The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-01-09

-sEHMEas1rxwn
Her Old Age
easo Current
u gears ago . ben a1d
canse ioesas.a ire fash
Paris Nuas .he sea-
ras bellies used to zap
IS tie opera with taeir
with gold or viii ST.
IS wearing gold pos-
n1es silver On a Ger
at Les Iaaiiens every
The house ass leyele6 a:
q sat tie loylest girl That
a in Pa,5s Tor Iraa1y q dsv-
pder, with an ~ezqu5sitely
set upon her shoulders,
unity Of line about tie neck
tlst is in itself enc of the rsr-
lilies. with long. aluep- shaped
pale. delicate complexion,
stesf Of smiles. and LOCKS o.
.hsstnrs on Shich silver pow
stoned Like frost. she was a
fog q poet 10 dream aboz,t
or q painter 30 lrnrncrsalize-
as the Young Engeaie de Morti-
.nfesse de Tela- In those DAYS
d the reputation OF being a fast
sl4dv. a Wild, 5iirta.iels dzEasel,
saghiy corrac. 50 far IS her morals
concerned, but rataer given 10
lions fun and hazardous sscapades.
that time thsre was uo ore that the
sehieflovi1g beauty delighted SO
uril In ridicuiing is the president OF
e republic, Prince Louis Napoleon
IS long nose. his short legs, the COM
3rt4r taat he wore Gu cold days when
kding on horseback IN fAa Bois, were
nj food for the matchmaking psopensi-
hes Of the youBg countess. Bat one
evening the gay Eugsnie vas presented
10 the taeituEn president ct one OF tie
that she sFoancesl on him was imlne-
diate and powerful. Hesooa became her
declared anoser. But there exists a
French aneodose respecting the mother
Of a pretty little actress, who thus qaes-
tons one OF her daughters aGorers:
Are your intentions marriage or ether
wisa2" They are Ctiier wise, " IS the
gantleman's candid reply. 1t IS no Sc
rret that for q long time Prince Napo-
Icons attentions we're decidedly Other
wise" 1t is true that the young lady
and her family were people of suspi-
ciously shady ways Of living. One
meets In Europe continually with such
groups as the old Co1ntesss de Montiio
and her two fair daughtess; people that
live of the lat of the land one daT and
subsis. N dry bones the next. The
roons over agrocer's shop al Versailles,
that were nee occupied by the future
Empress OF France and her mother and
sister, are still pointed out to those in
terested LII the fortunes Of tue family.
But the fair Spanish maiden was not
to be won on any terms save those OF
wedlock. How can / get up to you2"
cried the new made emperor one day,
paussng on horseback beneath the win
dow OF Mile de Moatiio's apartment at
the palace of Compiegne during one of
the earlier parties there. You must
90 round through the chapel, sir" was
the laughing rejoindsr. While the
preiiminaries OF the marriage were still
pending some Republican friend sent
the future Empress a copy OF Victor
Hueos Napoleon the Little and be-
sought her TO read it. She did SO, and
sent back the volume with the remark.
Little or great, ] mean 10 marry him"
As Empress the fair Eugenie was
chiefly remarkable for the taste ard
splendor OF her toilets. OF her might
be thus paraparased the epigram Of
Charles I-she never wore q shabby
thing and never said a wise me-. Like
most Spanish girls she had received a
very limited education. She vas mar
row-minded and unntellectnal, though
very sweet and winning in her n
The witty or appropriate remarks that
she, as Impress. was called upon TO
make in public were ali written for her
beforehand, and she was as carefully
coached in them as ever was an actress
in the speeches of a new part. In fact
she had no talents except for dress.
She tried amateur acting at Co1npiegne,
in imitation OF Marie An.oinette at the
Little Triamon, and despite her beauty,
even her hatterers were forced to CON
Tess that she was a failure. She was in
her element while inyentipg new dress
ss-bail toilettes in puffed tulle. with q
chain of diamonds drawn through
each puff, dressed in silk and
velvet with the low-necked cor
sages hung with diamond fringes, others
all the costliest lace clouds upon
clouds of point d,Alencon or point a
i'aiguille-mantles OF genuine eastern
cashmere, stiff with golden embroidery
there was no end to her magnifcence
and to hercaprices. She instituted the
rule that at the nplmer parties at Com
plegne no lady WAS to appear twice in
the same dress, so a fortnigtts invita-
lion entaiied upon the lady accepting it
the purchase of a wardrobe of42 dresses
at the very least, as three changes q day
were requisite, with an addition Of
some two or three specially magnificent
ball dresses Tor possible extra occasions
1t wonld have been well for France
had the Empress confined her attention
to her gowns and her gewgaws and left
politics alone. She tried to reign, and
invented a special toilet in which to pre-
side over Cabinet meetings. She did
more than anybody else to bring
about the war with Prussia, her
religious convictions as a Spanish
Catholic having persuaded her that
a war with the country of the infidel
and the hereto would be a holy crusade
and one specially blest by heaven.
Whom left a widow che ~formanfod ber