The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-16
Paint ana Powder for Man and Woman.

Respectfully and faithfully yours,
w. h. GLADSTONE.
Paint and Powder for Man and Woman.
| Tue altitude which Inc woman who
habitualiy paints and powders assumes
| toward herself, is all interesting point IN
psychological study. and we venture to
commend il to Mr.. Lewes as q subject for
one Oi the fOot-nOtes in his ''Probiems OF
Life and Mind" We suppose that, like
drinking, the addiction 10 cosmetics in
creases ny insensibie pr oportions. We
can imagine beauty OF sixteen tinging
her young lips Tor the first time with fear
and trembling. How brilliant the white
background Of the teeth looks in con-
trast with the deepened crimson of the
| laughing mouth. Far Is that complex
lou as magnolia-leaf, but here is Pro-
fessor Canker's Extracts Of Lilies" the
constituents OF which are purely vegeta-
table, and which sells at the Ridiculous
ly low rate of one dollar and u halt per
botLle. SO the poor little tool goes ON,
| pit-marking up her features. and then
making up her form, destroying the soft
bloom and tender outlines of youth,
miDoing along Broadway, mistaking the
1 glanees OF compassion and disgust, and
the oglings of impuuence for admiration
and eulogy. Ii giris line this understood
the contempt with which men regard
them; il they knew how utterly such re-
sources fail to awaken The admiration
desired, possibly the scale OF cosmetics
would cease, and we should have the op-
pUrtunity OF contemplating form, face
and hair as nature maue them. AS you
pass d0wu Broadway you see faces lite
rally blue from the chemical action of
paste and lotions. Perhaps the worst
symptom in the young girls who employ
n kp-nn ia tho iIuhIll n inUnuge 1uifu
hich tney brazen the tnlng out. AS you
| walk beside Lulu you can detect, Through
her veil, and without an eye-giass, the
powder hanging in pearly spangles ke-
meath her eyes ana on the contours OF her
cneeks. Ii your glanoes have any INTEL
ligenee, she knows that you see it, and
she remains biushless in The virtuous
consciousness that IL is there as means
of extorting admiration from manhood !
l. We acknowledge, with shame and con-
fusion 0f lace, that there are meI, young
and old, who DO no not disdain the use
OF cosmetics, Has not Tennyson himself
written a poem satIrizing tuis weakness
OF Bulwel's, and is moth ng to be said in
favor OF q practice 10 winch, Ii there is
truth in report, the author OF "kenelm
ChillinHly" was addIcted! At long in
tervals we have met with a woman iiber-
al enough 10 admit that men had as much
right as womCA to The rouge pot and
and powder-puif, and that if lie chose to
make his tace up no woman was justified
in banning him, 81 that he did 1t al It's
ticaLy. Now this is just the point we
are struggling tor i'll regard 10 The la
dies. We have no objection to their
soltening tint here, or deepening a
ploy TOO lavish hand. Oh, ladies,
liyhtly use the powder puff, be sure you
tinIsh when you've had enough. Come
not into our presence Win Inc odorile-
rous dust uron your forehead us thick
as dewulODS on David's sandals. Yes
terday afternoon my friend Verdict add
| walked. down broadway from tue
Fifth Avenue Hotel 10 Union Square
lnd back again. During that promenade
the only natural female we saw was
that OF poor sewing-giri SO badly
SCARED with the smallpox as to be be-
yond the redemption Oh the dermatoio-
| gist. Even the dOwagers wore eyebrows
preternaturaily arched, and the Spins-
ters (hOw easily they were of detection.)
| were hilarious with Bloom OF Youth. Is
there not something innately meretri-
cious in all these arts? Ii beauty has
Ihenlia on her tingertips, don't we expect
| TO find gehenna in her heart? / can't
tell. / only know that liquid carmine is
much prettier to me IN bottle than
Oh u cheek. Is the recklessness with
which an old belle plies sponge, and
pull, and pencil, Attributable solely to
habit2 You lind yourself wondering how
deep you would have to explore through
those various strata OF white and red
before you reach the tertiary period or
the pleoeene formation. You may de-
pend upon it that, long before she comes
down stairs and trgs,s her complexion
to the deceiving witcnery OF gasiight,
she has contemplated herself from vari-
Jus points. Of view, in hand-glass and
mirror, and calculates to hairs breath
the effects she wants to produce in each.
You may depend, too, that in the privacy
OF her own apartment she colors herseii,
Tor her own de.ectation, with much
greater viyidness than that which she
presumes to appear at the table d hote.
You may have seen her blush, but You
never seen her turn red and white " it'll
the facility which marks the fluctuations
OF her complexion when she is alone
with ner toiiette table. Narcissa adores
her shadow in the looking-glass. DON'T
tell me she doesn't paint ior the love OF
it. You might as we'll attempt to prove
that The Only cup drunkard cares Tor is
a butiereup.-TneA Arcadian.