Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-05-16

he has simply fallen in love with a bit of
French powder. The box is good for half
dozen men if properly used. There is moth
ing the average man will fall In love with
quicker than little tlesh-c0!Ored powder, if
put on the face of clever woman. But they
don't know it. There's the joke oft. laugh
here all TO myself sometimes when L think
of it. . It's a good joke? Don't you think
so? A good joke. To fall in love with a
little
PINK AND WHITE
chalk and not know it. Tell them? guess
not! It's none Of my business to go telling
a man, Look here, you fool, all that beauty
may be had at my shop for thOusandth
part of what that will cost you Oh, no, l
would not be telling you if you hadn't come
around asking the way you did. I'm III the
ladies' confidence, don't YOU see. Now you
think you can tell when lady paints, don't
your he added, spinning little pink box
around between his fingers. well, maybe
you can. if she uses paint brush or trowel.
But they don't do that now. Not many OF
then. They don't use paint at all. They
used to use rouge and enamel, and such
things. and everybody could see it, To paint
them ranked high up in the category of sins,
and there weren't many who dared to do it,
Now nine out of ten women add an artificial
beauty to their complexion. Instead of the
old-fashiOned paint they use powder. They
are pastile sketches instead of water cOlOrs.
White powder was used first, and 1t was
thought to be all right for lady to put
'ueen fun or starch on her face to take the
shine off, This led to ti!Iting. and now the
beautifying of the complexion has
BECOME A SCIENCE
instead OF an art. They have powders now
for every complexion, and they are so dell
cately tinted that yOu can't discover them
on the face The pure white powder show
ed very PLAINLY, and gave the face ghastly
appeardnce To correct this they tint the
powder so as to make it exactly fleSb-cOlOred.
They Just dust il over the face and wipe II
Off-Or rather in-with towel, ard the COM
pleXiOn looks very fresh. ike roses ana
spring time. Even young girls Use II, though
Ihave heard il said Il would not like to say
it myself that they lock much sweeter
without it. But the fact is this artificial
softening of the complexion Is so common
that men don't know that it isn't natural;
Most of them don't see anything else and
wouldn't appreciate it if they did. The girl
plies the powder must cleverly. Another
thing. Young ladies don't powder and fix
themselves up for balls only. They are al
wayS powderCd-On the street, in the house
and at church. 1t would take YOUR breath
away if | should tell lou the amount of these
| little delicately tinted powders we Sell.
Here's some brunette powder: 1t comes
IN THREE SHADES
white, pink and brunette" and he handed
| the scribe a box of powder that looked Ike
ground OrriS root That's new thing.
Since brunetres have come into fashion they
have been opposed to using these pink and
white powders. as il took away the olive
richness of the complexion. by and oy
presume they will have several dlneren'
| shades-one for the real genuine strawberry
| blonde, another for the light brown hllr, blue
| ewes aud pink cheeks, and still another FOL
| the int rmediate, and so on up 10 the nul
| blowH SOanish belle. Wait; don't go yet,
| he added, as the reporter turnet away.
| haven't shown You all vet | might as vel
| let YOU into all the secrets. But don't, FOL
| the world, tell anybody. There. that Is FOL
| the eyebrows. You see II mas nan r3uIl.
| point. When drawn across the place where
/ the eyebrow ought to be il makes mari
| Just the right width and shape. They come
/ in all shades. And this little hne-polntet
pencil is for marking out veins IN the fac'
| after it has been powdered. 1t IS USED u
make VEINS IN tne temples anu dcIoco th'
| cheeks: this is thought to be very pretty
/ They come IN different shades, according u
the depth the vein is
| DESIRED TO APPEAR
| from the surface. Across an alabaster TEN
pie they would have a clear blue; on tn
| swarthy cheek of a brunette they w0ul'
have a brOwrish tingc. like that. Now her
| is thing that is rapidly making kissing un
fashionable;'' and he held up little wo0del
tube filled with a cOral-colored paste. "Ihl
makes women stop kissing altogether, excep
when both parties understand 1t, and the
they Just touch their cheeks together. IL
for the lips. 1t makes them very tempting
but makes the girls very coy. II you hn'
YOUR sweetheart is shy and bashful, an
won't kiss YOU. depend upon it, she has som
of this on her lips. The world has great
advanced in the science Of cosmetics. Ther
are no more accidents like there used to OK
once knew a lady who went to ball wit
her face fixed with some lead preparation
During the evening her face began b. chang
color getting an ashy pale, and finally
dull lead color. While sne was chattln
away gavly to an admiring circle Oi friend
the transition took place: The greatest COZ
sternation prevailed. They took her HON
at once and sent for doctor, but the trouol
was soon discovered. She gas from the res