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Show When the Cinrlna Smokes. The czarina of Russia, who is one of the vassnlsof Ring Xicotine, smokes inasome-whnt inasome-whnt indolent and almost oriental fash-Ion. fash-Ion. Stretched on the silken cushions of a broad low divan, at Gatschtna, Bhe follows dreamily with her beautiful dark eyes the rings of bluo smoke that her crimson lips part to send upward into the perfumed air of her boudoir, a boudoir which she calls her "den," and which Is copied from one of the loveliest rooms of the Alhambra, with palms rnising their banners against the gorgeous colors and diapered gold of the walls. Heavy hearted and anxious as the charming sovereign of all the Russiaa often is, her mind filled with grewsome fears of a cruel death for those she loves best, she finds in the cigarette her grcntest solace, and she spends many an hour, her small, patrician head crowned by its wealth of brown braids, reclining among the gold embroidered pillows of her couch, sending little clouds of smoke upward to the ceiling and sipping exquisite Caravan tea at m a pound. The latter is brought to ber in a servici made by the goldsmiths of the Deccan, who provide work beside which all the best that Europe can furnish appears clumsy, vulgar and inartistic-Paris inartistic-Paris Letter. |