St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-31
BEAUTY BY THE BOX.
A Dealer in Cosmetics Reveals the Secrets of
His Art.
Illusions, Once Regarded as Sinful,
Now Generally Practiced.

Now Generally Practiced.
How Plain Women are Made Comely
and Beauty Heightened.
81 don't mind giving you point or two,
if you wont tell, said dealer in cosmetics,
as he led the GLOBE man to the back end
of his shop, and after winking one eye
twice in a confidential way, began to dis
close some of the dearest secrets of the Ia
dies toilet ''Here is youth and beauty in
simple and condensed FORMS" andhe threw
open show case filled with little fancy
pasteboard boxes, some round, some square,
and all delicately tinted and done up in It's
sue paper, fragrant with the most delicate
of perfume, and bearing little French labels.
''TheSe things don't look a bit attractive in
this form, but men go crazy over them when
they are properly exhibited. A man will
think he is charmed by some fair enchant-
ress, when all the time he has simply fallen
in love with bit of French powder. This
box is good for half a dozen men if prop
erly used. There is nothing the average
man will fall in love with quicker than a
little
FLESH-COLORED POWDER,
if put on the face of clever woman. But
they don't know it. There's the joke of it.
l laugh here all to myself sometimes when
I think of it, It's good joke Don't you
think so? He-he-he. A good joke. TO
fall in love with little pink and white
chalk and not know it. Tell them? l guess
not! It's none of my business to go telling
man. Look here, you fool, all that beauty
may be had at my shop for a thousandth
part of what that'n cost YOU Oh. no. 1
would not be telling you if you hadn't come
around asking me about it the way you did.
I'm in the ladies' confidence don't you see.
Now you think you can tell when a lady
paints, don't you?" he added, spinning a
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 them. They don't use
paint at all. They used to use rouge and
enamel, and such things, and everybody
could see it. To paint then ranked high up
in the category of sins, and there weren't
many who dared 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 wateI-colors. White powders were used
| first, and it was thought to be all right for
lady to put 'meen fun or starch on her
face to take the shine off," This led to
tinting, and now the identifying Of the
complexion has become science instead of
an art. They have powders now for every
complexion. and they are so delicately
| tinted that you can't discover them Oh the
face. The pure white powder showed very
plainly, and gave the face very CHASTITY
appearance. To correct this they tint the
powder SO as to make it exactly feSf-color.
They just dust it over the face and wipe it
off-Or rather in, with towel, and the
complexion looks very fresh-like roses and
spring time. Even young girls use it, though
l have heard it said-I would not like to
say it myself-that they look 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 has the most beaux in the ballroom
who applies the powder most cleverly. An
other thing, young ladies don't pc WIDER and
fix themselves up
FOR BALLS ONLY.
They are always powdered the street,
in the house, and at church. 1t would take
your breath away if l should tell you the
amount of these little delicately tinted
powders we SELL
'.Here's some brunette powder; it comes
in three shades, white, pink, and brunette"
and he handed the scribe box Of powder
that looked like orrisroOt. '"That's new
thing Since brunettes have come into
fashion, they have been opposed to using
these pink and white powders as it took
away the olive richness of their complexion,
so some Yankee compounder invented this.
1t is all the go. 1t just suits the brunette
complexion. Bye and bye presume they
will have several different shades. One
for the real, genuine strawberry blonde an
other for the timid tow-head, another for
light brown hair, blue eyes and pink cheeks,
and still another for the intermediate, and
SO on up to the nut-brOwn Spanish belle.
'sWait, don't 60 yet" he added archly
as the GLOBE man turned away. 81
haven't showed you all yet. 1 might as
well let you into all the secret. But don't
for the world tell anybody. There, that is
for the eyebrows. You see it has half
round point. When drawn across the place
where the eyebrows ought to be it makes a
mark just the right width and shape. They
come in all shades. And this little fine
pointed pencil is for making out veins in
the face after it has been powdered. It is
used to make veins in the temples and
ACROSS THE CHEEKS;
this is thought to be very pretty. They
come in different shades, according to the
depth the vein is desired to appear from
| the surface. Across an alabaster temple
| they would be clear blue; ON the swarthy
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| brownish tinge, like that
'sNow, here is thing that is rapidly
| making kissing questionable, and he held
| cOlored paste. ''This makes women stop
kissing altogether, except when both par
ties understand it, and then they just touch
their cheeks together. It's for the lips. 1t
makes them very tempting, but makes the
| girls very coy. If you find your sweetheart
| is very shy and bashful, and wont kiss you,
| depend upon it she has some of this on her
| lips.
| 1.-The world has greatly advanced in the
science Of cosmetics. There are no more
accidents now like there used to be. When
; they used pastes made of white lead some
| funny accidents happened on account of
| the sensitiveness of the lead to acids and
| the like. l once knew a lady who went to a
ball with her face fixed with some lead
preparation. During the evening her face
began to change color, getting first an ashy
pale, and finally dull lead color. While
She was chatting away to an admiring circle
of friends the transition took place. The
greatest CONSERVATION prevailed. They
| took her home at once and sent for doc
tor. but the trouble was soon discovered
The gas from the register had acted as an
acid upon the paste"
NADIA me Smoked 1t.
| From the Detroit Journal.