Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-22
BEAUTY MAKERS,

81 How to be beautiful" is the question
that has engrossed the feminine mind from
the earliest record of civilization. Indeed,
the subject ante,dates civilization, as saw
ages in every quarter of the globe testify.
Even females among the Hottentots, uni
versally conceded to BE the lowest beings
in the scale of humanity, deck themselves
hideously, with the desire and expectation
Of improving their personal appearance,
and all barbarians of the other sex do the
same thing. It must be admitted, too,
that, considering the disparity between
their intelligence and appliances, they sue
coed better in relieving natural defects
than do their enlightened sisters of Europe
and America. The Papuan and Comanche
maiden hardly fail more signally in
their rude attempts at self adornment than
do many of the would-be bellies of st. Ger.
main and Fifth avenue. Art is one thing
and artifciality Is another, but the mass OF
women on either side of the sea inter
mingle them inextricably. Trying to hide
nature instead Of aiding her, they are
driven upon the merely meretricious
They endeavor to make artiice supply the
place of taste, and are necessarily defeated
in their aims. 1t seems as if women were
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They have even ceased to attempt its con-
cealment. What used to be private has
now grown public. Iradesmen and trickS-
tiers continually advertise wares and ways
by which they pretend to beautify their
patrons. Circulars are issued to the
effect that they have opened elegant
private parlors for identifying pur-
poses, and womens custom is eagerly
bo1 20 he
beautiful can be had gratis on application;
the pamphlets containing, of course, list
of the articles which their issuers always
are applied by lady artists. constantly
in attendance. Every kind Of human hair
goods, such as Marie Antoinette switches,
Roman braids, Sarah Bernhardt waves,
chatelaines, projections, coquettes what
ever these may be--is unctiously men,
toned also cosmetics, including Eugenie's
Secret of Beauty, in three shades Velou-
tine face-powders, also in three shades
Creme Imperatrice and Creme d'Amondes,
for hands, neck and busts. Besides
these wonderful and-to masculine intel
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS things, liquid vegeta-
BILE face and lip rouge, warranted indelble,
Aurora or Golden Fluid for making hair
golden blonde Albumine, for producing
the new auburn shades, with other mar
velous decoctions, are paraded to begaile
feminine vanity out of its dollars. The
gilded bazaars that offer these seductive
beautifiers take pains to inform the petit
coated part of the public that they will
fad at all times polite salesladies at their
service. Circulars of this sort are no more
remarkable for photography than for good
taste. They show by their phraseology
the class of persons to whom they appeal.
Excessive vanity of person and want OF
breeding are the natural companions of
unculture and artifciality. Reckoning the
boundless facilities provided in this city
for the accomplishments of the person,
as the circulars put it, tits not strange that
so many women of the ordinary class are
induced into self-ugliication through hope
OF being made beautiful. IN. Y. Times.