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Show W O U N T E S.S, LI 5 I C I F RI AN I V ITALIAN LIBERATOR THE Story of a Patrician Who ilpft5-Has ilpft5-Has Surrendered Her Home .ISplllfei r Life in Beautiful Tuscany to Come gIiii!i to New York and Teach 750,000 PfM S Daughters of Sunnv Italy Hoiu to Live Here. m&As ! J y::: V-"f ?v ;: ' v With the Coming: of Old Age the Italian Woman Becomes a Beast of Burden. vest tbelr money this way for a iihHanthropIc end win receive a very fair rate of Interest on it. It will no be civeu to na. "Then we shall have a hygienic station. This 15, In fuct. nlrearly started by Ir. Louis II. Kaufmnn, of Flower Hospital. It will rpcelve the c o-opemtion of the IJoanl of Health. This station will study rtises of arrested develoimient of children. It will instruct the iH-uple how to avoid dlse-i.-e by thfir own efforts through the treatment of mothers and their babies and by special aid to mothers before the birth of the child whenever hysrlnic conditions ore nnsatisfaetory. 1 Kliniild Introduce sonic of the best feature of the Ital-lnii Ital-lnii tcin-nieiit-". which I have studied thoroughly and which 1 consider the bet tenements in I he world. Thc-Ne (lwelllnsr places will be made the centre of , social, Intellectual aud spiritual Improvement, the vantage van-tage ground from which lo wage war on the dangi-r- j oils loafing on the streets and still more dangerous at- i 1 tractions of the saloon. Our Italian peasants are not used to the cold of the New York climate. They are not dressed for it and they do not know bow to protect pro-tect (heii)selves agnlnt It. Our work will be to show them how Impoiiaiil It Is to be warmly clad. The fust winter I spent here found me quite as lirnorant ns they. I did not understand about the severe cold and I wore slippers when It was bejow freezing polnf v and was very 111 as a result of my Ignorance Our J bureau will lake up this point with the new Imml-t Imml-t grants, ar:d we hoja- to save many from illneus and ( death. Then, when Italians are warmly rlad and have comfortable homes In which to live, they will not seek the corner uloiin fur warmth and cheer. "If we have our model tenements built with a large court which would contain a gymnasium, reading rooms, lecture hails and a caf-, with a band to entertain enter-tain the women and children, we could savp thousands thou-sands of men and women from a life of misery and unhnppliiess, nnd we could make these people better, stronger and abler American cll.ens. "The outdoor life of the tcnemeufs ought Ko centre In one large court, and the roofs ought to le utilized for playgrounds In the daytime and for places of amusement for 'the young people and their elders at night. The central court for amusement is. I think, our own Italian Idea, but the roof garden Is American." Ameri-can." For Model Tenements. The Countess has examined all the model tenements In I'taly. She has photographed them Inside and out nnd has made many charming studiesof girls and Soys who are being reared In these model home?. Fhe loves photography, takes her own plrtnres, nnd develops and prints from her own negatives. She Is 1 countess nm0f- n JkHrvmmw ciPRtANT ' - yrnX'-W Every effort will be made to nld In the campaign against tuberculosis, nnd the Italian government has promised to furnish a station for this purpose with two first class physicians In charge. Last year thrrs were 20,X0 unreported cases of tuberculosis bere. Infant mortality of Italian children In the city of New York Is greater than In any European country. i "Our people must be taught various trades, and we have planned to eatablLsh a trade school and nn industrial indus-trial school. The trade school will be called 'Donn ' Emilia rcruzzl,' for a noble woman who lived In Florence ami was a great worker for the people. The tenements will be called "Countess Ersllla I-ovatelll,"' the name of a well known and much loved Itoman lady whose philanthropic work extends all over Italy. "Jjtje foundation of our school work ought to be laid In the children's halls which have given such brilliant results In Italy and are so peculiarly adapted to the needs of children who have become wage earners early In life. "Plans for colonization have also been sanctioned by the Italian government and give promise of success. Our Idea Is to have farming illages within u few hours of New York whk'a can be worked by Italians by their paying a nominal fe We do not want to encourage them to take up land themsehet until they know more about the country and the work. .. mii mil mnii iijyo ui v'lUil!'