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Successor to 
D. H. Mampre 
Ladies’ Tailor 
Importer 
and Designer 
“|I respectfully solicit your 
ronage and guarantee satisfaction in 
pat- 
every respect. 
A large Assortment of latest 
FALL and WINTER 
NOVELTIES. 
Mr. McMillan was formerly with E. M. Wil- 
son & Co., 
Boston. 
163 Cabot street, BEVERLY 
Telephone 107-1 
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ROOMS TO LET, or do you want BOARD- 
ERS? 
B@s-Perhaps you want a POSITION for the 
summer as GARDENER, or COACHMAN, 
or CHAUFFEUR. 
Whatever you want it ought not to require 
AN ALARM @CLOe@K 
to awake you to the fact that the easiest, the 
quickest, the least expensive way to gratify your 
wish is to patronize the 
Classified Ad, Column 
of the | 
North Shore Breeze 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
VANITY OF AN EMPRESS. 
Josephine Dearly Loved Her Gowns 
and Her Jewels. 
It is a rare privilege to be allow- 
ed to peep at the mysteries of an 
empress’ toilet, to ransack her 
wardrobes, with their treasures of 
costly gowns, to open her jewel cas- 
ket and to gloat over gems that 
tvould purchase many a king’s ran- 
som. But when this empress is the 
most luxurious and picturesque wo- 
man of an extravagant age the 
temptation is too strong to resist, 
says the London Standard. 
Such an empress was Josephine, 
in turn the spoiled darling and out- 
cast wife of Napoleon I., whose star 
filled the social heaven of Europe 
for five years. Josephine was more 
than forty years old and had al- 
ready exhausted all the arts of lux- 
ury when she was crowned empress 
in 1804. Her first beauty had long 
left her, and it is said she had prac- 
ticed the fatal and fashionable art 
of enameling until the enamel 
would no longer retain its hold on 
her skin, but cracked and covered 
her with a constant layer of white 
powder. 
For ordinary occasions her hair- 
dresser was a M. Herbeault, “a 
magnificent creature in an embroid- 
ered costume, with a sword at his 
side,” but for any important occa- 
sion M. Duplan, the most consum- 
mate artist in the world, was called 
in. M. Duplan’s salary for these 
occasional services was 20,000 
francs a year, increased later by Na- 
poleon to 42,000 francs. These two 
unrivaled artists designed for Jo- 
sephine’s benefit no less than a 
thousand new methods of _hair- 
dressing, each adapted to the spe- 
cial circumstances in which it was 
worn. 
Much as Josephine loved her hun- 
dreds of costly dresses, she loved 
her jewelry more and was never 
happy unless she was adding almost 
daily to her treasures. In a few 
short months she spent half a mil- 
lion franes on jewels, and her hap- 
piest hours at Malmaison were 
spent in spreading out her thou- 
sands of gems on the table before 
her and gloating over their dazzling 
charms. 
Her extravagance was the cause 
of many tears and much upbraid- 
ing from Napoleon, who grew tired 
of paying bills, many of them reach- 
ing almost a million francs. But 
~ in the end he usually succumbed to 
her pleading and penitence and 
would ty to her: “Come, Jo- 
~ sephine! Come, my _ little 4 
Console sonnel Twill amaeS i it at 
right.” Poor, silly Josephine! Pods 
Napoleon! 
The Size of Texas. 
Texas is larger than all the New 
England states combined, 
Georgia, combined; larger than the 
middle Atlantic states, consisting 
of New York, Pennsylvania, New 
Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Vir- 
ginia, West Virginia and the Dis- 
trict of Columbia; larger than Ger- 
many, larger than France, larger 
than Austria-Hungary. 
the United States with almost 
everything it needs to eat, wear and 
make life worth living without ex- 
hausting its resources. All this is 
not so remarkable from the. stand- 
point of room when it is known 
that the area of Texas is 265,780 
square miles, that its” 
length is 825 miles and its greatest 
breadth 740 miles. — Galveston 
News. 
He Bit. 
The city man was jogging on to- 
ward the farmhouse in a rickety old 
wagon. The driver was glum and 
far from entertaining, and the city 
man felt rather lonely. 
“Fine field over there,” he ven- 
tured after a long silence. 
“Tine,” grunted the driver. 
“Who owns it?” 
“Old man Bitt.” 
“Old man Bitt, eh? Who are 
those children stacking up hay?” ib 
“Old man Bitt’s boys.” 
“And what is his idea in having 
them out there in the field such a | 
hot day?” 
“Waal, I reckon he thinks ‘eae 
Any- 
little Bitt helps, stranger. 
thing else you want to know? Get 
up here, hosses!” — Philadelphia 
Ledger. Bee een 
Lost a Breakfast. 
When in London early in his ca- 
reer Paul Du Chaillu, the explorer, 
received an invitation to breakfast , 
signed “S. Oxon.” On going to the 
address given he found it was a boot. 
shop in Pall Mall and came. away, ’ 
larger 
than all the gulf states, including 
It is big 
enough to supply the population of 
greatest 
3] 
deeming it, as he said, an impérti-- 
ence that a béotrhaker. whom he 
did not know should invite him to’ — 
‘He afterward learned 
that the invitation’ was from ‘the » 
breakfast. 
famous Bishop Wilberforce of: Ox- 
ford, whose London ‘lodgings were ~ 
over the boot shop. The ‘prelate* — 
met him later and: was*greatly © : 
of hia mistake. 
amused when the explorer veld: him! 7 
