Smyrna times., 1871-11-01
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The Mysteries of a Mans Toilet.

A girl of the ''Period," writing to northern
Journal thus defends her SEX and pours red
hot shot into the ranks of the dandies: 'When
you come right down to the point, and talk
about getting one self up to look pretty, the
men use quite as much deception for that pur-
pose as the women, and quite as much time
and money. Your gentleman pays barber by
the week to keep his hair and whiskers in
order, and to brush, and clean, and fix him up,
and turn him out in the morning, fit for his
place of business, and at night presentable for
the evening and tailor by the year to keep
him well dressed. And you just go to these
tallors, to the " artist tailors," and see what
they will tell you, if you can persuade them to
tell, OF stays and corsetS, padded chest, should
ers and even legs, to which the g. tiny noun
talns of wire, which, perhaps, some ladies
wear-althOugh for my own part | never saw
such thing-are not circumstance.
Men quite as often use cosmetics as women.
They wash in b0rax and lemon juice, use end
less quantities of glycerine and sweet oil-and
can tell the girls secrets about sleeping in kid
gloves and pOulticing hands and face to make
them white. Perhaps you have not a big
brother. | have, and big cousin, both OF
whom delight in looking as irresistible as pos
Slble, and some OF the mysteries 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; cant get along without it, it makes
| them 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 l 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 a little innocent toilet
powder, to cOunteract the effect of soap, and
makes no secret of it, but that is very DIFF
| terent thing from poison paint Do you say it
Is only young clerks and students that are so
vain? You are mistaken. Vanity is not con-
| fined to class. have heard a lady say, who
| for years kept large boarding house for gen.
men, and at different times numbered rrofes-
sional men, railroad officials, insurance agents,
drummers, mechanics, ETC., among her patrons,
nearly every toilet table was supplied with
paint, and she knew they used it. And no
harm In it either, only this universal painting
makes one almost fancy that Civilizations a
failure, and Caucasian played out. "
L like to see fair play. The men need not
blame the women for what they are continually
doing themselves. Gould you love a man
who pinched his feet?" | should just like to
see any girl find a man who does not wear boots
d Aui clHO lOO SDdll lUI Dlu yOu ever see
mans bare foot? l wish you could see
brother Jack 5. They look about as much like
a lady's soft, white pretty, perfect-shaped feet
as they do like mud-turtles Corns here, and
dislOcatioDs 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 l hear between him and his chums about
ointment and corn plasters that he is not an
exception.
After making the few foies of the genter
sex their own, in an aggravated degree these
male bipeds assert their manliness by chewing
tobacco, smoking cigars, or worse, a nasty pipe,
by staggering home several times a week the
worse for liquor, indulging in fast horses, bett-
ting atraces, play ing at billiards and squandering
their money generally. And it is very little
appreciation the wives, mothers, daughters,
and sisters get, for keeping themselves nice,
pure, dainty, and for doing everything in their
power to make home pleasant and attractive
for them"