The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29
THE REFINEMENT OF LUXURY.
How a Partisan Belle Keeps Warm
in the Winter Season.
From the La Vie Parisienne.

From the La Vie Parisienne.
An hour before you get up your
maid will light your fire and then
screen it with a silver framework
lined with rose silk, which will tenn
per the heat and give to the whole
room a sort of rosy morning light
that warns while it illumines. Then
she will bring you, on a silver
plate-warmer, your cup of chocolate.
hot and toaming, which you will
drink from the warmer itself,
munching the while your rusks,
served on little gold toast rack,
kept hot in its turn ny little live
charcoal, sprinkled with vanilla to
perfume the air.
After you have taken your choc-
olate you will snooze again for a
couple OF hours. Then you will
put on a deshabille of pink satin,
lined with swans down, enveloping
the whole body from head to foot.
The waistband and the fastening of
this garment must be in velvet, so
as to be warm to the touch. You
may now pass into the bath room,
the atmosphere of which will be
kept at. an agreeable temperature
by the little gusts of rose scented
vapor pumped through an aperture
in the wall.
This part of our subject is deli
cate one; but honi soft gui NAL ypense
1t is now time to draw on the stock
ings, lined with warm, fiossy silk,
long and perfumed, and gartered
with Russian sables, clasped, with
cat's-eye stones set in diamonds.
The boots are to be lined with
swans down and trimmed with
Russian sables as well.
Our precious product of high CIV
ilization is now in her dressing
room. This is to be made comfor-
table by means of an immense foot
warmer, some two metres square,
which is to form a kind of second
flooring all about the dressing table.
The blinds may be colored to repre-
sent ''the ardent rays of the sum-"
and the padding to keep out
draught is to be trimmed with nat
ural flowers. This will make the
place look and feel like a summer
bower in the depth of winte-.
The maid may now "fumigate the
nape of the neck" with little burnt
benzine, to make it supple-an ex
qulsite characteristic provision. for.
without supple neck, how could a
French person possibly get through
the dutiee of pnliteness for the day
We must not forget the hands.
These may be kept warm by hold
ing in them two little vessels Of
enamel filled with warm water, and
shaped like apples-rather in bad
taste in this direction, as tending to
remind our Parisienne of the frivol-
ity of taste by which her sex first
came to grief. The promised ad
vantage of this arrangement Is that
it gives the hands that attractive
rosiness which warmth alone can
impart. For the middle of the day
the Parisienne simply continues all
these precautions by avoiding, as
though it were laden with the
breath of pestilence, every touch Of
cold air. The rusks that form her
morning meal might be baked in
her drawing room, and the carnage
in which she takes her drives is
hermetically closed. She may real
ize winter by seeing the street
sweepers blowing on their fingers,
through the windows.
1t is bed time, and we are once
more in the hands of our guide.
He, however, stands discreetly in
the background until his interesting
patroness has assumed the Vetenaent
ordindire He then comes forward
to recommend a second garment-a
sort of ulster of white plush,
trimmed with ostrich feathers at
the neck and wrist-which is to be
worn as an overall. The Dightcap
of white satin should be trimmed
with feathers of the same bird, and,
for additional warmth, a little tur
tie dove may be fastened above the
left ear. The very hands are to
have their nightcap-gloves of pink
kid, lined with plush and fastened
by elastics in pink chenille), J, so as
not to check the circulation. The
bed is to be heated by the fumes of
burnt lime flowers and violets.
These agreeable and calming ema-
nations replace advantageously the
old fashioned warming pan.
EDfin von will drink inst before
going to sleep, a light creme de Sa-
5dalon, nice and hot, made with two
fresh eggs and a small glass of
Madeira. By carefully following
these directions one may not hope
to suffer too much in the winter