At least the angels in pictures are not -- they wear nothing but wings.

But these Genoese women do look so charming.

Most of the young demoiselles are robed in a cloud of white from head to foot, though many trick themselves out more elaborately.
Nine-tenths of them wear nothing on their heads but a filmy sort of veil, which falls down their backs like a white mist.

They are very fair, and many of them have blue eyes, but black and dreamy dark brown ones are met with oftenest.
The ladies and gentlemen of Genoa have a pleasant fashion of promenading in a large park on the top of a hill in the center of the city, from six till nine in the evening, and then eating ices in a neighboring garden an hour or two longer.

We went to the park on Sunday evening.