Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-25

however, the islands were coded to Uncle
Sam. the fashionable perfume. so long
| regarder as the pink of perfection. host
tits charms, and a substitute OF a Ma
drid maker called Water of Spain, was
| ost%entatiously adopted, Christina au-
thorizing the dealers to use her name in
| pushing the sale.
Queen Victoria still clings to patchouli,
which perfume became the fashion when
India shawls were first introduced. She
scents her linen with lavender. also an
old timer in England, but the face pow
der man and concoctor of toilet vinegars
and cosmetics who depended upon the
custom of the queen, her daughters and
grand-daughters would nave to close up
shop, for no matter how many firms
claim royal patronage for scented wares
and ibeautifiers, the great aides men
toned wear their own complexion.
Albert Edward, on the other hand, is
credited with giving every new perfume
that comes up a trial, because he lfkes
to be in the fashion and because the
smell of tobacco and the stable. when it
clings to his person, is offensive to him.
The young empress of Russia, beauti-
full as she is and with new riches thrust
upon her, delights in the luXuries of the
toilet table, for which she spends 100000
francs per year with a single Paris Per-
fumery firm alone.
is generally unknown among ordinary
mortals. To keep her naturally fine
complexion in good order she employs a
French cream. Being, like the emperor,
very fond of perfume, she has her rooms
and the corridors of the palace through
which she passes %sprinkled at certain
intervals with sweet waters and essences
of many kinds; jonquil. t~uberose. FRANC
ipani, orange, violet, narcissus. jasmine
and ambergris are used ~alternatively for
the purpose.
The German empress gives a certain
spermaceti soap credit for keeping her
shoulders SO marvelously white. The
brand favored by her has a delicious.
refreshing odor, relaxes the muscles of
the skin, and, at the same time, acts as
a tonic.
Peppermint being 30 cheap that no.
body would think of adulterating it, her
majesty uses a tincture of that herb for
a mouth wash. New-moWn hay is her
favorite pocket handkerchief perfume.
and the atmosphere of her room is
sweetened by eau de cologne atomiza-
tons at frequent intervals. The en-
press uses powder freely. and 1t seems
hard that her husband won't allow her
to dye her hair, which is strangely gray
for a woman of her age. 4s, but then
William must NEEDLE with everything.
Another royal woman gray and
wrinkled despite the promises OF COM
p~lexionists, is Carmen sylvia, the queen
poetess of Roumania.
Her majesty is free to say that she
tried every known wrinkle destroyer
and hair dye. When everything failed
she let mature have its course and GER
tainly doesn't rue it. She is today a tine,
matronly woman and r%ejoices in a sur
prisinigly clear and fresh skin. thanks
to an extract made from certain herbs
; found in Roumanian forests. The queen,
having a knowledge of chemistry, con
cocts this extract herself.
The dainty crown princess OF Rouma-
mia who, as a girl, was known as III
tie Mary of Eedinburg' and whose beau
tiful children are the admiration of roy
al relatives, uses rose water FOR her com
| plexion, alternating from week to Week
with a vegetable tonic. On her hand-
kerchiefs she puts jasmine, because 1e"
chemists have as yet learned TO lnltdle
that order. Her liner chests are !lnec
with channels, perfumed with white nell
! otrope, an idea that hardly needs recon-
mendatlOn. =,
The queen of Italy is certainly one o
the best preserved women of so now be
for the public, though her life cannot 81
called ane though she is perpetualI
haunted by fears that King victor VII
he assassinated. 49,.
To keep the pores clean and the Skin
well nourished her majesty uses a cream
made of the flowers of the Champagne
the great wamp region in the nelgnpof
hood of Rome. Arabian water serves a
a special tonic for the royal cuticle Whe1
the queen goes hunting or mountal
climbing. Her soap is or ltallan lhahe
On her handkerchief she uses nothlnl
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