New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-29
CHINAs EMPRESS DOWAGER LOVES
FLOWERS.

Her majesty's love of flowers was one of her
characteristics which seemed most Incompatible
with the idea / had formed of her from what
had heard, and her love of flowers and all
nature caused me first to- change that idea. 1t
seemed to one could love flowers and
nature as she did and be the woman she had
been painted.
She had flowers always about her. Her pri-
vate apartments. her throne rooms, her loge at
the theatre the great audience hall where
she went only to transact affairs of state and
hold official audiences-all Were decorated with
a urofusion of flowers cut and growing hut
never though. of more than kind at a
time. She wears natural flowers in her couture
always winter and summer; and however care
worn harassed she might be she seemed to
find solace in flowers. She would hold a flower
to her face. drink in its fragrance and caress
il if ii were a sentient thing. She would go
herself among the flowers that filed her rooms
and place with lingering touch some fair bloom
in a better light jardiniere so that
the growing plant might have a more favorable
position.
The Chinese do not place certain cut flowers
in water but keep them dry in bowls or vases
10 get their full fragrance. The Empress Dow
ager had some quaint conceits about the ar
rangement of these. She would have the corollas
of the lily bloom or the fragrant jasmine placed
in shallow bowls in curious, starke designs,
beautiful to look at well most fragrant.
Her passion for flowers being generally known
among the courtiers princes and high officials
they send daily offerings to the palace of all
: that is and choice in the way of plants
and flowers for they know this is one present
her majesty will always accept and appreciate.
i-(Katharine Carl. In The Century Magazine.
WHEN BEAU NASH RULED AT BATH.
His ideal of benign despotism was embodied
in series of rules which We're posted in the
Pump Room and the Assembly Rooms. and
notified his subjects. in eleven sarcasms of i'm
perfect syntax
L That visit Of ceremony in coming to
Bath and another at going away is all that
is expected or desired of Ladies Of Quality and
Fashion-except 1mpertinents. II. That Ladies
coming TO the Ball appoint Time for their
Footmen coming to wait them Home, to
prevent Disturbances Inconvenience TO
themselves and Others. III. That Gentlemen
| OF Fashion never appearing on Morning before
the Ladies In Gowns and Caps show Breeding
and Respect " That no Person take IT iii
| that any one goes to anothers Play or Break
| fast and not TO theirs-except Captious by Ma
| ture. V. That no gentleman give his Tickets for
the Balls TO any but Gentlewomen; NIB I'm
/ less he has some of his Acquaintance vi That
Gentlemen crowding before the Ladies at the
! Ban show Ill manners. and that none do so for
/ the F'uture;--except such as respect nobody
but Themselves. VII. That no Gentleman or
| Lady take IL Ill that another Dances before
! thenl--except such have no pretence 10
! Dance 81 ALL VIII. That the Elder Ladies and
Children be contented with Second Bench at
| the Ball. as being past not come to Perfec-
ton TX That the younger Ladies take notice
how many Eyes observe-This don't extend 10
the Have-at-ails. X. That all WHISPERS ~ les
| and Scandal be taken for their Authors XII
That all repeaters OF such Lies and Scandal he