The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-30
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thairs, or and On.

There can he no doub. that origin
ally chairs were not chairs, but stools;
If Eli had lived in our time he would
have sat in chair and could have not
fallen backwards when the sad news
come that the ark was taken.
King Alfred the Greats throne Is
said to have been q three-legged stool.
A great step was taken VIXEN stools
advanced from three legs to four. But
chairs ought to make progress, FOR we
notice that they always put their best
| feet foremost. OF course, even from
the first, the ruhest seats might have
their nakedness covered by rich tapes
try and cushions.
ancient French throne which Ma
poeon |. used at DOulogne, when lie
thought he could conquer England, IL
made of bronze and gilded. Its sides
are formed OF two strange animals,
and it has canopy above. It's ma
ker, from n simple workman, rose to
be such a great gun that he was eau
onized. 1t is usually safe from intIu-
sion, having no seat, but it is provided
with seat of cloth or satin, when 1t
Is used.
We really know very little about an
Client chairs so chary have historians
been of information on this head. 1t
seems that benches Of wood and stone
were formerly used even by royal per-
sonaSes, so that kings and queens
stood, or rather sat, on the same foot
ing as the commonest people now do.
Some ancient specimens OF chairs are
by no means comfortable.
They are perfectly straight in the
back and 50 high that ones feet dc
not touch the floor, They are also
very hard, not even being made OF
soft wood. Those that had arms used
them as weapons of offence, to poke
into their sisters ribs or raise his cl-
bows as high as his shoulders. Ii is
said that priest invented them, and
it must have been by way of intlicting
penance, or else of keeping his hearers
still while he lecturad them.
70 take a chair' was fOrmely q
very serious business, especially if q
king or queen was present. AT the
court of Edward VI, Of England, the
kings sister might not take char at
all but must sit on a bench, and the
Florentine ambassador snid he saw
the Princess Elizabeth d7op on ont
knee five times before her brother, ere
she took her place, which by thae
time she must have needed So the
Prince of Wales had to squat on a
camp-stoOl when he visited the Queen
of France, so determined was she to be
looked up to.
The ArchGuke Charles once went to
visit Catherine of Braganze, the widow
of Charles H., in Lisbon. He sent
word that he was coming, and though
she was confined to her Ded with an
attack of erysipelas, she replied that
she was "dying to see him" In this
interview the duke, with all his arch
ness made a breach Of Portuguese
etiquette in leaving the room before
his chair was taken out, and the court
was very much shocked at his bad
manners.
Louis XIV, Of France, wished hi.
daughter-in-law to visit cX Queer
Mary, wife of James H., of England
The dauphness, however, would no
90 because she could not sit in an arm
chair in the queens presence, but In
stead went to bed, and staid there sew
eral days. The French Kings brother
complained that the Queen neither
kissed him nor gave him an armchair
The Queen at last gave way as far a
the kissing went. Then the duchesse'
demanded that King James shoulC
kiss them. They would have hi
arms if they could not have those o
his chair.
In those days if little boys happen
ed to be princes, they were perched OF
lofty arm chairs, and if tall ladie
CHANGED to be only duchesses, they
were compelled to cramp themselves
on low stools. King James, though
an exile, had to confer empty title'
Oh his attendants, in order that they
might sit down at all at the French
court. A struggle was sometimes
caused when there was only one arm
chair in q room. A single cane chal
would thus rouse the spirit ofa Cain.-
Youths Companion.