The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-03-01
No. 151l.
How Fashionable Ladies are Got
In Hf

Anna Cora Mowatt, in a late Lon
don letter, says:
There was time when ladies' CON
fined their passion for enamel chiefly
to iewelry, but infatuated fair ones Of
our own day are zealously laboring
to make gems Of their own counter
ances. The cnamelar presides at hun
dreds Of toilettes; and would be benu-
ties lavish their gold upon Nine. Ra-
chel, and her followers, in exchange
for alabaster skin and blooming cheeks,
bright eyes and futrowloss faces. --
Happy the mau who wooed bride
whose complexion does not "come and
60, that is, come in the morning. and
go away at night, or as the wits in
the School for Scandal phrase it-a
complexion which cher maid cannot
fetch and carry" Happy the lover
whose kiss Of bctrothal, pressed upon
lip that has the hue of the strawber
~, does not taste OF the druggists
compound The time will come when
the alarmed masculine, looking with
suspicion upon the countenances that
outbloom the rose, and dim the lustra
of the pearl-upon eyes too phenomi-
cally bright-upoh lips too rubyops--
HAIR too abundant and sunshiny, will
find more attractions in n few natural
imperfections, and Judge the genuine
ness of the charms within by the
absence of those which can be secured
by art on the surface.
1t chances that we have just received
from reliable source full descrip-
ton of Nine Rachels skillful manipu-
lation, and you may I've amused by this
initiation into the mysteries of that
surface beauty now 50 common among
European ladies.
First among the beautiful appliances
when awful beauty puts on all her
charms comes the Vcstris enamel--nn
elastic pigment which fills up all in
dentions of the skin, pockmarks, fur
rows, scars 1t is the same color as
the flesh and yields to the movement
Of the muscles After being carefully
filled, wherever requisite the whole
face is washed with blanc de perles.
A delicate powder, called 'bloome Of
rose" is then applied, in small quani-
ties, to the cheeks. (Not the rouge,
or carmine, used by actresses to neu-
tralize the CHASTITY blue glare cast up
by the footlights. Next, "eye color
Is employed to impait expression to
the eyes. The "eye color 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 crows feet; and the
third, which is peculiar blush pow
der, lightly laid on just under the eye,
to increase its apparent size and bril-
liancy. Another preparation stains
the lips and gums n "naturrl looking
red, unnatural looking from its ex-
treme brightness, would be the more
correct DESCRIPTION Powerful -denti-
frice whitens the teeth (and probably
hastens their decay;) the unsightly
hairs growing out of the moles, and
the unfeminine down shading the mp
per lip, are destroyed by dopilatories;
freckles and skin stains are removed
by paste which is said to decomposo
them, and form new scurf skin;
tresses OF any shade received 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 deli
cate, 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
unfortunate of the domi- mode, but Ia
dies wellbred, well dressed, highly
educated ladies, Of irreproachable
reputation, and moving in good
society, who daily assume their en-
amel masks with their garments