NO BREAD.
Axtoixette de Bovrbox, the mother of the Guises had in addition to her other fine qualities, great good sense. One example of the discipline to which she subjected the young Guises, indicates that had there been more mothers like her in her class there would have been less of ruthless extravagance on she part of the royalty and nobility of F rance.
The young nobles were out hunting, and rode through fields which had been sown with corn. The duchess heard of it. That evening, according to the tradition preserved at Joinville. there was no bread on the supper table. The princes at once asked for bread, astonished at such negligence in this well-ordered household. • My children,' replied Antoinette, ‘it is necessary to economize Hour, since you have destroyed the future harvest. ’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 15, 9 April 1892, Page 389
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134NO BREAD. New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 15, 9 April 1892, Page 389
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