Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-08-31
SANTA ROSALIA.

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bridge Of Santa Rosala of Palermo.i In
the colony on Jerome street are many
palermese, and where there are Paler-
mese there is Santa Rosalia. In far
| Palermo their own dear saint is more
thought of than the Virgin. Her feast
| is the great feast-the 9th to the 18th of
! July-fve glorious days. Out of the
northwest gate one of twelve ancient
portals, a great procession emerges, fol-
| lowing a massive silver image Of the
saint. carried in an enormous galley
! shaped float. 1t winds along the white
road toward the Grotto of Monte Pelle-
grino, in which the santi lived centuries
ago. All Pelermo is there, ana half Sici-
! ly Thus it is in Palermo.
! In Wiiliamsbridge! Well. Jerome
street is not the Via Nittorlo Emanuele,
and there remains but Il memory of the
! beautiful grotto. Instead CT five glorious,
! idle days, there is but one which is truly
| festal-totally devoid of work. But on
| this day the rock mass ON which the vii
! lage stands shakes with explosions Of
! thousand homemade bombs. Surely
| Santa Rosalia must hear it in her grottO
and be pleased. There is feasting. drink
ing, singing, love-makng, prayer and de-
votion. Jerome street becomes a grand
! ROSalia
It was the last night Of the fiesta in
! Nlliamsbridge. Steady people had
stopped celebrating but the younger men.
| caring more perhaps, for amusement
than for the deyotlons proper & thesi- TIE.
! stlll Kept up their merriment, There was
a happy group in Giovanni BiIottis sum
mer garden: Giovanni Sabine, Giuseppe.
| Michele, PaSquale. and others who SAT-
and drank late. With the rapidly-con-
! sumed wine their spirits rose; they sang.
! they toasted each other, they played mer-
! ry pranks.
Who can say just how an Italian quar-
rel arises? \ look, a word-Sometimes a
mere lntonatiOn-then oaths, then blows
| ana blood. 80 it was now, and Sabine
Buonarotti was carried out by his
friends, limp mass, while Michael
Blanca lay ON the floor with his hands
clasped over throbbing place in his side
There was very little nose-it is a fell
thing To bring the police into Little Italy:
it means days without work, dreary ling
| gering in the House Of Detention, weeks
without happiness. Moreover. it is better
to settle these things in another way.
There was very little noise. yet in q
moment Little Italy knew all about it.
! Sabine Bu0narotti was in a bad way
Yes, Sabine was n Buonarotti. 1t would
he best, then, to keep ones hands off
1t is always a good rule to mind ones
own business. So Michele Blanca might
lie there. Michele the Frendless," ne
was called; silent fellow, uppish, in
deed quite a Roman, and poor as the
rest. for all his handsome face. Yet there
was one heart in Wiliamsbridge which
throbbed with his Within five minutes a
Slight figure hurried up Jerome street
and into the little garden where the
"FriendlesS' lay
Michele. Michele, Mic caro-, Gioja
mia" sobbed the girl. she threw her
self upon the PROSTATE form.
They have killed him: they have
killed him. She cr;ed-hut softly, for she
respected the customs which pertain 10
deeds Of violence among her people Still.
there are things To he done when a man
is hurt, even in Little Italy. She must
get him to his room, happily just around
the corner in First Street.
BE brave. my Michele" She whis
pcred. Il will support thee CanSt thou
walk, leaning on me: BE brave, milo
! caro-.
Michele became brave under her sight.
Murmurius, 1t is as Santa Rosalia
would do. little one he tottered to his
feet, and with her anxious help reached
the street. What struggle it was to
hold him up. But The saint was with
her, Santa Rosalia it was who had
sent the thought ui unexpected. that
! Michele was wounded. She would help
now After infinite pain for both Mi
chelc ut length fell PROSTATE upon his
/ bed
There were yet things to do. Frances
ca did not shrink. The wound was
Stauchod and the man fell into an I'M
easy sleep, c!asping the hand of Fran
cesca. The girl did not think of herself
until q pebble struck the windoT-pane
! When she opened the sash she saw her
mother below and heard his