Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-06
rhe eRefinement of Luxury.
How Parfsiam Belle Keeps Warm I'm the Winter Season.
 From La Vie Psrfsienne1

the Winter Season.
 From La Vie PardsienneJ
 An hour before you get up your maid will \ light your fire and then screen it with sil- yer framework lined with rose silk, which will temper the heat and give to the whole | while it illumines. Then she will bring you on silver plate warmer your cup of choco- | late, hot and foaning, which you will drink
 from the warmer itself, munching the while l your rusks served on 8 little gold toast rack,
 kept hot in it's turn by little live charcoal, sprinkled with vanilla to perfume the air.
 Alter you have taken your chocolate you will snooze again for couple of hours. 1 Then you will put on a deshahille of pink
 satin lined with swans down. enveloping the | whole body from head to foot. The waist
 band and the fastening of the neck of this 1 garment must be fin velvet, so as to be warm l to the touch. You may now pass into the
 bathroom, the atmosphere of which will be kept at an agreeable temperature by little gusts
 of se-scented vapor pumped through an l aperture in the wall.
 The next part of our subject is delicate
 one; but ''honi soft qui maj y pense." It is l now time to draw on the stockings lined I with warm, fossy silk, long and perfumed, l and gartered with Russian sables clasped with cats eyes stones set in diamonds. The boots
 are to be lined with swans down, and to be trimmed with Russian ssbles as well. l preC1OuS prOOuCJ OI 1l&l clVulZatlOu lH 1 now in her dressing room. This is to be made l comfortable by means of an immense foot warmer, some two metres square, which is to 1 form kind of second flooring all about the dressing table. The blinds may be colored to represent 'the ardent rays of the sum-" and | the padding to keep out the draught is to be | trimmed with natural flowers. This will make I the place look and feel like summer bower | in the depth of winter. The maid may now ''funigate the nape of the neck" with burnt benznie. to make 1t supple-an exquisite char acteristio provision, for without 8 supple | get through the duties of politeness for the ] day?
 We must not forget the hands. These may | be kept warm by holding in them two little vessels of enamel filled with warm water, and 1 shaped like apples-rather in bad taste in this
 direction, as tending to remind our Parisienne of the frivolity of taste by which her sex first came to grief. The promised advantage 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 car riage in which she takes her drives is hermet-
 ically closed. She may realize winter by sec
 ing the street sweepers blowing on their fin
 gers through the windows.
 It is bedtime, and we are once more in the
 hands of our guide. He, however, stands dis creetly in the background until his interest ing patroness has assumed the 'svetement or
 dinaire." He then comes forward to recom- mend a second garmeDt-a sort of ulster of white plush trimmed with ostrich feathers at the neck and wrists-which is to be worn as an overall. The nightcap Of white satin should be trimmed with feathers of the same bird, and, for additional warmth, little turtle 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 Gin pink chenille 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 emanations re- place advantageously the old fashioned warm ing pan.
 fsEnfn," you will drink, just before going
 to sleep, light t'creme de SabailIon," i" nice
 and hot. made with two fresh eggs and small glass of Madeira. By carefully following these directions one may hope not to suffer too much in the winter time.