Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-16
Suffering to Be Beautiful.
Pain Persons Endure for the Sake O
 Feet, Hair and Noses.

Pain Persons Endure for the Sake of Feet, Hair and Noses.
 From the London Daily NewRl The French say that we must suffer if we would be beautiful, and this appears to have been and to be the opinion of most peoples, | savage or civilized. Beginning with hair, we find that savage, like civilized. men and \ women will not let their hair foll@E its nat ural bent nor keep it's natural color. 1T never saw you wear your hair quite s& light es that, !" some one said to young lady Sete- ly when examining her portrait. The natives of the western Pacific wear their hair. nat urally dark, as light as they can by the aid of color obtained from burned lime. The Vene- tian ladies used to spread their locks in the sun to bleach them Science has provided the modern fair with different kinds of auri- comous fluid. As to shaving savages are often as particular about it as Stendhal. who shaved every morning during the retreat from Moscow. The discomforts of shaving the head with shell or sharp piece of flint have often been commented on. It Is neces- sary for a friend to sit on 8 savage's head when he is being shaved. Afterward he gets up and sits on his friends head. It is easy to imagine the joy of these children of na- ture when some bits of broken glass come in their way Then they enjoy what they think the luxury of a really easy shave. In some countries man, selfish man, compels the women to shave, while he indulges his vanity by wearing his own hair in a greasy but elaborate mop.
 The finger nails are not usually encouraged to grow more than nine or ten inches long, because of the practical inconvenience which attend this decorative arrangement. Chi nese ascetic, however, encourages his nails to extend themselves in variety of curly shapes, an indulgence which we should not grudge to a man whose comforts and amusements are cut down to the lowest figure, and who thinks that he is earning heaven by turning this life into hell Tattooing hurts dreadfully, es- peciaIly when people go in for having patterns in alto 7eLie0O on their arms, backs and be- soms When the whole body is converted into surface covered with spirals like pre- Raphaelite wall paper, the victim can only be supported by the appreciation of 8 strongly asthetic conscience. In some cases, of course, tattooing means no more than our custom of carrying visiting cards. The marks merely show to what family 8 lady or gentleman be- longs, and, on inspecting these, maiden at once knows whether any black fellow she meets is, for her, an eligible husband If their marks are the same they must not think of marrying. This arrangement prevents many ''disappointments." as girl knows at once when it would be hopeless for her to give away her heart. The nose, lips and ears have naturally been much decorated. The Australians and certain races on the north west coast of America used to wear such huge
 
 keep their mouths wide open to breathe In Peru the lobes of the ears used to hang down to the shoulders.
 While savages cut the nose, ears, lips, and other parts of the frame into various con- ventional designs, it is reserved for civiliza- ton, Chinese, Europeans and Americans, to attack the really useful organs. Thus sav- age may. chop of his little finger by way of proving that he has come to years of discre- ton, as the Mandans did, or he may have his front teeth knocked out for the same pur- pose is the manner of the Murri. But he will not ruin his chest or deform his feet. Only people who do not need to walk or run much wear tight boots and cultivate slender waists, though the practice descends from owners of carriages to the middle and lower classes. Mir. Flower (author of 8 book to which this article refers) gives ghastly wood- cuts of the Chinese woman's foot, and of it's skeleton. eDuring the first year of the binding the pain is so intense that the suffer- CT can do nothing but lie and cry and moan. For about two years the foot aches continual ly." Some of the toes usually come of with the bandages, which enables the fortunate patient to wear a smaller shoe than would otherwise have been possible. The Chinese woman's foot is almost exactly like draw ing of the Parisian lady's foot in a shoe, which is reprinted from an advertisement in an English paper, with wide circulation among women. Apparently, Parisian shoe makers wish English ladies to live up to Chi nese ideas. The toes of the golden lily,' or deformed ChAapse foot, touch the ground between the gnkat toe and the heel. The fashionable length is between three and half and four inches.
 But probably the Chinese do not tight lace. This is the greatest, most permanent, and most misshievous of modern fashionable de- formities. A glance at the waist of the Venus SO incorrectly attributed to the ehisel of the athlete Milo, and at the waist of any lady in picture of the fashions, will show that the modern woman's internal economy must be hopelessly disarranged. The shape of the skeleton is actually and absolutely reversed. The ribs of the human frame are narrow at the top, and expand downward. The ribs in the skeleton of tight laced woman are wide at the top, and contract as they descend Probably even more misery is caused by the absurdly contracted waist than by the ridicu- lous pointed and high-heeled boot. But all classes suffer from the cruel and extreme torture of the boot, {" in the modern conven- tional shape. Tight-lacing, after all, only affects women, and chiefly women who want to be fashionable. If we could only return to the round-toed shoon of Henry VIII < Lord Palmertson wore boots made on natural principles, and he was not quite social failure,