The Richest Man's Wife

Of the wife of Li Hung Chang, millionaire of millionaires, a writer in Pearson's Weekly says: Marchioness Li is very beautif ui, and, compared with lier feliow-countrywomeii, an exeeedingly learned lady. Her age is more - possibly a great deal more - than 50, yet ehe looks 30, oreven less. The wife of the riehesc man in the world, she spends royally, although not without keeping a detailed account of her expenditures. In her magniflcent home on the banks of the Pei-Ho sho lives in great splendor, surrounded by song birds, peacocks, aquaria, potterv, gems and botánica] collections. One thousand attendants and servants answer her beek and cali. In her wardrobe are guarded 2.000 coats, 1,200 pairs of "trouserettes" and S00 fur robes, made from the finest skins. Her feet have been compressecl until thev are quite inefficiënt for the original purpose, and the marchioness is unable to walk more than a few y axds at a time. Twice a day she bathes in oil of orange and acacia blooms and afterward takes an airing in he coolie sedan. Finally she dresses her ha ir in 50 ways, eah more miraculous and a more perfect example of the coiffeur's art than the one that goes bef ore.