Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-07-18

who approached her, hat in hand, and
almost bent in two. He acted as
though she were entitled out of her
theatre to the royal honors due to her
on the stage as Marie de Neubourg.
This did not mollify her. AS he could
not use force, as though she were a
French deputy or an Irish M. p, he
went to the railway station master and
required that S. BIS saloon carriage
should be uncoupled and run into a
siding. This was done, with the effect
that she alighted and gave the Gus
toms director a piece of her mind.
He might have ordered her to be
searched, but he did not. However,
to prevent her carriage staying all
night in the siding, she declared that
she had nothing on her or in her boxes
liable to duty.
AS the train bearing the accom-
plished actress steamed out of the
station she started up, and standing
at the window fit lie pied de nee. You
know the gesture. 1t is very COM
mon one in the primary schools OF
Paris. Boys there font lie pied de nez
behind the backs of school masters.
The gesture is made by placing
thumb to the nose, extending the
hand, and placing the thumb of the
other hand, extended at the end of
the fourth finger. Two historical
instances of the pied de nez have come
lQd Il
Paulein Bonaparte behind the back of
the Empress Marie Louise; the other
was made by late noble lord, acting
as captain of the yeomen of the guard
at Buckingham Palace, behind the
back of the late queen. She saw him
in a mirror, and with consequences
that he had cause to rue for the rest of
his life. You see from this that
human nature is the same il tragedy
queens, in noble lords and in COM
munal school pupils.
The customs directors have spoken
of is good fellow, and he constantly
lets ladies pass who he is persuaded
have yielded to the temptation to
make paltry gains by smuggling. One
day very grand lady indeed, who was
coming, via Queensborough and Flush
ing, from a visit to Queen Victoria,
seemed to him rather hurried and
uneasy. As she stepped into her
reserved carriage a big bundle fell
from beneath the f1ounces of her dress.
The underlings made a rush for it, and
she took care not to claim it, but
ensconsed herself in a corner and
drew down the blinds. The packet
that had fallen was not of enormous
value. The goods it contained might
perhaps have cost five or six pounds
more on the continent than in London
1t was not possible to return them to
her without stopping her and prosecut-
ing her for misdemeanor. The under
lings who picked up the packet were
allowed to keep it.
Attaches" said the director of
customs, "are awfully cheeky. They
pretend to think that diplomatic
immunity extends to them. 1t does
not-only to ambassadors. 1t is
favorite trick of theirs to speak in
french, Engl1sh, Dutch, and many in
German; this way of defending their
struggled goods is no longer of much
use. The nastiest custom houses for
foreigners are in Spain. Trunks are
completely emptied, and Spaniards
have not the cleverness or muscle of
the French douranier in repacking
them-always for a fee. The Bar
celona manufacturers at the great
frontier stations have agents who spy
on the custom house officials and pre-
vent them becoming slack. But at
small frontier stations, where there
are no female searchers, ladies and
poor women can smuggle in as much
as they please. Stockings baggy at
the knees are specially knit to serve
as receptacles.-Lcndon Truth.