The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-04


costs 10 francs for the simplest. but as
much as 100 francs for the Valenciennes
and the Malines The embroidery around
the bottom costs from Sc francs 60 2OJ
francs. Do not be surprised about thest
900 chemises. They are no more than
enough. Josephine changes them, togeth-
or with al. her lipea. three times day.
Silk stockings are now drawn over her
legs These are usually white or of
rose color tint. She has in her wardrobe
loS pairs of white silk, as against 50 of
rose and IS of flesh color. They are worth
from is francs TO Y francs a pair Her
slippers for the morning are usually of
colored skin or taffeta or satin, worth
about francs pair. In one year she
ordered and paid for $40 pairs. They are
light in texture and simple in make
Little Lingerie.
josephine now dons a light corset of
percale embroidered with Valenciennes of
white satin. These cost from 40 to so
francs. over this corset comes a simple
petticoat of.some soft stuff embroidered
with one or two fiounces of Malines. Meth
ing else, absolutely nothing. Josephine
has in her wardrobe only two pairs of
fiesh-cOlored drawers, which she uses when
riding.
And now Herbauit, the famous hair
dresser, is introduced. He is an important
person, who appears in an embroidered
costume, with a sword at his side His
ostensibe salary is only 500 francs, but
ne receives presents to the amount of 5000
francs or 5000 francs more. Yet this mag
nificent creature is only for ordinary days.
He has rival, or rather a master, the
astonishing Duplan, a consummate art
list, who receives some 10000 francs in sal
airy and another 10000 francs in gifts. Aft
er the divorce Napoleon took him away
from Josephine to bestow him on Marie
Louise, at salary of 1900 francs per
year.
Ot the hairdressers which Herbault and
Duplan compose for Josephine there are a
thousand most complicated forms They
eXacted more and more exquisite skill
as the years went by and the hair 10 be
dressed grew less abundant A head
dress grave, serious and even severe, was
needed for the Empress, and what fur
ther complicated the matter was her face
which, without remarkable or regular fea-
lures, shone solely by it's expression. No
wonder that the hair-dresser held an i'm
portant position These first scenes have
taken up time. If the ladies of the palace
present themselves while the hairdresser
is still there they are often invited TO
enter the boudoir and to assist with great
The first lady and the ladies of the ward
robe bring in great baskets which con-
tain many gowns many hats and many
shawls, and the discussion opens.
JOsephine's Dresses.
In the summer the gowns are of batiste
and of muslin and percale in winter of
velvet or of stuff. There is a large choice
in summer gowns, for at the last fnven.
tory of the wardrobe in 1909 there were
found al2. There We're gowns of percale
and of muslin, costing from 500 to 1900
francs according to the trimming These
trimmings are the fruit of fertile inven-
ton and exquisite art, executed in a man.
ner that far excels anything made now
adays Many of the winter robes are of
cashmere. There were 80 of these in the
inventory of 1909, without counting hunt
ing dresses.
But, having furtively penetrated with
M. Mason into the most sacred mysteries
of the toilet of Josephine, the reader may
be spared the details which appeal to the
eye of every student of old portraits End
paintings.
One of Josephine's ruinous extrava-
gances was jewelry, despite the fact that
she had the use of the most magnificent
crown jewels in the word. She spent al
together 10000 francs on pearls and dia-
mondS ana precious stones, and she pass
ed the happiest hours of her life in Nal
maison in spreading them all out on the
table before her and opening and shutting
the boxes of velvet and morocco. She could
never deny herself anything that took ner
fancy. In the room especially appropri-
ated in her interior apartment for dealers
of all kinds, there was a constant influx
of all that was beautiful, elegant and rare
that the shopkeepers- of Paris could invent
or import.
Always in Debt.