Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1891 — Augusta’s Beautiful Shoulders. [ARTICLE]

Augusta’s Beautiful Shoulders.

The Empress Augusta was famous in her younger days for her personal beauty and especially for her magnificent shoulders. In the later years of her life her beauty of feature had quite disappeared, but to the day of her death the wonderful shoulders remained the same. And court gossip tells the following story about it: The Empress has always been excessively proud of her beauty, and so, when the unkind years began to leave their trace upon her, she devised the most skillful aids from art. For her neck and shoulders—lndeed, for the entire upper body—she had a waxen covering made which perfectly simulated nature in coloring, texture and outline. This armor once assumed, she was never known to remoyo it, and indeed for many years the fact of its being the product of art was a matter of suspicion rather than actual knowledge. Ccr, tainty came about in this way. One pf the young woftien of the court of an experimental turn of mind slipped slyly up behind the august presence one day and gave just tho tiniest touch of a needle on the smooth white shoulders. The Empress did not stir. She pushed a little harder, still tho Empress did not wince, and court speculation was silenced forever.— N. Y. Sun.