Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-06-18 | Page 8 | Wrote Invitations for Own Funeral

WROTE I INVITATIONS INVITATIONS' i i FOR OWN FUNERAL PARIS Juno June 18 Never Never did a dying man lUan mako make calmer caliner preparations for death than did Joris Toris Karl Huysmans whose loss was the greatest French rench literature lit lit- has baa suffered since the death of oI Emile Zola who decadent decadent de do- Huysmans began by writing cadent n novels vels and rand latterly abandoned unsavory realism for n mysticism had been for months in a agony n from cancer of the jaw Although he was warned against tobacco h he would lie sm smoking king ma many y cigarettes saying that he was quite ready for death He e. e referred to the Angel of Death with ih grim gallantry as H Madame ladame In la Mort to A few days before the end lie he dictated ed to his secretary a letter of invitation to his own funeral An announcement of the death of Prof Poirier reached him hint in iii the usual bordered black envelope envelope ope and when Huysmans saw it IJ ho told hIS liis secretary to sit down beside the bed beCi We will draw up m my epitaph ho he said Hr lip dictated d the form in which he ho wished to be described ending with who died on i fortified d by the sacraments of the church Huysmans directed that his body should be clothed after death in ill thedr the tho dr dross dress ss of a Benedictine monk He lie had latterly turned his thoughts to religion and had bad intended to enter the tho Order of St. St Benedict