The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-05-30
FEMALE BEAUTY AND ORNAMENTS.

If there DO truth in the old adage that variety Is
charming, we think readers will find In these CLEAN
ngs Of the dversed style In which beauties Of different
nations adorn themselves subject Of oongtulaton that
the faint ideas females hanging of their heads
resembling bonnes and the outer skeleton Of cncicng
ribs with which they are surrounded favorable spec
mems compared to some OF those we are about to de-
scribe.
The ladies Of Japan gd their teeth and those Of the
indies paint them red The pearl Of teeth must be dyed
black to 20 beautiful In Guzurat. In Greenland the
women color their faces with blue and yellow However
fresh the complexion Of Muscovite may be- abe would
think herself very ugly If she pastered over with
paint The Chinese must have their feet dminutve
those OF the she goats and to render them thus their
youth passed In tortures In ancient Persia an aqune
often thought worthy of the crown and Ii there
any selection between two princes the people generally
went BY this criterion Of majesty The modern Persians
have strong avcrsion to red hair the Turks the
contrary warm admirers of 1t. Tho female Hotten
tot receives from the hand Of her lover not silk or
wreath Of flowers but warm entras and reeking trpe
to dress herself in enviable ornamental In China small
round red eyes are liked. and the girls continually
puckng their eyebrows that they may be thin and long
The Turkish dip gold brush in the tincture Of
black drug which they pass over their eyebrows. 1t Is
too visible by day but looks shiny by night They tnge
their nails with rose color. An African beauty must
have small eyes thick lips, largo fat nose and skin
beautifully black. The Emperor Of MonomotApa would
not change his amiable negress Il o most brilliant Eu
ropcan beauty An ornament tv appears us
perfectly unnecessary. The Pcruvans however think
otherWuc anu thcy nnn8 on IL welEnty ring, the
thickness Of which Is proportional by the rank Of their
husbands The custom Of boring it, ~ our ladies do
their land everybody elses very common In sew
c nations Through tho perforations are hung various
materials such green crystal gold sonss single
and sometimes great number Of gold rings In tho
south Sea islands polished fish bones the fashionable
pla ultra. This must be rather troublesome to them
in blowing their and the fact is some have In
formed that tho Indian and other ladies 30 adorned
perform this very useful operation.
The female head-dress carried In countries to
singular extravaganza The Chinese fair carries on her
head the figure Of certain bird Tho bird ID composed
Of copper Of god according to the quality of the per-
The wings, spread out, fall the front of the
headdress, and conceal the temples Tho tail long and
open forms beautiful tuft of feathers Tho beak
the top of the The neck ID fastened to tho body of
tho artificial animal by spring, that it may the more
freely play and trembe at the slightest motion.
The cxtmvsgancc Of the Myantses Ia far moro ridou-
ous than the above They carry their heads slight
board rather longer than foot and about six inches