the day begins at St. Clotilde's, several other churches and a few museums are visited, including the Pantheon and the crypts "chilly and ghastly". the boys interpret history as written through the frescoes, then to the Sorbonne. later in the day the three make their way to "Sam's Grille" for supper and pay 8francs a cup for American coffee.
after which:
"We came back to the hotel got the car, went to rue Washington and called on Mrs. Didesheim(sic). Happily we found Mrs. Simkohovitch and Mrs. Kingsbury both there. We had a very pleasant evening. Little Paul Didesheim (sic)woke up just before we left, so we had a chance to play with him and Albert a chance to try his French on him and came home and retired."
I have often wondered about Mrs. Didesheim and little Paul Didesheim. Today I discovered through photo records that are catalogued on the web in the Schlesinger archives of Radcliffe that Paul Didesheim was Mrs. Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch's nephew. I knew that Mrs. Simkhovitch and Mrs. Kingsbury (Mary's mother) traveled to Europe; but, never knew, until today, that their travels were coincident with this 1929 journey of Schlueter and the kids "Howard and Al". I've often pondered over the comment of a grown man having a chance to play with a young child, and why no other comments about the social interactions of the visit.
Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch founder of Greenwich House was a close friend of Schlueter's through St. Luke's where she went to morning mass. In her writings about Greenwich House she refers to her friend as "the good Father Schlueter".
