Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-10-02


steadily till six O'Clock in the morning,
when he goes home, not drunk, but in a
and generally befuddled |
condition, and drops into sleep which is
not naturai-an alcoholic sleep that comes
from the sheer inability of a not over-strong
constitution to bear any more stimulants
ard cigars for be it known, this gentle !
youth smokes the strongest Of cigars every
minute of the time that he is not in bed or
in the presence of decent women.
The young man about town. does not
confine himself to the three vices of alcohol,
tobacco and gambling. Not he. There is
not n woman of doubtful character in the
city who is unknown to him and he has
always one, ard generally more, mistresses,
who share his income with the faro-banks,
the liquor and cigar dealers.
He dies at something less than forty, as
rule, though if he lives beyond that age,
it is to wish that he had died before !; for
his death is not the ordinary dissolution.
II is breakup. The system, enfeebIed
by dissipation, kept alive by stimulants,
and drained by every known excess, comes
TO point where stimulants will no longer
act, for the tissues upon which they acted
are gone. There is not enough of the man
left for rum to take hold OF, and as rum has
kept the machine running for years, it is
really all there is of it. Then it breaks
and goes in a minute. There is no fuel for
the fire to take hold Of, and it dies.
Poor fellow 4 life that might have
blessed the world ended with not i good
deed to leave hehind-a career character
lied by nothing but lust and self-indul-
cence, and n death mOurned only by the
harpies who miaistered to his sins, their
regret being that he did not live long enough
to squander upon them his entire fortune.
There are forty thousand of these young
men in New York this day living the life l
have only in part described.
THE COSMETIC ARTIST.
If the young men Of New York are
given to one kind of dissipation, their sis
ters are to another. There are in the city
at least one hundred men ana women who
have amassed, or are amassing, large for
tunes by beautifying women. The cos
metic artist is generally lady whose an
tecedents are unknown. Where she comes
from 10 one knows, but she always pro-
hot nl VNYt
fair, Paris. She lives in quiet and Sc
verely respectable neighborhood, and no
sign advertises her calling, for no lady
would, for the world, be seen visiting a
known beautifier. She is admired by her
customers, and if she is skillful she has
enough of them.
What does she do? Look at the COM
plexiOns on Broadway, and there find your
answer A lady has good enough features,
but her complexion is bad. She would be
completely beautiful, 50 she goes to Madame
X. Madame seats her in chair, dips
n soft brush into 4 villainously smelling
liquid, and paints the face, the neck and
bust, and presto, the sunburn, tan, freckles,
or whatever may be the trouble, have dis
appeared, and in lieu thereof, there is a
complexion as clean, clear, soft and beauti-
full as the most eXacting could wish. This
is enameling. The preparation is min
eral paint that Stimulates the clearest flesh,
and it stays on several days without re-
pairs. The victim once enameled has TO
90 regularly for repairs, which gives
Madame mortgage on her purse. Un-
fortunately for the artist, the mineral gets
into the system, and the victim dies in a
few years of paralysis but as there is
new class of vain women born every year,
she never lacks customers.
The hair is another source of revenue to
the beautiiier. Does the lady want 10 con-
vert her black tresses into the yellow, now so
popular ? Nothing easier. The hair is
plastered with something about as pleasant
as lime, which must be kept on night and
day for week or so, which bleaChes it TO
the color required, the eyebrows being
similarly treated, that the effect may be
harmonious. True, this induces paralysis,
but where is the woman who would not
take the chances of paralysis for the en-
hancement of her beauty Is the forehead
too high ? Madame shaves the hair on the
forehead an inch or two, and applies liquid
which she makes, and fine fuzz grows.
This is shaved again and again till it gets
thick, and long enough to be arranged to
the taste of the wearer.
Women are not the only patrons of Ma
dame. Men write her from all parts of the
country for her preparations to make hair
grow and to change the color of hair.
They drive profitable trade, for woman
may 90 without sufficient underclothing
but she will have the means of beautifying
herself Bridget, in the kitchen, buys her
ten cents worth of white lead for her face,
and the mistress upstairs pays the cosmetic
artist $l.O0 for enameling but it is all 10
one end. One-haif the world lives on the
vanity and folly of the other half.
INTERPRETATIONS.
What happiness y week has passed by
and the papers have had nothing in them
of the Beecher-Tilton scandal Tilton's
last statement is acknowledged by every
one to be remarkable production, and it