Smyrna times., 1874-09-16

sleeping with your hair plastered with lime, or
something like it. | had rather paint the
faces"
"You enamel of course"
"Would you like to try2 | will do it for
you with pleasure" And white dressing
sack had fallen over my shoulders like down,
and madame was dipping a soft brush into a
yellOwish liquid that [ am free to confess smell
ed vilely of chemicals. 1t will smart at first,
she said, "but you will not mind that, per-
haps"
Smart should think it did. My face felt
on fire for five minutes, and then it seemed
glazed. | looked in the glass and nothing but
good Imitation OF eryslpelas met my eye. 1t
madame wanted revenge for my curiosity she
had it. If it was to save their health ladies
would think they could not endure the pain.
As it is to improve their beauty they arc only
too glad to bear it. Do you like yourself any
better nOW2"
If it had not been for that horrible glazed
feeling l confess | should have liked the
change YOu see such complcxions on dolls,
so soft, translucent but as country folks say,
| felt awfully " deathy." And the enamel OF
whatever it was would not wash off that day
nor the next, till it dissolved itself. had
rather have tan, freckles, and Sunburn all the
time than be enamelcd again.
Let us look at the hair we left bleching,
proposed madame, by way of diversion. We
found it Of haxen grayish hue and she sepa-
rated into two skeins, one of which in one
solution turned nut brown, while the other il
a second bath came out literally gilded. "Tha
is for fancy only" said madame " 1t is wei
it is not fashionable to have gildcd heads, To-
the process is very expensive. Have you seer
enough? Have you heard enough2 | have
nothing more TO show Only hope it ha
amused you. When you want to be electro
| plated come to me, and will gild you all over
only that will cost you 500, and it will be th
death of you beside.
Professors of the beautifying art whicl
makes rough complcxions smooth, efface
wrinkles, changes the hair FROM blonde t
golden and from gray to black, have alway
found their aid in request. Madame Racht
Felix and her sister ama>Sed wealth in LondO
by their trade in cosmetics, and might hav
rcaped fortunes if they had kept to legiGmat
business. The dealers in cosmetics, unlik
other trades, court publicity in guarded fasl
ion, and for this reason Their customers d
not wish to acknowledge their debts to ar
and would protest against the suspicion OF AZ
plying to any known hair-dyer or face ename
Ter. 1t is almost impossible to find hairdre
ser in New York who will own to any practic
in dying hair, and ii one should boldly adve
tlse the fact the best customers would be ver
: shy of being seen to enter that shop. SO til
cosmetic artist of reputation prefers to exten
her business by the free. masonry of her ellen
or by announcing her lotions without givr
, other clue than the post office box, or IL
agents where orders RAY be sent. CustOme
who apply for directions for using cosmetic
) receive the artists address, one person recou
} mends another, ladies who see the imprOv
+ mcnt of friend hair or complexion are n
: slow to inquire the cause, and women can keC
secrets on this one p )int, whether they are ab
| to on any other or not. Golden Hair Dye al
Bloom of Youth are things that will sell spi
of hard times, and whether people have brc;
, to eat or work to do, the dcyotce of the toll
must have her face-powder and false braid
| The maids in the kitchen use them and Iri
t relatives might be the better for the dola
t and pounds spent in jute and pink powdes