Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-12-15
EMPRESS IsAWRECKI
The Royal Kistressssf Austria Il 4
Badly Broken Dtwa wsman.
Bvsn the Servants wa Meet HGr MAJ
Ssty Arc Ordered to Look Away
from Her-Her Queer Mode
Of Living.

After more than six months absence
Empress Elizabeth of Austria has re-
turned TO Vienna and taken up her res
,dence in her lovely villa Of LaiIz, built
IN the old deer park to let her indulge
in her whimsical love for solitude.
do not think that it will be long be-
ore the world will hAr something OF
her, writes a correspondent, for she
iLas come back an aged and broker
woman. Though she is 81 years old,
ner hair, to which she has always de-
voted the greatest care, kept until now
It's fine chestnut color. Now it is gray,
lter nose is long and sharp and her COM
~i,lexion is sallow always and some
times yellowish.
The empress is enthusiastic where
flowers and plants are concerned, but
not always quite reasonable. She
wants her Vienna gardens to be as
:uXurinrtly grown as those of the
;:iviera. Her apartments display an
unequaled wealth of flowers from the
imperial hothouses. Her bedroom ard
toilet rooms, bath;Eg-room and bou-
doir have hundreds and hundreds of
pots. vases and glasses that she buys
'adiscrirniratcly in her travels. and all
ere filed with fresh flowers every day.
n her bedroom, just opposite her bed.
where she can see i; whenever she
wakes, is n most uncanny statue Of
Nicbe, yelled and weeping, made of
'rrCnZe covered with green ratula.
This statue is ensconced in rare plants
md shrubs, behind which green mean
descent lamps give a fairy light.
The servants who meet her majesty
N the house, the garden or the park
are ordered to look away and let her
pass unnoticed. She must not be bowed
IT curtsied to. AS to seeing her, thar
would be difficult, since she always
holds up an old fan that has served
lerfor years when anyone approaches.
She is followed in her walks by her
.:reek master, who walks close enough
% her heels to be able to read 10 her.
For this reason, and because the strain
IF holding up Il gown is too great for
her, she wears skirts that do not touch
he ground. She does not wear n cor
set, but over a delicate cambria jacket
l skirt with braces, and over this a
rlack silk-lined jacket, always the
same in shape, but of an endless va
giety in thickness and warmth. Her
hair is plated, and the plaits lie round
her head in the way Tyrolese maidens
10 their hair.
Though so delicate, the empress goes
Inaccompanied into the deer park OF
uainz, which swarms with deer, mouf-
ions and wild boar. She carries a rat
5le, and WREN an animal approaches
.lhe ~rattles to brighten it away.
Her health most likely broke down
on account of the unreasonable diet
she keeps. She will not allow her
weight to change, her waist must be
80 centimeters always, even without Il
corset. She therefore avoids ali solid
food and lives almost solely upon milk.
The orange diet she prescribed o her
self years ago, when for three months
she ate nothing but red oranges, near
- killed her. She has acquired n fine
tnste for milk, and can always tell
what COW the milk she drinks comes
rom, and any change in the diet of
a cow makes her object to the milk.
She has an armchair by the side of her
Ded which is really u weighing ma
thine, and here she registers her
weight every morning and every night.
Just now she has her daughter Marie
Valerie with her at LainZ, but only two
If her grandchildren-the small ones
we're left behind, as their presence
would be too much for the nerves Of
he imperial grandmother.-Chicago
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