Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-04-02
A Fashionable Woman Upi
From Mesdamos woodruff a asain's

Weekly
We premise that a fashionable
woman in a state of nature is no more
than any other WOmsn-often not a
1.-THE as beautiful as many thousands
Of other wOmen-althOughshe does so
look like Juno and Hebe and Venus.
and the rest of the pretty gOddesses,
when she has put on her set-Ofs, and
goes blazing with jewels into society.
1T is dreadful for a bachelor to think
what humbugs these women are.
Here Is a lady Of questionable age
say tWenty-seven; she is in her morn
ing wrapper, although it is past high
noon, and she is going to a great eve
ming party. She looks into the glass,
and ices a yellow, brOW-Wrinkled,
dull eyed face; a mouth full Of gums,
and no teeth; mailing cheeks; thin,
dOleful hair; neck no more like the
Z" Tower of Lebanon than 1 like
Hercules, but thin, scraggy, and not
TO be named where beauty is. The
sight is anything but agreeable, and
the cost of remedying it is very ex-
pensive; and she wishes she were re-
ally the pretty, gay woman that she
Is taken for in the glare of the chan
deliers.
GOES TO THE TURKISH BATH.
But, as wishing avaiIs nothing, she
rings the bell, orders her carriage and
drives to the Turkish baths. Here
she is boiled for half an hour in steam,
and when we'll done she is dOuched
with cold water until her skin as
sumes something like the glow and
color of health. In an hOur-after
dressing and then drinking a cup of
coffee and smoking a cigarette, as she
lay at full length upon a tempting
sOfa-she resumes her seat in the car
rage and then drives to No. - Broad
way, where that handsome chirOpO-
dlsts store is, who enamels US so
beaudtully;" aud in q few minutes
she Is in the presence of this nice
young man, whom she halls of course
as an old and most intimate friend,
who knows her exteriOrs, even the
most sacred Of them, like a book. She
has come this time, as she informs
him, to be done thoroughly! 1t is
such a nuisance, she says, to be COM
PEELED to go through all that weary
process OF enameling once a week;
and so she has made up her mind to
have her face and bust done for six
months. Then there is a good deal of
chaftering about the price. Our hand
some c%hirOpOdist insists upon his full
fee of three hundred dollars. If the
lady had been pretty, why he would
have thrown of something for the
pleasure it would give him to make /
her still prettier; but as this particu-
lar lady is anything but gOOd-lOOking
he viii not abate a dime of his charge.
THE MAN WHO ENAMELs THE LADY.
So my lady agrees, and retires into
an elegant parlOr, where there are
long, large mirrors set into the walls.
with an easy chair opposite the
largest of them, and in a position
where the light is fullest. As there is
no need of any display of mOdesty in
this purely business affair, she IN
robes herself to the waist, regardless
of the gentleman artists presence:
and gets him to help her, first of all,
to weed out Of her productive skin the
5tubble of hair which has shot up
since the last wedding time, which
done, the supertiuOus hairs are
out by the roots; and then
she clips the soft hair around the tenn
pies and forehead, to give to the latter
an arched appearance, and, not being
quite satisfied with her handiWOrk,
she gets her gentleman, whose hands
drop with perfumes, to shave over the
parts where she has been with her
scissors.
NECK, ARMS, SHOULDERS AND BUST.
All being now ready, the serious
business begins. The artist applies a
very powerful magnifying glass to all
beauties Of her face, neck, arms.
shoulders, and-alack! alack! her
bust, also, down to the waist! If he
ind any hair there or gOssamer fuzz,
ne exercises it with washes, scans.
-iniments or tWeezers. Strange to
the artists hand very rarely
.rembles over his WOrk-he is not az
1tcted by any shOrtness of breath,
Daipitation of the heart or shiveriug
the nerves; and it seems to US that
ne must be a particularly enameled
himself, with a Cuticle as thick
Is a -rhInOscerOs' hide, or that he is a
wax man, and has no flesh and blood
n his composition. All being now
,eady, he begins to overlap the skin
hat nature gave to her with a skin of
MS own composing. He applies the
enamel to her yellow face, and then
% her bust. The enamel consists
of white lead or arsenic. made
n q semi-liquid paste. 1t requires a
rood deal OF skill to lay il on so that
I shall be smooth, and not wrinkled;
md two or three hours, and some
lines a much longer time, are con-
in makinga good job of it.
THREE HUNDRED DOLLAR JOB.
In this instance the lady was very
sxacting, for she had to pay three
hundred dollars for the artists work,
Ind it was a long time before she was
completely satisfied. But presently ,
he rose from her making-place in
III the glory of her regenerated body.
md looking into the glass she beheld ,
! vision of such surprising lO~veliness
compared with the old EOdy under
Heath the arsenic cutiCle-that she fell
Upon the artists neck and kissed him
n the exuberance Of her gratitude.
PLUMPERs FOR THE CHEEKS.
There yet remained, however, the
inishing touches and adjuncts of head
rear and cheek-gearl So down she
at again, and he, with his pigment of
indian ink and pencil of camel-hair,
her eyebrows divinely. Then
Ter cheeks were inlaid with "Dlump- :
rs" which she brought with her,
nd which cost her twenty-five dol
ars. They are made into pads, and
OmpOsed of a hard substance, which
Ombines various chemical materials. !
After the cheeks were thus made to 5
OOk like a girls cheeks, they were
armiDed with a vegetable LIQUID !
Ouge, laid on with q h3re's foot. The
male of the makeup, so far as the :
.akedness is concerned, is the adjust i
nent of the teeth, which, when per- =
actly set, give the mOUth,a luster as OF =
pals, and which q pair Of c~herry-ripe s
ed lips would increase vastly by the I
Ontrast they would present to the +
We. 9
'ATENT HEAVERs AS SHAM BOSOM.
My lady now dresses herself, and s
Nth a chuckle OF deep satisfaction, as G
he thinks Of the cOnquests she will 4
1ake in the evening in the glare Of
be lamps and wax candles and gas.
'ut her makeup is not yet half COM Z
lete. She has a bust as white as ala
aster, with shoulders and arms to
latch, and warranted to ''stand" I
rm for six months. II she does not
Ia before Of checked p~erspiration I
nd an unciean skin-for in all this :
me she must be debarreI from wash s
~ herself, and from the bath, which q
st. to most women, is 50 luXuriant II
pleasure. What, however, is the : !,
BOD of a white bust if there be no e