The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-19
Tender Fancies

Tender Fancies
 No woman seems to have touched that heart without leaving upon it an iheffaceahle impression. Mile Collom- bier, the little girl who picked cher lies with the sublieutenant at Valence. reeded only to address the Emperor to have him open wide his cornucopia above her no longer youthful or come ly head and shower upon her a post of honor as lady in waiting at the court of Mme. Mere and upon her husband bafony. with comfortable emoluments. Another maid of Valence. whose smile had cast faint ray upon his melan choly path by the Rhone, found her eelf elevated to the station of lady in waiting to the empress, and her hus- 1 hand, M. de Montalivet member of Ire.
 Bearing everything from and doing verythirg for his n ost faithlcss and use ess marshal because he was the husband f Desiree Clary Napoleon said: "Berna- iotte may thank his marriage for his ba- ton, his principality of Pontocorvo and lk the crown of Sweden
 Although his own sisters looked upon the eagle. which freakish nature had smuggied into their barnyard brood, as only bird to be plucked. Pauline alone aldons them having the slightest emotion
 
 stepdaughter, his sister-in-law and upon the Beauharnais nieces and cousins. "Hor- ter se,'' ne said, in his admiration of Jose phine's daughter forces me to believe in virtue"
 When Princess Catherine of Wurtem- berg came to Paris to marry Jerome and krelt terrified at the Emperor's feet. he picked her up. gathered the awkward young German girl in his arms, kissed her and with his gentleness did more than any of the women of the court to place her at case. In the Princess Augusta of Bavaria. wife of Prince Eugene he in- spired the fealty of a daughter. His letter of instructions to the young husband dis closes a sensible domestic code: You need more gaety in yo IT house: 1t is neces- sary for your wfe's happiness and for ycur health I lead the life that you lead but I have an old wife who can amuse herself without me. and besides l have n.ore to do.'
 The Enperors indulgence toward Ste phane, Aunt Fanny Beauharnais' grand daughter whom he adopted as his own daughter and married to the Prince of Be den, made that young lady the spoiled child of the empire. When Josephine brought a little cousin from Martinique he promptly married her to the Prince d'Arenberg. But the marriage was an unhappy one and the bride ran away from her groom. The Emperor threatened to scLd her back in the custody of gen darmes, but he softly relented and gave her liberal allowance that enabled her to dispense with an unpleasant husband
 No Sex Equality Kind, gentle, persuasive women" were his choice, and such as they could go far with him At St. Helena he found fault with the English for "dismissing the ladies from the table, remaining for hours to drink and intoxicate themselves Society is nothing he contended, 'unless ladies are present They are the life of conN ersation."
 But he would brook no self assertion from them on any point. Because one of the ladies of his court seemed too aggressively moral. he said. Mime de Genlis tries to define virtue as if she were the discoverer of it."
 He believed in training wives In the way they should walk. To the Duchess of Dalmatia, wife of Marshal Soult, he said: Madam. recollect l am not your hus- band If were, you would behave very differently"
 He would have no sex equality. Wom- on, he insisted, should not be regarded as "men's equals. for after all they only the machinery for turning out children. He would have thanked a twentieth century emperor for his alli- terative epigram on the limitation of women to children. church and cook ing"
 In his scheme of education for girls 4 there were to be no blue stockings. Make them believers, no reasoners," he instructed the educators. ''The weak ness of the brain of women, the mobility of their ideas. their destination in the social order. the necessity of inspiring them with perpetual resignation--all this renders the yoke of religion indispen. sable to them
 
 The Dreaded Feminine
 An amusing dread and Jealousy of the influence and Independence of the sex are betrayed in hundred of Napoleon savings. He really placed women on level with the English. the Austrians and the Russians as peril to his mas tery. seeming to look upon woman as