St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-27

queen Natalie or Servia Is of the most
elaborate and magnificent description,
while the poet queen of Roumania. so
we'll known in the literary world under
the pesudOnym of .Carmen SYLVIA" is
content with gold cigarette case sus-
pended to her chatelaine.
The Comtesse de Paris is addicted to
mild Havanas of delicious flavor, and
her daughter. Queen Amelia, of Portu-
gal, is source of conSideral fortune to
the manufacturers of Russian cigarettes
at Dresden.
Ali the Russian grand duchesseS aud
most of the imperial archducheSSes of
Austria, including Marie-Therese Eliza
beth and Clothlde, smoke to their
hearts content, and in the most public
manner, and their example is followed
| by Qbeen Olga. of Wurtemberg, who is
a daughter of Car Nicholas by Queen
Olga, of Greece, who is likewise a Rus
sian archduchesS by the PrinceSses Leo
pold and Luitpold of Bavaria, and by
| Queen Henrietta, of Belgium.
Neither of the expresses OF Germany
nor the queen OF SaxOny, nor yet the
grand duchess of Baden are known to
| use tobacco III any form, and if either
| Queen Emma of Holland or the queen
of Sweden indulge in an occasional
cigarette for the purpose of soothing
their sorely tried nerves, they do so in
| private.
Queen Victoria has an intense horror
| of smoking, and it is strictly prohibited
at Windsor Castle. at Balmoral, and at
| Osborne. This, indeed, is
One of the Main Reasons
why the visits of the Prince of Wales
| to his august mother are so brief, and so
few and far between.
| For the heir apparent to the English
throne is so little accustomed to self
denial and so fond of smoking that he is
scarcely ever to be seen for an hour
without cigar or cigarette between his
lips, and cannot bear to go for any
length of time without it.
| Of his sisters only the Princess
Louise, Marchioness of Lorne. smokes.
but both his wife and his daughters,
especially Princess Maud. are accus-
| toned to indulge in cigarette when in
their morning room at Sandringham or
| Marlborough house, with Miss Bessie
Knollys.
Many. in fact most of the great ladies
| of France, such as the Duchess de
| Meuchy, de Ia INSTRUMENTATION
| vile d UZes, and de MaIlle are fond of
| cigarettes. the fashion having been set
| in France some five ami thirty years
ago by Empress Eugene. who, like all
| Spaniards, was never at her ease except
| when putting clouds Of fragrant smoke
from her lips.
Indeed. during the Napoleonc regime
there was scarcely corner in the pal
aces of the Tuileries, st. Cloud. or Com
| piegne which was not redolent with the
fumes of tobacco.
| Of the members of the imperial
French court Napoieon's cousin, Prin-
| cess Mathilde (Who, although over sew
| of hac
| tracted Morganatic marriage with
| yohDg man of twenty-four, aud bearing
the peculiar maine ParQuet, little
| pOrker'o, the Princess de Sagan, the
I Duchess de PerSigny, the Marquis de
Gallifet. the Marquise Gle BelbGut and
the Confess de Pourtalps may all have
been said to have seen life only through
| haZy clouds of smoke.
In Austria and Hungary all the great
ladies divide their loyalty equally be-
| tween their beloved emperor on the one
hand and King Nicotine on the other,
and many is the time that the Princess
| Metternlch, Princess LeOntine Fursten-
/ berg, Margravin Pallavicini. Countess
! ShonbOrn, Princess Clam-Gallas and
| Countess AndreSsy have been seen
| smoking on the race course of the Fren-
denah, or even in the Stadt park. while
| listening to the strains of Strauss Or
| cueSCrd.
| 1t Is i'm the Orient.
| however, that smoking has been de-
veloped into fine art. Declared from
| all the social pleasures and active mode
of life of their European sisters. the
ladies of the Zenana are restricted to
| gossip. coffee and tobacco.
Nowhere else in the world are these
| three things brought to such standard
of perfection. A fair idea of the i'm
pOrtance attached thereto by Turkish
women of high rank may he obtained by
| a visit to the harein of the khedive of
Egypt at the ISmailia palace OH the
| banks of the Nile. The audience cham
Der of his highness' only wife is cas-
ket fit for jewel.
The furniture is of ivory and mother
! of pearl, and the hanglngs of silvery
satinS, embroidered with pale roses and
violets i'm silk and silver thread. The
ceilings and woodwork ale painted with
groups Of flowers, and the glass in the
windows is milk white, while the floor
is covered with thick white AubuSson
rugs, Strewn with design of rose leaves
and buds.
Here. lying back on low velvet
diyan. is the vice-queen, smiling her
welcome to the approaching visitor.
She is still extremely beautiful.
| dilHOuku ltttlC SUOfl. I1tI
face is brilliant and lovely, like
Titan or Reubens, her eyes are very
large dark and velvety, full of the
slumberous fires of the Orient, her scar
let lips are like double carmeilia petal,
and her skin of the warm creamy white
ness of tea rose.
She Is generally clothed in white
silken tissues cut PEuropeanne with
a great prOfuSlun of marvellous lace,
ana perfect shower of pearls and dia-
mondS glittering on her hair, OH her
white bosom, encrcling her wrists and
covering her small, plump hands.
Diamonds sparkle every where; the
tobacco box, which lies on low inlaid
table near the vice queen, is studded
with them.
The inkstand and penhoider which
adOrn her yerniS-nart writing desk are
all aDlaZe with Splendid gems, her high
ness slippers are thckly sewn with
brIlliants, and more jewels form mono
grams on all the
Dainty Knickxnacks
W Itch surround her. 'om her gold foot
Dol to her powder box and tortoise
| Still h"rd-glaSS.
Over her heart the v CO queen wears a
mlIIratulc OF her husband. framed WiIu
huge d diamonds and rubies, and around
her waiS t is broad band of the same
stones, to which is suspended a fan OF
snowy ostrich feathers, its handle en-
crustrd with pearls, emeraldS anu sap
phireS.
In spite of all this profusion of Jewell
ry there is nothing diScOrdant or loud in
the soveIeign's appearance. The ORR
entail nature of the luxury is in perfect
keeping with her Oriental style OF
beauty, and the setting in absolute har.
mony with the great brilliancy of the
picture she presents.
She always rises most graciously from
her couch and extends her hand to tile
visitor for the "baise- main reglemen.
taire," and during the course of the
audience she talks both pleasantly ant
cleyerly. about the topics of the day
. with which she is thoroug hly cognizant
Soft-footed slaves hand round tiny
| jeweled cups filled with fragrant bev
, erage, which in no way resembles the
, brown mixture that We in our ignorance