Some Italian Women.

They have a strange way in thiß little place, I found, of betrothing the gills to tbe young men before the latter leav9 the town. As very few of them are able to either read or write, long years pass by without a word from the lover or "spoza" reaching the patient girl at homo. It is not a rare thing to meet here young oouplea who were engagad for ten, twelve, or even fifteen years, before fortune was sufficiently favourable to- allow them to marry. One cannot soon get rich on fifteen pence a day, and that is the wages of a man in Capri. This is, .perhaps, the reason why so many men leave the island .leaving the women at home to take care of the vineyards and olivo groves .It is a very picturesque scene, these women with their gay costumes, rich comp'exions, and bright, flashing eyes, at work iv the fields.'or leading their flock of goats up the mountain side to pasture. Their feet are always bare, and become co hard that it is simply wonderful what they oan endure. They will walk over the roads covered with sharp, flinty stones, climb the,rugged mountain sides, and be quite aa comfortable as if walking on the softest carpet. In fact for hardness, their feet resemble those of the Western girl, who, when told by her mother that there was a red-hot ooal under her foot, drawled out, without moving an inch, " Which loot is it under mammy ?" Yet th« feet of these women are by no means misshapen, bat, on the' contrary, are perfect models for an artiat.