The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-08-09
Concerning the Mysteries of Fash
enable Reconstruction.

IuC ASH
enable Reconstruction.
We have heretofore referred to Mime. !
Rachel the celebrated Lohdoh artistic, who !
gives back to wrinkled and faded womeh |
the charms of youth and virgin freshness.
Anna Cora Mowatt, in a late London let
ter, describes the modus operandi of Ra-
chel as follows: #a
There was time when ladies confined
their passion for enamel chiefly TO iewelry
bit infatuated fair ones of our day are
zealously laboring to make gems of their
own countenances; the enameller presides
at hundreds of toilettes, and would-be
beauties lavish their gold upon Mine. Ra-
chel and her followers, in exchange for al
abaster skins and blooming cheeks, bright
eyes and furrowless faces. Happy the man
who woos a bride with complexion that
does not ''come and go"-that is, 'come in
the morning and go away at night, a" us the
wits in the School for Scandal phrase it
a complexion which her maid cannot fetch
and carry Happy the lover whose kiss of
betrothal press upon lip that has the 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 out
bloom the rose, and dim the luster of the
pearl upon eyes too phenomenally. 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 alb
sence of those which CAN be secured by art
on the surface.
1t chances that we have Just received,
| from reliable source. a full description
| of Mime. Rachel's skilful mainipulations,
and you may be amused by this initiation
into the mysteries of that surface beauty.
NOW SO common among European ladies.
First among the beautiful appliances,
when awful beauty puts on all her arms
comes the Vestris enamel-an elastic pig
ment which fills up all indentations Of the
skin, pockmarks. filrrows scars. 1t is the
same color as the flesh. and yields to the
movement of the muscles. After being
carefully filled in wherever requisite, wash
the whole face with blanc de perles. A del
cate powder called ''bloom ofroses' is then
applied in small quantities to the cheeks.
Not the rouge or. cafmine used by actres-
ses to neutralize the CHASTITY blue glare
east UP by the footlights. Next, "eye cob
or" is employed to impart expression to
the eyes. The s'eye colors consists of
three preparations-the first to darken the
eyebrows, perfect their shape and add to
the upper and lower lashes; the second to
remove crews feet; and the third, which
is peculiar blush powder. lightly laid on
Just under the eye. to increase its appar-
ent size and add brilliahcy. Another prep
aration stains the lips and gums ia ilatn-
raj looking red," unnatural looking, from
its extreme brightness, would be the more
correct description. A powerful 'dehtri-
! flee whitens the teeth, (and probably hast
ems their decay; the unsightly hairs grow
ing out of the moles and the .unfeminine
down shading the upper lip are destroyed
| by depilatories; freckles and skin Stains
are removed by paste, which is said to
fdecompose them and form, a. new schrf
skim tresses of any shade receive the
much admired hay color, or d golden hue
! from Albanian water or any darker tint,
| ny tle use VI soHe oLner Halr WASH; ana
| nails are rendered delicate, and Induced
to grow in the form required by nail
shields worn at hight.i ble 80. a<
j VIII it be believed that in London one
sees hundreds of women-hot the unfortu-
mates of the demi monde, but ladies, well
bred, we'll dressed, highly educated ladies,
of irreproaehable reputation, and moving
in good society. who daily assume their
ehaniel masks with their garments !. e.