The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-13
TIPS FROM PARIS.
The Way Il Gentleman of France
Observes His Lady's Fete Day.

The Way Il Gentleman of France
Observes His Lady's Fete Day.
When gentlemen of France have fete
days of their lady friends to remember,
they can rest in the assurance that by
choosing the gem and flowers specially
aHected by their fair countrywomen for
each month, their tact and good taste
VIII never be open to question.
In January, for instance, they offer the
ueep rich garnet, with a little bunch of
snow-drops.
In February, the amethyst is the reign
ing gem, and as one might easily guess,
its chosen companion is its prototype in
color, the fragrant vfolets.
, Inc agate claims supremacy for
March, sharing its honors only with the
primrose, beloved of poets.
The sparkling diamond, a dew drop
cryStalized, best expresses showery April,
and with it goes the Easter daisy, en-
blem of innocence.
In May, the emerald, rejecting the
color of green fields, is the fitting gem
to present, accompanied by a spray of
eglantine, of pink as tender as the in
ner shell of the ocean.
The pretty sapphire, blue as the eyes
OF nymphs, and the proud peony are
chosen to celebrate a June fete.
The ardent ruby and the royal lily
sardonyX and carnations in mixed colors
constitute Augustus souvenirs.
The sapphire, suggesting the infinite
blue of September sky, and the rose of
france, queen of roses, dominate Sep
TENDER feStalS
The beautiful month of October re-
Joices in the mysterious opal and the
fragrant heliotrope for its fete occasions,
and no Ill luck attaches to the opal worn
by person whose natal stone it is.
That bit of condensed sunshine, the
topaz, with a cluster of eXquisitely tint
ed chrysanthemums make a November
n tn iTf -.
the sweet, pale, turquoise and the glis-
tening holly are esteemed fitting to mark
the closing month of the year.
Massage has lost little of it's vogue
in Paris for the trea tment of obesity,
and now they are starting an establish
ment which is sure to introduce a new
and interesting feature into Partisan
life, bringing with it the Roman and
club. where all sorts of baths will be
prepared after old and foreign recipes;
ASS milk, such as Queen Isabella of
Bavaria used every morning; rose water,
melon juice, barley, Mecca balm, etc,
will be found there, and even the famous
bath of Marie CZedertinoska, the beau
tiful mistress of Alexander l Of Russia,
who plunged herself every morning into
the contents of a cask of Malaga wine,
after which ceremony the silver tub was
emptied. and the wine sold. 1t seems
that such a bath is simply perfect as a
skin feeder.
Marie Antoinettes bath, which was
prescribed by her doctor, was com
pound of aromatic herbs mixed with a
handful of salt She took it cold in
summer, and tepid in winter Later on
Nine. Tallien had brought every morn
ing to her house twenty pounds of
strawberries and two pounds of rasp-
berries, which were mashed in her bath
of warm milk and water Another pre-
paration used by the eastern women is
composed of barley, rice, borrage, thyme
and marjoram boiled together and then
thrown into the water. Ninon de Len
clos took a bath every night in which
there were mixed with milk; all well
beaten in salt, soda, and three pounds
of honey and teptd rain water.