The Prescott daily news., 1914-08-28
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By MARIE 5EAUMARscHEFF.
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Madame had locked her son in room. Such son! Such mother! Emil Jean Marie Lefebre wept and was chastised at the age of twenty one Madame la mere-buNom, irate, huge-was competent to manage any one-even gendarme if need be.
 The cause? A miserable-pouf!- the scum of a milliner's daughter down the street, she of the hair re sembling carrots, and the auocious freckles. Mon dieu! and it would seem the more freckles, the more love.
 Bien! Madame would attend to all --asst to -Hanl Jean Marie; afterward to Inc bold minN; aIi-all in good time.
 Parbleu! What would you? To have a girl come to the house every week-every week, attend you!-,o collect bill for a bonnet not yet worn, True, madame ghad possessed it a year; but what then? What with its hues-yellow and pale pink-it was not possible to wear it so soon after the death of monsieur For madame's husband had died during the year, and so she had continued wearing her old black hat
 W ho would expect anything differ ent? A beloved husband in his coffin, the very thought of yellow aud pale pink Was odious-odious for many days NE come Meanwhile madame had been 6Qastantly reminded of the price of her sunworn bonnet.
 Can one never trust the ungrateful children? An, the tortures of mother hood! First the agony of the birth; then the rearing of the infant, the fear that it will not live, the continued and eternal vigilance-for what? To have an ingrate of-a son answer a summons to the front door every week, like a rabbit run out of it's burroW, and fall in love with the daughter of an eX- orbitant milliner-a daughter present. ing a bill-as if she were wound up regular to appear once a week like a mechanical toy!
 To think that he should be so un- like his brother Paul Baptiste-Paul Baptiste, who knew not one woman from another except when served by one at his dinner! A fine son; so si- lent-so honest-so dutiful who had eclipsed all by wedding one of the SCOUTS Felice. The eldest one 1t was, Antoinette-she who had always had epileptic tiJs-so sad!-and only four teeth-but a portion of five hundred francs. Ah bon dieu! there was flial devotion for you-an example for all mothers to admirei
 And Emil Jean Mario! Have you not heard then? He is no longer a son, but an ingrate. an outcast. a pa riah! His mothers heart it is broken as we'll; even the thought of Paul Bap- tiste and his wife will not console.
 It is like this: Madame locks Emil Jean Marie in her room Never" de- clares she, shall you come out until you promise to forget this pauper of milliner girl, who has not a sou to her name. Never-never-neve
 If all were like you in making pay ment for what they purchase, it is small wonder that she is a pauper." This atrocity from ones own son!
 Then all is quiet.
 Presently madame goes downstairs She strolls in the garden at the side of the house. she becomes calm-then pensive. She plucks flowers and sniffs in deep breaths of sunshine and air. She reflects that it Is as well to punish sons once in a while, as le bon dieu knows how men are all born to be lords, and forever order ing women about as soon as they are married.
 Tt is only during their youth that they are submissive. Men are like kings of beasts" soliloquized madame complacently reviewing her life with the departed monsieur An! he was like unto a noble lion when roariAg his desires; Blanche, fetch my shoes Blanche, carry the hamper" Mad anne Wept.
 A footstep sounded. It stopped in front of the house. Doubtless some stupid OK of a huckster Madame paid no heed she continued her gentle rev. cries. It was a romantic moment. full of sentiments of the past Presently, however, madame bethought her of her uncooked dinner, and she saun- tered around toward the front. Some one was passing by-some one-mad- anne screamed
 It was the milliners daughter-on her head the yellow and pale pink bonnet! Madame grasped the stone post for support. The girl bowed.
 Behold me, madame. I wear the hat, 1t is true. l am here, but return