Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-11-04

that their husbands pay them but little atten-
ton, and they have to go abroad to get what
satisfies them, aud this holds true to more coun-
tries than Italy. A celebrated person describes
a woman as thing that loves, and if no inJus-
tce is done her, she naturally cDgs to that
which first awakened her love. Gentlemen, if
YOU would have in your homes no heart but
YOURS, see that yours is always found at home ;
for. are you not aware of the saying "that ma
ture abhors a vacuuma" If your heart is away
from home, do not be surprised if another gets
into it. NY advice to you, gentlemen, is not to
try theixperiment. The Italians have general.
" darkAyes and hair, and blonde is regarded
as miracle of beauty Madame Gmchiola, the
mistress of the celebrated Lord Byron, was q
wbman.of great beauty, and when sixty years
6fNge, was run after by the young men of Paris,
who preferred speaking to her vastly to the
Young girls. In the North of Spain the style OF
beauty was plain and fair, but in the South,
where considerable Moorish blood was mixed
with the Spanish, dark eyes and complexion are
the rule. In Germany she had seen beautiful
blonde women who looked as clear and white
as snow tlankes. During youth different women
wear different characters-suoh as grave and
gay.
Woman should recollect that she has sum-
mer and spring, an autumn and winter. Like
the rose, she buds, she blooms, she fades, she
dies. When the freshness of youth is passed,
and a woman reaches thirty, she may be consi-
dered as at her meridian-a few short years,
and the sportive manner and the gay lively
laugh, must all be changed tor the tottering and
falterng step of old age 1t would be well for
woman to throw shadow over her charms
rather than to keep them in the light till they
decay Regarding dress, she said that for
youth to dress like old age was foolishness
rarely seen, but for old age to dress like youth
was not less frequent than ridiculous. When a
gay young girl dresses to charm, we say she is
doing so to accomplish her ends; but when O
wrinkled, naughty maiden attempts to make
conouests, it is absurd for all her rouge box will
not obliterate the wrinkles of age. She alluded
to cosmetics, and, as whole, condemned their
use. There were three ways of preserving the
complexion, and these were:-lst Temperance I;
I'd, Exercise; Sd, Cleanliness. 1st, Temperance.
This should be followed not only at the table,
but in what the world is pleased to term pleas
ures. Late hours should also be avoided. Let
us take q look at what is termed moderate
breakfast. There is coffee and hot rolls; bad
thing is this heated grease it produces bilious
ness, yellow hue, soon overspreads the skin.-
For dinner, there is generally well-peppered
soup, fish, meat (roasted, boiled and stewed,)
tarts, pies, creams, &c. Now how must the
constitution suffer in swallowing this melange.
How does the heated complexion without bear
witness to the combustion going on Within
Then beverage is taken to wash the dinner
down. Not water, but such poisonous drugs as
beer, ale, porter and champagne.
Let the, fashionable keep up this and late
hours, and the looking-glass will soon tell her
that we all fade. The once fair skin soon be-
comes loose, fiabbid and yellow. This is almost
invariably followed by padding, to give shape
where there is none. Then stays are used to
compress nature, not to speak of bustles and
hoops; but useless are they oil if dissipation
and late hours are continued, for they will wreck
the loveliest of female charms, and it is not in
the power of DR.. Esculapius himself to repair
the bark and make it sail the sea in gallant trim
again. 2. She would recommend gentle and
daily exercise in the open air, and believed that
it is to this the English ladies owe their world
renowned beauty. Nature, that great book
which never lies, tells US that it is necessary for
the growth and symmetry of the human form.
How many o rich lady would give $1,000 for
the full round arm, and the bloom Oh the cheek
of her kitchen maid and might she not have
the same charm by using the same means2 4.
Cleanliness was indispensable to maintain the
limbs in pliantness and the skin in softness and
the entire human frame in order. The tepld
bath should be frequently used, and by it the
body is kept free, and many beauty destroying
diseases averted. This fashion is growing all o.
yer the world. Nearly every person in every
city of Europe, excepting England, has in their
house one of these friends to the human frame.
Every lady should make her bath as indispensa-
BILE as her looking glass. While she was in Pa
ris every fashionable lady was in the habit OF
bathing in milk, so much SO that milk became
scarce for domestic use. But the Argus-eyed
Police found out that the milk-venders were in
the habit of buying back from the servants the
milk used in the bath, by their mistresses, and
vending it out to their customers to be used in
their tea and coffee.
She also stated that the ladies of Paris were
in the habit of putting their faces up with raw
beef at night to prevent the spelling Of their
complexion. What o sight it would be for
lover to behold his lady love with her face done
up like sandwich! But these things were not
for lovers to see, or even to hear The Spanish
women had smaller hands aud feet, and to keep
them so they would torture themselves with
bandages. They we're in the habit of sleeping
at night with their hands held up by pulleys to
make them white and they actually even car
ried leeches in box, and when an opportunity
occurred applied them to their hand, and thus
made it white and bloodess. The Eastern wo-
mans greatest beautfer is water and friction.
In German States, and particularly Bohemia,
young girls drink from arsenica springs to keep
them plump; but when once drank the water
has to be continued. 1t takes some women hall
q lifetime to find out that men will fiirt with
them, and still have no respect for them. 10 be
appreciated, woman must have merit and
fine mind and without them she will never COM
mand esteem. She had seen beauties in every
country in the world, but she knew of no cos
metic which could make female lovely with
out good heart and fine mind. 1t was this
spiritual feeling which gave expression to the
eyes, ,and light up the whole body as iii thought.
She never saw woman that was adorned by
these accomplishments, but what she at once
fell in love with her and the only sorrow she
had was, that she was not man that she could
marry her.
PERuous PRopERTY-A negro fisherman in
Norfolk, Va, came one day to his master and
said
"Massa, want to buy myself free-I got free
hundred dollars, sir; ! pay dat down and gso
you de rest when make 'unl."
"Very well, Tom" said his master, ''you have
been faithful fellow, and l will comply with
your wish"
The money was accordingly paid, and them
choats freedom of Tom commenced.
A few days afterwards Tom went out to fish
in company with fellow servant, and there
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