Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-04-29

IN January 20, last, Auguste Rodin, the famous
French sculptor, married Rose Beurre, his servant,
housekeeper, and erstwhile model, in the village
church in Meudon the Seine. He seventy-six
years of age. She seventy-two Less than month
later Rose .Beurre dead.
Her death directly due to her devotion to the
to whom she gave for half century all that she could
give She died supremely happy because she had been
rewarded by the right be called Madame Ron, not
only in the words of the Master but well in the eyes
and written forms Of the Law and the Church
1t began, this Romance Of Rodin and Rose in the
days when after many years of striving he had resolved
to devote his life to sculpture. They first the
village inn of Sevres, of which Roses father the
keeper Rodn, ILL., went there for rest and thought 1t
may have been the maternal instinct dominant in all
of her type may have been simply her desire
to help who needed help; it may have been that
Robins genius personal magnetism drew Rose to him
rresistib Whatever the mpeng force the fact that
from the moment she first served him. Rose the Slave
Rodin the Master
Rose was beautiful in face superb in natural figure
Hers not the features expression of the sophst
Gated model lady of fashion of Paris She appealed
Rodin burst on him vision. Her beauty, it
revealed to him. the true unaloyed face of nature
And Nature then always the altar at which he
worshipped. To him her eyes told of great soul simple
true answering in loyalty without faint soul of humil
iy yet soul OF pride and the highest courage She
the incarnation OF the ideal he striving mold into
bronze and marble
When the time came for Rodn to return to Paris he
asked Rose to go with him. There in humble studio
Rodin began to climb the ladder of fame Rose his
model for most of his earlier efforts She posed for him
his clothing she kept his studio clean she had kept
her fathers inn His genius apart Rodn simple in
his tastes Rose. The frpperes Of life
appealed to him then than they did to her. He seek
ing to express the truth of Nature unveneered by
Rose lived this truth without thinking anything about it.
When she posed she simply herself
The rebufs the sneers the hostility which Rodin met
and conquered in his climb the heights of world acclaim
matters of common knowledge He refused change
modify his ideals his methods. Therefore he suf
ferednot actual poverty but privatons and hardshp
Throughout the dark days Rose ever at his SIDE
There money for models, but there Rose
always ready to pose She made the stretch their
farthest. She saw that no food wasted She made
Rodin feel by her unsuitable confidence that there was
no such word defeat.
She had no doubts, misgivings. She as sure
Of his she that he the Master She
his anchor anchor that held how furious
the storm
And when came she changed not whit
Rodn the obscure had few visitors his humble studio
Rodin the great sculptor besieged the Hotel Bron
which he purchased from the French Government by
and women of tte Of the highest places in the social
world They prevailed him to seek society," the
clothes OF society, to enter4sia society.
But whether j: pas the ornate Hotel Biron filed with