Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-02-11

The Empress Josephine was allowed
sl20, 900 year for her personal expenses,
and S24. 900 for alms-givIng. Her success
sor. the ATchGucheSs, received only :72,-
600 for these purposes. The pretext Of
this difference was that Josephine had q
great many calls upon her purse from her
poor relations. Josephine, it seems, would
never tolerate order or etiquette in her pri-
vate apartments. After she became Empress
Napoleon insisted that she should have no
personal dealings with shOpkeepers, but he
was forced to yield upon this point. Her
private rooms were always full of shawl
merchants, silk MERGERS, mantuaNakers,
haberdashers, jewellers and portrait pant
ers. She had mania for having her por-
trait taken, and gave the pictures to anybo-
dy who wanted them, relatives, friends,
chambermaids, even shOpkeepers. The
latter were always bringing diamonds,
trinkets, shawls, stuffs, and gewgaws OF
every kind; she bought everything, never
asking the price, and half the time forget
ting what she had purchased. From the
outset she gave her ladies in waiting 10
understand that they need not meddle with
her wardrobe; everything connected with
that department was transacted in private
by her, and her maids, Of when there were
six or eight. She rose at O'clock; her toilet
was q very prolonged performance, one
part being mysterious and involving div
ers operations for the preservation and i'm
provement of her complexion. When this
work Of art was finished, she bad her
hair dressed and her person enveloped in a
long wrapper, lavishly trimmed with lace.
We are informed that her chemiSes and
petticOats were also elaborately embroider-
ed and trimmed Nine. de Remusat deems
it pertinent to add the further detail that
Josephine changed her chemise and all her
linen thrice day, and wore none but new
! stockings. After her hair was done, they
brought her huge baskets containing guam
titles of gowns, bonnets and shawls. Of
India shawls she had as many as three or
four hundred-she made gowns of them,
or bed coverings, or cushions for her dog.
She always wore one during the morning,
draping it about her shoulders with a grace
peculiar to herself Bonaparte, who
thought shawls hid her figure too much,
would now and then tear them off and
fling them into the fire. She bought, We
are told, every Cashmere shawl the trades
men brought her, at any price they chose to
ask-Sl, 800, or 81, 000 or -, 400. Cash
mere shawls were the fashion at the Court,
and the humblest lady connected with the
Imperial household would not condescend
to wear one which cost less than $500.
Josephins's mode Of life seems to have
been sufficiently monotonous yet, although
she nsver opened a book or took up pen,
she showed no signs of fatigue. She had no
taste for the theatre, and the Emperor did
not like her to 90 without him, lest her ap-
pearance should provoke applause and give
her sort of personal popularity. She
never walked for exercise except when at
Malmaison, an abode she was forever en-
bellishing, and on which she squandered
immense sums Her principal employ
ment was looking over the huge accumu-
lations Of gowns, frippery and ornaments
in he. wardrobes, for which really colossal
magazines had to be assigned in each Of the