The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-09-07
The Secret Of Beauty.

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we idly asked the question, What were
little girls made of? we were content to
be told that they were made of sugar
and spice and every thing nice. The
rhyme may hold good of little girls yet;
but, if we may judge by casual glance
at the advertisements which are insert
ed at very high price in the current
fashion journals, we are reluctantly
compelled to believe that much larger
assortment of materials is necessary for
the makeup of the big gitls. Here, for
instance, is HGrper'S BGzar, in which
party, otherwise unknown, by the name
of Shaw announces the "continued
wonderful success of the Marguerite
Wave" The Marguerite Wave, we
are given to understand, "forms a colt
fure for front and back, can be adjusted
without single hairpin, and will not
rip or tear; great improvement on the
Invisible"
Dealing with the material aspects of
the problem, we should say that almost
any thing that was visible would be an
improvement on the invisible, but we
are puzzled to know in what the "won-
derful success" of the Marguerite Wave
consists. If it is supposed to be a
success in deluding the male man
into the belief that it is not an
exotic, we would request Mr.. Shaw
to take in his sign. The result of the
sad experience of many years has been
to diffuse among the male sex belief
that woman is a hairless being, and that
Al h< Inv h
are wholly artificial products. OF
course, this is an error, but it is a
natural one, and has for its firm founda-
ton the fact that all the hair that en-
tiers into the makeup of young wom-
an is somebody else's hair.
Then it does not suggest "sugar and
spice and every thing nice " to read of
Sullivan's Adjustable Bosom Pad, ="
and we approach it with suspicion, al
though we are told that cit will not
break or get out of order" What it is
may be dimly inferred from the name.
We may add that it is made of thin
cork, is neatly covered and in perfect
shape; Mr.. Sullivan adds for us that it
"gives perfect satisfaction in every re-
spect." Then again the obtuseness of
the male mind intervenes to wonder in
what respects an adjustable bosom pad
may be expected to give perfect salts
faction, and what is the character of the
satisfaction to be derived from it.
There must be a good deal in it, how
ever, for we notice that a gentleman
who advertiseS q "health corset (for-
merly sanitary corseD" throws in a
skirt supporter and self-adjusting pads,
and calls it "three garments in One,"
adding that is approved by all physi-
cians.n
If now we begin to ask ourselves
what are big girls made of, we are
checked at once, because the only an
swer we can give appalls us into silence
at the start. We do not care much for
the "Dermatine, which is ga sure
cure to move all wrinkles from the
face" nor the "Aurora," which twill
bleach hair of any color fine golden
blonde" for these are but the trap
pings and the suits of beauty. 1t is
when we come to ''that within which
passeth show" the origin and struc-
ture of which we have only vaguely
limited at, that the mind is involved in
tangle of speculations and doubts.
To lovely woman, the Marguerite Wave
may be, and doubtless is, an improve
ment on the Invisible, and the Adjusta-
BILE Bosom Pad may conscientiously be
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
in every respect, but man, though a
coarse and material being, still cher
ishes lingering spark of sentiment
which he would be reluctant to see eX-
tinguished. If only in imagination, he
delights
To toy with AmarylIis in the shade,
Or with the tanSles of NeIra's hair,
while he would hardly care to touch the
tangles of Maera's Marguerite Wave.
And if at the climax CT the interest in
the last new novel he should read of
Angelina clasping her Edwin to her
Il" Adjustable Bosom-Pad (made of
cork, neatly covered and in perfect
shape), we fear that he would forswear
womankind forever, and enter quiet,
honest Trappist Monastery, rather than
lacerate his feelings again in any at
tempt to solve the riddle, r"What are the
big girls made of?'-iSt. Louis Globe
Democrat