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Show PERFUMES L0VED BY FAIR QUEENS. Willielmina of the Xetlierlnnrts Almost Al-most ilaiies la Cologne and Oilier crowned Heads HaVe Their lads. . Ty Annette Rierdon Reed. Amsterdam, Holland. It was at Peheveningen, a little coast spot that-has that-has been dubbed "the Coney Island of Holland" that I firnt paw Holland's Queen. She had driven down from The I 'a lace of the Woods, that pretty place where the Peace Commissioners met. and was doing a bit of shopping, only a tiny hit for they do not display a great many wares at Seheveningen. The young Queen, who was, on this occasion, accompanied by her mother, stopped at a little bazaar and there purchased a bottle of cologne. It might have been a rare bit of sweet extract for it was in a small bottle and was delicately labelled. The ' little vial caught the young Queen's eye ai3 she alighted from the carriage and left the cream-colored horses pawing the ground. This is not the first time the Queen of Holland has gone shopping for sweet scents. She is extravagantly fond of perfumes and buys them by the whole-Bale. whole-Bale. She purchases . eau de cologne by the gallon and is probably the largest larg-est individual consumer of the perfume. per-fume. She scents her fair skin with it night and morning; No French woman ever had a greater liking for perfumery perfum-ery than she. Her maids have their hands lightly dipped in orris water so i that thr-ir presence' is pleasant. Wilhelmina of the Netherlands uses an entire champagne bottle of this aromatic ar-omatic essence of cologne every morn-ins, morn-ins, and so inu-nt is' the little majesty on getting her fill of her favorite toi-. lette vinegar that she has the bottle opened in her very presence, sniffs it, assures herself of its high quality by a 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 j by five steps, so that the room beneath j is only half a story high. j Her Ma-jesty remains seven minutes in the bath, using a certain soap, little scented. Then she draws a waterproof cap over her hair and steps under a "shower," where the finest bay rum takes the place of water. After that fhe is rubbed down by her old, round and big-armed nurse. Wilhelmina has a beautiful, yet delicate del-icate ('.omplexion, which she believes Y-ill ti ke care of itse'.f if regularly treated rs eft forth and then left to its wn nfrtiitl course. Preparatory to dinner, th-atre. reception or balls she uses a Turkish towel and plenty of varm water on her face and neck, soap for the hands only,, day and, evening. ev-ening. IP to the conclusion of the peace of Paris, which settled the latest unpleasantness un-pleasantness between Spain and the United States, the ladies of the Peninsular Penin-sular court, and Her Majesty Queen Christina in particular, used ylang-y ylang-y la rig to give their clothes and handkerchiefs 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, j the islands were ceded to Uncle Sarn, the fashionable perfume, so long regarded re-garded as the pink of perfection, lost its charms, and a substitute of a Madrid Ma-drid maker called Water of Spain, was ostentatiously adopted, Christina. authorizing auth-orizing the . dealers to use her name In pushing the sale. j Queen Victoria still clings to patch- I ouli, which perfume became the fashion fash-ion when India shawls were first intro- J duced. She scents her linen with la- j vender, also an old-timer in England, j but the face powder man and ooneoctor j of toilet vinegars and cosmetics who j depended upon - the custom of the j Queen, her- daughters and grand- j daughters would have to close up shop. ! for no matter how many firms claim royal patronage for scented wares and beaotifiers, the great ladies mentioned wear their own complexion. Albert .Edward, on the other hand, is credited with giving every new per fume that conies up a trial, because he likes to be in the fashion and because the' smell of tobacco and the stable, when it clings to his person, is offensive offen-sive to him. The young Empress of Russia, beautiful beau-tiful as she is and with new riches thrust upon her, delights in the luxuries lux-uries of the toilet table, for which she spends lf'0.000 francs per year with a single Paris perfumery firm alone. Her Majesty uses a Russian soap that is generally unknown among ordinary or-dinary mortals. To keep her naturally t. fine complexion in good order shf cm- ploys a French cream. Being, like the Kmpcror, 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, tuberose, frangipani. orange, violet, narcissus, jasmine and ambergris are used alternately for the purpose. The German Empress gives a certain spermaceti soap credit for keeping her shoulders so marvellously white. The brand favored by her has a delicious, refreshing odor, relaxes the muscles of the skin, and, at the same lime, acts as a tonic. Peppermina being so cheap that nobody 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 handker-chief perfume, and the' atmosphere of her room is sweetened by eau de cologne col-ogne atomizations at frequent intervals. inter-vals. The Empress' uses powder freely, and it seems hard that her husband won't allow her to dye her hair, which 5s strangely gray for a woman of her age, forty-three, but then William must meddle with everything. f Another royal woman gray and wrinkled despite the promises of eom-plexionists. eom-plexionists. is Carmen Sylva, the Queen poetess of Roumania. i Her Majesty is free to say that she tried every known wrinkle destroyer r.nd-hair dye. When everything failed i he let nature have its course and certainly cer-tainly doesn't rue it. ' She is to-day. a fine, matronly woman and rejoices in a surprisingly cle;r and fresh skin, thanks to an extract made from certain I herbs found - in - Roumanian forests. |