Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-09

ent No. 50 Rue Vivienne-Aimee Adele de
Telson, kings daughter, cherished
through revolution by the gardeners son
Count Rumford-after Paul Jones, the
most romantic of these American figures
lived the last ten years of his life al
No. 80 Rue deAuteuil. 1t was the very
villa where Franklin courted Nine. Hell
vetius. and Rumford bought it from the
sprightly widow. The garden of the
hollyhocks is still there!
The poor shopboy and school teacher,
Benjamin Thompson of Rumford. n. H.,
became minister of war of Bavaria, Graf
Won Rumford, founder Of the English
park of Munich, the royal institution of
Great Britain and the Rumford chair of
physics at Harvard.
After the death Of his friend, the cleo
tor, he settled in Paris. And now see
how the little blue flower can, at times.
sport green petal, or even yellow.
Rurnford had beer all his life beloved
by princesses. perhaps a queen. Now he
found nothing better to do than to marry
the widow of the illustrious chemist. La
voiser. And he whose genius, like
flame, lighted his way to the friendship
of kings, the love of their daughters, the
leadership of armies, the invention OF
repeating cannon and physical discov-
cries DeIOIe their time, like OF the ia
ture of light and heat, was so bam-
booZled and f1ubdubbed by frail woman
that he had to appeal to the great Ma
poleon. His majesty the emperor ne
said in his memorial, would not believe
me capable of wishing to pass the rest
of my life in the close companonship OF
such a wicked creaturei"
He got his separation some ten years
before Home. Sweet Home" was writ
ten-away in the other end of Paris, at
No. 50 Rue Richelieu, where later Wash
ington Irving came to live with John
Howard Payne. Mr. Conway, in his COM
pleteness. gives careful reference to
the delightful pot-boiling life of the two
in Paris and Versailles. The little blue
flower again, with Mary Shelly, widow OF
Percy Bysshe. bambooZling poor Payne
for theater tickets and to reach Irving
whom she fancied.
Naturally, he wrote Home. Sweet
Home whose air he heard from the lies
OF a Sicilian peasant girl peddling
oranges. Payne hummed it to Sir Henry
Rowley Bishop, the composer. who fitted
1t to the words Payne got $50 for the
most famous song in the world; but
Charles Kemble. who had bought the copy
right along with the opera of .Clari,
sold 1000 copies and made $4,000 out
Of Home, Sweet Home in the first
year
Americans ana french were ClCSc
friends those days. When Richard Rush
was minister the revolution of lS4S pro-
claimed anew the republic, and straight
way the men of the American colony
presented the new government with two
flags Arago, the astronomer, stood
clasping hands with Minister Rush; La
MARITIME and Mr.. Goodrich led their
camps to stretch out the right arm in
solemn attestation, and the scene was
engraved by Gale for distribution in the
humblest homes. Last summer l found
copy in Tours barber shop
It was still the fine old period when
Samuel Morse lived as painter in the
Rue Racine. and Fenimore Cooper-stay-
ing with him-wrote home: Morse is
painting a scene Of the Louvre gallery
that will make him famous" Morse him.
self thought to become famous from q
Photographic Improvement He had met
Louis Daguerre. inventor Of the daguer-
reotype. and took back with him the nrst