Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-27
Cambetta at Home.

A writer in the London Daily Nesos
says: "Gambetta travelled much at an
age when young Frenchmen are locked
up in monastic schools. An uncle, who
was engaged in the Levantine trade,
took him often in his voyages to Greece,
Turkey and the Black Sea cities. He
went frequently to Italy when, under
Cavour's leadership, that country was
rising to active political life, keeping
company with the leading men of the
Ligurian towns. His home education
was directed by a maiden aunt, who
followed him to Paris on his being sent
here to the bar, and who has ever since
been his housekeeper and monitress.
There is no household in Paris con-
Quoted with more genuine simplicity
and order. The excellent lady exer-
cising authority therein does nearly
everything; sees to everything lays
hold on Gambetta's purse whenever the
dividends of the Repu5lique Franchise
swell 1t; invests the money she econo-
mixes for him ; takes notes of bales of
letters-letters from constituents, from
patriots, male and female, from foes,
from political friends, from spies, from
false brethren, from lunatics, which arc
to be thrown into the fire or answered.
Her most arduous task is acting as a
buffer between nephew and visitors in
Vulnerable, she making herself as agree
able as one so perpetually numbered
can be to those of whose common sense
and sincerity she feels certain, and
showing herself dry and curt to i'm
Fortunate hon-hunters. Mile. Masabie
sticks to her plain provincial ways,
dressing on week days, no matter what
high political fliers she has to usher in,
in black stuff skirt, loose jacket, and
clear-starched muslin cap, and ON Sum-
days in plain black silk, guiltless of
founce or frill. This worthy lady taught
Gambetta to read and write. His earli-
est literature was essentially substan-
tial, his letters being learned on choco-
late tablets, which were given him to
eat when he knew the words stamped
on these nutritious sweets. Mile.
Masabie is proud of her pupil: but, ID
pursuance of her old disciplinary hab-
its, she only praises him when his back
is turned. She takes his handwriting
to be her grestest educational achieve
ment Gambetta writes a small, neat,
flowing hand, without much flourish in
the letter-tails and signature. He
would, if the worst some day came to
the worst If law, politics and journal
ism broke dowu-be very competent to
discharge the duty of copying clerk in
pigeon dispatch office. Gambetts
receives i'll brown-cloth dressing
gown, which gives him the appearance
of a Capuchin. When conversation
grows brisk, which it nearly always
does when he is not busy and is with
persons to whom he can talk freely, ht
unconsciously takes cigar out of his
pocket and puffs away. Political client:
from every part of France, belonging
to every profession, including the army
and navy, pour II. Americans visiting
Paris are sure 10 call upon Gambetta
but to see him it is necessary to be vel
introduced. The receptions take plac'
early in the forenoon. Very intimat,
friends, or persons with whom he want
to chat unrestrainedly, are sometime
asked to stop for dejeaner. This re
past, the only one at which Gambett
offers hospitality, is served at IL o'clocl
on round table covered in old-fash
toned bourgeois style, with plail
brown oil-cloth. Nothing can be NOR
unpretentious. The service is done b
members of the family, the single dc
mestic keeping out of earshot all tn
while that Gambetta is at home. o
an occasion of this kind Gambetta's az
pears to greater advantage than in tn
tribune"