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Show Decorating a Fool "1 once conferred a vast number of decoratioas on an Individual tliat is to say, I told him how to get them. He was an Italian rich, noble, and a fool. He confided to me, that life was a burden bur-den because he had no decorations. 1 said to him : 'Pay some one to write a book upon the antiquities of your province, pay some one else to Illustrate. Illus-trate. It, publish it in folio, and send a copy,, beautifully bound, to every crowned head in Europe. Two-thirds of them, will repay you with a decoration.' dec-oration.' - Two years later I saw him again. He had followed my advice. He was covered , with pieces of metal " attached to variegated ribbons. He pressed my hand ; tears of gratitude glistened In his eyes." Labouchere In Truth. |