New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-03
THE HOME OF THE YOUNGER DUMAS


Paris letter in The Chicago Inter ooe'u'' ,,
Almost every day he comes from lbs arh III "' ~
To Paris but f0 few hours only 10 iear the nws Vi
Madame Dumas, whose health IS so DaoiS .h sn" ~
and who never leaves Paris and her nome Ill o'' NV
Perhaps you know the modest little PRICK aH move
with lis large carriage entrance porte ~
which is d- played the wide coorea gas "iuo wide
his picture gallery II you penetrate by ths " has
door Won lind Yourself under the aclway ~Ac 1870 nn9
been transformed into SORT OF museum. te rrro
tries the walls. AGAINST "hlcm are oppn','e HE
oaaea oG s'4 ,he colossal H so statue of Bamas
This gallery is shut al the two exueniues Garden or
rather "A large sanded court shaded DN III sn,ing
chestnut. ihink-undei whose .iaqS :" Nine Epp,
mann meet Tor their games and frolic IN tno p'en
ground is little rustic chalet bong AZ ' There ten
var AGO Dumas suspended all his canva9es anu .n
drTins which had for yeao on rem na 5m"c put
touch here; nothing aini>es an no't "nu witch ne
nasscs on the ladder in shirt sleeves calsng 'e
hanging OF such picture. irving lieI or
and brides himself on never having made Daa n1
1nn truth, only works of the hrst ouer hnsnner
as in the case OF Duocet, from whom he oUaS .c
woman extended naked-La Femme sue pa DoO to the
rank OF a master. and honorbN hoH ms pn csI rha
the master which ' nas ' Of the salery COW
cred like those OF museum Not ohh ILL iof, bv the
on the large table occupying al lne ,pon,er wafer
billiard table exquisite canvaSes Oh 9t nicres
color and drawings of incacuabe Vae e no ~ his
on the ronS s wS Sy 0 his bedroom
Tro bi sanctuary has been invaded by art here
Is wOmans Po" side by side with one Of TroyOns
cows OF Rousscaus trees, or sueue ~ innore
The masters study IS modest low ceieot eIu" AZ
room With two windows looking on to the Avenne Gc
Villers shelves stocked win noohS ' on M giving
put rse no cornic or ogee upon which in museums
the first row of pictures Is mng' here '"e' '''''
ST iI The centre IS the large desk filled with papers
and books il re hsapeSd at the aI many Which he
almost always work employing tnc pest p''
of his life and time . -, o. ma on. more
charitable than this great eeos no one mas Srvces
more services dencntcy and 9n'irngy S"e dee
OF Sdt %9ns to- Re friends II is his scepcal sarcastic
weared mind which sometime, MrOne, rb ns he
always warm, and cherishng Illusions Whatever nc
Are there many who would have Of h
tfnerp Three or four years ago Dumas said 70 one
Of his iriends Who @oD reg S o6S fran no ms
n0T Every eG @ vhsn Dumas mas 6D Dse 7 eeS
so at his IONS h hSqS S3y at G With de- deb e
Dumas recoHns even this point thst the D oay
sessions amounted to three louis. OF WHICH JIG wa
false. .,,,oc, from 200 600 tn 100000
francs bnt what every does not Know Is unn.
Dumas redeemed his copyright. and during t c"pid
years m cercn his fathers debts Three years az"
as he himself simply said his father owed ot 1T
re disorder, and embarrasmentS OF pere D .mno
recall II our mind one Of his droI sayings: ,Gg
oame 70 aTcnse his pity for the fate of an unorn9a
ch hsr. nGccr The older Dumas had alas oittn
81 40 nsth bailiGs The poor man is Just deao Ihe
wife weeping the poverty terrible twenty ,a l fortT
needed to bury the poor bihH. i'o'e "' ''
sovs Dumas land bury two .,i. to,nor no
when Dumas touches on anecdotes o, l,s inS
e inn> houothlr. one day entering un,eN s =,
~, f,tber's house he found him. his ead pluhIsu ~. III
hi hands and in tears Di>mayed M h hnq heod and
ga q enGocat.d voice answered A,as my poor
friend have Just made poor Poitho, one ,ho three
Dorilos a. every one knows, Il one OF the tn' ~
r,etners-thosc legendary heroes hroIcnt 10 III. go. %.
Dumas ard to whom he became at,c a las as O''
r,orn living beings even 10 weeping their lOsN. ,,r
Dumos b asted n few wears ago OF neI'r ,i 10 ~
known physical pain-perhapS t9nay ne ,o ~u
90 the same thing He has known SEC 80,
and discomfort and regimen has had 10 nurse sn
Ga uith rIrhf for no who saw b IN pas PryuuN
Ss Sbonldcrs sonared back hands In MS pocke.S,,
hat tightly pressed over his brow he pGT ,c Dnma
Va he fathe~ nd his fathers friends cav iuWyn WI.
has INV h como the great Dumas Is sNV-eish'
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