Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1898-09-15
IMPRESS is A WRECK.
e Royal Mistress of Austria Is a
Badly Broken Down Woman.
en- the Servants Who Meet Her Maj
esty Are Ordered to Look Away
from Her-Her Queer Mode
of Living.

litter more than six months absence
ipress Elizabeth of Austria has re-
7 ned to Vienna and taken up her res
nee in her lovely villa of Lainz, built
the old deer park to let her indulge
her whimsical love for solitude.
1 do not think that it will be long be-
lie the world will hear something Of
&, writes a correspondent, for she
come back an aged and broken
man. Though she is 61 years old,
Us hair, to which she has always de-
!, ed the greatest care, kept until now
, fine chestnut color. Now it is gray
II nose is longand sharp and her com
+ xion is sallow always and some
Yles yellowish.
D he empress is enthusiastic where
}wers and plants are concerned, bSt
Il always quite reasonable. She
1 nts her Vienna gardens to be as
uriantly grown as those of the
'riera. Her apartments display an
)Requaled wealth of flowers from the
4 perial lighthouses. Her bedroom and
,let rooms, bathing-room and bou-
,r have hundreds and hundreds Of
s, vases and glasses that she buys
discriminatory in her travels, and all
II filled with fresh flowers every day.
h her bedroom, just opposite her bed,
lere she can see il whenever she
likes, is a most uncanny statue OF
lobe, yelled and weeping, made OF
5nze covered with green patula.
is statue is ensconced in rare plants
shrubs, behind which green mean
scent lamps give a fairy light.
)'he servants who meet her majesty
b the house, the garden or the park
4 ordered to look away and let her
4 sss unnoticed. She must not be bowed
curtsied to. AS to seeing her, thai
1fuld be difficult, since she always
N ds up an old fan that has served
4 FLOR years when anyone approaches.
4 j. is followed in her walks by her
Nxeek master, who walks close enough
her heels to be able to read to her.
\ la this reason, and because the strain
q ,holding up a gown is too great for
4 4, she wears skirts that do not touch
y ground. She does not wear a cor
Il but over a delicate cambria jacket
@Akirt with braces, and over this a
81 elk silk-lined jacket, always the
81 Inc in shape, but of an endless va
81 ,ty in thickness and warmth. Her
& r is plated. and the plaits lie round
81 Y, head in the way Tyrolese maidens
their hair.
g arhough so delicate, the empress goes
81 .accompanied into the deer park of
E linz, which swarms with deer, mouf-
ms and wild boar. She carries a rat
81 and when an animal approaches
rattles to brighten it away
Ter health most likely broke down
account of the unreasonable diet
keeps. She viii not allow her
iight to change, her waist must be
1lcentimeters always, even without a
4 fset. She therefore avoids al solid
"a and lives almost solely upon milk,
Re orange diet she prescribed for her
q NJ years ago, when for three month
ate nothing but red oranges, near
& llzilled her. She has acquired a fine
tie for milk, and can always tell
AT COW the milk she drinks comes
pm, and any change in the diet OF
cow makes her object to the milk
e has an armchair by the side of heI
= which is really a weighing ma
tne, and here she registers hel
hight every morning and every night
lust now she has her daughter Marie
lerie with her at Lainz, but only two
her grandchildren-the small one:
= re left behind, as their presence
luld be too much for the nerves Of
imperial grandmother.-Chicagt
Is ler Ocean.