?-" .'orlcbt. UUO. lx th Nrw York IIraId Co All nch' nvrrrrii 1 A WOMAN, sllghf of llgure. young, delicate and patrician, one whose dusky Latin cys are shadowed by the tragedies of her own country men nud women aud whose heart Is torn by the hardships the endure, has come to New York city to tench 7,'iO.tiiM) Italians how to live. She has left her beautiful home In Tuscany, the surroundings and association of her childhood, she has given up family and friends In order to devote her future to the Itallaus who seek new life and fortune In the United State. A great fak, you say. A gigantic one for a woman to undertake slnsle handed. A tnk which seems Impossible. Put the Countess Usl Cipriani has the Indomitable courage of her ancestors who founded the city of Florence. She Is endowed with a tenacity and endurauce Inherited from early Homun warriors, and she feels that in spite of the odds ngalnst her &hc will be able to accomplish much for ber people. The Countess I.lsl Cipriani knows what the Italians require. She has worked with them in this country. She has studied them in their native laud. Particularly Particu-larly does she know the Southern Italian, who differs greatly from his Northern brother. And she thinks she has found a way to help him to become a better citizen and healthier and happier In this great community. com-munity. The Italian ioa-sant from sunny Southern Italy who cornea to the United States to seek fortune aud freedom free-dom Is a mere child, says the countess a child unfit 16 take care of itxelf without being taught a child who does not even know how to clothe itself properly, prop-erly, nor how to nourish its body, nor to make Itself decently self-supporting in new environment until shown the way. It Is her purpose to oint out this way, but she will not carry on the work nloue after her phns have been approved, as most of tlieni have been, by (lie Italian government, which is c-o-operailng with her In her work. Notable Itallau philanthropists and the leading lead-ing organizations of New York whose object is the uplift up-lift of humanity are gMng their hearty support to the Countess. It was at her home, In East Thirty-eighth street, that Countess I.lsl Cipriani talked of her dans ami her people. She had Jnst returned from her day's work in the hospital and tenement districts. She sat in nu old Italian carved chair, above which hung n picture fif an Italian madonna," and quite simply she told how she had come to take up this tremendous philanthropic nnd sociologlc question. "There Is so much for us to do nnd we have only begun," she explained In a gentle and flexible Italian voice. The Countess has spoken English since she was a baby and at the age of seven she could read Hnd write four languages, but English was always her favorite tongue. "Since January I have been conferring with many of the charitable organizations here and all have promised prom-ised to help us. We are to work with them, not Independently, In-dependently, but to co-oterate in their efforts along our line; to follow out as closely as possible their methods of helping the Immigrants. Of course theirs have been tried long and have been found practical ajid satisfactory, and It would be foolish to try to work Independently. In-dependently. P.ut we shall devote all our energies lo the Italians. There are about U),00 of them now in New York city. One-fifth of Its population. Think of It! Isn't that an extraordinary proportion? And Isn't It reasonable to assume that your own workers work-ers among the immigrants and the poor will be glad of our assistance, which means the assistance,, both financially and otherwise, of the Italian government?" The Itallau government has given support to the Countess constantly, and so has the s.elcty she represents, rep-resents, the "Segretarlato I'ermanenfe Femmlnlle .er la Tutela delle Donne o del Fanclulll Itallanl all' Es-tcro," Es-tcro," which