Show W When en M Men n Did Fancy W Work rk During the thc old rc regime me In Fran France about which so 80 much glamour remains to us U the tho very er men who were living and making the history or of the empire I or of Louis Lous passed paRKed their heir leisure time In Inn Inn n way that seems n to us or of toda today utterly I ridiculous In nil the fancy work on I Which ladles s employed themselves the 4 men seem to have taken part s it In one or of his hili comedies rep a young oun Marquis entering a 1 room where two fair damsels are em One ant is III working a piece of dr dress IS trimming the tho other a Marley flounce The b beau Ru examines the embroidery em with th the eye ot of a connoisseur points out here nod and there the specially special good touches touch lj and and is III too polite to no notice tic an any defects Ire He takeR Lakes a gold Jold tube out of the tho pocket of his rich richly decorated waistcoat and selects 1 a dInt gold Jold I needle He gO goes 1 to the frame at which r I is working nm and finishes the power whIch she has begun From her herlie lie he moves to the ofa and seizing ono one end of oC the Ismene to whom he pays pars special attention to com complete complete her tack At this time U it sas the custom of the lades Indes invariably I to carr carry their work workbags ba bags with them to the evening recep receptions In hl h they had not only their embroidery materials but the llie last novel noI the i gon song and their patch box boxes and rouge pots Gentlemen aLo carried deftly embroidered little hogs Into company which held heid a whole arsenal ar arenal senal enal of oC cutlery and fanc fancy articles Bu such h as boxes of different shaves fitted with lozenges bonbons snuff and scent At another period the fashion or of the day was to cut out drawings from books and pamphlets and to paste them on screens lamp shades boxes and amI vases MeR The Tho skill In this was Rats to toso so 10 tho drawings or parts partI of oC different as aM to produce n a or amusing ln effect Then rhen there clime came a when all the rage was wag for charades and riddles which gave a peculiarly good opportunity to exercise the lI ht and wit so 80 con conspicuous In the French Eer Every evening the tho drawing rooms room were converted Into Im chara charades s Some would I suggest a word or r phrase and forthwith it would ho converted Into the tho subJect or of a sprightly little play pia Many ot of the tho word games gaines n w current wIth us In America hail holl their orl ln n in the nece necessity d ty the tho French were under In the tho thoo thoC thelast last C century to themselves I In some o of r the solons on the f fashion of keep keeping ee ing a dally chronicle of oC news which wa too oft n fa mere chronicle of oC sen llean was adopted Mme ml Doublet do de dePe Pe Persan an bulletin which she sho called a la In main maln In her apart apartments apartments ments two registers were kept one or of the thu authentic news received here and there thore b by her guests the othor ot of float floating r Ing rumors and on tilts dUll and from these the budget or of her chronicle W was made up and circulated throughout France Men ten and Manners In |