Show anniversary OF FAMOUS DANDY WILL BE HONORED special program being planned in france to commemorate beau grummett Grum mets birth paris bonor Is to be paid in france this year to the memory of the man who was the inventor of the heinl starched collar doth calais and caen othere georgea 1 cryan brommell better known fo t history as beau spent his last years preparing a program pt receptions and exhibits to commemorate the iwah of beau brummell s birch in london precocious as a dandy from the tige of gwehe years brummell won friendship of the then prince of wal inter king george IV bin a banned tilia from laig roni anble 1 fortune of 30 o 0 sterling had been virtual 1 out and he turned to the k t creation of a national costume to re trieve his fortunes first the colors for male clothing were decided upon then the form fitting trousers of the last das of the eighteenth century were created na a protest against the negligence which grew out of the french revolution british styles having deteriorated owing to the effort of even the better class of english gentlemen to affect the kerchief of the fredich revolutionaries beau Dr decided to devise a new collar it was a folded piece of lightly starched alln an instead of the sallly which had previously been worn but once starched its gemeril form required no changing in fact it was nothing more than the semi soft col lar of today with appreciable dif deronce in proportions it was in 1818 that beau bruin mell almost at the end of his resources took up hia residence at ca bals ue spent bla remaining 1000 pounds in furnishing a luxurious apartment and then lived largely at the expense of friends ue incurred debts everywhere out always min aged to dmd means of paying them 1 burteen a later he was appointed consul at caen and the records of the are filled with mentions of his charm and gance there Is also one instance ot bis having been thrown into prison for debt but friends in angland raised a subscription to set him free then came the debacle 1 the caen consulate was suppressed and beau Brum mells friends deserted him even the dule of wellington who had obtained the appointment for the arbiter of styles and former friend of the king turned a deaf eai to all entreaties for ancher post beau almost penniless became insane and was cared for until his death bythe by the sisters of a french asylum his last words in march 1840 were 1 I have never been so happy in my life as while here |