The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-19

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Five Hundred and Twenty
Pairs of Shoes in One Year.

a,Tn d Existence dune Imperative, >
frederic Mason has recently described
the life of the Empress Josephine at
the Tuileries, and the Evening Post
Summarizes It as follows:
josephine gave three hours every
morning to dressing. Her toilet was a
great affair, and the women who helped
her We're the most important witnesses
Of her hfe.s Her STAFF was composed
Of two first bedchamber women. four
maids, dame d'autour," four women
and a girl de garde-robe" The two
first women were there Only for ETH
quettes sake; they had large salaries
and little TO do. The Four maids who
received the title of DANES d'annonce,P
had for their special business to act
as ushers, to open the door to the en-
peror, to the princesses. The real actors
during the toilet, the intimate COM
panQns, We're the dame d'autour" and
the: four "femmes de garde- robe" JOS
ephlns bathed every morning, and af-
ter the bath she had to take all sorts
Of means pour reparer des ans Fire
parable outrage" as the poet says.
Like an actress she PAINTED herself, She
concealed as she might her wrinkles.
NJ. Mason tells us that in one year
QSe8) shes bought 2,,7495S francs of
rouge at Martins. and 59S.52 francs of
rouge at Madame Chaumeton's. He
has seen the bills and gives us the
francs and centimes. Napoleon did not
like women tos look, pele. Go, put on
Eouge,s- he said one day to d lady, dur
Ing a reception. What ails you?" said
he to- another; you are very pale"
He did not like perfumes, and jose
phinee was obliged 10 do without any,
except Sieau de cologne" Josephine had
everWa fortHlght9ae visit from her "pedi-
cure" a German Jew, named Tobias
hohen, who arrived in uniform with
a sword at his side.
$ When shesput on her shift, her maids
had to%choose among 4SS, more or less
embroidered, and SaTnished with the
most expensive Iaces. Don't be sur
prised," says NJ. Mason, 'at these 800
Shifts they hardly suffice, as she
changes them three times a day" The
maids put on her stockings generally
white, sometimes pink. She had in her
wardrobe 95S pairs Of white silk stock
ings. 80 pink silk stockings, and IS
fesh-colored, worth from Is to IL francs
the peir. The shoes she wore in the
morning were generally of coloIed lea
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