The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-09-08
PERFUMES LOVED
BY FAIR QUEENS.
Wilhelmina Of the Netherlands Al
most Ba hes In Cologne and Other
Crowned Heads Have
Their lads.
BY Annette Rierdon Reed.


place where the Peace Commissioner
met, and was doing a DIT Of shopping
only a tiny bit for they do not dtspla
a great many wares at Scheveninger
The young Queen, who was, on thi
occasion, accompanied by her mother
stopped at a little bazaar and Their
purchased a bottle of cologne. 1t nigh
have been a rare bit of sweet eXtrac
for it was in small bottle and wa
delicately labelled. The little via
caught the young Queens eye am sht
alighted from the carriage and left tbs
cream colored horses paving tht
ground.
This is not the first time the Queer
of Holland has gone shopping for swee
scents. She is eXtravagantly fond o
perfumes and buys them by the whole
sale. She purchases eau de cologne
by the gallon and is probably the larg-
est individual consumer of the per-
fume. She scents her fair skin with it
night and morning. No French woman
ever had a greater liking for perfum-
cry than she. Her maids have their
hands lightly dipped in orris water so
that their presence is pleasant.
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands uses
an entire champagne bottle of this ar
omatic essence OF. cologne every morn
ing, and so intent is, the little majesty
on getting her fill of her favorite tot
lette vinegar that she has the bottle
opened in her very presence, shifts
1t, assures herself of its high quality
by test over a lamp and then pours
the contents into the bath with her
own hand. OF course, this is not the
regulation tub but a large marble
affair, built into the floor and reached
by five steps, so that the room beneath
is only half a story high.
Her Majesty remains seven minutes
in the bath. using certain soap, little
scented. Then she draws a waterproof
cap over her hair and steps under a
rshower," where the finest bay rum
takes the place of water. After that
she is rubbed down by her old, round
and big-armed nurse.
Wilhelmina has beautiful yet del
icate complexion, which she believes
viii u Ike care of itself if regularly
treated as snt forth and then left to its
own normal course. Preparatory to
dinner, thea tire. reception or balls she
uses a Turkish towel and plenty Of
warm water on her face and neck,
soap for the hands only, day and ev-
ening
Up to the conclusion of the peace
of Paris, which settled the latest I'M
pleasantness between Spain and the
United States. the ladies of the PENN
sular court. and Her Majesty Queen
Christina in particular, used ylang-
ylang to give their clothes and hand
kerchiefs a sweet odor. Indeed, they
thought it their patriotic duty to do so,
for ylang-ylang IS one of the products
Of the Philippines. When, however,
the islands We're coded to Uncle Sam,
the fashionable perfume, so long re-
garded as the pink of perfection, lost
its charms. and a substitute of a Ma
drid maker called Water of Spain, was !
ostentatiously adopted, Christina auth |
orizing the dealers to use her name !
in pushing the sale.
Queen Victoria still clings to patch !
Gull. which perfume became the fash
ion when India shawls were first intro
duced. She scents her linen with la
vender. also an old-timer in England, (
but the face powder man and concoctOr /
of toilet vinegars and cosmetics who
depended upon the custom of the
Queen. her daughters and grand
would have to close up shop.
for no matter how many firms claim
royal patronage for scented wares and
the great ladies mentioned
wear their own complexion.
Albert Edward. on the other hand,
is credited with giving every new per-
rume that comes up a trial, because he
likes to be in the fashion and because.
he smell Of tobacco and the stable,
when it clings TO his person, is often
sive to him.
The young Empress of Russia, beau
-iful as she is and with new riches
thrust upon her. delights in the lux
Iries Of the toilet table, for which she
spends 100000 francs per year with a
single Paris perfumery firm alone.
Her Majesty uses a Russian soap
hat is generally unknown among or
linary mOrtals. To keep her naturally
inc complexion in good order she en-
,loys a French cream. Being, like the
Emperor, very fond of perfume, she
las her rooms and the corridors of the
palace through which she passes
prinkled at certain intervals with
weet waters and essences of many
,inds. jonoun, tuberose, frangipani.
range, violet, narcissus. jasmine and
mbergris are used alternately for the
purpose.
The German Empress gives a certain
permaceti soap credit for keeping her
so marvellously white The
rand favored by her has a delicious,
odOr, relaXes the muscles of
he skin and. at the same time acts
s tonic.
Peppermint being so cheap that no.
ody would think Of adulterating it.
Ter Majesty uses a tincture of that
erb for a mouth wash. New-mown
ay is her favorite pocket handker-
hief perfume, and the atmosphere of
er room is sweetened by eau de col
gne atomizations at frequent inter
ais. The Empress uses powder freely.
nd it seems hard that her husband
ont allow her to dye her hair, which
strangely gray for a woman of her
&c, forty-three, but then William
lust NEEDLE with everything.
Another royal woman gray and
rrinl1led despite the promises of com
lexionists, is Carmen Sylvia, the Queen
oetess Of Roumania.
I1eF majesty IS Tree 10 say that she
ried every known wrinkle destroyer
nd hair dye. When everything failed
he let nature have its. course and GER
ainiy doesn't ride 1t. She is to-day. a
ne, matronly woman and rejoices in
surprisingly clear and fresh skin,
hanks To an extract made from certain
ieres found in Roumanian forests.