Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-12-11
Ger,baldi and His Wife.

miss Brewster In The Pbiladdpbis Telegraph
France sea is shrewd woman. and Garib nd:
has great confidence IN her economy and man
agement. He gives her al the $40 600 which he
receives as al annual salary from the Italian
goTet ssa The greater part Of this larse
Cleiia and Manlto. She has built In her native
town, Saraccehi. great ugly house upon hul
and furnished it With much cost, but In wretchel
taste. She was q peasant girl OF SaracchI a
SutuTo or ST. Damiano d'ASt. After the house
was finished, Donna Francesca was OF course
dying to see 1t: and also to show herself Of as
Gartbaldis wife to her old townfolk. After the
Genoa Garibaldi exhibition was ended on their
way to Milan she dragged the poor Old man no
to Saracchi. AT St Damiano dAst, process,
sion of her tOwnSpeOple met them. Garibaidt
was hired, bed and all, into a carriage and
taken up q steep road TO Saracchi: from Theme.
up stlll higher TO Donna Francesca's new house,
which overlooks her native village Green
trtumphal arches Spanned the roads; speeches
were made; there were loud hurrahs and Donna
Francesta drove triumphantiy through her old
town where she used to run about barefoot a
proud and happy woman, the wife OF the great
Garibaljt. and the hostess of her former mi,
tess, Garibaldis daughter, .Teresita ,'anzio.
Saracch1 is poor little Italian village, with
about 200 Inhabitants, all tiilerS OF the land
There is a school supported partly by Donna
francesca and partly by the commune or An
tignano.
The GaribaIdi family is a trough lot" bur
Donna francesca can beat them at that. She
'bullies' the whole set. When they we're living
In Rome, In the villa outside OF P1Tta Fla tn.
daughter and sons OF Anita Wished Garibll1l
TO go to see some person that, for some rpaS)n
or other. was disagreeable 70 Francesca. Every
tine the visit was proposed Francesca grew
sury and said MOI" One day wneu they wa,+-
oil eating, the visit was again proposed: G .ri-
haIdi SAID, slyiy, Yes, Yes, let u go!' Tdr.
Donna Francesca rose in her wrath. she to,k
her plate, which was full OF boar ana hrocoii
and smashed it violently on The floor: the.
sized the tableeloth aud whlrlei all the dis1p,
Off the table. She brandShed her knife ab1ug
as she informed them that the visit should no,
De paid, and, moreover, should never be men
toned again: She dashed her knife against the
wall. where the point stuck Then she seized
Garioaln's couch and wheeled him cut OF the
room, he ali the While Chuckltng over her dis
play of temper. 1t is needless to say that the
unpleasant subject vas never preached again
She Is a capital nurse and very kind and de-
voted to Gar!baldl. She Is as strong as horse;
can lift the Old man In her arms, rubs him
patiently dresses and undresSes him. and never
gives him cross word She puts him to
sleep as II ne We're baby, and then locks him
so that he may not be disturbed. When they
were living at Frascati few years ago depu-
tation came all the way from ViteTOo to visit
the General OF the Mule, or Thousand
When the committee arrived, the members
were told that 1t was impossible TO see Carl
badi. as he was asleep; Donna Francesca had
locked him in the bedroom. and gone off to
Rome on business with the key in her pocket.
berS cried 1--WE have come all the way from
Fiterbo' The reply was, Impossible. unless
you can wait until Donna Francesca returns"
They could not wait, and had to go back to
ViterbO, without an interview with the old
General What an absurd, and at the same
time melancholy, history is this Garibaldi In
ilction on Italy! And what a pity II is that
the old hero did not die In the day OF his glory.
instead Of lingering along, a weak Old man.
with half-uead body, the prey aud the tool of
needy, adVenturerS and desperate iemagogues,
no use-indeed, an injury-to the country he
served so bravely, and shame to his past
glorious reputation