Show A I nuts correspondent writes that Victor Hugo in spite of his years is still hale and hearty j he cats and drink well and his only infirmity is deafness Hugo himself will tell you that he is stonedeaf but his friends maintain that he is only hard of hearing On Thursdays Thurs-days and Sundays which are reception days the poet goes to bed about 10 oclock on other days he retires at half past 9 and in the morning he works in bed and rises about 10 He breakfasts lightly walks and in spite of the supplications sup-plications of his family he occasionally indulges in his old distraction of riding on the knifeboard of a bus Whatever the weather Victor Hugo still obstinately obstinate-ly refuses to wear an overcoat and old as he is he persists in abundant cold water ablutions but he no longer takes his tub as he used to do during the I seige of Paris when he was staying with his old friend Paul Meurice after his I KvUv TMV T irX ZJJ mn ifx njum aaxm rags His attendance at the Senate is less regular than formerly but whenever Ic pcrc Cormon writes to him to say that he must come to vote he never fails and whenever there is an election at the Academy he is always there Victor Hugo still works but of course not very much j he has his bolster and pillow placed at the foot of the bed so as to receive re-ceive the light directly from the window and pencil in hand passes an hour or two every morning in classifying and correcting cor-recting his unpublished works in prose and verse He basin manuscript half a dozen plays several volumes of verse and two volumes of philosophy which will be published after his death The plays have never been produced on the stage because since his exile he has decided de-cided never to expose himself to the hisses of an enemy His iiiATariable answer on this subject is Jai asset bataille dans ma vie Aujourdhui ma position nest plus cello dun combattant |