Show Miss Anna LBkknell an American I lady who was instructor of the children chil-dren of one of the ladies of the imperial im-perial houshold contributes an article to the March Century on The Tuiler les under the Second Empire J1ls Bicknell was an inmate of the palace I at the time of the downfall of the Emperor Em-peror She describes the Tuileries as i a most uncomfortable habitation with I no conveniences of modern life its sanitary j sani-tary arrangements and drainage very bad while in parts of the palace the I air was absolutely pestilential A careful care-ful watch was kept on the inmates and they were subjected to military dis j cjpline No parcels could be removed without authorization and any one I who was out after midnight was reported re-ported the next morning I |