Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-01-11

sSU ldU aIUua fte ufDI2E ed % llts5 Saller jug
s VIC de co'nesb stopper on de hones IN de bowl.
~ IA glory hallyllyer on a. bless yo soul.
8s II III 4 Jo7sn Henry .Boner.
a RECOLLRgTIvs UF THE RIVIERA.
first saw Mrs. Wiener at the table d hotesof
the Hotel DIES lies Briianniqnes, at Cannes
I Mrs Wiener, though the name is now so fa.
srniliar te me, still sounds queer. Weiner, be-
ing q foreiga appeilation, seems. in my un-G Ger
man ears TO so more comfortably with Madame.
Madame Wiener runs so much more easily.
But che never would allow theft sFTau"
was withheld by her English friends. 'shen
please call me like one OF yourselves" she
would say, and not as if were French
woman a:< II d "
& We we're about sixty at dinner that evening
ust the mixed company one sees at those
Cannes hotels--a few nice people and great
many nasty ones-a sprinkling of many ma
1 tionaiities, but the English heavily preponder-
ating. Mrs. Wiener set next to me, and on her
other aide was her husband. Greasy soup
and that disgrace to the hnny tribe. loup de
mer. had not taken tho edge off my appetite,
aud I was looking forward with interest to the
entree, which, under the promising title, of
s.pate de pigeons, bade fair to be an improve
ment on the previous dishes. I was, however,
the last to be served, and presently CHANGING
past Mrs. Wiener discovered that my chance
Of Obtaining any Of the delicacy had vanished
It's dimensions, rapidly decreasing, had
reached Mr. Wiener, aud he calmly put upon
three people, assour host had apparently calcu-
lated. His wife seemed to- consider this a
most pr per and natural proceeding:
but catching disgustsd glance from
excuse that Duinmie takes all the pigeon pie:
been; br,t thought that little OF it woud
have been oi for me too, after my long
journey. 4 was speedily eonsoled, however;
a low roar Of. disappotni TINS nt from 'sDummie"
fixed all eyes upon him. Needless OF the pub
lie attention, he engaged in loud alteration
hand held fork aloft in the air, upon which
4 was poised not d limb of savory pigeon, but a
thick slice OF cold mutton, aud the other baud
pointed to his plate, upon which companion
slices reposed. did not understand the
idonatie German which ensued. but what had
happened was only too plain The pigeon had
fallen short, aud cold mu ton had been hastily
substituted TO exc it ont -. '."
= III few weeks The mixed society in the hotel
had brohen itself up INTO little clioues. We,
.ttha nice people" as we fOndly and exclu
aively called ourselves had made the NASTY"
people understand that We did not want 10
have anything to do with them: that we did not
desire conversations with them i'll the garden,
where, for the sake of the air and the sun
shine we Oftan established ourselves with our
work and books; that we did not care 10 drive
with the wealEilier Of them in tho smart car
riages, OF which, with Delpiano's permission,
they were the possessors for the season; i'll
fact, thas even salutalions on the staircase were
not agreeab BILE TO Us.
Bus.Mrs Wiener set those unspoken rules
,t<.to all ole ka,o and 1rr
much CT her, would have kept her to our
selves ttEut am not Seyres porcelain like
You Are,n she said to me one day; Il am only
a horaely little bit of Delft ..%
WB}nsed to have little tea parties in enc an
others saloons in thoso days. am told that
Cannes has now CRAFTY altered. and the So
ciaty having become like that Of o large city,
has affected even the hotels; but in the time
! Of which I am speaking 1t was a sociabte.
countriHed sort Of Place, and a lite scandal
ataf arto0n rea, or at a quiet luncheon party,
was our prinelpai excitement
St One afternoon a few friends were sipp!ag my
orange-paace, 'Dumniie" and Mrs Wiener
among the Bumber. By the way, / have never
to this day discovered why she called him
Dumnlie. Wilhelm WAS his name. He was q
tall, slight dark man, very delicate, rather
good io5king, and entirely absorbed in taking
4 care Of hirnsalf. =, F. .... ..-.
