New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12

bad food and unsanitary conditions. The
cobbler Simon might have treated the
child kindly but for his wife. who was
or the scum of the Revolution. wretch
delighting in cruelty. POumies often
saw this vile creature when in her old
age of poverty and disease she was a
patient i'm the hospital for incurables.
The other inmates would have nothing
to do with her. resenting still thirty
years or more after the death of the lit
, tie Dauphin her treatment of the poor
child
During the First Empire Poumies
came TO Paris as a medical student, and
in due time became the associate of the
most distinguished physicians Of his day
as well as of other interesting persons.
He often saw the Emperor. and it Is
worth while to quote his recollection Of
the great Napoleon's face as a pleasant
one with refined features and a kind.
| benevolent expression. No portrait of
| Napoleon, he holds. has ever given more
! than a faint idea of his countenance.
| He has set down various notes on the
Emperor from his talks with those who
! knew the great man. He was very
"fussy," aid one, the least thing set
him grumbling and complaining; and
he was very superstltious about the
number thirteen and about Friday. The
| imperial tailor complained that Napoleon
was so economical about his dress that
he once asked the Mortified man to put
patch on his hunting breeches. where
| his hanger had worn a hole. He fur
Their Disguised the man of fashions by
arguing over the bills. Those who oc
cupied positions about NapoleOn's per-
son praised his gentleness, consideration
and simplicity and his genuine love for
little children. We are told that he
| liked people TO talk quite freely before
him on private occasions. For heavens
sake" he exclaimed "let me sometimes
see bit of nature. instead Of eternal
posing" The doctor tells a characteris-
tic little story of the Emperor's relations
with his officers:
a captain of artillery made up his mind
| TO address the Emperor personally, and ask
| MIN Tor promotion. Inc Emperor came 10
the citadel. but the captain was so ever
| come with shyness that he was unable TO
| find voice 10 prOfter his demand. When the
inspection was over the Emperor was about
! TO retire. when the captain rushed after
him. Sire Sire"
Napoleon paused. What do you want,
sir?''
Sire. fifteen years service. four in the
rank of captain. covered with wounds. ."
| Major" replied Napoleon.
And he walked on.
The return of the Bourbons. the Hun
dred Days, the revolutions of 1880 and
| 1913 and the Second Empire all passed
under the keen vision of DR.. Poumies,
and all are discussed here picturesquely
and with justice. He gives a curious de-
scription of the Tuilleres during the
reign of the provisional government in
1S4S. The capers cut by the band Of two
! hundred workmen who had taken pos
| session of the palace were almost incred-
! ible. Their wives and children Joined
| thsm, and for two weeks they resisted
every attempt to dslodge them. Nobody
could leave or enter without a permit
| from their leader and provisions were
taken in daily at the gates. The filth
and disorder OF the magnificent r,oms
were beyond words. The doctor. who
had a patient among these men, says
that he never saw more degrading
spectacle. An odd incident OF the Rev
olution OF July was witnessed by
Poumies and an excited crowd Of two
thousand persons. Every window and
terrace OF the Louvre was manned by
desperate Suisses making their last
stand and firing at the people below:
A well dressed. middle aged man came
slowly on TO the Quai Voltaire. from the
Rue de Beaune reading a book; he stroled
ieisurely across the road. stepped on To the
pavement and continued his way toward
ihe Pont des Arts, without once raising his
awes OF course he was instantly made the
tSreet of the Suisses. who fired at least
counIe of hundred shots at him. Nothing
dJverted his attention from his book; he
was as deaf 10 the warning shouts or the
crnwd as 10 the bullets scattering round
him. We watched him breathlessly as he