New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-25
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Nevport. Dec 24.-Prince Gennaro
Caracc;olo. who spent much of this
summer and most of the autumn mere
writing Divorce in America has sent
to friends here in advance the preface
of his work, in which he says:
among the many who have asked
me why | should write about divorce
there is one. a most charming lady, 10
whom I dedicate this, my answer
which will serve as well as an intro
duction to my book.
81 came to this delightful country
with no intention Of writing upon so
delicate and thorny, not 10 say eN-
plosive. subject, but ! will explain the
genesis of my book. With us there Is
an old adage as wide as the civilized
world in its application, Let me kho"
YOUR friends and l can tell what man
ner of man YOU are and with apollo
eies 10 Marcus Aurelius | beg leave TO
naraphrase il thus: Let us know the
women OF a country and We can tell
what that country's possibilities are.
Perhaps you smile at my presump-
ton. but II YOU think little 1t Is
very simple way Of arriving at a sound
conclusion. II is algebraic in its re-
duction TO the simplest terms. 1t en-
ables one 70 deduce differences from
facts, to distinguish one countrys de-
yelopment from another.
Compares Woman to Bread.
ct must ask you to bear with me II
7 COMPARE woman to bread. The SIM
lie is not as inappropriate as you think.
What is bread? \ food maze OF
ground corn, salt and BARN or Ter
ment of beer. or other liquor IN fer-
uentation. and finally dried and hard
ened by heat. What is woman!
body built of soft muscular tissue OF
gray fbres VIII Oh convey SENSATION OF
ossified tissue and of fluid circulating
IN the arteries and veins-and that Is
all nhvsicallv. AS for bread, the proc
ess of manufacture is the same every
where, differing in no essential point
wherever man has emerged from the
savage state; and so woman Is the
same everywhere fundamentally; put
and herein lies my argument
ct have eaten bread in America made
nv an Italian baker, but II Is not the
Same bread as in Italy. And woman
40 met her in other countries is not
the same as in America. Bread Is IN
dispensable, vital necessity. PerhaPs
tho loaf differs in size, form or taste,
but u ia eaten everywhere in the civil
tied world; one would wish TO be great
noet 10 fftly celebrate in glowing verse
the finest. most delicate and most com
n,ete creation of a kindly PROVIDENCE
IN short to immortalize all woman
hood as Dante immortalized the one
divine Beatrice.
"womsn is indispensable. She is az
necessary as bread or water. In
,ond without water there is no vegeta-
ton. and so is life without woman. In
truth. all seeking for something higher,
all yearning desire for the ul'ifna'e
nood comes from the ideal Itself, and
Tho crv of mankind is: Give me the
love n, the ideal woman the crystallized
1--we Of woman, and can defy the
nor,d and win all for her sake The
sn,r 81 womans inspiration makes a
man invulnerable. Archimedes knew
.ha fundamental wisdom when he said
Give me a fulcrum, and I can turn the
world
Now. happily situated as you are
in a prosperous. peaceful country de-
landing no alarms or sacrifices from
Won for patriotism's sake as Is the
cod involuntary lot of many of your
sisters beyond the sea, yet what is that
,,,ts,nable you still seek?
You enjoy illimitable freedom
neither your minds nor your bodies
are in slavery, as In ancient days, and
Won walk your country In perfect Sc
our,tv of wellbeing. What, then, is
tho reason for this inner restlessness
what is the explanation of so many
divorces among you?
az have met many women, divorced
not only once, but twice, and even