The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-10-19
The Secret Of Beauty.

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The Secret Of Beauty.
In boyhood's thoughtless days, when
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 girls. Here, for
instance, is Harper's Bazaar, in which
party, otherwise unknown, by the name
| of Shaw announces the sscontinued
wonderful success of the Marguerite
Wave" The Marguerite Wave, we
are given to understand, ''forms 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 'swon-
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 a belief
that woman is hairless being, and that
the Marguerite Wave and the Invisible
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 "it 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 good deal in it, how
. ever, for we notice that a gentleman
:, who advertises sheath corset (for
! ! merly sanitary corset)" throws in 8
y skirt supporter and self-adjusting pads
= and calls it g three garments in one, ,
= adding that is sapproved by all physi
= Clans"
: If now we begin to ask ourselves
!. what are big girls made of, we are
y checked at once, because the only an
:, - swer we can give appalls us into silenc'
" at the start. We do not care much fOl
= the 'sDermatine," which is ''a SUR
- cure to move all wrinkles from thu
: : face," nor the s'Aurora," which ''wil
y bleach hair of any color fine colder
g blonde" for these are but the trap
=, pings and the suits of beauty. 1t i
~ when we come to ''that within whicl
y passeth show,'' the origin and struc
~ ture of which we have only vaguel
~ limited at, that the mind is involved il
~ tangle of speculations and doubts
= To lovely woman, the Marguerite Wav
=. may be, and doubtless is, an improve
re ment on the Invisible, and the Adjusts
r BILE Bosom Pad may conscientiously b
=. =, guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
Nc Nc in every respect, but man, though
10 coarse and material being, still chez
- ishes lingering spark Of sentimer
g; which he would be reluctant to see e.
~ tinguished. If only in imagination. b
a delights
N. To toy with Amaryllis in the shade,
Or with the tangles of Neara's hair,
he while he would hardly care to touch Il
er. tangles of Maera's Marguerite Wav
no And if at the climax of the interest
,er tie last new novel he should read
tn Angelina clasping her Edwin to b
ia Adjustable Bosom-Pad" (made
off cork, neatly covered and in perfe
no shape), we fear that he would forswe
re womankind forever, and enter q quit
IN honest Trappist Monastery, rather tn
Mt. lacerate his feelings again in any .
ri. tempt to solve the riddle, ;,"What are t
sxt big girls made of?''-St. Louis Gloi
ace Democrat.
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