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Show u BETRAYED BY HER CHAIR. Failing to Occupy a Seat As an Aristocrat Should, a French Adventuress Ends in. Jail. Are there two ways of sitting upon a chair? Do tine aristocratic have 1 one method of placing themselves upon an expensive Chippendale, and a less fortunate woman another? Is there a correct way to sit down? If there is, why arc not all children taught it? These, and similar questions are doubtless flitting through the mind of a French woman who was recently convicted as an impostor,, She had pretended to trades-people that she was a marquise of exalted station, with vast possessions. Her success was remarkable until she experienced the sharp scrutiny of a young saleswoman, sales-woman, who waited upon her in one of the celebrated shops in the Rue de la Paix. - , " A real aristocrat never sits on the edge of her chair," scornfully announced an-nounced this keen feminine observer. The storekeeper questioned this statement. A chair was a chair in his commercial eye. It was to be used as a seat, and to this useful purpose pur-pose his patron .was putting it. Whether she placed herself firmly upon it, or merely rested upon the outer rim, he considered a mere matter mat-ter of taste or comfort. But the saleswoman liad closely watched her customers while serving serv-ing them, and she insisted that the " Marquise de la Ferronierc " was an imposter. The result was an investigation investi-gation which ended in a sentence of Jong imprisonment for the pretending pretend-ing noblewoman who had, cither through ignorance or neglect, failed .. to sit squarely upon her chair. V A mother who brings up her daughters carefully points to the old statuary of Greece, Rome, and Egypt for a correct sitting-posture. Teachers Teach-ers of deportment also use these works of art as examples of the grace and repose their pupils should imitate. The position of one of these noble chiseled figures is the position of all. The great sculptors, modern as well as ancient, have their women seated firmly in their chairs. From plaster-casts and pictures of marbles, famous t. ugh long ages, the growing girl learns to see that she should plant herself firmly upon A the seat of a chair. She must never " sit at the edge of it, where it may be tipped forward, nor should she place her body midway upon the chair. There is but one proper way to sit, and that is to touch the place where the back and the scat of the chair join. Woman. |