Morning journal and courier., 1880-12-13
Gnrthalli and his Wffe.

Miss Brewster in the Philadelphia Telegraph
 Francesca is @ shrewd woman and Garibaldi has great confidence in her economy and management. He gives her all the $2O 900 which he receives as an annual salary from the Italian government. The greater part ot
 this large sum she invests in land for their
 two children, Clelia and Manlio. She has
 built in her native town, Saracchi, great ugly house upon a hill, and furnished 1t with much cost, but in wretched taste She was a peasant girl of Saracchi, suberb of St. Damiano d'Asti After the house was finish ed, Donna Francesca was of course dying to see it, and to also show herself off as Carl baldi's wife to her old townfolk. After the
 Genoa -Garibaldi exhibition was ended, on their way to Milan she dragged the poor old man up to Saracchi At St. Damiano d'Asti a procession of her towns-people met them GaribaIdi was lifted, bed and all, into car | riage, and taken up steep road to Saracchl; from thence up higher to Donna Francescas new house, which overlooks her native vll- lage Green triumphal arches spanned the roads; speeches were made; there were loud hurrahs; and Donna Francesca drove trlum- phantly through her old town, where she us- l ed to run about barefoot proud and happy
 woman, the wife of the great Garibaldl, and ! hostess of her former mistress GaribaldTs daughter, Teresita Canzio Saracchi is poor little Italian village, with about 200 in- ] habitants, all tillers of the land There IS school supported partly by Donna Francesca and partly by the commune of Antignano. | The Garibaldi family is a trough lot, but Donna Francesca can beat them at that. She l ssbullies'' the whole set. When they were I living in Rome in the villa outside of Porta ! Pia the daughter and sons of Aulta wished 1 Garibaldi to go to sec some person that, for 1 some reason or other, wss disagreeable to 1 Francesca. Every time the visit was propos- l edsFrancesca grew surly, and said, 'No!" 1 One day. when they were all eating the visit was again proposed; Garibaldi said, slyly, l ssYes. yes, let us go!' Then Donna Traces
 ca rose in her wrath She took her plate, which was full of boar and broccoli, and 1 smashed it violently on the floor then seized
 the table cloth and whirled all the dishes off
 the table. She brandished her knife about 1 as she informed them that the visit should 1 not be paid and, moreover, should never be mentioned again; she dashed her knife again l st the wall where the point stuck: Then she seized Garibaldi's coach and wheeled hlm out of the room, he all the while chucklng over
 her display of temper. It IS needless to say 1 that the unpleasant subject was never broach- I ed again.
 She is capital nurse, and very kind and l devoted to Garibaldi. She is as strong as a l horse can lift the old man in her arms, rubs him patiently, dresses and mattresses him,
 and never gives him cross word. She puts 1 him to sleep as if he were baby, and then 1 locks him up in his bed room if she is oblig ed to 20 away so that he may not be disturb
 ed. When they were living at Flascatl rev years ago, deputat1on came all the way l from Viterbo to visit the 'sGeneral of the
 1fiIEe. or Thousand" When the committee arrived the members were told that it was impossible to see Garibaldi, as he was asleep; l Donna Francesca had locked him in the bed
 room, and gone off to Rome on business
 with the key in her pocketl "But we must see him." the committee members cried,
 ssWe have come all the way from Viterbo l' The reply was stimpossible 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.
 cholv. history is this Garibaldi infiction on
 Italy. And what pity it is that the old hero
 did not die in the day of his glory, instead of
 lingering along, weak old man, with half
 dead body, the prey and the tool of needy
 use-indeed, an injury-to the country he
 served so bravely, and shame to his past
 glorious reputation.