FURS AND FEATURES.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 745, 4 December 1908, Page 4

FURS AND FEATURES.

TWO PRETTY GOOD STORIES. 'From Our London Correspondent} London, October 23. From Paris com© tho tale of a trial of wits between an actress and a furrier ,in which the fair Thespian came ofl' second best. Possessing a fur stole worth £360, Madame Eliso always wore it, in all weathers. The reason was that it was not paid lor. In French law, no distraint can be levied upon any article of clothing or jewellery carried at the time upon the person The furrier had sent and had been himself repeatedly to the lady's house to recover the stole She invariably rweivod him with ft chaining smile, an 1 with the £360 iurs round her neck, and lie wmj baulked. But he ha* at last been too clever tor her She was asked out to luncheon on one of the Indian summer clays which we have been having, and on which furs would have boon unbearable. She thought she could safely leave her cravat at home. Unluckily for her, the furrier was in collusion with her host, and while she was out he w«nt to her house and captured the stole. The life of a member oi Parliament is not generally considered to be a bed of roses, but that there is an occasional set-off was proved by Mr J. Tu-'lor Walters, M.P., who was a wuost at the dinner in the father. Sellers' Hall last week, at which the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs and a large company were • entertained by the Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters. Mr Walters there gave an. amusing account of a recent experience which befell him while on the way to the House. Walking across Palace Yard, he said, he imagined himself to be alone, when a constable suddenly asked him, "Is this lady wtih you, Sir?" Looking around, he beheld a. comely and charming damsel of some eighteen or nineteen summers close to ITis- slioulder. When he remonstrated, she^produced a card bearing the words, "Votes for Women." The policeman ordered her to leave, but instead of obeying, added the hon. member, "she made a bound towards me, and embraced me round the neck. 1 exclaimed, 'My dear girl, you must not do that' ; but it took two or three stalwart custodians of the law to separate us." Amidst repeated outbursts of laughter, Mr Walters expressed the opinion that if this sort of thing were to continue, there would bo even greater competition for membership of the House of Commons than there is even at the present time.