Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1866-12-15
HOW FASHIONABLE LADIES
ARD GOT Up.
Mrs. Anna Cora Mowatt Richie, in a

late London Letter, says:
"There was a time when ladies con
fined their passion for enamel chiefly to
iawelry, but infatuated fair ones of our
day are zealcu,ly laboring to make gems
Of their own c~ountenances the enameler
presides at hundreds Of toilets, and would
be beauties lavish their gold npon Nine,
Rachael and her followers, in exchange
for alabaster skins and blooming cheeks,
bright eyes and furrowless faces. Hap
Ply the man who woos a bride with a
complexion that does not come and GO
that is, come 10 the morning and go
away at night" as the wits in the School
for Sandal phrase it--a school which
" her maid cannot fetch and carry.n-
Happy the lover whose kiss of betrothal,
pressed apon a lip which has ;he hue of
the strawberry, does not taste Of the
druggists compound. The time will come
when the alarmed masculine, looking
with suspicion upon the countenances
that ont bloom the rose, and dim the lus-
tire Of the pearl-upon eyes too phenom-
enally bright, lips too ruhious, hair too
abundant and too sunshiny-will find
more attraction in a few natural imper-
fectious, and judge the genuincness of
charmswithin the absence Of those which
can be secured by art on the surface.
1t chances that we have Just received
from a reliable o u, ce a full description Of
Mad. Rachcl's skiIIfui manipulations, and
you may be amused by this initiation in
to the mysteries Of the surface beauty
now so common among European ladies'.
First among the beautiful appliances,
when awful beauty puts an end to all
her charms, comes the Vestries enamel
an elastic pigment which fills up all in
dentations in the skin, pockmarks, fur.
rows, scars. It is the same color of the
flesh, and yields to the movements of the
muscles. After being carefully filed
wherever requisite, the whole face is
washed with blanc de perles. A delicate
powder, called bloom Of roses y is then
applied in small quantities to the cheeks.
mot the rouge Or carmine used by &C
tresses to nentralize the gastly blue glare
cast up by the footlights.) Next, eve
color is employed to impast expression to
the eyes. The "eye color" consist of
three preparations-the first to darken
the eyebrows, perfect their shape, and
add to the upper and lower lashes the
second to remove crows feet, and the
third, which is a peculiar blush powder.
lightly laid on just under the eye, to in
crease its apparent size aud add brillian-
cy. Another preparation stains the lips
and gums a natural looking red, IN
natural locking, from its brightness, would
be the more correct description. & power.
ful dentrifice whitens the teeth.
and probably hastens tier decay, the IN
slightly hairs growing out Of the moles
and the upfemiuine down shading the
upper lip are destroyed by deliiitories
freckles and skin stains are removed by .
paste, which is said to deconpose them
and form a new scurf skin; tiesses OF
any shade receive the much admired baP
color, or a golden hue, from Albanian
water" or any darker tint, by the use Of
some other hair wash and the nails are
rendered delicate and induced to grow in
the form required by nail shields worn at
night.
Will it be believed that in London one
sees hundreds of women-not the unfor-
tnnate demi-monde, but ladies', well bred.
well dressed, highly educated, and ladies
of i~rieproachable reputation, and moving
in good society, who daily assume their
enamel mask with their garments.