Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-11-10
Selected Storm.
HOW 1 WAS ENAMELED.

selected St0rD.
HOW 1 WAS ENAMELED.
A Remarkable Confession for . wo-
man to Make.
From Mocre's Rural New Yorker.
BIZ MARY A. WAGER
I've kept the affair profound secret for
more than year, partly to see if / could,
and partly because I've no knack for story.
telling. 10 tell story, in fascinatinc
and profitable. (pecuniary) manner, the
narrator must place the gist, or kernel. far
enough away, 60 that distance will lend
enchantmsnt to the view, and approach
the secret by series of artistic and mean
dering paths.
So know I never was bern for a storv-
teller, as l like to have people walk
straight into the heart of the matter at
once; talk just IS fast as they can, leaving
out all superhuities, and never stopping
to breathe until the secret is unfolded
After that they can enlarge upon details at
their pleasure. But for this once, as /
have such thrilling and unique subject,
and every word of half of it as true as you
live. I'm going to make the most of it.
snd essay to narrate it in an artistic and
professional manner, and thereby estab-
lish q reputation that will be utterly preju-
diced to any and all other story-writers
who make the Rural New Yorker their
stage of action.
One rainy morning in the month of May.
while dallying over mutton-chops and frieA
potatoes at the breakfast table in nv
boarding house, and glancing at intervals
over the columns of the New York Herald,
which was regularly served at my right for
the benefit of my neighbor "a bachelor sea
captain. who was as wicked as he was gal.
lant), my eyes fell upon the following ad-
vertisement, which read aloud:
ssTo THE LADEN. Binaud takes infnite
delight In announcing to the ladies that
after great trouble and expense, he is pre-
pared to use in the most charming manner
the new French Enamel for beautifying the
complexion. This preparation is purely veg
etable, containing nothing deleterious TO the
skin, but au contrdire. softens beautifies and
renders il brilliant and remarkable. NJ. BIZ
maud also trims the eyebrows and eyelashcs
IN meet artistic manner. Ladies NAV feel
assured that all condolences will be regarded
with sacred homo Call upon or address
N. BINAUD, $3.50 Broadway.
A respectful silence ensued after finish
ed Then the hostess spoke: 'It must be
Il
see on the street; they look so like china
dolls"
81 think the Bloom OF Youth imrarts
that complexion" was announced by q
somewhat passive lady, who tried to speak
unconsciously. Perhaps shouldn't have
noted the consciousness, if Dinah hadn't
left her coal scuttie standing in the hall
one morning with refuse bottle in it.
haf he L
circulated at table, suppose we shall soon
have an ocular demonstration of its beauti.
flying effects, was the captains comment,
as he embraced his huge moustache with
his napkin.
Possibly, have been told that BARRIERS
and hair-dressers tempt their patrons with
bottled beauty, and that men, in addition
to having hair and moustaches artistically
trimmed, emerge divinely radiant, and ut
terly without wrinkle or blemish on their
manly faces" parried bright girl down
tSe table.
"Msdemoiselle be sarcrsfique." bowed a
F1enchman opposite. ''In Paris re ladies
be enameled for six months or year. In
deed, We hardly know what re true skeen
may be-"
''lt is wearing q mask indeed" vouch-
safed the captain. ''Such very comfort
able feeling must be produced by having
the skin held in restriction by the repeated
layers Of plaster of Paris But suppose
comfort or even cleanliness, is at dis
count with a woman if she is on the alert
for beauty. Ispeak truth do not?" ad-
dressing his last remark to me.
eff suppose you can," / replied, cal
though don't endorse all this tax about
white-wsshed faces. But this advertise
not only intimates and suggests, but really
confirms suspicious / have secretly har-
bored against women. would SO nue.,
like to knew if such advertising charlatans
are patronizsd by respectable women
II haven't doubt of it." blurted out
Auaximander, over the top of his Sun.
He had q way of saving things that set
tied all further questioning with timid
people. But was not settled so easily,
and if inwardly convinced, would not have
succumbed after hearing his remark. Some
people, You know, cause Us to run up the
dag of negation without our knowing why.
II We anaiyze the feeling, VIC sometimes
and it is because tLey have such an egotis-
tic assurance Of always being right in then
judgments and indiherences; and you feel
willing to spite yourself considerably in
Jrder to put . discount upon their asser.
ions
"You can easily satisfy yourself. !" he con-
tinued in that dreadful'y assured manner
of his. 'by calling at the establishment. y
t'Oh but couldn't do that should
want to be muf1ed and masked and 60 in
a clcse carriage and after dark at that,
upon which left the table, and the mat
ter was never again referred to, and like
the multitude of daily events that ripple
fI,o
OF my mind by the next morning.
1t might have been q week later; at all
events It was nearly June, and was saun-
tering along Broadway. 1t was hot
and was tired and oppressed with the Lam
guor of the spring days. and with that
sort of slcggish nervousness that succeeds
overwo-k, when would have given my
best dress TO have fallen straight into az
easy chair and have Mercy run her fingers
through my hair and brush and comb and
cool the tadgled, heated, and largely curl.
ing heap of it, that she called il
yellow, but which the boys said
vas nothing; only tow" But Mercy
ras up In Maine, where it was cold and
here she might that very moment have
tipped her fingers In snow to cool my eye
lids, had l been there.
"Hdir dressing IN oil its branches"
Ladies hair dressing a speciality"
made decision at once and followed
it into the establishment / didn't expect
to find Mercy's cool fingers or sympathetic
restfu1 touches; but was not so squeam-
ish - 10 be miserable with even great
man paving over my head, as the delight
of having my hair dressed is the chiefest
of sersuous enjoyment / mention this,
because it is an undisputed fact that peo.
pie so constituted possess an angelic dis
position; and IS it is the only evidence
have of being angelic, Of course am t<
be psrdoned for keeping it fresh in my
mind
Il was lazy time with the establish
nent evidently, for one lady only Wa
present and she was being finished OF In 9
little side room by the ''srtistic" member
of the staff, who was keen eyed, hard
sorcs. middle-aged fellow and had the 10
cial and perBuasive traits weE developed
ccording 10 Fowler and Wells
Alter seating myself in the 'stonsoriAl'
chair, tbs s.artisfic" member looked ms
over aud gave the attending barber some
directions how to proceed and arrange the
hair. and occasionally looked in upon the