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Updated: July 9, 2025
When new boat-loads of refugees arrive, the street-selling is naturally augmented by a more hopeful crowd, and it was possible to see one day little bears with scarlet ribbons round their necks being offered for sale on the pavement, tiny baby-bears with pink noses and sprawling feet, fed with milk from wine bottles: "Dvadsat lira, dvadsat lira!" Alas, the temptations are great.
With many the adoption of such employment is the result of accident, and the women in it divide naturally into four classes: The wives of street-sellers; Mechanics, or laborers' wives who go out street-selling while their husbands are at work, in order to swell the family income; The widows of former street-sellers; Single women.
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