The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-12

Only let woman be sure she
cious to her kusband--not q
merely, not valuable, not conven
simply, but lovely and beloved let b
be the recipient Of his polite and heartN
attention, let her feel that she has the
sincere respect of her husband, and
that her care and love are noticed, APP
preciated and returned; let heropinion
% asked, her approval sought and her
Judgment respected in matters OF which
she is cognizant-in short Let her only
DC IoVe9, honored, cherished in tho
true spirit of the marriage yow-andN
she Will be to her husband, children
and society, well-sprinp of
pleasure. She will bear pain and
toll and anxiety-for her husbands
love Is 10 her tower and a fortress-
Shielded and sheltered therein, adysr-
sity will have lost its sting. She NAV
suffer, but sympathy will dull the edge
of sorrow. A house with love in it,
and by love mean love expressed in
words and looks and deeds, for have
not one spark of faith in love that
never crops out-ls to a house without
love as person to a machine-one Is
life, the other is mechanism. The un-
loved woman may have bread Just as
light, house just as tidy, a dress Just
as neat, rs the other, but the latter has
spring of beauty about her, a joyous
ness, penetrating and pervading
brightness. to which the former il q
stranger. ..--....'.
The Roman correspondent of the
London Netos writes: owhat Mary
Queen Of Scots is to Edinburgh, Bea-
trice Cenci is to Rome-a personality
that haunts you everywhere, n sort of
genius loci, perpetualiy pleading with
you its beauty, its sufferilgs, its sor-
rows in extenuation of crime from
Y on STAND before her portrait, by Gull
do REM, in the Barbenni Palace, md
when the glamour of the painters art
has passed from You, the strange con-
nict of emotion with which you view
her features-the old unsettled strife
between your instinct to find goodness
in all things tender and beautiful and
your sense Of truth and Justice, which
refuses to be satisfied with presump-
tive evidence of innocence, rlfn SAD;
Significantly enough, the modern
art of historical rehabilitation has not
been practiced on her memory. With
youth and surprising loneliness on her
side, no vindIcator has yet done for her
what Ferdinand Gregorovius,i by his
splendid monograph, has done for Luz
crezia Borgia. True, the same spirit
which inspired Cossa to retouch the
somber portraits handed down to as OF
Messalina and Nero prompted the still
finer genius of GuerraZzi to reoast the
features Of Beatrice Cenoi,
and to place them in historic and So
cial light from which they derive an
artificial purity. But GuerrazzI HIM
self, conscious that he had only writ
ten glowing romance, urged the Ro.
man youth to fortify by documentary
investigation and historical evidence,
the view he had bodied forth fromea
sympathetic imagination, so that they
might give him the consolation before
he died of seeing the fair fame of that
beautiful innocent restored. For years
the dying injunction Of Guerrazzi found
no response indeed, the grave had long
closed over him when SIgnor Francisco
Labruzzi, of NeXima - an antiquarian
and man Of letters to whom we owethe
discovery of Metastasio's house ana
totally different quarter from that In
which the town council .Persists IN
COMMUNICATING it-set sbouttheir full
hlment. The first fact to be ascertained
about Beatrice was the date Of her
birth, for even down to Guerfazzi,s
time her biographers were by no means
at one as to the age at which she was
beheaded; and this Slgnor Lignor La
bruzzi, with the good fortune that AT.
ways favOrs sagacitY, was not long in
settling. Rummaging one day among
the archives OF the Church of San
Lorenzo and Damaso, he came upon
some old baptismal records, which he
Immediately read In the order Of time
till he alighted on the following ehtry:
February 10, 1917, beatrice, tiRugh-
ter of Signor Cenci and OF SignoFa
Ersiha, his wife, at the Church OF San
Tommsso del Cenci, by Vincentio An
tDnacci of Frascati! overjoyed at this
discovery, Signor LabruzA at once
communicated it to the town council
and memorialized that body to erecta
tablet commemorating her sufferines
and SORROWS in the Capitol. In antici'
patton of such ceremony, Guerrazzi
had already written an epitaph in his
well known admirable style, and COM
mIttce was actually formed to carry
the project into execution. But tho
town council cautiously temporized,
thinking it well that Signor Labruzxi
should prosecute his researches and
clear up some other and graver doubts
hanging over Beatrice before commit
ting itself to such approval of her life,
or to such sympathy with. her fate, as
her admission into the Roman Walhai-
la would imply. Time has run on and
the three hundredth February of her
birth has arrived, but nothing has been
heard from Signor Labruzzi, except .
renewal of his petition for the
erection of the tablet. Four
years and more have elapsed since
the discovery OF the entry in the bap-
tismal register fixing Beatrice's birth
day, but the researches which began
so auspiciously and which had so much
to satisfy our minds upon, have either
been suspended or are barren OF result.
That the unhappy girl belonged 10 .
great and opulent house we know I;
that her beauty entitled her TO rank
with the fair women OF the world,
from Helen of Troy to Mary Queen Of
Scott, the chef d'euOre OF Guido REM,
which Is the gem Of the Barberihi cell
lection, and which in thousands Of
copies has place in. every well-ap-
pointed mansion, and meets YOU ct
every turn in Rome, sufficiently attests I;
that her fate Possesses a melancholy
fascination for the highest as well rs
the humblest minds, let the drama Of
Shelley, the romance Of Guerrazzi and
the minute particularly with which
the Roman mental will yet farrate Il
TO you, bear witness; bat whether she
was or was not innocent Of the fouleBt
deed that humanity can commit, isstill
wrapped In the most impenetrable
mys terry" 4''s'l
The following pen picture Of Cover
nor Hampton is from the Washington