Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-04-13

, ms OF crimson plush-the same IN
which Madame Bu0naparte made her
HAsTY JOURNEY
from church on that eyentful day on
a corner table 30 safe angle Of the
wall " a large and curious carving
In ivory which the care-taker
says NAPOLEON sent from
Egypt 10 his mother II oddly repre-
sonts the nativity ana Mary
seated on altogether too modern chairs.
in a pulior gazing entaptufed upon
the Babe IN fine cradle, while outside
ana peerlng through the windows are
the shepherds. just arrived ana carry
ing satchels on their shoulders.
Butcher Napoleon must have had q
sense Of bumor In him. after all on
the mnntlepicce IS a marble bust Of
Eugcnie's beloved SON There are sew
tral pictures and busts OF him scat
tered through the house, representing
the various stages OF his short career
The Jealous care with which this moth
er ol many SORROWS has sought in ey-
cry way 70 link the memory OF her
dead With that Qf his more illustriOus
predecessor has In II an element Of the
pitlful
Letitla's room, with its once brayely-
lowered oui now dim and ghost-llke
paper It's scopes and many mirrors ih
frames Of faded gilt, contains little but
a dilapldated spinning wheel trelic OF
her peasant days., and the frame work
OF q bed. The latter Is painted ia
stone-gray monochrome hut IN times
long gone by was doubtless gay with
color and gliding, for the curves ana
beading Of the head and foot boards
testify that 1t was the expensive style
OF bed known az 'un liz P0mpadour."
several other apartments are shown.
including a smoking room and an i'm.
mense bali room. The fact that Carls
Bu0noparte occupied 80 largea mansion.
with the luxury of ball room attached
seems TO indicate social prominence
which refutes the stories Of hts extreme
poverty and the ISLANDERS ncernlng
the character OF his wife The oft
repeated statement that Napoleon was
the son Of base-born pauper. and
brought up at a charity school," and
the wickeder insnuation that his faith
er was not Letitla's husband. were
probably instgated by the Bourbonlst
enemy Though money was so scarce
In those days that the boy Napoleon
was ridiculed by his school mates as a
'mezza calzetta" Zone without garters)
and doubtless mother Buonaparte found
1t difficult TO provide even shoes and
stockings for so
MANY LITTLE FEET,
the feet which were afterwards TO climb
the steps of thrones--we learn In Cor
sca that besides his unlucrative pro.
tessi0n, Carlo Buonaparte was also q
considerable landed proprietor ana
Wine grower. At any rate. the family
made good their claim TO rank as no.
bles; and about the year 1850. the SUI
perior council of the island confirmed
the claim, declaring Napoleon's father
ana brother TO be mobiles Of a nobility
extending over two hundred years"
How the handsome Letitia must have
queened II IN that ball room II has no
leWer than sixteen rnirrors-a very
large one at either end. the rest being
long and narrow panels set between
the dnwOws, Instead Of the usual red
tiles. its floor is a kind Of primitive
parquet, smooth enough yet for dane
Ing, and Its windows open to the
ground, allowing free access to the ter
race.
We purposely left to the last the
room which Napoleon occupied when
boy. There are no mirrors there-only
4 tiny dressing glass above rickety
bureau. IL shows the soldiers instinct,
and might be IN a harrack for the lux
iry displayed, There Is the she'll Of
plain bedstead and two or three chairs
1 shabby writng-desk, and a little cup
board In the wall, where his school
books were kept In the small fire.
place stand the same old andlrons and
beside 1t is a card table. with checker.
board attachment, where. perbaps ne
)ractlsed With ivory pawns the moves
le afterwards made with the kings
md queens Of Europe. The fact thai
o him alone, Of all the eleven chill.
iren, was given a room on the
larlor floor, is proof that he early
assumed the direction of the
amily. His father died at the age of
and Letitia had ONLY her
ons 10 depend upon. II Is recorded
hat Cardinal Fesch. uncle of the Buo-
.aparte boys. said 10 the Jealous Joseph,
T.,
Napoleon is It's head"
What Of the domestic life that once
vent on here? These moldy
walls tell few tales. but no
loubt the afterwards lllustrlous
amily had lis joys and sorrows.
IS petty quarrels. it's loves and hopes.
ust like other folk Fancy sees the
yell-born young bridegroom, only
Eighteen, bringing home his beautiful
'hild-brid Of fourteen years-Letitia
famoino, Of peasant birth, but Of for
une much superior 10 his own How
little the youthful couple thought that
hey were destined to become the par
,nts Of a race Of princes who should
rule the whole OF Europe.
hat fate was going 10 shower imperial
'rowns upon that humble roof There
s not a tale in the thousand and one Of