The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-08-24


A Dyed Musicale and Paper Collar.
Saratoga gorrespondsnce OF the New York
commercial Advertiser
A lady refused to be introduced to
a gentleman, last evening, at Con
gress Hall, and no amount of urging
could induce her TO change her mind.
what arc your reasons for not
wanting an introduction ~
" Because he wears a paper collar
and dyes his mustache, replied the
lady "and I never know n thorough
gentleman to do either"
The lady was very near the truth.
A dyed mustache is q foul thing--as
foul as cigar In the mouth OF
Venus; and q paper collar is an
evasion Of the laundry as culpable as
the lady's who chose colored crock
cry because It would not show dirt.
About dyeing the hair black; I
will also say word. Light hair
makes the eyes look brilliant by con-
trast. So, by and by, when the eye
becomes dimmed by age, God paints
the hair white, and the dimness of
the eye is unperceived. Look at
man or woman with dyed hair! The
eye ia as dead as that of q sleeping
OK. And still these silly people
think they are deceiving somebody
think that they are making them
selves look younger, when, in fact,
everybody with q particle of sense
discounts their foolish attempt at
deception Powdering the hair gives
the eyes an unn atural brilliancy,
hence it is frequently resorted to in
court circles IN Europe. But, as a
general thing, young gentlemen and
old ! don't try to improve on divinity.
God knows best what to do, and
when He silvers your hair with
white, or paints your mustache with
auburn, He has a purpose as grand
as Himself. Here is something 1
heard Mr.. Seward say once (you
know the ex-premier is the homeliest
man, except Gen. Sherman, in Amer
ica)A-well, old homely. handsome
Secretary Seward said: "The clean-
est man is the most comedy to look
upon; 80 battle vol, cat we'll and
love we'll, and, somehow, the home-
lest will DO beautiful" Now, it has
struck me thousand times that Mr..
Seward, who looks always go neat
and sweet is really q handsome mani
The cleanest man is the best man
| mean morally and physically too |!
How many young ladies-and now
! beg their pardons for saying it,
look beautiful at o distance, but when
you come close to them they have a
soiled look. The hair will look
greasy. Now there is no more ex-
cuse for putting grease on your hair
than there is for putting it on your
hands. You people, i say, who
grease your hair are just as barba-
rous as the Comanche Indian who
greases his face! A gentleman will
never fall in love with a soiled wo.
man. She must be sweet. Have
you mover, in so-callcd polite society,
met a young lady whose face would
be improved by good square wash
ing? Now, this is plain homely talk.
European court circles do more bath.
ing, ten to one, than tho bourqeoise.
Indeed, in Russian Moscow, where
you see the sweetest blonde women
in the world--they have four bath
houses, each as large as the Fifth
Avenue Hotel. Once daily, every
man and woman of patrician blood
plunges all over, head and all, under
pure. sparkling, rejuvenat,ng water.
This makes the hair light colorcd,
gives it a fleecy, airy appearance,
andgives to the homeliest something
of the angelic.
l beg pardon again for this plain
ta1k