent. She eats—whatdoes she eat? And she pays this rent and for thatwhich she eats by selling lavender, sometimes flowers; elle meurt de Ihiver en of rant le printemps. In. Antonetta, the flower woman. lo In Florence and House-Hunting four years so much has happened, all of it bad, andshe is trying, perhaps, when she stands unnoticing, tosolve the problem of a God who is all-kind and a lifethat seems all unkindness. Whether you choose your hotel or pension on thisside or that side of the river, one thing you will findout speedily. That is, that the estimate of pricesgiven you before leaving home by the friend whospent a month in Florence four or five years ago willhave to be revised. The pensions are in this year,1909, at least one lira a day more expensive thanthey were in 1904, and by another five years theywill hkely have added another lira to the , one can live to-day very comfortably and de-cently in good Florence pensions for five lire (onedollar) a day, and in better ones, of course, for sixor seven or eight lire. The hotels make pensionrates from nine to twelve to fourt
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