The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-02
ITALIANS LOVE TO YELL.
THEY BRACE UP ON THEIR HEELS
 IND OPEN THEIR MOUTHS.

| A Good Example of the "a" Yell Occurs Tn
 the Word Partenza Has Been Noted By
 An Observing TraVeler-Many Americans
 in Rome This Wlnter--Railroads No Bet
 ter Than Years Ago.
 Rome, March 6, 1885,
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER
 The Italians love to yell. Almost all
 Italian words are made to end in vow els for the express purpose of accomno-
 dating yellers. If you make the ex- pertinent you will find that you can't yell consonant; and if you yell word of more than one syllable, the yell must come in on the last syllable; for if you yelled any other you might not have breath enough left to get through the word. Of course the Italians were not obliged to experiment to find all this out. It came to them naturally as do feas and begging, The male Italians prefer words ending in "a" and "o'; The basso profundo yells the "o''; the baritone the Wa;' while the tenor can yell anything that comes along. "E' is for the alto; and q" for the soprano; ''u," for yelling purposes, is reserved for the chap with the 'ut de poitrine. 7 When he finds a "u" he yells it--no mat ter in what part of the word it occurs; and then he generally lets the rest of the word go.
 A good example of the "a" yell occurs in the use of the word "partenza'-"par- tenza" in the dictionary means depart ure" Imagine all the officials and un- derllngs of the "Consolidated" stand ing in a row and yelling departure" at the starting of every train! And yet | that Is exactly what Is done daily and hourly at every railroad station in Italy. The word "partenza" is one of the finest yelling words in the Italian language, and no true Italian would omit the op- portunity of yelling it if you presented him with clean collar. It is hard on the hearing organ; but it is a sight to be remembered. He braces himself on his heels; throws back his head, opens his mouth as wide as an alligator's and then We'll walt till you hear it. All street vending positions are in great demand on account of the yelling and bawling privileges attached. A man with a carrot for sale will stand in the middle of the street and, with a yell, set all the shutters a-flying for a block. And the police can't arrest him; on ac- count of the carrot. Just now the news boys are the prize yellers, on account of the Giolitti affair. A newsboy is a good weller anywhere. An Italian newsboy, with a particularly interesting topic on hand, can yell any other weller to standstill, and then keep on indefinitely.
 Even the Iatlian cats, who must be accustomed to Italian yells, are rush. ing away from him in wild, stiff-tailed alarm and confusion But to Giolitti
 Giolitti's address to the judges in his own defence has not been published; but it is said to have been one of the finest, strongest, and most convincing speeches ever made in court, or out of it. In revolving centuries, when Italian has become sufficiently of dead bur led, and mummified, language to be es- sential to a Yale education, that speech will undoubtedly be parsed, scanned, and baldly translated, as are to-day Ci- cero's smart remarks beginning: 70 Catillnap
 Giolitti. in the first place told the judges that neither he, nor any one of his ancestors, had ever been thief in the ordinary and vulgar acceptance of the word; and that, therefore, the ap- plication of the term to himself was exceedingly impertinent, to say the least of it. He then proceeded to defy the judges to prove that he committed the theft with his own hands; and told them to their boards, that if any one of them dared to acceut the common re- port that his wife did the deed under hie direction and coercion he would sharpen the ancestral Giolitti eword and run it through the midriff of each and every mothers son of them. They must bear in mind that politics "is'' uncertain and that very likely he would be on top again. How ridiculous would be their position, should these charges be enter tained. He dwelt at length on the fact that English and American common law did not prevail in Italy, where a theft committed by 8 wife in the pres ence and under the compulsion of the | husband, did not carry guilt to the hus- | band, Here came in a magnificent apos- trophy to the traditional and historic | independence of the Italian woman | which moved the hen-pecl1ed portion of | the judges to tears.
 Giolittis final, and great point was that if he did steal the documents in question, he did 1t while he was: And | I still am, O ye judges" member of | the house of representatives; and that, | therefore, his act was a national act, an act of the house, of which no judges in | this or any other country could take Then came a peroration of | gigantic eloquence. At it's close Giolitti, with regal forefinger, pointed his valet | to the door and followed him out with the step of 8 Jupiter Olympus. No one dared to stop him; and the judges were so overcome that they forgot 10 ask where he was going; would he come back; or what he expected of them. poor souls. Ten minutes after all the the town were yelling as they had never yelled before: "Partenza del 'on Giolitti" They squeaked the final 'i' of Giolittl a little But still the yell was magnificent and an appro- priate homage to the great statesman, who is off for Turin and may be back