Morning journal and courier., 1881-10-13

From the London Daily News.l 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 l find that savage, like civilized, men and wo- 1 men will not let their hair follow it's natural bent nor keep it's natural color. q never saw you wear your hair quite so light as that, " some one said to young lady lately when examining her portrait. The natives of the Western Pacific wear their hair, naturally dark, as light as they can by the aid of lime obtained from burned color. The Venetian ladies used to spread their locks in the sun to bleach them.
 Science has provided the modern fair with different kinds of auricomous fluid. AS to shaving, savages are often as particular about it as Stendhal, who shaved every morning during the retreat from Moscow. The dis comforts of shaving the head with a shell or sharp piece of flint have often been commen- ted upon. It is necessary for friend to sit on savages 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 nature when some bits of broken glass come in their way. Then they enjoy
 what they think the luxury of really easy
 shave. In some countries man, selfish man,
 compels the women to shave, while he indul-
 ges his vanity by wearing bis own hair in a
 greasy but elaborate mop.
 .@eThe finger nails not usually encouraged
 to grow more than nine or ten inches long,
 because of the practical inconvenience which
 attend tn ere decorative arrangements A
 Chinese ascetic, however, encourages his nails
 to extend themselvts in variety of curly
 shapes, an indulgence which we should not
 grudge to man whose comforts and amuse-
 ments are cut down to the lowest figure, and
 who thinks that he is earning heaven by turn
 ing this life into hell. Tattooing hurts
 1S1IIr IL.
 having patterns in alto relieve on their arms,
 backs and bosoms. 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
 strongly aesthetic conscience. In some cases
 of course, tattooing means no more than our
 custom of carrying visiting cards.
 The marks merely show to what family
 lady or gentleman belongs, and, on inspect
 ing these, maiden at once knows whether any black fellows she meets is, for her, an eligible husband. If their marks are the same they must not think of marrying. This arrangement prevents many ''disappoint- ments,'' as girl knows at once when it would be hopeless for her to give away her heart
 Che nose, lips and ears have naturally been much decorated. The Australians and certain races on the northwest coast of America used to wear such huge bones in their noses that they were forced to 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 conven- tional designs, it is reserved for civilization, Chinese, European and American, to attack the really useful organs. Thus savage may chop off his little finger by way of proving that he has come to years of discretion, as the Mandans did, or he may have his front teeth knocked out for the same purpose, as is the manner of the Murri. But he will not ruin his chest or deform his feet Only peo- pie 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 book to which this article refers) gives ghastly wood dcuts of the Chinese woman's foot and of it's skeleton.
 During the first year of the binding the pain is so intense that the sufferer can do nothing but lie and cry and moan. For about two years the foot aches continually. Some of the toes usually come off with the banda ges, which enables the fortunate patient to W ear smaller shoe than would otherwise have been possible. The Chinese woman's foot is almost exactly like drawing of the Parisian lady's foot in shoe, which is re- printed from an advertisement in an English paper with wide circulation among women Apparently, Parisian shoemakers wish En- glish ladies to live up to Chinese ideas. The pOS7 GO1NNOA nese foot. touch the ground between the great 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 mischievous of modern fashionable de- formities. A glance at the waist of the Venus so incorrectly attributed to the chisel of the athlete Milo, and at the waist of any lady in a picture of the fashions, will show that the modern woman's internal economy must be deranged. The shape of the skele- ton 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-lace woman are wide at the top, and contract as they descend. Prob ably even more misery is caused by the ab- surdly contracted waist than by the ridicul- ous pointed and high-heeled boots But all classes suffer from ''the cruel and extreme torture of the boot, " in modern conventional shape. Tight-lacing, after all, only affects woman, and chiefly women who want to be If we could only return to the round toed shoes of Henry VIII. :! Lord wore boots made on natural principles, and he quite social failure