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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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is pro-duced are outside Naples, but a short drivebrought us to a manufactory on the roadtoward Torre del Greco. We were re- 764 HARPER^S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. ceived Avitli empressement^ not only bythe ))ro))rietor, but by tlie whole staff ofemployes. The business of manufactur-ing- macaroni is warm work, and the cli-mate of Naples, save for three or fourmonths in the year, excessively hot. Asa general thing, there is a great indiffer-ence to the matter of clothing shown bythe employes of such establishments; buton the appearance of a party of foreign-ers, two of whom were ladies, there was agrand scuffle for garments. The womenwere most successful, having had a foun-dation of under-clothing to begin upon.One boy secured a full suit. After thisthere were various toilets conspicuous bythe absence of essential garments, w^hileone poor fellow, oblivious of our presenceto the last moment, could procure nothingbut a towel. In this he arrayed himself,however, and tried to make up by extra
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PIILCINELLO IN A QUANDARY. courtesy for what he lacked in the way ofapparel. The process of manufacturingmacaroni is very simple. The groundmeal is mixed with water, kneaded orbeaten by an immense wooden beam, andthen transferred to the press. A perfo- rated plate beneath, through which thedough is forced by means of a ponderouslever, produces the article. Upon thisplate depends whether the macaroni has adiameter large or small, or w^iether it isflat like a ribbon. The sizes and varietiesare many, and each is endowed with a dif-ferent Italian name. When it issues fromthe press it is, of course, moist and limp.Large armfuls of it are seized by variousattendants, and ranged upon long poles,susi^ended from the ceiling, to dry. Itwas this familiar handling of the doughand the macaroni, which is flung over theshoulder, wound round the arm, and pat-ted and adjusted by the dirtiest of dirtyhands, that dei^rived our little friend ofany further appreciation of what she hadtaken to be a chaste

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