, 1862-07-19
Female Face-Painting.

An elaborate essay on cosmetics tells us learn
ed thing or two as to the science of beauty Lord
Sandwich commended Catharne of Braganza for
painting well. Another compiler recommends oil
of tale to make a swarthy face smooth and white
as alabaster and oyerwhelms his fair clients with
compounds of rose-water, myrrh, camphor, sui
phur, birthstone, cuttlebone, and lemon juice, as
excellent whteners he instructs ladies who would
have curious blushing color, in the art of pro-
ducing artificial roses while he traitorously adyi
ses lovers to take their mistresses unaware, before
the paint box has played its part Not that he
thinks the lords of creation have any reason to
complain of the deceiying practices Of the other
SEX on the contrary, he sneers at those who
would make people believe that every touch of
color added to the cheeks is a semblance of hell
tie, an emblem of the never-dying worm. Nay,
more he gallantly defends the use of such arts as
may repair or add luster to the feminine beauty,
and wakes quite eloquent in the cause. The earth
is most pleasant and delicious when painted with
flowers of all colors, many of them having in
themselves tincture or paint which they commu-
nicate to us, as if they would have US use it. The
eastern skies never look so gay as when the sun
paints them with morning bushes, and Iris decks
the clouds with her bow of various colors, when
she sprinkles the ground with fertile showers
The fruit on the laden boughs blush with crimson
and vermilion. Though Nature is the elder art
is the younger sister, and may very well assist her
where she is wanting and deficient. To which
the admirers Of beauty unadorned might have re-
piled by asking, as Penn asked from his prison :;
Did Eve, Sarah, Susannah, and Elizabeth, use to
curl, powder, pomadom, patch, paint, and wear
false locks of strange colors? A correspondent
of the Spectator declares that women have at
tanned such exquisite skill, that give them but
tolerable pair of eyes to set up WITH and they will
make bosom, lips, cheeks and eyebrows by their
own industry. Having married one Of these very
clever damsels, he complains that in the morning
she looked hardly young enough to be the mother
of the beauty of the previous evening; and while
he threatens to return his bride upon her fathers
hands unless her portion is increased sufficiently
to compensate for her personal deficiency he in
qures if a man may not obtain a divorce when he
finds his wife is not the woman he intended to
marry.
ONLY MAN CAN SMILE" Nothing on earth
can smile but man." says Mr.. Beecher. And the
Hartford Times replies: Henry Ward, you're
right. Nothin'-nothin' on earth can smile but
man. Flowers have cups, but they can t crook
the elbow-they can't smile-that's what's the
matter. Birds also, can't come in neither, too.
They have beaks, but no beakers. What do they
care about juleps? Not a straw. Their only
idea of cocktail is a bunch Of feathers. No, a
smile is the 'prerogatiye of man'-of man, with
sixpence in his breeches pocket-or at least three
cents"
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