The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-02

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Ellis grandfather was a blacksmith
and his father a village recorder OF
deeds, and NJ. Fallieres never forge s
that he is a son of democracy. He
has Gambettas portrait over his desk,
and his visitors often have it pointed
out to them with the remark, He also
was a son of democracy He goes
every year for a month OF two to his
little country place at Loupillon to
look after his vineyard--and one may
buy the vintage Fallieres' at slightly
advanced price for such an honorable
name"
Our author has seen TWO Popes, and
her most interesting story relates to
the present head of the Church. She
tells how outside the Vatican and
near the Porta del Popolo, the Pope S
two aged sisters live in an apartment
near the sky, where they can see his
windows day and night. They DO their
own homework the same as fifty years
ago when their brother was an I'M
known student, and two or three times
a week they come over to the Vatican
about seven o'clock in the evening, in
their quiet dress, practically the dress
of peasant women, bringing him hand
kerchiefs they have made or socks
they have knitted for him. 1t is just
before his light supper, but they never
stay for it; Papal etiquette forbids.
"They talk in the Venetian dialect,
which he loves so dearly, and about
the Venice he can never see again,
either living or dead, and then they
wend their way back to the top of
their house to watch his windows.
Plus X. makes no state appearance to
an assembled multitude in St. Peters
as his predecessors did, and he does
not come in the pomp uf a crowned
sovereign before tens of thousands Of
kneeling subjects in the piazza. But
every night just before going to bed
he stands for a moment before mis-
window and turns his face over to a
window in the distance, where two
gentle old women, the beings he loves
most in all the world, are watching for
him"
Our authors recollections of the
Quirinal go back to the latter years of
King Umberto's reign.
The most interesting man of that
former court was it's famous Prince
Minister, of whom there is this to tell:
"Crispi had fought with Garbaldi
and his army of the red shirts for an
Italian republic, and mis- wife at that
time had been like Garibaldi's Anita,
donning the red shirt and lighting at
his side. But when the monarchy
came in and Crispi swore allegiance
with his well-known declaration. The
monarchy unites us, the republic Will
divide us, he forgot to make another
equally important declaratioon-to
legalize his marriage under the laws
of the new government by registering
it before civil magistrates.
crispi, His Fair Donna Lima and
the Like Romance of Won Buow.
1T was an easy escape from matri
monial bonds, which many men took
advantage of, and among them was the
Italian lawyer, then the husband of
Donna Lima, a rosy checked, buxom
beauty with swapping black eyes, the
daughter of the clearinghouse keeper
where Crispi made his home. They
were free to marry under the civil law
and they did But it was not until
Crispi became President of the Council
of Ministers that Donna Lima was al
lowed to appear in court.
She then requested a private audi
ence of the Queen, and greeted her
effusively with AT last | have the
honor of speaking to Your Majesty to
which Margherita replied stiffly,
am too well aware of my duties as the
wife of the constitutional sovereign ia
refuse to see the wife Of the President
of the Council, and walked away.
And speaking of the Prince Minist.
er's romance. we are reminded that
the German statesman Won Bulow, as
young diplomatic secretary at Rome,
extremely handsome, with a pancian
manner and bearing, and passionate
love for music that made him one OF
the most-sought-after men in society.
played much the same role in obtain
ing his wife, the Italian Princess Maria
Camporeale, as Crispi did for Donna
Lima.
The Princess, when scarcely more
than child, had been married Off BY
her mother to Count Charles Won Dozen
hon, old enough to be her grandfather,
but rich she was lovely in person and
one of the best amateur musicians in
Rome and she and Bulow, singing and
playing together, soon conceived for
each other the most genuine, sympa-
thetic and permanent attachment, a
grand passion such as rare souls are