Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-04-13
4 FRE1oH ESTIMATE or Wo11Ex.
Chemical and Mechanical Aanalysis-Al-
phonss Karr's Views Of the Sex.

Chemical and Mechanical Aanalysis-AI
phonse Karr's Views Of the Sex
I wrote you the other dav something
about women. Having folded, sealed and
dispatched my letter, sat down in my
chair, following nv thoughts as a smoker
plays with the wreaths of smoke that rise
from his pipe, and I began to reflect upon
a very grave HaRtter-a little to be sure
but L thought of nevertheless It is no
longer question of dividing the other sex
into women and strong minded women.
[ ask myself seriously, are there really
any women +? Is woman real and living
being, Oris she a conventional creature,
imaginary. formed bythe fancy of poets
What is a woman In what consists
a woman What is a woman made Of ?
Is she simply Adams rib--One rib, dressed
up, adorned, like the trunks of trees ded-
icated to Irminsul, which the Gauls fes-
tooned with rich spoils, and then wor-
shipped
Is there anything real in woman
Let us open a eWspaper-anyWher
and read the advertisements
Here is what a perfumer says, and what
he offers
q Bloom of Roses, to color the lips and
the nails.' All that opal tint of the
nails, that carnation of the lips, are not
true-do not belong naturally to women
They are sOld-theY are bought.
Z" Ponder to whiten the teeth" Has
woman, then, naturally yellow teeth
Or rather, has woman really teeth at all ?
ments of dentists, who, to be able to afford
them, ought to sell great many false
teeth.
To return to the perfumer
g CjrcdSSiOa Black to give the velvet
luster to the eyes" All, those black, vel
vety eyes, which so passionately pierce the
heart, are not true-they are artificial!
q BLJte A[yOSOttS, to initiate the veins.'
Goodness they have not. even veins Of
their own, nor blood. Veins are blood
all are fictitious, and bought at a shop.
g Imperial Chalk. Clear blonde, warm
blonde, chestnut brown and black, for the
eyeiashes and eyebrows" They sell
women eYelashes and eyebrows, too.
Let us have done with the perfumer he
is OdiOus. But stop. Here he announces a
certain toilette water, NyHaphie1le. 1t is
horrible, meretricious, shameful. Enough
Of this.
All here is a mrntua maker who tells
US what gives elegance, grace and supple
ness of gait-it is the waist which she
makes So much suppleness, grace, ele-
gance 1t is the mantua maker who
furnishes them. Those who have not the
means of buying grace, suppleness and
elegance, must do without them.
Ask the women themselves. Each will
acknowledge that all the others wear false
hair. Some viii confess that they wear 1t
themselves.
No hair, no eyelashes, no eyebrows, no
white teeth, no ruby lips, no rosy nails,
no velvety eyes, no veins, no blood, no
suppleness, no elegance, no grace, without
opening the purse. Women buy all these
things of shopkeepers.
Contrary to the way Of other traders,
woman buys herself at retail and sells
herself at wholesale.
But is it not to be feared that some day,
man, finding that she would make too
much by the operation, may make prOvis-
ion for himself, and buy at first hands all
the minute details-grace, eyelashes, ele-
gance, ruby lips, veins, hair, opal, nails,
etc, etc.,-mix them according to art,
nlicedt SecUndatn1 drtent as the physicians
haveit, NJ. S. A., then adorn his mixture
and do without the rest.