Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1896-12-21


of Louis, the warrior, dressed in armor,
ready for the battle. Oh, the book is full
of pictures! There is one of Anne OF Aus
tria and her children. one of lady OF
the day as she sat at her toilet table, one
of the fashionable ball, and no end OF
clever caricatures, those caricatures that
foated around Paris and which the police
seized with anger. Way in the back OF
the book is a picture of De Maintenon.
dignihed and stern looking, and having
the school of st. Cyr as her background.
No fancy costume for the woman who
ruled the King and the state, no friyollty
for the woman who foresaW and dreaded
what came to France. No, her brain was
so much stronger than that of the aver
age woman that even in her picture she
could not pose as they did. The name OF
it? | like to tell the name of this book
because it is translated, and that really
means that it is almost written by
woman.
A Valuable Book.
It's worth while saving your money to
get it am beginning to accumulate the
pennies in a little tin box-then when
you have a sufficient number of ducats
ask for France Under Louis XIV by
| Emile Bourgeois, and translated by Mrs.
| Cashel Hoey. One thing this book will
do for you; it will knock out of your
| head, as it has out of the heads of a good
many people, the idea that because men
| were very stately in those days, and wore
| stiff wigs, that there was not merry life
| and much enjoyment.
! There is one illustration that convinces
| me that those days were not AS cOmfOrta-
! BILE as our own. The picture is one of a
| bedroom-the room is absolutely bare
J for a few stately chairs and magnificent
| pictures, the bed is huge and funeral
| looking, and the general sensation of
! whoever slept in that room must have
hnn hat A0rr@ IL
| offered for a nights repose. We may be
less dignified nowadays-we are. We
may have worse manners nowadays-we
| have. Our men may dress uglier now
adays-they do. Our women may be less
beautiful-I doubt this.
Grewsome Tapestry.
But one thing I am sure of, and that
| is that the average bedroom of today
with it's brass bedstead, daintily draped;
its comfortable lounge, it's pretty toilet
table, it's easy chairs. its even warmth,
and the hundred and one odd things that
go to make it desirable, is far and away
| ahead of the stately bed chamber in
which anything feminine must have felt
| frightened out of it's wits, and lad
dreams that were CHASTITY. Do you re-
member that the first night that Marie
Aintoinette, slept in France her room was
| hung with tapestry representing the
| Massacre of the Innocents ?" That
shows how much thought was given to
| the surroundings where one slept.
1t would be good thing if we had the
manners of the old time, we might with
advantage copy the virtues of the PAST,
| but do not let any of us be deluded into
bringing into fashion the frightfully bare
! bedroom in which unfortunate queens,
and equally unfortunate ladies of the
nobility, had to sleep. If that had been
my fate, [ should have stayed mp all
night and slept in chair. Nothing
would have gotten me into one of those
awful beds, big enough to conceal two
or three assassins and cold-enough look
| ing to freeze an Eskimo, unless | had
| been promised that the whole court
would sit around me and cheer me ZIP.
| Those beds invited murder. I imagine
] that anybody sleeping in one wanted TO
kill somebody else to get little heated
up. Really and truly, there are imam
innate things that invite crime. There
was Il woman the other night at the the
alter who wore a hat-but that's another
/ story.
French Calendars.
| There are some of the most delightful
| little French calendars-just the right
size for ones purse or cardcase, nXhib-
tied this Christmas. 1t you feel tempted
one of these instead. One year, l had
one, and while l possessed it l always
dated my letters correctly, and kept my
engagements. This year, if l don't get
one | shall buy one. You see, | am hop
ing that one will be put in my stocking,
with some other things. | want lot of
books and Noah's Ark; want a woolly
dog, and new brooch; l want bonnet
brush and bottle Of mucilage; I want
a lot of sweets and new purse; want
a bunch of violets and-well, want so
many things, that / shall take great
pleasure in looking at them in the shop
windows. I have learned the delight of
admiring without possessing-take my
advice and learn the same lesson, for
then you can have everything in the
world that you can long for, and nobody
will go into debt to get it for you. Have
courage enough not to want gift that
costs the giver his honesty. Such one
would never be accepted, even if it were
| addressed TO Bah.