Sons of Italy; a social and religious study of the Italians in America . warning of theKu Klux graphically pictured on his door and he fled thatnight with wife and child. A second time he saved moneyand nvested it in a home farther north, only to be warnedout of town by the country-folk, who were afraid of thedark-skinned foreigner whom they held to be a potentialthief and murderer. Penniless, he again faced the worldwith his wife, children, and harp. He finally settled inBrooklyn, where to-day he is living on the income of histhree houses, a genial old man, full of jokes and stories ofhis tra
Sons of Italy; a social and religious study of the Italians in America . warning of theKu Klux graphically pictured on his door and he fled thatnight with wife and child. A second time he saved moneyand nvested it in a home farther north, only to be warnedout of town by the country-folk, who were afraid of thedark-skinned foreigner whom they held to be a potentialthief and murderer. Penniless, he again faced the worldwith his wife, children, and harp. He finally settled inBrooklyn, where to-day he is living on the income of histhree houses, a genial old man, full of jokes and stories ofhis travels, a great favorite with young people because ofhis ability to see the human side of everything. One of hissons holds a paymasters position with a big railroad com-pany, another has graduated from college, has recentlytaken his masters degree, and is teaching. Twenty yearsago no one would have dreamed such a future for the sonsof the strolling harp-player. It is only in America that suchdevelopment is possible. Says Professor Costa of the College of the City of New. TWO STREETS IN PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND Atwell Avenue, Wholly Owned by ItaliansBroadway, an Italian Residence Street —n ..„...HY AbTOf, tcNOX THE ITALIAN AS A CITIZEN 117 York, During my experience of fourteen years as an in-structor at the College of the City of New York, I hadoccasion to consider the work and general intelligence ofmany Italian students, of whom only a small percentageoriginated from the northern provinces of Italy. I havenever noticed the least superiority of intelligence and gen-eral culture of the latter over those of the south of south Italians proved not only bright and studiouspupils, but also good-natured and easily amenable to disci-pline. They were and are very popular with the otherstudents, and not a few of them were elected to office in thevarious student organizations. He who would find the face of an Italian burglar inthe rogues gallery must take his microscope with
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