The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-11-08
WOMAN'S WORLD.
AN EMPRESS WHO is A MODEL MOTH
Err AND HOUSEKEEPER.

n,adstone's Views on French Gowns-wo-
men Draw the Line at Cranky Cranls.
Sweet Picked Watermelon Rinds-Care
ofFood In Summer.
The Princess Augusta of Augusten-
burg was fine looking blond girl with
mink and white complexion, splendid
nbysiuue, cheerful, unaffected manner
and trained in the frugal habits of the
ducal court of Dolzig. She was chosen
as a possible bride in view of healing the
breach between the Holsteiners and the
prussians. After brief courtship the
couple were married in February, 1881,
in the Schloss chapel of Berlin. The
princess had difficult part to play be-
tween her English motherin-law and
her headstrong young husband, and both
Bismarck ana the old emperor expected
her to take an active part in ali their
schemes. The emperor became very
fond of her, as did all those who were
about her during those early years. She
possessed winning, gentle dignity,
great powers of self control and an art
of healing all quarrels by word in the
right place. She was the mother of five
boys when she became empress. and not
withstanding her royal position she re-
mains an ideal domestic housewife, who
STAYS at home and looks after the house
andchildren in true German fashion. She
does not lead in the social world and has
no female friends, the emperor being her
only confidant.
The empress rises early and breakfasts
with the emperor every morning at 8
o'clock. AT 8 she is in the nursery su-
perintending the baby's toilet, arrang-
ins with the nurse for the walks or
drives to be taken by the children, and
always decides what clothes are to be
worn by the young princess. Her one
extravaganza is in baby clothes, and all
the little garments, with few exceptions,
are made by German needlewomen un-
der her supervision. At 10 o'clock the
empress receives her housckeeper and at
tends to the luncheon and dinner menus,
always including one or two favoiitc
dishes of her husbands. A few moments
every morning arc spent in the linen
room, and not II sheet or Il duster is Civ
en- out except under her direction. At til
she goes riding with the emperor or
walking with two of her boys.
Luncheon comes ut /, and all the chill
dren except the last baby are present ut
this meal, which is conducted without
much ceremony. After luncheon the
emperor and empress play with the chill
dren for IN hour. Tho present ruler is
the only kaiser to whom six sons have
been born i'll uninterrupted succession.
This last conner is q girl and about 8
months old. The system on which the
four eldest sons ARE being brassght up
was arranged without reference to their
mothers wishes, but she sees that every
thing is carried out and superintends
their studies. is always present at their
violin lessons when they are practicing.
and all their little troubles are poured
into her ears. The empress receives
from until and in this time considers
charitable cases.
There are sometimes as many as so
guests invited to dinner, which is at @
o'clock and lasts an hour. Beside each
plate is menu printed in German and
containing no foreign dishes; also a
printed programme of "a pieces of music
about to be played. One servant waits
upon two persons, and every little detail
Of the service is closely watched by the
empress. She goes every night with the
emperor to SEQ the children, and if there
is the slightest illness among them she
sits up all night and sees that the doc
tors directions are carried out. In the
nursery she wears a soft, white flannel
wrapper and u large apron. Her taste
in dress is for bright colors and glossy
materials. The empress early education
was very simple, and although she un.
derstands French and English she does
not care for foreign fashions or litera-
ture.
Until her marriage she had not read a
novel. She retains an early habit of
writing few lines every day in diary
which no one sees, and at the end of each
year it is locked and put away in the
safe with her jewels, and another one is
commenced. Her bedroom and sitting
room are simply furnished in blue. A
large allowance is made to her for p5r-
sonal expenses, yet she makes with her
own hands all the birthday gifts for her
own and the emperor's numerous fam
lily. 1t is said that the emperor has de-
veloped into an atfectionate and devoted
husband, won by his wife's sweetness
and submission. Pail Mall Budget