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Show Boycotting Parts Dressmaker. Emperor William's sister has the poorest poor-est trousseau of all the royalties. The emperor is not exaggeratively fond of any of his sisters, and is besides perfectly incapable in-capable of seeing why he Bhould spend hia money on furbelows for a woman. Therefore he has killed two birds with one stone, and saved his money and enhanced en-hanced his reputation for patriotism by obliging her to buy everything in Berlin. The German dressmakers are the cheapest cheap-est and the worst any whero in Europe, and no fashionable Gorman ever gets her clothes anywhere save in Paris. The emperor hates this custom and hopes to break it up by forbidding his sister to : follow it. but this wise young woman, ' having submitted with all apparent meekness to her brother's orders, has got around the difficulty by buying as few j things as she can possibly get on with in j Berlin and spending all the rest of her money in laces, in which she has invested invest-ed more than half of the money set aside for her trousseau; then as soon as she. is married and can do as she pleases she will go to Paris and get all the clothes Bhe wants. New York World. |