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Show FRENCH MAIDS TO THE FORE. They to, ,, sien.l.n,,- Snmellnee with en I rlih IrMil. Who set ths fashion Is not set down In the annals ot the "four hundred," but the dainty French maid it dls-Placing dls-Placing the pompous butler and the dapper footman at the guardian of ths portals of the mansions of the wealthy alot.g Uh avenuo and on ths upper west tide. Tho stranger In uppertondom, unfamiliar unfa-miliar with Its ways. Is no longer perplexed per-plexed by bis ring at the front doorbell door-bell being answered by an Important-looking Important-looking man In evening clothes and he It not embarrassed by mistaking man for master, for the door Is opened by a seat little maid In black, a tiny Inrs cap perched on her hesd and a dainty little apton marking her status In ths house. "Is Mr. Urown In?" asks the caller. "Out, monsieur." It her reply, not Infrequently In-frequently with a Hibernian twang, and the takes the visitor's curd wlili pretty grnct and lilts sway with II. Within the last few months the "French maid'" 1st supplanted tho man eervant In quite a number ot tho houses of the fnMnntte set. |