Show French Monarch Quick to See Value of Wig The wig already enjoyed a rep reD reputation reputation of great antiquity when It carne came Into fashion In France In l O wrItes Harold Alvin ln Ball In the Bos nos Boston Boston ton Transcript A cleric of high estate appeared one day at the tho court of ot Louis XIII IH wearing a n won won- wonderful wonderful wonderful creatIon creation the curls of or which cascaded over oyer his Ills neck and sent ten ten- tendrils tendrils tendrils drils In loving caresses carcases CS down I about nhO his collar Louis a n man to whom nature had been Jeen unkind hav hav- havIng having having ing deprived him of nearly all nil his hair seized with the avidity or of despair upon the new device and or- or ordered ordered or ordered dered a wig that for a riotous pro pro- profusion profusion fusion of ot curls In every way matched the churchman's noble con With the benediction ot of royal favor thus given the tho wigs wig's popularity spread with great rapid rapid- rapidIty rapidity rapidity ity finding an Immense vogue espe espe- especially especially dally with the ladles of the court Some of or these had as appurtenances to their wardrobes as IlS many as 40 wigs to harmonize with their vari vari- various various ous gowns |