The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 13, 1904, Page 21

kPagele to 3(71 ’ P = e ey Pages2l to 30 — SPI'S LOVE WORK AHEAD FOR ITALY'S ROYAL BABE Future Ruler Is to Receive Spartan Education. il )ON, Nov. 12.—That little Ital- whose birth the other day ed such an outburst of national ing, is likely to have good cause before he gets many Yyears t he had been born a plain, y instead of the heir to a has been decided by his parents, after consultation with sundry wise and learned men, that he is to receive & Spartan education, and that it is to begin as soon as he leaves the Misguided Italians call it the h system,” but the English boy may well be thankful that it isn’t. According to the system laid down for the unfortunate Humbert, Prince f Piedmont, his own natural tastes and nations will be the last things into account in conducting him takes along the royal road of learning. The more he dislikes a study, the harder e wil! have to work at it. He will have to sleep in & room in which there s no firs even in midwinter. At 6 clock he will have to turn out of his ed and take a cold bath. At 7 o'clock he will be ast and his given a plain and frugaj lessons will begin 1 hour later. t is stated, will be specially so much with a w to juvenile mind with useful to the eradication of any in the royal constitu- r his distaste for a sub- will diligence be insisted training of this sort, it is more e his intellect the 2 will. When his think- 1s has been so exercised anything and retain he will be subjected an er pedic cou of instruc- tion By way of recreation he will be com- pelled to ride horseback in all sorts of weather, preferably when it is snow- ng or ra g Under conditions that equally rd the climate, hard physical ise will be insisted on to strengthen his muscles and develop an m copstitution. A military tutor, em- command obedience, will ve general supervision of his educa- n. To train him in the art of con- ersation, the lad will be required to hold imaginary converse with pictures wered to representing the higwigs of the state th whom he Will have 10 do business when he becomes a King. The net result, it is expected, will be to thake of him an ideal ruler. Any- how, if the Spartan pian goes through, the days of his youth will not hold many pleasant memories for him. SA T "5 A TROMIE - NN A TR TR + - <> V7SR B \ THE FLUSH OF HIS TR WHICH RAISED A HUMBLE LAUNDRESS TO THE RANK OF A GODDESS OF WAR RUTHLESSLY CAST HER OFF FOR ANOTHER IN IUMPHS Elinor Gwun a Favorite in England Her Next Book to Treat of Americans. A FAMOUS BEAUTY —— LONDON, Nov. 12—On the part of the fair American leaders of London society there is no little curlosity as to what will be in a book which Mrs. Clayton Glyn is about to write. “Elinor” Glyn is the author of the rather daring “Visits of Ellzabeth™ contained 1 1 | | \ | [ | - ALIE, g’fwm’& T oL T sh0 LTS 7 WASHING = o — | FORMER ITALIAN PREMIER AND TWO WOMEN WHO FIGURED IN DRAMATIC LOVE AFFAIRS THAT MARKED HIS LIFE. | Rosalic Montmasson, True to the Itahan Patriot Through Years of Storm, Suffered for Her Fidelty. ROME, Nov. 12.—Brief accounts ap- pear in the American papers just at hand of the dramatic career of the washerwoman, Rosalie Montmasson, wh husband became Premier of Ita But since her death many de- tal have come to light which are worth adding to the record of one of the most extraordinary women of our day. It was when Francesco Crispi was in prison in Turin in 1853 because Austria considered him in a me re responsi- ble for the abortive rising in Lombardy that he first caught sight of Rosalie Montmasson as she went to and fro before his cell, she being a washwoman to the prison. Admiration soon turned to passion, which endured through pri- vations and storm and stress, but broke down in the more trying days of prosperity. Rosalie Montmasson made history, loved, fought and suffer- ed, and then, like Crispi, made the mis- take of living too long. In later days she often said, “Would that I had died then, when I was loved and was of use.” At the time she met Crispi in the Tu- rin prison, Rosalie was about 20 and a perfect example of the best Italian type, tall and graceful, with the color of a blush rose in her cheeks, and a pair of large, dark, changing eyes, which produced a thrill in the most indifferent breast when she chose to return glance for glance. Crispi, when released, was almost im- mediately exiled, =o the pair, without a cent in their pockets, but with love in their hearts and a happy defiance of poverty, sailed for Malta, where the girl was obliged to sing mn the streets to gain a few pennies before they could have their first meal on foreign sofl. Then followed the sweetest days of their romance, THEIR STRANGE MARRIAGE. Criapi and Rosalla consnired tagsther with the other refugees, as poor as themselves, and between times the for- ‘mer gave lessons in languages, and the latter washed. But the idyl was only too short. Crispi was expelled from Malta, and through the kindness of a iend was given passage to Paris, but Rosalie was left behind until her com- panion could send her money for the