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BEGINNING A SECOND PORTRAIT OF THE EMPRESS DOWAGER Putting the Characters Representing Her Majesty’s Titles and her Two Seals on the Portrait--Beginning the Small Portrait-- Toilette d’Intimité--“Hailo” and “Shadza”--The Palace Painters--Their Manner of Working--New Variety of Chrysanthemum--The “Peafowl Feather”--The Audience Hall Pianos--Her Majesty’s Ideas of Dancing.