The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-01

NM OMEN who interested in that sort OF thinj
w will remember that what Napoleon the First wa
in the realm of war the wife Of his nephew in th
world OF dress The fame of the House of Worth date
from E1gene reign in the Of the lovers of per
in Paris is monument TO the fame of Eugene jus
as the Hotel des 1nvades is to the historian a
fine figure her beautiful face and her exquisite
al tted her TO reign supreme in the fantastic fiekll
modishness
us. The chief Paris dTessmakers of her time writer
MISS stoddart one of the most satisfactory of Eu
genie biographers- were Nignon and Palmyre. The
Italian war issS5 and It was Princess s'ie Iettefneh
the Austrian ambassadress, who first made him fash
went on between NJ. Worth and the Austrian am
social engagements to spend long mornings with tb.
clever lad ladies' tailor planning remodeng and eutti1i
after 1860 and to him were committed the less eab
morning Which Simple nGiT peee
cut, Her favorIte eolors were dark blue, red and
Leroy coffeur belongs TO the middle years Of
the Second empire Leroy persuaded the empress ti
her pictures, and still the symbol of greataunt
hood hood Il was 9nfortunats that the modes in vogue
ing to all but the Ioveliest of women The crnoue
Of female attire that at fancy dress balls one might
see the goddesses of Olympus and Greek heroines like
Dr. John Evans, the court dentist and the iniimat.
friend of the Empress Engenie has denied that the
dress She was seventeen years at the Fnileres
Very few of the dresses she wore cost than $500
spect she wasteful. She would never
They were sent after one wearing to her girls home
for by the pupils on the occasion of their first
She has characteristic claim on posterty in that
she introduced the enouteas. tine paraso which s
also umbrella the fringe net and the eoored under
peticoat The first two introductions be taken
evidence Of bias in the n third as ev n
imagine the gossiGng horror Of the fnubourg 81 Ger
it had become the fashion to wear red silk under
skirts.
Ut WOULD have been better for her had she elected
to confne herself these and similar frivolities.
But she could not abstain from interfering in politics
Political ability in the sense that Queen Elizabeth,
had political ability she had none. Yet she for
ever meddling in affairs that she could not possibly
proffer which entirely opposed the advice
that her husband had urged the day before She
likes s sR da &
9 o at Pos sf b, q s
could not understand her Historians have hesitated,
called to pay, to the full blame Of the Franco
Pr9ssian war upon her. and upon her alone 1t was
Of victory. and of victory that would put end TO
national clamor for radical reform. that had vexed I'M,
concessions that his wife detested and in her heart
despssd him for ns s5 @ had 5% aoD5s ss
as the creed Of her political bel belief the low morality of
the BonaparteS She teH that war might save her
dynasty and the heritage of her What
the result? The battle of Sedan the result.
r, ROM the dav that dark defeat the empire was
Il doomed France is so governed that Paris can
accomplish for the whole of France anything upon
which dominant mob in Paris sets It's mind. The
Paris realized that France had been defeated
tho Parisians turned the imperial family like
pack of hungry and frenzied wolves whose custom
it is to devour their kind when OF their
kind has fallen the ground through wounds or
weakness
Napoleon himself prisoner, So the fury OF
bumated Paris wreaked on his wife,
On September i, 1870. the Tuileries surrounded
by crowd of and mad with anger,
furious defeat They smashed the Napoleonc
eagles the facade CT the stately palace. The gal
liant cry of 60 Down with the Spaniard! , was heard
all sides. The imperial flag was hauled down from
the roof Shouts of Long live the republic - rent
the air far accustomed TO imperial and regal sal;
utations. The mob penetrated the private rooms OF
the palace only find that the bird had flown Those
still faithful to Eugene convinced that If tbe
mob could lay their hands her they would he-
TO pieces.