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Show Knew How to Advertise. Byldenth IeonravHllo could give even Bernard Shiw points In the art of adver-tl adver-tl Ing himself, Bays ttn- New fork Evening Even-ing Pnst The Ossorvatore Homano publishes pub-lishes the following letter addressed by the composer of "I Pagllaccl" to tho i ..p. ii holy father, ihe cry of distress ;rom the remotest cod of our beautiful peninsula, which has p'lrr.-.l the whole world bus awakened in m 'hrlstlan smil i still deeper and more painful echo With Calabria down there tin terribly mutilated, mutilat-ed, era associated ny sweetest recollections recollec-tions of m parents, and my happ days nf childhood in the shadow of those mountains 1 grew up, In tliofe Alpine val leys 1 dreamed my first songs. The. first ray of fame, winch God's goodness granted grant-ed me, Is connecteil in thought with that hospitable region f which i consider myself my-self a son Thus 1 feel It at this moment my duly tn do more than Others Inspired bj the deep r liglnus feeling which has always animated - -e resolved to compose com-pose a prayer to the holy virgin Mary, to have It printed at my expense, and to give cne-half of the proceeds to the sufferers in Calabria, the, other half for the adornment adorn-ment of the Call edial of the Madonna Delia Sera In MontallO I'lYugo. Holy father! If I c-mld get prefixed to this -nng i few lines from the Father of Chrln-tendem. Chrln-tendem. granting the lowliest of his children chil-dren the honor of m .-ptlng the dedication dedica-tion of the Ave Maria, and commending Its sale to the faithful, I should Ik- able with the mighty assistance of your Holiness Holi-ness and th- bellevi rs, to bestow the noblest no-blest the most Catholic, the most useful charlt " |