Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-06-08
"reminiscences of Dumas.

| ACCOMPLISHMENTS VI DuuuSs
Dumas tather-the Marquis de Pail,
leterie-was a mulatto and of powerful
| frame. One evening he accompanied n
young woman to the theater, when a
dandy came in the box to visit. The
| fop at last offered to conduct the lady
home.
"Thank you, but have an escort
here" pointing to the General
alum " muttered the fellow, con
temptuously, " mistook monsieur for
your servant"
The General jumped up and threw
the young man over the railing and on
the stage.
1t was from his father that Dumas in
herited his prodigious muscularity.
Dumas was very proud of his muscu-
lar strength. One one occasion, in n
certain public meeting, Dumas had to
force his way through the crowd at a
late hour.
It's an Internal shame to make peo
pie wait this way said one strappng
big fellow.
"It it2 Well, you shall not wait for
nothing" said Dumas as he slapped
the fellows face.
His muscular strength was not the
only thing that Dumas was vain of.
One evening Dumas was sitting in the the
ater with George Sand, the occasion be-
ing the first performance of dread.
fully bad play; and they talked all
through it. A countryman sitting in
front of them turned around and or
dered them to keep still.
"Now!" said the famous novelist,
"you have an opportunity of hearing
Nine. George Sand and NJ. Alexandra
Dumas converse, and yet you COM
plain |"
One day friend of the younger Du-
mas said to him that his father had
written several inferior works but not
one that was tedious.
"All selfishness,' said the younger
Dumas "he didn't want to bore him
self"
The Princess BOnaparte, Dressmaker.
Princess Pierre Napoleon Bonapartes
dressmaking establishment at 81 Benel
street, London, is thus described: A
sober page in buttons conducts the Wis
itor to a room arranged with taste
and elegance which England mode
makers-adepts in the art of catch.
penny decoration-would do well to
initiate. Quiet tones in the coloring of
carpet and curtains, not too many mir
rors nor redundancy of gliding, and
three or four valuable prints and paint-
ings, as substitutes for the usual garish
pink and yellow" Here presides the
Princess tall, very handsome woman
a hauu nf L. hn
had obtained for her purpose from Paris,
and whose unchignoned heads and plain
neatness of dress are admirably in keep
ing with the practical business objects
of the place. Having adopted dress
making as a vocation, the Princess en-
tiers earnestly into its mercantile spirit,
apd desires the custom of the poor as
veal as the rich. There should be estab
lished in England, she thinks, "good
middleclass school of dressmaking"-
the same as that which, in Paris, makes
a grisette so neat and dainty; and adds,
81 buy dresses-a thousand francs each
is cheap-of Worth, and by using them
as models for my own workwomen, can
give my customers exact @ ,unterparts
of his masterpiece at less than half
his prices. Mine is democratic dress
making, you perceive, and | am not
afraid of the word" The ladies may be
able to tell just how sound this speech
is in art, and how much of good sug-
gestions it may have for New York us
for London; but how thoroughly French
is the whole tableau of Princess turned
mooistel With full-length portraits of
her husbands great ancestor, Napoleon
l., among the few pictures decorating
the walls of her modest wareroom, this
formerly naughty lady of Auteuil not
only adopts dressmaking with fervor,
but expounds its art with grace al
most persuading the hearer to- imagine
that there may be really something
princely in it.