Miss Reyroils--a stout, solemn girl Of six
teen, VINO seemed to look upon life a. made for
pfact cling and who for eight hours day
steadily ploddpd through right hand scales,
left-hatid ecaleA, scales with both hands TO-
gether. fye-lingnr exercises and shakes, to the
torture aud despair of her neighbors--had just
risen from the piano, where she had accom-
+ panisflDur conversation for the last quarter Of
an hour with dreaty soaata. There was o
PAUSE fer a snpn 4nt-oDo's' little remarks al
ways HGW So MACH more comfortably under
the shelter Of Iuusic--Wten Dunmie turned to
me aud said: r 55s'' ~
y sWou should ask my wife to sing .,:.,<.
81 81 shall be delighted, - cried "and would
have asked hcr long ago. but had no idea that
Mrs. Wiener sang" &%s.s ..-. .;gGl$, pa.
ooh yes, she answered, 81 sing very we'll.
indeed---h,.t NOT much now, for Dummie does
nos always like it. T will fetch my music
{ And OF she ran, re!llrniDg in q few NOM nts
with ali arrnful. Il will sing you Swedish
love song, She said. = :.a -. =. i:.s 4
II I've othefsvay that Madame Nilsson was to
sing that Same song OF ST. James hall; aud
tor the sake Of old Sreao5 leetions went to hear
it The great prinla dourla held her audience
enthra I'D, and was compelled by q unanimous
encore to repeat il! But do not think she
sangS that little song more arrstcally than
when i tirsI beard it in my tiny, bright, amber
satin "a Ooh ut the Hotel d+s lies Britannlques
and The loYelv voice. though perhaps more
powerful, syas nos sweet + Or more perfect in
its tin,brs tia my dear ilrs. Wiener's can
500 he's. nov as silo rsse from the piano and
Stood smiling ut ON, establishment - :
III She was T. little above the middle height. with
d faifiy good figure, and face which, ansig-s
nificant az the frst 81 ance, grew upon one in
the most wonderful manner The jaws and
chin We're square. The mouth large, rhe nose
str sight, blr too short, the Intelligent blue eyes
spoiled by light, almost white, the eyelaslles
the fair hair plentiful and growing we'll upon
5lae 81 forehead But5such beautiful expires Is
sion -ealna md brig III will tell her story as
she told it to 81 me one flayyas we sui chatting
u1li1sr tlle. orange trees of tho hotel garden
WAS quite a!young girl when Dntntiie saw
me q rst,s said She BY the why. have I men
toned that she WAS Swede and he Ger
Inan sd had led q quiet life with my dear
parsats y working very hard to nnakethe
most Of tho les ons they could give me, for
they we're very poor. Il was at great thing
n hen IsWas allowed to have twelYe9 English
slrasona. Ach how e did work & + thought Of
nothing. but English. when, i Raik HE'D, when
1I ute. whsn res sed nyseli :. aud how glad
s1 81 AM II now tor so many of nv good
Friend 5 oil over the world have been English.
1Y sim, thai went on always IS. Aud one
dxy, DuInnlie. who had come tp Sweden for 8,a
xisis In the lT.ner. heard me sng1 and he
said to Tie friend wi was sgitii him. Tin is
my {, And how halp Wa mere N hen we
were married and sweut home to aettle ID Dres-
ian. e lis deaf other and All his rsls.
items 3nt VIC had not boBn iii DIR little
lioBse zee months when Dunnaie was nixon
I'LL Wi ths small pex Oh, hut it ii as terfibie.
HA was sp III ST u lnursed him very caref Fully;
hns Al lie was 81 sttins better d littia cold setted
Oh his lungs bat s5s no W eIght IN sssrs ago.
md tie nas been al i.syalisl ever ssslG e
scare hs may i've ears and ears b,lt any