Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1871-11-10
The Mysteries of IA MANS Toilet.

ern Journal thus defends her sex, an,
poured hot shot into the ranks Of the dan
dies "When you come right down to th
point, and talk about getting ones self VI
to look pretty, the men use quite as mucl
deception for that purpose as the women
and quite as much time and money. You
gentleman pays barber by the week tt
keep his hair and whiskers in order, and te
brush, and clean. and fix him up, and turn
him out in the morning, fit for his place o.
business, and al night presentable for the
evening and tailor by the year to keep
him well dressed And you just 60 to
these tailors, to the ''artist tailors," and see
what they will tell you, if you can persuade
them to tell, Of stay and corsets, padded
chest, shoulders. and even legs, to which
the "tiny mountains Of WIRE" which, per-
haps, some la5ies wear-although for my
own part, never saw such a thing-are
not circumstance.
| Men quite as often use cosmetics as. wo-
men. They wash in borax and lemon juice,
I use endless quantities of glycerine and sweet
oil-and can sell the girls secrets about
sleeping in kid gloves and poulticing hands
and face to make them white. Perhaps you
have not big brother. have, and big
cousin, both Of whom delight in looking as
irresistible as possible, and some Of the mys-
terles Of the toilet into which these same
lords of creation have initiated US girls
would astonish you. Why, bless you, we
didn't even know there was such thing as
"Pearltina" until they told us. "Most all
the students use it, says Cousin Tom; so
fair" And then brother Jack tells who
buys cosmetics at his drug store, and it is
not the girls.
| know Of certainty Of more men that
paint their faces than I do women-really
paint, pink, and white and you can't find
one lady in five hundred that does that
Almost every lady sometimes uses little
Innocent toilet powder, to counterfeit the ef-
feet of soap, aud makes no secret of it, but
that is very different thing from poison
paint Do you say it is only young clerks
and students that are SO vain? You are
mistaken. Vanity is not confined to class.
I have heard lady say, who for years
kept large boarding house for gentlemen,
and at different times numbered professional
men, railroad officials, insurance agents,
drummers, mechanics, etc., among her pat.
rons, nearly every toilet table was supplied
with paint, and she knew they used it. And
no harm in teither, only this universal paint
ing makes one almost fancy that "Civiliza-
TONS failure, and Caucasian played out"
like to see fair play. The men need
not blame the women for what they are con-
tinually doing themselves. could you
love man who pinched his feet?" I SHOULD
just like to see any girl find man who does
not wear boots full size too small for him.
Did you ever see mans bare foot wish
you could see brother Jacks. They look
about as much like lady's soft, white,
pretty, perfect shaped feet as they do like
mud turtles. Corns here, and dislocations
there, bunions on the joints, and the toes
piled up on top OF others, with the ends
turned under. And know by the sly talk
I hear between him and his chums about
ointments and corn plasters that he is not
an exception.
After making a few follies of the gentler
sex, their own, in an aggravated degree these
male bipeds asserts their manliness by chew
ing tobacco, smoking cigars, or worse,
nasty pipe, by staggering home several
times a week the worse for liquor, indulg-
ing in fast horses, betting at races, playing
at billiards, squandering their money gen
orally. And it is very little appreciation
the wives, mothers, daughters and sisters
get, FOR keeping themselves nice, pure,
dainty, and doing everything in their power
to make home pleasant and attractive for
them"