Benedetta's Commands

Under drastic orders from Il Duce not to "go native" in Ethiopia are Italian soldiers. Last week the war brides and wives they left behind received "Ten Commandments," signed not by the Dictator, but by "Benedetta," announced to be the pen name of the wife of a prominent Fascist. Commanded Benedetta:

1) Be faithful in separation.

2) Remain sweet and serene in order to conquer the desperation of separation.

3) Carry on where your menfolks left off.

4) Give unstintingly your arms and brains to fill the voids in the field of industry.

5) Practice rigid economic selfdiscipline.

6) Live an austere and simple life.

7) Freely assist the sick, feeble and tired.

8) Be proud of your motherhood in spite of the separation.

9) Maintain faith in our victory.

10) Cast away all doubts.

Aged 38 and the vivacious mother of four, Benedetta confided to friends that she was moved to pen her ten commandments by emotion at the arrival on the Ethiopian front last week of her 59-year-old vivacious husband, "The Founder of Futurism," Millionaire-Poet Filippo Tomaso Marinetti (TIME, Nov. 4).

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