The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-12-31
0ueeklp Gimes
DECEMBER 81, 1874,
Broadway Beauty.

care is chiefly employed In order to Sc
cure the approval OF the men. We have
heard this artless confession made many
times. and are willing to accept IT IN the
GOOD faith in which il is offered. When
man sees woman deliberately and exPen-
siyely dressed-for the present We leave
GOOD taste out OF the question-ieading
.a,-,.el life according 10 It. Worth, he ex-
,..riences a certain feeling OF gratihcalon
upon learning that all the extravaganza mas
been committed solely upon his own ac-
count. The only proviso Is that he ~ not
expected TO paw the bills, when, in addition
to a gorgeous toilet, he perceives that the
woman who has attracted his eye, has
washed her face with Oriental cream, tint
ed her lips and cheeks, and possibly the
lobes OF her ears. with carmine, has pen
ciIled her eyebrows and dyed her eyelashes,
has possibly swallowed some OF Fowlers So
luton for her complexion, and employed
belladonna to lend brilliancy 10 her eyes,
and finally, with aureated tincture has
turned yellow hair which erring nature
made. blaos: when he beholds all these lat
est improvements introduced into the trail
tenement-that French flat-which the soul
of ordinary womanhood usually inhabits,
and when he is informed that all this Is
done for his sole DEDICATION, is he not bound
by every tie Of honor, to feel particular
thrills OF gratitude, and to proclaim this
thing of paints and paddings the most I'M
selfish OF her sex?
1t is to be feared that the majority Of
men are not given TO such amiable emo
,ions as these. We do not incontinently fall
down and .worship those who take too much
pains 10 please Our alteration is little
more intense when we are trifie snubbed
and disregarded. ii Won want TO know the
opinion Of the average male pedestrian
along Broadway respecting the average girl
or woman who promenades there, keep your
ears opSl and walk slowly along that
thorouglsare for 4 couple Of hours every fine
afternoon. You will hear sarcasm, bitter
testing and scurrility; but not particle of
gratitude or appreciation. The fact is that
men do not appreciate powder and paint.
They forgive them when they are artistical-
w applied, 20 as to conceal or obscure the
sallowness and wrinkles which are poetical-
w generalizeG a. thc "ravacas OF time"
Men NAV even .crbear harsh criticisms
when these aids To beauty are meagrely EN-
ployed by some young Calypso who has not
yet learned to place full confidence in that
wealth OF face with which nature has gifted |
her. But no man, unless he be an extraor-
binary great fool, condones that lavish APP
plication OF Lubin and Goursud which top |
dresses the feature with an aromatic al |
luvium. The reason that Hebe is 80 very |
sweet is that the shadow of a rose is on |
her cheek, and no paint is on her lips. |
Psyche would cease 10 be perennially charm |
ing if she once made up her eyebrows, or
bought the color OF her hair at an apothe-
carys. How different from the Aldabella of |
to-day, whose only charms are those of her
Aldabella, like Janus, is
but, unlike that divinity,
never shows both faces at once One is
known only to herself, her Maker, and her
night-cap; the other is evolved, for the ad-
miration Of the world, from various little
bottles Aldabella keeps under lock and KEY.
Ii the mouth OF one Of these bottles could
speak, what tale it would have to tell,
The attitude which the woman who
habitually paints and powders assumes to-
ward herself, is an interesting point in psy-
Geological study, and We venture to COM
mend it to Mr.. Lewes as a subject for one
Of his foot-notes in his problems of Life
and Mind" We suppose that, like drink
ing, the addiction 10 cosmetics increases BY
insensible proportions We can imagine
the beauty of sixteen tingeing her young
lips for the first time with fear and tremb-
ling. How brilliant the white background
II the teeth looks in contrast with the deep
ened crimson of the laughing mouth Fair
IS that complexion As 4 magnolia-leaf, but
here is Professor Canker's Extract Of
Lilies" the constituents OF which are purely
vegetable, and which sales at the ridicul-
Dusly low rate Of one dollar and half per
bottle. So the poor little fool goes on, pit
marking up her features, then making up
her form, destroying the soft bloom and ten
Ter outlines OF youth, mincing along Broad
way, installing the glances of compassion
md disgust, and the oglings OF impudence
or admiration and eulogy Ii girls like
his understood the contempt with which
men regard them; if they knew how utterly
uch resources fail TO awaken the admira-
ion desired, possibly the sale OF cosmetics
would cease, and We should have the OPP
'Ortunity OF contemplating form; face and
iair as nature made them. As You pass
Town Broadway you see faces literally blue
rom the chemical action of pastes and To-
ions. Perhaps the worst symptom in the
'oung girls who employ makeup, is the I'M
,lnshingness with which they brazen the
hing out. As YOU walk beside Lulu YOU
an detect, through her veil, and without an
ye-glass, the powder hanging in pearly
pangles beneath her ewes and on the con-
our Of her cheeks. Ii your glances have
NV intelligence. she knows that Won see If
md she remains blushless in the virtuous
that il is there as a means OF
xtorting admiration from manhood,
We acknowledge with shame and confu-
ion of face. that there are men. Young and
Id, who do not disdain the Use of cosmet-
c. Has not Tennyson himself written a
'oem satirizing this weakness OF Bulwers.
nd is nothing to be said in favor OF a prac-
ice TO which, If there is anv truth in report.
he author of "Kenelm ChiIlingly- was ad-
icted? At long intervals we have me,
nth a woman liberal enough 10 admit that
nen had As much right as women TO the
ouge-pot and powder-puff, and that if a
lale chose TO make his face up. no woman
las justified in blaming him. SO that he did
artistically. Now, this is lust the point
Re are struggling for in regard 10 the Ia
les. We have no objection TO their soft
ming a tint here or deepening a shadow
here, provided they do not employ a too
wish hand. o. ladies. lightly use the
owder-puff, be sure YOU finish when you've
ad enough Come not into our presence
18th the odoriferous dust upon YOUR fore
cad as thick as dew-drops ON David's san
ais. Yesterday afternoon, NV friend Yer
let and walked down Broadway from
no Fifth Avapua Ho,J 20 I-n; Sl