Retired Organ Grinders

A whole village of well-to-do Italians, speaking English with an American accent, is one of the most astonishing things that Italy offers to the tourist. They are retired organ-grinders, who have acquired comfortable fortunes in America, and have come back to their beloved native land to live in affluence with their families in this strange little colony which they have founded among the sweet Italian mountains. The stranger in walking the quiet streets is often astonished at the sound of a handorgan sending forth the familiar strains of some once popular air from within some one of the houses, giving evidence of the affection in which the organs are j held by their swarthy, c.irk-eyed ! ers, and which most oí them cherish i fondly in their ideal IUu of idleness to afford them the music which means so much in their lives.