The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-29


reads and acts upon reports from cooks.
buffers, keepers of the plate and keepers
OF the linen. New methods OF preparing
or serving food are adopted only at her
suggestion. Cooking devices which have
become inccnvenient or antiquatsd are
abolished only at her suggestion. Changes
in the personnel OF the establishment
are made. for the most part, only In
obedience 10 her orders The kitchen in
which the food for the bluest blood in
Austria is cooked is huge one, with
all the arrangements at each end for pre-
pairing fish, flesh. and fowl. for the table
Fifty chickens can be cooked at once
on one OF the big whiriing splits The
broiling and baking and frying occupy q
small regiment OF soldiers Twenty-Five
male cooks spit. season. and stun the
meats.
AS many women cooks prepare the
vegetables the buildings and the salads.
A dozen or more boys carry the BIRDS,
fish and joints from the kitchen to the
carving room. where long lines OF carvers
slice everything laid before them. The
| Empress is said TO submit herself to the
severest regimen in order to retain the
| beautiful figure for which she Is noted
| Sh fasts morning and evening. making
her only regular meal II noon OF grfiled
! meat. biscuits and n glass OF wine. Oc-
| caSionally she eats n raw egg ana n little
| fruit. She wears heavy flannel underwear
| winter and summer. takes vapor baths
| and massage
| Ladies' tuncheons are said TO be as YET
an American innovation in London so
| ciety. although fast growing I'm populari-
| ty Among the guests at one OF these
| given by Mrs. Cheseborough recently In
London were Mrs. Forester. Mrs Baliara
Smith, and Miss Henrietta Young, all
| well-knowr Americans. There are to be
| two more drawing rooms held early IN
May. at both Of which the Princess OK
! Wales will probably preside. so tnat
| New York society women who have re-
| Gently left or who are now leaving FOR
| London will have chance to be pre-
scented before the season closes.
|
| The queen regent OF Holland wears
the plainest kind OF clothes but spen0
| much time and thought on her small
daughters toilet. Queen Whhehfnina
wears nothing but material OF the most
exquisite texture and all her linen mas
the wv" and crown beautifully embroio-
cred upon it
George Augustus Saia was recently
| asked by n very corpulent lady how she
| should dress in attending a fancy ball.
'Wel." replied Mr.. Sala. as he sized up
| the ample proportions of the lady. N
| were you I would put frill around
my neck. don light red dress and so
as a ham,
| II Is said that IN early times taSntono
| were spread abroad. not by printed perl
, odcals as is now done. but by dolls
| sent out at regular intervals. so that the
| duchess in her distant Chateau I'm Brit
tany. or the wife OF the palatine perched
on her rock, above the NecSer vale.
might know how her sisters appeared
I'm the grand central courts in Paris. and
| Burgundy. Venice. the connecting link
between eastern commerce. and western
splendor. annually imported a Partisan
doll which was exhibited under the ar
cades OF the market place at the end
| of the Piazza OF San Marco. that all
might know the "toilet OF the year"
We see by the papers that Alabama
boasts a woman who was struck by
lightning seven years ago. and has not
spoken since. The local history falls to
relate whether she was killed at the
time or not. but it is altogether probable
that she was
| 4 very true remark Is made by
| writer in n contemporary. who thinks
| that women between thirty and thirty
! five feel Older than they do ten years
| later. the loss OF youth being then n
| present calamity. to which they afterward
| grow accustomed and rec0nciled by means
| of fresh interests and pursuits. Not only
| is il perfectly true that the years during
| which a fresh and attractive youth grad
| ualy wanes must be more or less fraught
| with regret but they present many little
| social difficulties 20 which the better de-
! fined periods of a &c not subject. and
Of shy, diftiient feelings is
! liable to appear at her very worst just
/ when she ought TO be gathering all her
forces to resist the charm-destros ing
| onslaught Of old Time.
|
Mrs John d. Rockefeller and her
daughters spend vast sums annually on