journey. Crispi seems to have had a con- science, so he decided that a marriage service should be performed before he left. Many and anxious were the con- ferences; marriages cost money, and that was just what they lacked, but on the point of Crispi's departure, when poor Rosalle had given up all hope, a wandering priest turned up, who, for a glass of wine, gave his services, while a ring was borrowed for the oc- casion and returned at once. Was he really a priest? That is a question being asked here in Rome after more than fifty years have pass- ed. However that may be, Rosalie had no doubts, and knelt on the pillow taken from the bed with the same con- fidence as she would have felt in church, accepted her borrowed ring with the same fervor as though it had been her own, and left that poor room firmly convinced, as was Crispi himself at that time, that she was a wife, a conviction from which she never re- ceded. HEROINE ON BATTLEFIELD. The next step in the young wife's ca- reer had London as its background. Here she joined her husband, conspir- acy being their business, and the earn- ing of enough money to eat a mere detail, which, however, often obtruded itself in a most disconcerting way. Her chief duty was to carry letters from one conspirator to another, often be- tween London and Paris, on which hung the fate of more than one brave Italian patriat. It was in these days that jealousy shouldered perfect confi- dence out of the way. Rosalie brought about her men as moths to a flame. Crispl liked women’s society, and neither was content to give full liberty to the other, But this unsatisfactory state of things was ended for the time by Cris- pi's return to ITtaly. He took part in the famous expedition of the “Thou- sand,” having Rosalie ever at his side. Here was where her real character came out. Dressed in the red Gari- baldian shirt, with a short gray-blue skirt, rifie in one hand and bandages in the other, she was the true goddess of war, the idol of the soldiers, and the confidante of the officers. She fought with the best of them, comforted the dying, gave courage to the wavering, and performed such marvels of bravery that she was four times decorated. DECORATED BY GARIBALDIL Only once did she fail. Some volun- teers had shown weakness and she was rallying them when she saw her hus- band, from whose side she was only absent when duty called her elsewhere, waver and then disappear. With a scream she plunged through the maze of men and horses and found Crispi unconscious. She picked him up in her arms and fought her way to the rear, while bullets whizzed past, and she stopped occasionally to shoot an enemy who she thought was coming too near. For this brave deed she was decorated by Garibaldi himself. who impulsively taking from his breast one of his own medals, pinned it on hers, saying: “If all my soldiers were like you, I should have an army before which nothing could stand.” These days passed, the cause was won, and her husband was one of those who set about the task of making of the new state a great power. Here was his chance and he selzed it. Honors and riches followed, and the clever Si- cilian rose step by step, with only one thorn in his side—poor Rosalie. The Amazon could not change into a fine lady. In peace she was a washer- woman, in war a goddess; in prosperity an extravagant termagant, In poverty a cheerful helpmeet. HER ROMANCE ENDED. She voluntarily gave her consent to a separation, but when she was asked to acknowledge that her marriage was a sham, she stoutly refused. Alas! where were the witnesses, the priest, the proofs? So she was obliged to suffer the humiliation of being repudiated— because her husband desired to marry again. Rosalle is generally alluded to as Crispi's first wife, but she was not. At 19 he was already married. While a student at Palermo he met on the stair of his lodging-house a pretty girl, Rosina Sciarra, crying over a letter. He then and there fell in love and became furiously jealous of his sup- posed rival, the writer of the letter, who proved to be her brother. They eventually exchanged vows. Two years after the marriage found Crispl a widower, his child-wife having died in childbirth, together with her infant. —_—————— Marseilles Strike Costly. PARIS, Nov. 12—The Marseilles strikers and locked out men have been beaten. The shipowners, the capital- ists, are rejoicing. They think they have smashed the dockers’ and the workmen’s syndicates for ever and a day. They are mistaken. The men be- gan the strife with hardly a sou %in their pockets. The shipping companies had long purses. According to trustworthy estimates the trading population of Marseilles has lost well over £3,000,000 through this strike, and the dockers and other laborers gbout £120,000 in wages, GIVES UP PLAY AS WIFE ASKS Deerhurst Quits Turf Dutiful Husband Since the Recent Scandal. LONDON, Nov. 12.