Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-09-28
Amusing AnecdOte of an Artist-PecuIia,.
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Interview with Duke of Orleans.
An anecdote, told of Decamps, the artist,
who recently met with his death by being
thrown from horse, near Paris, is thus
| related:
| An extreme intimacy existed between the
painter and the lamented Duke of Orleans
eldest son of King Louis Philippe, himself
the victim of frightened horse. In the
days Of their friendship, the young Duke
was in habit OF paying frequent visits to the
lodgings of Decamps who resided in the
fifth story of one of those high houses so
numerous in Paris. One morning the Duke
climbed up the five pair of stairs and rung
the painters bell several times, but receiving
no answer. Descending to the porter's
lodge, he demanded of that worthy, who
united with his functions as porter the trade
of tailor, if he were quite sure Decamps had
not gone out
"Perfectly sure" said the porter, who
didn't know the heir to the throne from the
man in the moon, "unless he was taking a
walk without his trowsers, for he has but one
pair, and those 1 have been mending. l
won't open the door until he gets them. If
you are going up again, perhaps you
wouldn't mind taking them with your
with the greatest pleasure in the world"
returned the Duke, and with the trowsers on
his arm, he again ran up to Decamps's lodg-
ings, and pulled the bell furiously.
who's there?" exclaimed an angry voice
within. "Fm not at home confound your
"Yes you are, laugihngly replied the
Duke. st is land I've brought your PAN
falcons"
"Well," said the painter, "if your Royal
Highness will be good enough to pass them
through the crack of the door | shall con-
slider II favor"
'Done," returned the Duke, "on condition
that you Teciprocate."
"How?"
"By b-eakfasting with me-"
To this proposition the painter conde-
| scendingly agreed, obtained his cherished
| trowsers, and the two were soon off to a
neighboring cafe to enjoy roll and outlet.
A MUCH-NEEDED HINT TO SCHOOL,
! TEACHERs.-Fanny Fern says: 'We wish
| that teachers of boarding-schools, all over
| the land, would take into consideration the
inexpediency of requiring young people to
study before breakfast, and what is much
worse, to study by candle-l light or gas-light
at this early hour Many young eyes have
been permanently injured by this practice,
the absurdity of which must strike every re-
flecting mind. We think no young person
should be out of bed more than half an hour
at the farthest, without food, and to necessi-
tate mental labor in addition, is o simple act
of cruelty, in our opinion Give them a good,
wholesome breakfast as soon as they are up
and dressed, then bring on your studies, and
they will probably retain ideas as well as
words. To us, these gaping, sleepy, hungry,
young creatures are most melancholy spec
tacle. We should not like to enumerate the
headaches and general debility born of this
practice. Let parents take sufficient interest
to raise their voices against such palpable
violation of all the laws ofhealth and longey-
ity or, let them take-on an empty stom-
ach---at daybreak, or before, a book in a
| for eign language out of which not an idea
can be extracted, and sit sleepily down, to
pore and puzzle over it, while natures voice,
in view of impending headache clamors
loudly-breakfast! breakfaStP