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Show MORE OF ART THAN NATURE Matron's Beautiful Figure, Admired by All, Suffered Sad Collnpso at Inopportune Tlmo. At a dinner party given intely In Paris one lady was remarked above nil others for the elegance of her figure fig-ure and the perfection of ber toilet-During toilet-During the mauvnls quart d'heure before be-fore dinner she was surrounded by a host of admirers, and one less bashful than the rest ventured to offer her tho flower from hla buttonhole. It waa accepted, but as the "princess robe" worn by the graceful creature was laced behind, It was necessary' to fasten the flower to the front of her dress with a pin. The operation was successfully performed, and tho fair lady was led in to dinner, by the donor of the flower. They wore hardly hard-ly seated when he heard a curious Bound HUo the gentle sighing of tho wind, and on turning toward his partner part-ner he saw with horror that the lovely flguro waa getting "small by degrees nnd beautifully less." The rounded form had disappeared before the Boup was over, and long before- the first entree en-tree the once creascleas garment hung In great folds about a scraggy framework! frame-work! It seems that tho newoat dresses for "slight" ladles are made with air-tight linings and Inflated when on till tho required degree of embonpoint is attained The unfortunate unfortu-nate lady mentioned above had forgotten forgot-ten this little detail when she fastened fast-ened the fatal flower to her bosom with a pin; hence the collapse! La-bouchore La-bouchore in Truth of March 8, 1877. |