mean.s a society Intrusted by the Italian government with the welfare of Italian women and children abroad. Counters Camozzl-Danlell Is Its president. pres-ident. She Ls one of the most highly csteeimxl noblewomen noble-women of all Italy on account of her splendid charitable chari-table work. Associated with her are some of the patrician of Northern and Southern Italy countesses, coun-tesses, duehesc-s and prlncessep, who take time to think of and work for the less fortunate men, womc-u and children of their own country. The Couutess LLsl Cipriani chose this work herself. For Keveral years she has watched the progress aud development of Itallaus here, sometimes coming herself her-self to the United Slates for long periods to carry on her Investigations. She bus received three de-rees from the University of Chicago aud has taught com-parathe com-parathe literature there. While her university work wus directed to the classics, her natural bent was toward sociology, and during her stay in Chi. ,, be made an exhaustive Btudy of the methods emplove.l in its great sociologlc centres. Afterward she lived at Ilarltye House, In West Forty-sUth street driveling dri-veling her time to her own people. Whether they come from her native province, Tuscany, Tus-cany, from the north or from the outh, the Italians worhlp the Counter Cipriani, lr name Ls beloved by every risant whoso ancestors bore the yoke ( the oppressed. It wa her father, Count GlusJppe iprlanl. a reUred major general, who fought for them Her uncle, Count Lecouetto Cipriani, Governor of Ho-magi.ii Ho-magi.ii in helped to liberate his people. at)fl his name Ls adored from one end of the province to ihe other. Tho Counter refers to her family history with the utmost simplicity Jn her delightful book. "A Tuscan Childhood." which has been published here In EuglLsb. The Roman Origin. "Whatever. is known to me of this hUtory of the Uprlanl I have found out myself." she bUy8 ' famous chronicles of the MalaMpmI mentlou'the ciiZ rlanl among the sixteen famlll-H who founded Flor" enc-o. Five of tlee families. Including cur own, were oil agnate and descended from ;alK;1o. a J patrician, who the chronica ,, lls, wnH H In arms of Julius Ccesar and as,i, h,m In the sleKfl of l lenoW ' "The names of these five branc hes lend some prob- , fet Satis F nrB ! 1 i f i ifftsffiTii The Italian Nature Leans feVtf' Vjrp'TStfrT Toward Fruits and Vegetables, fp !j (?Skm "Most of our Italian people In this country have ' "l ' ' 'I ' V- '"' 'J k'S ' ? ' ' ''' M'tvll landed bere as Immigrants. They cannot .speak Ki.g- ' J'"; fiTN-rf Il-.li and they come, many of them, from an outdoor ' C.''t ' Y'"''' fi''-f B ' f' ' Vv 'X "- life which they h.ive sinMit in a warmer climite th. in " ffi.-1'?' yfi t ' i this, nnd here they lhe huddled in tenements where c' t- : V.l'",. .. . ) '.r'A' v.-"'''-'1! tliey hae ii-ltlier fresh i.lr n..r .sunshine, nor even j.' -.l'f A- L -; -' fa ' : -' '. th.' pro.er clothing to keep tliem warm. Tli.ir lirL - f ' -- j ' -: ' ' eil.irt Is to learn English, which they pick up from ' ( '. .:'-- t-?'. 5 '. : ' friends or r.dalives. Ofteti they seek employ nt be- . f". - ) ' - ' 'V'i.t 'V7Vl fore they can iinder-dand or maki- themselves under- :-f - '"''""" ' ;'.-;.'-.. - ri because they feci thev must work for the large . -y . V' V ." v - ' 0."-- "r ''' ; '-'j nbllilj' to the Iloman origin, though we, of course, know that during the Middle Ages the nobility of Central Cen-tral Italy took pride In descending from the Komans, whereas the nobles of Northern Italy preferred to trace their descent back to the Twelve Peers of Charlemagne. Charle-magne. Wo found out the presumed Koman origin by ourselves, we children, ami the fact that It was alrinst forbidden knowledge made u-s particularly delight lu our discovery. "The Cipriani were staoch G hlbelllnes and goinl fighters. When the Ghlhelliues were defeated by the Guelpbs the Cipriani were among those who preferred exile to humiliation. They would neither renounce their prerogatives and enroll in a guild nor change their name. One branch settled in France, but dud out. The other brunch id the family remained till the beginning of the nineteenth ceii'.ury, when my grandfather, Matteo Cipriani, came