The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-01-20
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EMPRESS JOSEPHINE,

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Nj. Masson. in his new book about
the Empress Josephine having describ-
ed the stage on which she moved after
she had become empress. enters into a
minute account of the life which was
marked out for her. \ correspondent
OF the Evening Post furnishes a trans.
script OF an interesting portion of this
history. Josephine is shown in the
morning in bed, with percale or en-
broidered muslin cap, garnished with
| alenciennes or Mechlin; sometimes
with a percale tyHet on head" The
door is opened for her favorite dog, for
Josephine could not live without pet
dog; she had one in 1893 3-an ugly lit
tie beast-which helped her in the Car
mclite prison to send messages under
his collar. At Milan she had one.
which fell i'll; the greatest doctor in
the city was called in for him, and this
circumstance made the fortune of Mos
cati. who became president of the Cis-
alpine directory, deputy, count. sena
tor. How NJ Mason contrived to find
out the names, the habits, the history
of the successive pet dogs of Josephine
is a wonder; it it enough for us to
know that she always gave first aud
iencc in the morning to the reigning
dog. She was fond of all familiar
beasts-little monkeys, birds; she al
ways had small negroes, whom she
treated like domestic animals, but ne
GRO servants were the fashion in
France after the war Of independence.
Josephine gave three hours every
morning to dressing. Her toilet was
great affair, and the women who
helped her were the most important
witnesses of her life. Her staff was
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women. four mods, a dame dniour,
four women. AMI Il girl de g,r'e-,o ore
The two first women were there only
for etiQuette's sake; they had large
salaries and little to d, Tle four
maids, who received the title of dunes
dannonce, had for their special bust
ness to act as ushers, opening the door
to the emperor and princes ses. The
real actors during the toilet, the init
mate compani ,n,, we're the dame d afour
and the four femmes de yar le-roLe. Jo-
sephine bathed every morning, and,
after the bath, she had to take all sorts
of IN cans ':pour reparer dies ans Tire
parable outrage" as the poet says.
Like an actress, she painted herself
Napolean did not like women to look
pale. ''G', put on rouge" he said one
day to lady, duringa a reception. He
did not like perfumes, and Josephine
was obliged to do without any except
eau dc colonye. Josephine hal every
fortnight a visit from her ped,cure, a
German Jew namad Tobias Kohen,
who arrived in uniform, with sword
at his sid :.
When she put on her shift, her
maids had to choose among 47S, more
or less embroidered AMI garnished
with the most expensive laces. Don't
be surprised" says NJ. Mason, "at
these 500 shifts they hardly suffice,
as she changes them three times a
day" The maids put on her stock
ings-gentrally white, sometimes pink
She had in her wardrobe 95S pairs of
white silk stockings, % pink silk stock
ings and Is fesh-colored worth from
Is to y francs the pair. The shoes
she wore in the morning were general
ly of colored leather or of silk In one
year she buys $40 pairs. These shoes
are very light and neelless; they seem
to be part of the foot. They are like
the shoes of which lady once com
planned to Cote, the empress's fur
nisher, that they split the first time
this lady put them on. "Oh, | see
what it is" said G. ,ttc: Madame has
been walking"
After the corset, very light without
whalebonc, she puts dres sing gown
and Herbault, the hair.drcsser
is introduced H.rbault is quite a
parsonage, but on great occasions Jo
sephine receives a greater parsonage,
the famous DupIan, who has known all
the Ladies' of t.lt Directory, who was
familiar with Nine. Tallien, and one
day cut in pieces veil worth 5000
francs which she had handed him, and
which he found too large for her c'nt:
fare Duplan received $4,000 francs
in 1877 from Josephine, 900 in 1908,
as much in 1909; he sells besides to
her 10000 francs worth of various ar
ticlcs yearly. At the time of the di-
worse Napoleon gave Duplan to the
new empress, with the salary of $4,000
frans year. While the hair-drcsser
is still at his work, the danes du palio,
| introduce 4 succession of furnishers