—Sport will know but little of Viscount Deerhurst in fu- ture. Since the recent turf scandal, in which Sir James Duke and “Bob” Sevier were involved, the Viscount has been seen less at his favorite sporting haunts. It will be remembered that his name came prominently before the public in connection with that case, but while he came out of the matter with perfectly clean hands, it caused much annoyance and anxiety to the Viscountess that he should have been mixed up in such a scandal at all. After she had received the sympathy of her friends, who recognize in her one of the finest and noblest specimens of womanhood that America has given to the British peerage, she implored the Viscount to renounce everything per- taining to gambling. It was hard for a young sporting Lord in whose patriclan blood there runs a natural predilection for horse- flesh to comply with so sweeping a re- quest, and the friends who know him best could not for a moment belleve that he would do so. Little by little, however, he com- menced to show that he was a more dutiful husband than his sporting ac- quaintances understood. The clubs commenced to miss him; he was not seen so frequently on the racecourse and lastly the parasites who live on sporting noblemen beggn to inquire what had happened to his Lordship. Bridge parties at which he was always a prominent figure he also deserted. Now his sporting activities are confined to a few dollars or some {important race when he fancies a friend's horse. Motoring and the companionship of his wife and children occupy almost the whole of his attention now. The race- course may lose him entirely event- ually. —_————— Duchess Catches a Swindler. PARIS, Nov. 1i2—The Duchess d'Uzes had an amusing experience this week with a would-be swindler, whom she caused to be arrested. The swind- ler gained an audience with the Duchess by means of a false visiting card. ““The time has come for us Catholics to get rid of Combes,” he told her. “To accomplish this sacred duty requires money, so I'm taking up a subscrip- tion.” Then he showed her a list con- taining the names of all the most no- table C'atholics in France. The Duchess had her servants hold the man while she telephoned for a policeman. The list of people who wished to see Combes suppressed was merely a for- &ery. & “Reflections of Ambrosine,” and the American women in society here are especially injerested her new book because it is understood that s and eral of them are to figure in it. How- ever, it is admitted on all sides that Mrs. Glyn's picture is likely to be a fe martest faithful one, for ere favorites among the s fashionable in English society than this most beautiful and gifted auther. “She has almost too much beauty, has often been said of Mrs. Glyn. She is somewhat small, with an exquisite figure and glorious red-gold hair. Her complexion is pale, but her face is lit up with large dark eyes. She is on each and every occasion most perfectly dressed. Her dressmaker, as all the fashionable world knows, is her sister, Lady Duff Gordon, who trades under the name of Lucile, and whose taste i3 acknowledged as being of the very finest. Before she was married, Elinor Glyn was a Miss Sutherland. She passed her early days in Jersey, and for some years after her marriage to Mr. Clay- ton Glyn, who Is an Essex Squire, she lived a quiet life with her husband at Dorrington Hall, their beautiful old place in Essex. On the publication of “The Visits of Elizabeth,” her first book, she quickly became famous, and has been much sought after ever since. Among her most intimate friends is the Countess of Warwick. Society people in America would have met Mrs. Glyn before this had it not been for the recent iliness of James Van Alen, whose guest in Amer- ica the fashlonable author was to have been. Dorrington Hall, the Glyns’ home, has been rented this year to the Guy Gil- beys, whose name famous in connec- tion with wines. Meanwhile the author and her husband are occupying a de- lightful little cottage near Dun w, in Essex, and it is rarely that a day passés without a motor party coming to lunch. It was on such an uccasion, a while ago, that one of the party com- plained of a pain while at lunch and asked afterward if he might lie down A doctor was quickly sent fcr and the members of this gay motoring party were then astounded to learn that they would Have to without their friend, who was a brother of the Duke of Roxburghe, for he had appendieit For six weeks this young man, + had been on the eve of his depart to America to be present at the ma riage of his brother to Miss May Go let, the American heire: had to re- main at this little cottage surrounded by doctors and nurses. Down at little spot in Essex arrived the Duche: of Roxburghe, and there she nu her son day and night until he v well again, while excuses were sent 1o America about her absence, so that the brightness of her eldest boy's wedding might not be dimmed S S Nobel Prize for Dr. Koch. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 12—Dr. Koch of Berlin has been decided upon. it is reported in authoritative circles here, for the Nobel prize in medical sciences this year. his Berlin position at the head of one of the great bacteriological institutions seems to furnish the proper occasion for the recognition of his great services 4o science. go on Koch's retirement from