back to Italy. It was he who bought the villa at Leghorn where we children speu'I the happiest days of our childh 1. "To this Corsica n Intlnem.e I trace certain pronounced pro-nounced family characteristics, principally tenacity and endurance. The environment under which our own race developed during the centuries was, 1 think, a distinctly desirable one. We never became couit nobility, and we were thus saved from the excesses to which the European imbles gave themselves up from the Renaissance lo the French Ib- olutl'-n. Moreover, it endowed u wtoti exceptionally good physical constitutions, for lhe development of the body wusju every way favored by the rouKh Cor.slcaii lire. "It seems poetic Justice that when, after their long exile, these Ghlbelilnes returned lo the cradle of their lace, they should siicvevslully tinLsli the task I heir fathers had begun. My uncles aud my father all fought bravelv and unselfishly for 1 1." n, ., ,( oj Italy, aud their party finally con-iuered. Italy became be-came om-. And the muu who as Governor tiit ruled the province wrenched from the Pope, n,P w.ry provinces prov-inces that a thousand years ago l.p bad granted, thus ebtablL-blng the temporal power of the Church-that Church-that man was my uncle." And the niece of this Italian general, this liberator of his people. Is struggling Just a hard and tenaciously tenacious-ly for a freedom for her people as did Cunt le Lcco-netto Lcco-netto Ciprninl. Hesld-s this determination and fortitude forti-tude inherited from the male side of the family to Countess Ll.,1 Cipriani have come unusual strength and endurance from her mother, who was u Genua y. and who, because she was not bom a boV, wus educated and reared as one by her father. The Countess LM's mother learned to tramp mile through the country, to ride horseback and to bwI.il. when It wils most unusual un-usual for young ladles to Indulge In such violent ex-ercLs. ex-ercLs. As soon as she was old enough she vv,.s made to study bookkeeping .! the elements of Law Yet the crowning masculine accomplishment came when every Sunday morning the American drum major was summoned to make her beat uo drum It was then that the father felt. s Countess Llsl that he had got the l.st of destiny, which liad sent to him u girl when he wanted a boy. The Needs of Her People. Picking up the thread of ber story about the needa or her Italian people the Countess said .-r.T """"-. Baby Carriages Are Put to Strange 'y ' ''' f' 1 v Uses at Times Italians Have No Hesitation in Building Squatter Cabins on Land to Which They Have No Title, on Sites That Command Magnificent Scenery but a Stone's Throw from Noisy Streets. . families which usually accompany them 'What we want to do Is m better cqirp the e p.-opJo. We have planned to tench them Euj.!Mi, lo Imp iiu.,n get emr.loymeni by familial i.lng llie.n with in,. ;,. vertlsenieuts ami puuiiig them on the rihi. Irak. We are going to build inmhd tenements for them, m.c In the congested district of the city, but outside. In Iuig Ishind perhaps, where they will be able to live cheaply but wholesomely. "The tenement vve have planned would conform to the model tcncmeijU here lu all essentials, yd ux. maktn" ?fmiifr plKtogrT ''lc studies of IfnMnns here 'id '' ..ck iiies iill in- u.M-d as i'uporiaut ixjcloioic oaleilrl, "A pro.MiHiil building P-"ichit!o'i h, this city lias offered to liiii:Mi I'.lVy j.er cent of the capital lo be Invested In iiicdcl tenements, beginning with one million d.i Il.-.rs, provided tint Fie Italians and their friends Join In the eifort to raise the sum needed." eald tiie Countess. ' We want the Immigrants themselves them-selves to help raise the money and be able, after a while, to own their own homes. .mf thov,. w), m. ThN land Is to"be convertedr"uTrKrJons. which pl. V , S,U,1,",tIn- "J "ill ghe to the Italians J.rk of a healthier nild more wholesome kind than the j , ,t "rtalnportiouof the tZ Ti V , ,ftr,,,cw- lbe ot"1" will con- tun , to follow lines of work In New York city. If pro,cr social conditions be provided for the . j mm grants who are induced to leave the cltv there! i M be no lack of families willing lo go. nd this, il j Ink. would otter one of tho most satlsfactorv solu-, "f Tt.;li-.e )., x..v, y.-rl- ' ' |