Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1913 — Luxury of Being Rich. [ARTICLE]

Luxury of Being Rich.

When the Emperor Joseph 11. was in Paris in the reign of Louis XVI. he was in the habit of walking about the city incognito. One morning he went into an elegant coffee house and caked for a cup of chocolate. He was plainly dressed and the waiter insolently refused It, saying it was too earfy. Without making any reply he walked out and went into a little coffee house. He asked for a cup of chocolate, and the landlord politely answered that it should be ready In a moment. While he waited for it, as the coffee house was empty, he walked up and down and was conversing on different subjects, when the landlord’s daughter, a very pretty girl, made her appearance. The emperor wished her a good day, according to the French mode, and observed to her father that it was time she Bhould be married. "Ah!” replied the old man, “if I had but a thousand crowns, I could marry her to a man who Is very fond of her —but, sir—the chocolate Is ready.’ The emperor called for pen, Ink and paper; the girl ran to fetch them, and he gave her an order on his banker for 6,000 livres.