Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-09-07

more owing to her "opulent charms of person.
than to her artistic merits. In fact, she her
self thinks little of her art in comparison.
She is said to be madly idolatrous of her own
beauty, and to glory in the power to madden
others-her subjects, her ~vassals, of whom she
has many, for 'the fools are not all dead YETI
No henet1cent plague ever carries them off,
nj war ever Trims their ranks. Last year
there came to IN operatic agency in Milan a
telegram from Il theatre in a distant city,
saying: "Send us q good soprano, beautiful
and without any ipcumbrance."
Among intpressari a singers father, moth
err, sister, brother and, above oil, husband, is
called ian incumbrance." Our fair country
woman was solicited,
And all alone went she.
A few months later she returned to Italy
gay and triumphant, with, as she boosted,
"a hat full of diamonds Since then she
has gone forth aconquering and to conquer"
Indeed she is the type of singer most success
full or the continental stage nowadays; not
that we enjoy Arcadian tranquility eyen here
in well ordered, well-to-do Milan. We had
a ridiculous little 1scrimmagep about the
time Of the real insurrection in Belgium,
Ours was half a frolic. One OF the leaders Of
the insurgents was q young wag who pro-
tected himself by means OF a nasal mask gro
tesque and huge. Whenever the police were
about to grab him he retreated a few steps
into the mob, pocketed his nose and was alb
solutely unacceptable. italian working
people can i'll afford to strike. They have
nothing to fall back upon. General starva-
ton soon marches into the field and all sur
render. Three hundred women rice gatherers
and cleaners have, however, just struck at
.Mantua- But they will soon be striking on.
their empty stomachs. During the late Buda-
Pesth riots the strikers sent forth the start
ling shouts of aViye Kossuthl" 1t was q far
cry.out of the past How must the sod heart
of the ~octogenarien exile In Turin have been
STIRRED by merely hearing of it, The heroic
old dreamer has SO far passed into history
that his poor, discontinued countryrnen might
as well shout for Charlemagne.
Tho eaolera has NOT yet como near us, as
an epidemic, and lis hardly likely to atlict to
any great extent a city so open, cleanly and
well moneyed ss. Milan. The only epidemic
we suffer from is suicide. That has ragged
this year. During the first three months
there were-104 cases in tGis city alone. These
poor people are not bad, but they seem to
have been born discouraged; they are not
felonious, but felo-de-se-nous. The cholera
has thus far seriously attacked only the worst
quarters OF the poorest and most ,.rssi..sssrrT
towns of the south and east. Al once, when
o town or province is ~sanitten, there rush to
the post of deadly peril the brave young fol-
lowers of the Red Cross, and the supplement-
ing Green Gross, knights of Labor of the
noblest, the diFinest sort. .,442. CZECH
Seeing that Italy is SO far behind the age in
sanitary ideas and regulations, the wonder ia
that all kinds of pestilcnce do not break out
and rage in those old provincial towns when
people build and Hve In utter disregard or
ignorance of the common comforts and de-
cencies OF life. Many pretentioas modern
houses, too, are like "whited sepulchres,n fair
without, but within fun Of "all manner Of
uncleanliness.n Yet / sometimes think that
in the extreme poverty of the peasantry lies
the secret OF their exemption from the
scourge. They'cannot heat their blood with
meats, have seldom milk, and never butter.
They eat fruit and vegetables, which are
cheap and good, coarse bread and polenta
(horniny} and drink sour wine and thin. but
pure. Yet such living seems to make of the
working classes i'll tho crowded towns a feeble
and sicsly, IL not ai absolutely diseased race.
A large number of the young we see in the
streets are %scrofulolis, bloodless, defor1ned
and dwariish; and some are strangely incon,-
plete, rudimentary peo,G, born without the
usual complement of limbs as though nature
i'll this poor country had run out of material
before her work was done.
These fr~agmentary, abnormal beings are
often very active and successful In the men
deity line. So little of humanity does it take
to make humanitarian appeals, that ] am
often reminded OF u passage in a letter writ
ten by the late James 4. Fields from Rome,
when that brilliant writer was first abroad.
He wrote: "To-day alegless man asked aims
of me, n shouldn't have been surprised to
meet the lost legs coming around the neat
corner, begging on their own account.
Legless and armies babies were born in
Italy as long ago as when the pope held his
own and the princes of Savoy sat on the back
seat, but in these days of progress and won
ders nature seems to want to show herself
equal to the times, and Is inyenting new
physical marvels and inonstrosities AT all
events, on the first day of this present month
there was born In Milan, at No, 10 Corso
Como, OF young, well-b9-do parents, a man
child, actually without a headl The body
was web formed-neatly rounded off at the
shoulders, and with legs and arms perfect,
while on the stomach @asposed, as though it
were an afterthought, n very nice little face,
IN all its lineatnents.
] marveled and meditated over this baby
its queer conditions of life and Its possible fu-
ture. 1t would, we thought, be rather awk-
ward work for the poor mother to suckls him.
Though certainly nourishment would reach
It's destination by shortest, quickest and most
direct route 1t would! be an annoyance too
none of the pretty baby clothes so low
ingly prepared would fit, and that new ones
would have to be made after q sort Of circu-
lar pattern. His little bed clothes must also
be OF a peculiar cut--so this mama after tend
erly tucking hei. darling in at night would
him through a hole la the blanket.
And the poor child. as be grew into boy
hood, would have some peculiar embarrass-
und Disadvantages. He would have to
lie supine 10 watch the flight Of bis kite. and
a hack somersault to look at the moon
'ver his left shoulder. He never could amuse
himself by standing on his head-he would
double difficulty in maintaining his equY-
ibrium in looking down a well, or off the
'oof OF a house-he woufi be in double danger
II being caught in such games as Tag and
'ISpy,n-he would always be called upon to
for the other boys to play Leap Frog
Ind he would always have to swim on his
pack. When he should complain Of the inn
doubling up pain Of school boys,
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