Show A question of it has repeatedly been asked as to why the empress after the news of sedan was made public did not present herself to the guards and the people of paris and call upon them to rally around her and her son and to maintain for the latter the imperial throne the cause of this singular abstention has been made public it was because no suitable riding habit could be found for her in which to show e herself on horseback to the troops and the populace there was only one to be found at the tuileries Tuil eries in the hurry and confusion of that terrible crisis it was one made for the hunting parties at Com and was in the louis XV style composed of green velvet embroidered with goh and necessitating a cocked bat tion of the costume it was top theatrical it would not do and so the gallant appeal to the public was given up and with it the last hope for bation of the empire paris cor philadelphia telegraph |