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Show mmamKmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmm MAID LOSESFINE JOB. bERVANT of queen mother of ITALY WAS ENTERPRISINO Unknown to Royal Mlstrett, Adele Sold Can Olf Clothing and Hats to I Foreigners and Netted J5.0OO a Year by Practice. Rome -Mnrgherlta queen mother of Italy, Is looking for another maid Am) Adele llaecarlnl. who held that position until Hie oiher day. la looking look-ing for another mlsiress And thereby there-by hangs this story The queen mother though In many mailers n woman of simple and decidedly de-cidedly democratic tastes, has ulwnys dressed na befitted a queen Her wardrobe ward-robe Is extensive and costly Of couise, thn keeps pace with the 'Allium, 'Alli-um, never has her diesses made ovor, Ind discards ihein for new one on tho (lightest sign of wear and tear Piough no longer lit for it quern, Jieso rasl-off gowns, lulls nnd bonnets ire quite lit for leas eiatled femlnluo 'oik. In the estimation of somo of Jieso, more especially American worn-in, worn-in, the fact that they hate been worn )y royalty bestows on them it value far bnond that of ordinary second band clothing Home tin year ago, Queen Mnrgherlta Mnr-gherlta hnd a favorite maid, Teresa, whom the trusted Implicitly. Ono day while out shopping, tho queen saw a woman enter the slorn wearing n dross which appeared to the queen lingular ly familiar. Hlio continued her scrutiny, scru-tiny, dnaplto the obvious eirttMrraa tnent of llio stranger, until her eyes lit cm it liny spot on tho hem of the tklrt. That reunited Ihe Inst Vestige of dnubt In her mind ns In thn dress It tvns ono which she bad herself worn, ind which she had dlsrnnleil only a few daya before on account of that blemish. Then she returned to the pnlncn and itnrted nn Investigation As it result. Teresa was iHttinred, for Terosn, II turned out, bud been In the habit of telling her "perquisites," as she cnlleil them, to whomsoever would p.vy most for them , Teresa bad several successors, who lasted only n brief while, mil II Allele llnccnrlnl was given Ihe HMltlnn In her tho queen congratulated herself that alio had at Init found tho perfect maid Hho did not again sen another woman wearing n dress which she rec-ognlied rec-ognlied as having onco been bar jwn. Hut A week or so ugo, Queen Mar ihorlta was driving In tho Via Trltnnl, when, during a block In tho traffic, her carriage catno to a halt alongside vTtme-tn-whtcti"wna,aioil nn Amort-jan Amort-jan woman And on her blondo hair was a lint which only it fow data ho-foro ho-foro had adorned Marghcrlln's own royal head Hhe hnd catt It aside be cause tt did nol. In ill resptf Mt Inly her eiactlng taste In tb'a"er of headgear , Then followed another IntesWatlnn And Allele, the perfect Jewel tie mbl, was proved to be the culprit! The In qulry showed that for sovii year she bad been In Ihe hnblt ('"''ling everything In the shape oftpparel which her royal mistress J 11 discarded dis-carded Hut more crafty tli.(aeren, she had adopted a method w enn bleil her to get considerate better price for Ihe articles and nt 0 sumo time lo keep tho matter froiammlng to Hie queen mother's attentat Hhn sold her "ierqullle sly to foreigners, nnd, by prefers. 1 American women, whom sM found would pay bigger price fa such fsSM fff AOELE nACCARINI. (Maid Who Sold Catt Off Garnets of Queen Margherlta.) . souvenir of rotnlty than tnJisji of any other niitlounllly. Hhn hlnl n riMim Just hack of tho (Irani) Intel, where she received her client. Ono condition the Imixised on themr chaser wits that nothing they taught of her should he worn In llaly. It wits because Mrs M of Hut falo disregarded this pledge Ibutldele ni found out The huslneai tits' netted net-ted her something like $3,000 a fear Tin loss of It made her furious. As soon ns she wus dismissed Iron thn imlnro she made n beelluo for Ikt hotel ho-tel where Mrs M wn Uylnnnd gave her a pleco of her mind It Inn-gungo Inn-gungo more forceful than elttant. .Mrs, M wa found by hi r own maid on a sufn In a hnlf fainting eon-dlllou eon-dlllou while Adele, tho ragged (em mints of the lint which bud cause! all tho trouble In her hand, wn rncloi up and down thn room llko a tliress Mr. M discovered nel dyljmt I Inly K)ssesed nn further Jtlrtctis for her. Meanwhile Adfl)-Vm Ken to tho American consul's olTlcu t In quire If, under American law, (hero was nny wny by which she couil uo her for dnmnges. |