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The Chateau of MontpIaiser--By Mol ly Elliott SeawelL.. As bright as a French poppy holding it's crimson cap in the golden grain fields of Provence It is summer droll full of play, of wit and freak. of fancy. There is not a sigh nor a blue of tears on the whole It does not touch on the depths of life, but just skins along the surface. fash ing through the foam of existence leaving glfttering wake of happy thoughts.
 The plot is as deftly woven and as dainty as piece of mouseline de sole Its tints and tissues bring ever a smile
 We have a triplet of lovers and la dies. A poor young soldier, lord of Chaeau de Montplaiser, a portly soap boiler with social ambitions. a good young man who must be devilish or lose his prospects of a fortune.
 Discovered our Lord of Montpiaiser in his ancestral halls sitting under an umbrella hoisted indoors to keep a dry skin. Enter the soap boiler of the same name with offer of three hundred thousand francs for the privilege of being adopted as an uncle of the lord of leaks and rat-holes. The bargain is struck. Who that wants aristocrat- 10 lineage will not pay for its senb- lance? Who that needs money will not sell the prestige of a name for 1t? Such sales are made every day and so readily that the goods never need bar gain counter display, nor big lettered advertisements. nor brokers nor bar kers to make them go.
 Exit Latour of high lineage at once to win tho love of the fair Julie. La tour of the soap factory also goes forth to win a wife. but for the life of him he doesn't know whether to take if he can get, but what man lives who does not in his secret heart believe that he can get any woman he wants, for the 'asking?" The Madame de Beauregard or Mademselle Cheri, without ,he "de"
 Latour of lineage and Julie de Buis- sac arrange their love affairs in short order and have their minds free for working mischief, and playing Provi7 dence with the love of other lovers
 Madame de Beauregard of seventy years keeps on her string I.atour of the soap-b boiler and a semi-royal Duke
 Here" cried Madame de Beaure- gard. snappins her bright old eyes. T am the guest of Monsieur de Latour, al soap boiling man, but I like him. There's not half as much difference as the world thinks between you people, with sixteen quarterings, and soap boiler after he is washed and combed and well dressed.
 Do you remember, my dear Duke. the season 0: 1880 at Deauville? Ahl they were days then when one lived, We had no rheumatism. we had all our own teeth. and we could go the pace by night as well as by daY?"
 And the Countess and the Duke talk of princes. kings and even emperors till the soap boiler gets the general impression that in 1860 Madame de Beauregard and the scmi-royal duke were engaged in one long, loud and uproarious romp with half the royal personages of Europe" and he is ready to offer his hand and heart and for tune at once.
 Not so happily ran the course of true love with the very good Eugenie de Contiac and Madamselle Melanie. But good luck and a spell of gaiety in gay Paris wins the day for Eugenie. He seIzes the three hundred and fifty thou sand francs reward of his deviltry and is thus enabled to sue forgiveness for his pranks from Madamselle Melanie. He woes and weds.
 Latour is entangled into duel with the redoubtab ble General Granier. The soap-boiler is no fighting man. He is carried to the field of honor in al