The St. Johns herald., 1886-04-22
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Eavisi,ing Description of tIe Luxurious
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 An hour before you get up. your maid will light your fire. and then screen it with silver framework lined with rose silk, which will temper the heat and give the whole room a sort of rosy morning light that warns while it illumineS.
 Then she will bring you on silverplate warmer your cup of chocolate, hot and foaming. which you will drink from the warmer itself, munching the while your rusks, served on little gold toast-rack, kept hot in it's turn by little live char. coal, sprinkled with vanilla to perfume the air.
 After you have taken your chocolate you will doze again for couple of hours. Then you will put on a deshabille of pink satin, lined with SwansdOwn, envel- Oping the whole body from head to foot. The waistband and the fastening of the neck of this garment must be of velvet, so as to be warm 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 rose-scented vapor pumped through an aperture in the wall. It is now time to draw on the stockings, lined with warm, flossy 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 civilization is now in her dressing-room. This is to be made comfortable by means of an i'm mense foot-warmer some ten feet square, which is to form a kind of second floor ing all about the dressing-table. The blinds may be colored to represent the ardent rays of the sun, and the padding to keep out the draught is to be trimmed with natural flowers. This will make the place look and feel like summer bower in the depth of winter.
 The maid may now fumigate the nape of the neck with a little burnt benzoin, to make it supple. We must not forget the hands. These may be kept warm by holding them in two little vessels of enamel with warm water, and shaped like apples. The promised advantage of this arrangement is that it gives the hands that attractive rosinesS which warmth can alone impart.
 The Parisienne avoids. as though it was laden with the breath of pestilence, every touch of cold air. The carriage in which she takes her drive is dramatically closed. She may realize winter by watch ing the ice and milkmen blowing on their fingers through the windows.
 It is bed time. The lady assumes the retement ordinaav. Then the second gar ment-a sort of ulster of white plush, trimmed with ostrich feathers at the neck and wrists. The nightcap, of white satin, should be trimmed with feathers of the same bird, and, for additional warmth, little turtle dove may be fas- tened above the left ear.
 The very hands are to have their night cap, 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.
 Ennn, you will drink, just before going to sleep, a light creme de sdbillon, nice and hot, made with two fresh eggs and glass of Madeira.
 Good night.-lLa Vie Parisienne. |.