The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-04-01
GOSSIP ABOUT PRETTY GIRLS.
How They Endeavor to Make Them
selves More Attractive.

How They Endeavor to Make Them
selves More Attractive.
Every girl knows the value of beauty
and seeks to make herself as attractive
as possible, and strives hard to preserve
these attractive qualities, but artificial
devices only can conceal the ravages IT
time and dissipation. Still, without
true regard to the laws of health, even
the powder box, rouge pallet and pencil
prove shallow resource. In aiming to
please it is not always without pur-
pose beyond being considered charm
ing in social circles. Most young la
dies are given to understand from head
quarters that husbands and homes are
TO be won, with but themselves to offer,
and no paternal purse for bait.
While in many it is proper, even a
duty, to avail themselves of art, which
has been a salvation to those not abso-
lutely deformed, others show lack OF
good sense in interfering with nature
when she has showered extra favors.
The maid with spirituelle cast of feat
ures and complexion clogs the pores OF
her fair skin with paint, while the Wig
orous, plump, rosy beauty tortures her
digestive apparatus with acids and
chalks; each persists in possessing at
tributes foreign to her constitution.
Oh, the modus operandi is varied, in
teresting and edifying. A ruddy blonde
of Washington boulevard fastens her
tat little hands to the headboard on re-
tiring so as to reduce the supply OF
blood and produce the delicate COM
plexion of an invalid friend. To allow
the mouth to be open in sleep is simply
outrageous, so to assure an avoidance
many dainty miss woos Morpheus with
her lower jaw and head closely bound
with skate strap or garter. Anarrow
pillow placed virtically under the back
and between the shoulders encourages
perfect stature, so the good old boil
ster is consigned to the comfort of re-
tired bellies and beaux. Disregarding
the fair, fresh skin, classical mold, and
every law of proportion, and in defer
cnce to an arbitrary fashion, which can
not but prove fatal to beauty and
health, our wasp-waisted bellies claim
the necessity of slumber corsets to re-
tain their acme of shapeliness. Amask
of moist rye flour or coating of cold
cream is as regularly assumed as the
night robe, and the feminine head
drooped pillow-ward minus curl papers
or leads is exceptional Hot foot baths
are regular feature of the toilet, as
they tend to draw the blood from hands
and face.
Attentive mammas impress the neces-
sity of suppressing the animal nature
and allow little of any meat. The skin
is like piece of satin and has a grain,
and the daintiest feature of the toilet is
the preparation of the same. Each
side, beginning with the middle of the
forehead, is treated separately with &
soft handkerchief dipped in role glyc.
crime and then powdered. Every lady
desirous of social recognition knows the
value of an agreeable ensemble largely
dependent on harmonious drapery, be.
coming coiffure and stylish carriage.
Dame Nature may have made the ordi.
nary endowment of passably regular
features, intelligent or expressive eyes,
complexion not impervious to expo.
posure, dissipation or indigestion.
These qualities may pass muster, but
then the aim TO please is so much more
readily gratified by toning the unctious
condition Of countenance with a deli.
cate powder puff and shading with the
harmless burnt match the outline o1
eyebrow and lash.
The amenities of social intercourse
demand close attention and practice
from those who would please, and the
detail at present engrossing close in.
spection is the handling of the eyes and
goblet.
One who knows, or ought to know,
thus advises: Grasp the handle
of the cup with the thumb and
index finger, the latter thrust just
through against the thumb and the 9th
er fingers open and hold out any way
from the cup, save the second, which
should press against the side to steady
it. This gives graceful appearance
to the hand. In holding a goblet il
should be graspod by the thumb and the
two first fingers around the smallest
portion of the standard, between the
bowl and the bottom, throwing the last
two fingers out well. Get through this
ordeal successfully-no trifling matter
and your reputation is assured Chi
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