The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-12-27

How Fashionable Ladies are Got Up.
Anna Cora Mowatt, in a late Lon
don letter, says:
There was time when ladies con-
fined their passion for enamel chiefly
to jewelry, but infatuated fair ones of
our day are zealously laboring to make
gems of their own countenances; the
enameler presides at hundreds of tot
lettes, and would be- beauties lavish
their gold upon Madame Rachel and
her followers, in exchange for alabas-
ter skins and blooming cheeks, bright
eyes and furrowless faces. Happy
the man who woos bride with a COM
plexion that does not come and go /"
that is, I" come in the morning and
go away at night" as the wits in the
school for scandal phrase it-a COM
plexion which her maid can not
fetch"
Happy the lover whose kiss of be-
trothal pressed upon the, lips that have
the hue of the strawberry, does not
taste of the druggists compound.
The time will come when the mascu-
line, looking with suspicion upon the
countenances that out bloom the rose,
and dim the lustre of the pearl-upon
eyes too phenominally bright, lips
too rubious, hair too abundant and
sunshiny-will find more attraction in
a few natural imperfections, and judge
the genuineness of charms within By
the absence of those which can be Sc
cured by art on the surface.
1t chances that we have just re-
ceived from reliable source a full de-
scription of Madame Rachels skillful
manipulation, and you may be amused
by this initiation into the mysteries
of that surface beauty now SO COM
mon among European ladies.
First among the beautiful appli-
ances, when awful beauty puts on all
her charms, comes the Vestries en-
amel-an elastic pigment which fills
up all indentations of the skin, peck
marks, burrows and scars. It is the
same color as the flesh, and yields to
the movement of the muscles.
After being carefully filed, where
ever requisite, the whole face is wash
ed with blanc de perles. A delicate
powder called bloom of roses" is
then applied in small quantities to
the cheeks. (Not the rouge or car
mine used by actresses to neutralize the
CHASTITY blue glare cast up by the foot
ights.) Next, eye color is used to
impart expression to the eye. The.
eye color consists of three prepara-
t;ons-the first to darken the eye
brows, perfect their shape, and add to
the upper and lower lashes; the
second to remove crows feet, and the
third, which is peculiar blush pow
der, lightly laid on just under the eye,
to increase its apparent brilliancy.
Another preparation stains the lips
and gums " natural-looking red.
mountaineering, from its extreme
brightness, would be the more correct
description. A powerful dentifrice
whitens the teeth land probably has
tens their decay; the unsightly hairs
growing out of the moles, and the un-
feminine down shading the upper lip,
are destroyed by depilatories; freckles
and skin stains are removed by paste,
which is said to compose them and
form new scurf skin; tresses of any
shade receive the much admired hay
color, or golden hue, from Albanian
water" or any darker tint by the use
of some other hair-wash; and the
nails are rendered delicate, and in
duced to grow in the form desired, by
nail shields worn at night.
-fWill it be believed that in London
one sees hundreds of women-not the
unfor tunates of the demi-monde" -
hut ladies, well bred, well dressed,
highly educated, ladies of irreproach-
able reputation, and moving in good
society. who daily assume their enamel
mask with their garments.