Stella Fournier

New Ipswich Historical Society

Stella Fournier 1914

On this day - December 26, 1897

William Jurian Kaula diary

26 Dec 1897

Very cold weather for Paris, the thermometer is below the freezing point and we gather together around our studio stove, which in spite of its ruddy glow, does not heat our glass-roofed apartment.  I wonder what those poor mortals do in this weather, the men who sleep in the lumber piles and under the bridges of the Seine.  On some days when I am barely comfortable in an overcoat and do not wish to linger but a moment in the wind along the river, I have seen men fast asleep in the lumber piles and even on the stone pavement near the bridges.  The police hauled out thirty-five of these wretches a few nights ago from under one of the arches of the Pont Neuf.

Adolphe and Shepard called this afternoon. Adolphe is always a treat for us as he has so many new schemes.  He still keeps his room in the "Menagerie" on the Rue Delambre and conducts his various labors of producing all his own necessities, like grinding his own colors and inventing new mixtures.  He has discovered that many of the color merchants adulterate their colors with starch and thinks his own makes will be much purer.  Adolphe made a frame for his picture which he sent to the Salon last spring.  It took him many hours to mold the pieces out of plaster and to glue them on a wooden frame and to gild the whole affair.  The picture came back with a newspaper full of pieces of the frame which had fallen completely to pieces.  He tries his hand at making brushes and as ordinary brushes can be bought for a few sous I cannot see his method of economy.  As for soling his own shoes with carpet tacks and a piece of leather like a board is much more practical.

On this day - December 26, 1908

James Roger diary entry

26th (Saturday)

Frosty then warm, growing colder, wind west.  David logging at Jowder’s for Shirland.  I swept Hall, went for mail in afternoon.  Got letter from Alice, pc from Hamish & Jessie.