The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-07-31
THE TWO DAUGHTERS OF DUMAS
Their Home Lifetime Sort of Man
Vile. COIiette said that She Would
Marry.

That's what I'll do;
Mickie, it's true
Shut both my Dyes,
And fancy it's you!

"NrFy.
Correspondence Of the n. Y. sun.
COlette Dumas, who was marrie
to NJ. Lipman the other day, is nov
about seventeen years old. The write
well remembers having seen her, SOM
years ago, playing in the garden O
her fathers house in the Rue de Vii
lers ut Paris. She was a charmin.
child, having the heart of her mOthe
and the mind of her father. Her con
versation was characterized by all tn,
sweet candor and grace of her age
and by soundness of common sense
such as few women possess. AS fo
wit, she was, perhaps, inferior to hel
younger sister Jeannine-now II cir
of thirteen, and still called Bede 10y
her family. Visitors to Dumas would
frequently catch u glimpse of the love.
ly faces of the two girls peeping
through the half open door of theiI
writing room, adjoining the novelist's
study. Theirs was no idle curiosity.
They loved their father so well that
they hated to l,se any of his words. ~
They had little dog which they
almost adorcd. Its name was "Tou-
tou." One day day in the winter of
1874, Dumas ordered that a handsome
greyhound, which he generally kept
at Puys, Dumas's country seat, should
be brought to Paris. Colette would
frequently shed tears in silence, which
could in no way be accounted for by
her parents. She finally consented to
reveal the cause of her grief. "Poor
TOutou ~ she cried in burst of an
guish, "just think how much he will
have to suffer hencelorth from the
pang of jealousyW "Bc at ease" re-
piled Bede, 81 have prepared him for
the evcnt.n
1t is not long since that old lady
visitor who had called upon M. Dumas
unwittingly questioned Colette as to
the kind of husband she would prefer.
The girl, who regarded the question
as impertinent, saucily replied: 81
will marry an idiot, and will never
regret having selected him, unless |
should later on happen to meet a
greater idiot than my husband"
Have no fear, sister," rejoined Jean
nine, "you will never meet a greater
idiot than the man who will consent |
to marry you" After Colette had be-
come the aflianced bride of M. Lip
mann, the old gossip seems to have
her of her saying. The girl
became Respondent, and in the even
ing when her lover called, she declined
to see him. Next day he is said to
have received the most touching letter
from her, in which she was explain
ing the fact, and was asking his par
don for the "ugly allusiOn she had
made to her ideal of a husband before
she had met him-her sweetheart"
1t would he, however, mistake to
the bride as a mOrbidly senti-
mental young lady. In all appear
lnce, she has inherited from her grand
ather his eternal youthfuIness, and
rom her father his skeptical 6OnhODlie,
md she promises to be a iovial com
lanion as well as good wife.
One would hardly imagine that the
LuthOr of LA Dame aux Camelias"
Ould be model husband and father.
,een wrought by his wife. During
lis journey to Russia, Dumas was the
dol of every Russian woman. The
'iolent passion which the wife of Dimi
ri Nesselrode, the son of the great
chancellor of Nicholas l., conceived
Or the novelist is fact which, for
lng time, afforded food TO the Euro
can gossips. 1t was at that time
hat he met also the Princess Narisc-
inc. Her admiration for the writer
eadiIy changed into love. She was |
he real incarnation of all the quail e
les that may endear woman to u
IAN of noble and lofty ideas, and Du- n
las married her. In the "Dani-
letfs" Dumas pays the highest COM
liment to Russian women. 1t was
to him by friend that it
-as decidedly exaggerated. when
wrote that sentence" Dumas re- -
lied, was thinking of my wife. | a
ssure you that knowing her as ] do A
on could not help deifying the Rus
an women although there may he
W in the country who come up to u
nr standard" Jcannine and Colette "
'e the daughters of this superior wO-
IAN, She has, with her husband, 4
holly devoted herself to their educa-
on, and her efforts have received the
ward they deserved. 1t would be B
fficult to find in all Paris two more
and noble-heartedy young w
dies. Although they have been very -
tile in society, they know the world -,
well, for, since their child J"
BOD, they have always been present
NJ. Dumas's receptions. They held =.
eir own receptions too, which were
attended by the best of the -
lrisian young people. ID
Alexandra Dumas has bestowed 81
DOn his daughter dowry of $50, 0OOf.
I'd insured to her an equal sum i'm
s will, outside, as he says, of all
at he may earn from the present to
ne of his death. PARIS.