The Clothier of Civilization [pp. 438-444]

438 The CThtkier of q~~~1~~~~~~0~. [Apri],
The little party now hastened onward rap- made much rejoicing in the Pereti familyidly. Seeing two friars sauntering slowly it was the wedding of Inez Pereti and Raitowards them along one of the side streets, mundo Padillo.
they stopped and waited, in order to warn The following year, 1872, was replete with
them against the corner they had just passed. events. The Jesuits were all expelled from
However, the two friars proved to be none Central America, some of the exiles going
other than Father Angelo and Inez Pereti. to the United States, some to Europe, and a
Before another hour had passed, the entire few, including Sister Marcelina, going to
family were re-united, and were trudging Panama to nurse the fever patients in the
along the rough road to the next village. overcrowded hospitals. Later news informed
There they found a safe refuge at the house them of the death of Gracianos from a severe
of the priest to whom Father Galiano had fever, and of the succession to his office
given Madame Pereti a letter of introduc- of Seisor J. Baredo. Truly it was a leap
tion. from the frying-pan into the fire, for Baredo
For eight days the family remained with was even more tyrannical and immoral than
this kind old friar. At the end of that time, Gracianos. Then a great sorrow came to
through the intercession of the president of the Pereti family. Rain~undo Padillo was
Costa Rica, they were granted their pass- taken from them, and his wife Inez, after
ports, and they sailed away from Guatemala disposing of her entire fortune for the purwith no other sensation than one of joy- pose of founding soup houses for the laborfor they had nothing to part from that they ing classes, entered a convent. The remainregretted. Upon their arrival in New York, der of the family purchased an elegant
Madame Pereti's husband was the first to mansion upon the banks of the Hudson.
greet them. A moment later a carriage "Thank God!" often exclaims Madame
drove in at the depot, and even before it had Pereti, "Thank God, that our people and
halted, Raimundo Padillo leaped out and our clergy have at last found a land where
saluted them all with tears of happiness in their souls will not be burned out and their
his eyes. bodies worn out with persecution. Here, at
In a few weeks there was a very quiet wed- ~east one finds justice, liberty, peace and
ding at a great New York cathedral, that plenty."
Enidi~ Tracy Sz~'ett.
THE CLOTHIER OF CIVILIZATION.
IN "A Winter's Tale" Shakspere intro- the swineherd, and for the middle classes,
duces a clown counting his wealth: "Let rather than from her broadcloths of Kent
me see: Every`leven wether tods, every tod for gentlemen. Even the Engl~sh kings
yields-pound and odd shilling; fifteen hun- were not so finely clad as the Duke of Infan dred shorn; what comes the wool to?" tado or the two gentlemen of Verona in their
Small as this fleece was (about two and one- beautiful cloths made by the St. Michael
half pounds), it was coarse enough to make friars in Florence.
a hair-shirt for St. Simeon Stylites. England The British sheep is not the clothier of
has for centuries been a warm woolen nest, civilization. That honor belongs to the litand her modern industrial history is one tle Merino from "over the sea." 1 Beautiful
long skein of woolly wealth. She has clad as were the Kentish broadcloths and the
the ribs of the working world she has grown stiff "full-luster" British fabrics -equal, perrich from her serges of Essex and Somerset, I For this etynsology see "The Life and Times of
and her kerseys of Devon for the serf and Hon. William Jarvis." Hurd & Houghton. 1869.