Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-03-03
Others have had to learn and

Otners nave had to learn and
so will To- anu
- You must marry an American girl
Inen you will always have someone
10 talk to you in the language" replied
his friend. Aepiieu
II will become native of this oo,n
Try MARITIME responded, "but I will
marry an Italian girl. 1 don't know
VINO 1t will be-" he fastened to add
Ior don't intend to marry until
am prosperous; until l can support a
wife IN the manner in which she should
be supported. You know I hone some
day to have home of nv own ont
IN the suburbs of some city. There 7
can have room to stir around in and
not be huddled together like we are
compelled to live in the tenements and
In the crowded city Streets
You want to sit out in the yard like
the old people in Italy, eh?'' said his
friend. do you often think of that ?"
Very often,' responded MARITIME.
MY father and mother, I warrant, are
at this instant sitting out in our
yard
His voice choked, and two big tears
came. But that was a dozen years
ago, and he was young man, and he
was unacquainted with the country and
the customs and was often homesick.
But he learned rapidly. He bought
reader and he soon mastered the lam
guage, and aside from this he heard
the language all the time
MARITIME first lived in New York, but
he did not like it there, and so he came
West, finally settling in st. Louis. his
fruit business prospered, and he accu-
mulated considerable wealth, which he
invested in property. The city grew out
and around 5,213 Shaw Avenue. He
lived there and owned the property.
Time dragged along. He was lonely.
You ought to be married." one of
his friends told him. 81 remember
you said once that when you were able
you would marry some Italian girl"
"But l don't know of any," he an
swered
Wasn't there one in Italy?" his
friend asked him.
None he replied.
But the subject reverted to his mind
a dozen times. He thought about it
much of the time. He looked ahead
into the future, and saw himself mar
ried, with family around him, and
spending the last days quietly and
peacefully like his old father over
in Italy"
81 will write to my father" he said.
Old Paulo Serati held the letter in
his hand and laughed aloud and long.
MARITIME wants us to find wife for
him." he said to his wife. HE likes
America, but he knows where the beau
tiful women live; where the good wives
come from. 1t is here in Milan; here
in Italy"
eve can find him wife," she an
swered.
Then Paulo laughed and laughed
again.
Here comes Angela he said. Il
will let her read the letter.
When Angela came up to them she
saw that both her friends were much
pleased over something.
1--WE have letter from Martino," he
said, "and I want you to read it. See
what he says
The girl took the letter and read it.
"Have you found him a wife?' she
asked.
eyes," said Paulo. 81 think l know
a girl who loves him now. She will
make him good wife. She has never
met him though
"Who is ?" she asked, her voice be-
ing so low that it was with difficulty
that she was understood.
''You," said Paulo.
She threw the letter down on the
chair and ran out of the room and to
her home. There she told her parents
what her friends had decided.
"But that is a long way said her
father
"Not for girl to go to the man she
loves she replied, "for do love him.
I believe I've loved him ever since
was large enough to love anybody"
"He is a good man, too said her
father.
Old Paulo and his wife came over
and told her parents WHdI sic Aoo 1oAo
them.
81 have written to him several times
about Angela" said Paulo, land ne
knows her almost as we'll as | do. l
will tell him that I have selected MS
wife,
That very night the letter was writ
ten and mailed. Next day it was speed
ing for st. Louis.
There was great excitement in that
neighborhood 1t became rumored
around that Angela, the prettiest girl
in the vicinity, was going to st. Louis,
America, to marry Martina Serati. Sew
eral of the people around knew him:
They remembered when he packed up
and left for the New World. They
knew, too, that he was sturdy and hon
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