| Show THE SPRING BONNET bannet the spring bonnet being tho the subject of the hour and a milliners bill the ono thing that upsets the mildest benir red man it la Is perhaps apropos to relate that the nineteenth century husband Is not the only one who ever got cot into a rage because he could not understand why a bit of 0 lace and an aigrette the combination not larger than a tea plate should cost as aa much as a half dozen of tits his own chapeaux napoleon the great Is an I 1 illustrious lust rious example of aimer I 1 such as this I aranco laco called tile the empress josephine la bonne josephine but she was especially ally good to bonnet makers being a 1 lalah patron ot of their art it Is indeed on record that she once bought thirty eig eight h t bonnets in one month no one knows know at t what number her mighty drew the line but it Is a fact act that talat having learned that she had haa ili indulged herself with the acquisition of 0 thie large number he be when he one day went into the tha falon leading to her apartment and found in it mile des peau tile tho milliner with a laige pile of suspicious looking band bandboxes boxes was so indignant ot it the idea or of ills his wife making fresh purchases that lie he flew aw into such buch a that every one ran n nay leming him to decide whet whether tier lie he mould vent his rage on oil poor josephine who was a prisoner with her feet in a footbath footpath foot bath or the milliner herself lie he did a little of both boll ho he was so 60 angry with josephine that she wad waa speechless ceble with terror and he sent tor for saval savary Y the minister of police and ordered him to arrest nile mile D despeaux s beaux peaux she was sent to la force dimmed immediately bately and though her tear fear of napoleon a and n 1 I 1 horror of it a night in made her il ill Z her fortune was probably made by this startling outbreak of imperial temper tor for next day nearly every one in paris flocked to see se s e hc ter r hear her sto story ry and con condole dole with her josephine was soon forgiven napoleon could never hold out long against her sweetness bad and affection though even in the early years of their marriage he began to entertain the th thought bou 0 of f the divorce which was so soon to blight her happiness let us trust that ond end of the century wives may also be forgiven for buying g two hats bats when they only need one but may they not find divorce following so quickly in the wake of indulgence as did poor josephine Jospph lne la bonne empress of tho the I 1 reach philadelphia times |
