The Republican journal., 1869-07-08


coated with fine enamel which is composed
Of arsenic, or white lead. or other ingredients
made into semi-paste, and pleasantly scent
ed. An ordinary coating Of enamel will en-
dure for day or two; hut to render the ope-
ration of any permanent effect, the coating
process has to be repeated twice a week for
varying periods, according to circumstances,
and the circumstances OF its owner The
penciling of the eyebrows, 50 as to render
the contrast between them and the whitened
face more striking is sometimes included in
the enameling process; while the eyebrow is
trimmed or shaven, just as is the mustache
in 4 man.
1t costs a good deal Of money to be we'll
enameled. The prices Of enamelng vary
but the average price-list of the various stages
is about as follows: For enameling the face
To last once or twice, from $40 to Sl5 for
enamclng face and but temporarily, from
a15 to 800; for enamelng the face to endure
one or two weeks, fscnI Si5 to S25; for en-
ameling the face and bust to last about the
same period, from S25 10 S35 for permanent
ly (this is for six months) keeping the face in
well-enameled condition, from 5000 to
$3.50, and for keeping the face and bust both
in the same pleasing state, from S4OO to 5000.
So that from its very cost alone enameling
should become fashionable.
''CHEEK" AND ITS ELEMENrs-PAINT AND
POISON
A pretty woman without pretty cheek is
like a peach without the bloom; and there is
really no reason why every female should not
have pretty cheek, for it is readily procured
and really costs but little Our Belle of the
Period can get whatever complexion she
wishes by the use Of liquid rouge, or vegeta-
BILE rouge, which can be bought for a few
shillings at any Of the stores and which is ap-
piled to the check through the medium of
wool, or flannel, or hare's foot, and which
gives one a delicious rosy red when not put
on too thick; or by using bismuth, applying
it carefully to the moistencd skin by means
of a sponge.
MOUTH AND LIrS--BOTH FALSE.
The dentist is here oftentmes brought into
requisition, and displays his skill in the manu-
facture of false teeth, which range in price
per SET anywhere from S25 upward to 5000
Some are set in gold. others in composition,
TO initiate the gums. The amount of false
teeth Worn in good society is far greater than
any suppose, save the dentists themselves.
Not only old women rejoice in them, but a
considerable percentage Of young women are
compelled, nolens yolens, to resort to them
The teeth of American women decay rapidly,
partly from neglect and partly from the use
of deleterious tooth washes so called, which
readily destroy the enamel of the teeth-con-
sequently, even q belle in her zenith is not
free from the suspicion Of false teeth
Two of our Fifth Avenue bellies, and one of
the prettiest young women on Twenty third
street, are indebted in this respect TO their
dentists. As for their lips, these are often
times painted for the occasion; and many a
fellow who thinks he has kissed a rosy lip has
merely kissed a lip that was we'll vermilione1
OF rosy-salved at the costs of % cents Tn
fortunately the mouth, so far as its absolute
size is concerned, can scarcely be got up to
order; if a Woman's mouth is large BY nature
art can do but little for it. So that the size of
a woman's mouth is one of the few realities
she carries about her, although she only car
ries this upon compulsion.
WHAT \ DENTIST CAN Do FOR CHEEK.
But the dentist is not confined in his opera
tions to the mouth alOne--he deals also with
the fashionable female cheek, which he often
times fills out from the inside bv means of
hard composite pads, which are placed firm
ly on each side of the female mouth, running
upward, and though very rough in themselves,
present the exterior view of plump, we'll
rounded cheek, which would otherwise seem
shriveled and sunken--so that if YOU kiss a
maiden's cheek, it would be Just as well 10
know the residence of the maden's dentist.
Those cheek pads are called '.plumpers, and
cost about 81.
II GRECIAN BEND AND ITS MoDi's orEgANEI.
Our nineteenth century New York belle,
however, is more than even pads and patent
beavers. She is 10 be regarded not only as
respects her bust, but as respects her bender.
The origin of the term Grccian, from the
erroneous idea that the Greek antique statu-
esque models of beauty inclined considerably
from the perpendicular, and the origin of the
bend itself at Saratoga in 1868, on the person
of two sisters of Fifth-avcnue extraction, are
too well-knoWn to require more than mere
mention in this place but it may not perhaps
be generally known that the fashion or rather
the deformity was carried to such length
of absurdity. that during the fall of that year
women named Clarke absolutely attempted
to open school for instruction in the modus
operandi of this ridiculous positions. that
young girls practced the Grecian bend for
days at their own homes, under the eyes of
their mothers, preparatory to appearing with
/ a tlrst-class bend on the street; and that an
apparatus was invented by one female fool,
and worn by hundreds Of her silly kidney,
by which apparatus, consisting of a strap
round the waist, drawn tight from the shoul-
ders In front, certain stoop was givento the
body. and the bend could be bended with
certainty and;precision This apparatus cost
s3, and came into pretty exten sive use.
THE ITALIAN HAND AND THE ARI>TOCRATIC
NAIL.
The Italian women Of high rank in the old
en- time painted the palms of their hands, so
as to produce delicate effect Our Ameri-
can women of the present day follow to some
extent their example, and not only paint their
hand but powder it. They also paint the
blue veins upon their delicate white skin, so
as to produce quite Il poetical and pleasing
effect. Cream paste is also applied to the
hands Blue penciling is done, and French
preparations of various kinds are restored to.
The nail also receives its share of attention
and is not onty regularly trimmed and clean
ed, but colored and rubbed with white
powder, applied with brush of soft leather.
THE CORSET AND THE WAIST.
OF course our fashionable belle has both of
these and the more she has of the former.
probably the less she has of the latter The
corset has great deal to do with the figure.
as everybody-even the unmarried man
knows Where great pressure on the corset
is desired-where the woman is very fieshy
and wishes to reduce her bust, or very proud
and wishes to reduce her waist, the whale
bones for the corset are replaced by steel.
And by regulator the pressure can be regu-
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