Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-07-25
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Anna Cora Mowatt, In a late London let
ter, says: %There was time when ladies
confined their passion for enamal chiefly To
jewelry, but infatuated fair ones of our day
are zealously laboring to make gems of theiI
own countenanees; the enameler presides
athpndreds of toilettes, andwould4be beatl-
ties lavish their gold upon Nine. Rachel and
her followers, in exchange tor alabastel
skins and blooming cheeks, bright eyes and
fulrowless faces. Happy the man who lwoos
u bride with complexion that does not
'come and go,' that Is ( come in the morn
ing and go away at night as the wits in the
School for Scandal phrase tia complexion
which 'her maid cannot fetch and carry
Happy. the lover whose kiss Of betrothal
pressed upon a lip that has a 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 outbloom the
roses and dim the lustre of the pearl-upon
eyes too phenomenally bright-lips too ru-
blous-hair too abundant and -sunshiny,
viii find more attraction in few natural
inperfectiOns, and Judge the genuineness
Of charms within by the absence OF those
which can be secured by art on the surface.
at chances that we have just received
froma reliable source full description of
Nm ,.jRachers skillful manipulations, and
you may be amused by this initiation into
the mysteries of that surface beauty now so
common among European ladies' I, f.,.s' l..i.
,@First among the beautiful appliances,
when awful beauty puts on all her charms,
comes the Vestris enamel-an elastic pig
ment which fills up all indentations of the
skin, pOckmarks, burrows, scars. 1t Is the
same color as the flesh, and yields to the
movement of the muscles. After being
carefully filed, wherever requisite the
whole face is washed with blanc de ptyies.--
A delicate powder, called bloom OF roses
is then applied in small quantities to the
cheeks. (Not the r0uge or carmine used by
actresses to neutralize the ghastly blue
glare cast up by the fOotlights) Next eye
color Is employed TO impart expression TO
the eyes. The eye color consists of three
preparations-the first to darken the eye
broWs, perfect their shape, and add to the
upper and lower lashes; the second TO re-
move crows feet; and the third, which Is |
peculiar blush powder, lightly laid on just
under the eye, to increase its apparent size |
and add brilliancy. Another preparation |
stains the lips and gums natural looking |
red, unnatural looking from its extreme
brightness, would be the more correct de-
scriDtion. A powerful dentifrice whitens
the teeth (and probably hastens their de-
cayl; the unsightly hairs growing out of
the moles and the unfeminine down shad-
ing the upper lip, are destroyed by depila-
tories; freckles and skin-stains are remOv-
ed by paste, which is said to decompose
them and form new scurf skin; tresses of
any shade receive the much-admired hay
color, or a golden hue, from Albanian
water or any darker tint, by the use of
some other halr-wash; and the nails are
rendered delicate, and induced TO grow In
the form required by nail-shields worn at
night. aiiruoa hrg 'fii ac rg
aWfll it be believed that in London one
sees hundreds otwomen-nos the unfortun-
ates of the demi monde, but ladies, well-bred,
well-dressed, highly educated ladies, of ir-
reprOaehable reputation, and moving in,
good society. who daily assume their enamel /
mask, with their garments" ..rrrs' E I