The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-04-09
GOSSIP AsouT PRETTY GIRLS.
How They Endeavor to Make Them
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selves More Attractive.
Every girl knows the value of beauty
and seeks to make herself as attractive
rs possible, and strives hard TO preserve
these attractive qualities, but artificial
devices only can conceal the ravages .f
time and dissipation. Still, without
true regard to the laws of health, even
the powder box, rouge pallet and pencil
prove a shallow In aiming to
please it is not always without a pur-
pose beyond being considered charm
ing in social circles. Most young Ia
dies are given to understand from head
quarters that husbands and homes are
to be won, with but themselves to offer,
and no p%aternal purse for bait.
While in many it is proper. even a
duty, to avail themselves of art. which
has been 81 salvation 10 those not abso-
lutely deformed, others show lack of
good sense in interfering with nature
when she has showcred extra favors.
The maid with Il spirituelle cast of feat
nres and complexion clogs the pores of
her fair skin with paint, while the Wig
orons, plump, rosy beauty torturcs her
digestive apparatus with acids and
chalks; each persists in possessing at
tributes foreign to her constitution.
Oh the modus operandi is varied, in
tercsting and edifying. A ruddy blonde
Of Washington boulevard fastens her
fat little hands to the h~eadboard on re-
firing so as to reduce the supply of
blood and produce the delicate com
plcXion of an invalid friend. To allow
the mouth to be open in sleep is simply
outrageous, so to assure an avoidance
many a dainty miss woos Morpheus with
her lower jaw and head closely bound
with a skate strap or garter. Anarrow
pillow placed virtically under the back
and between the shoulders encourages
a perfect stature, so the good old boil
ster is consigned to the comfort of re-
tired bellies and bcaux. Disregarding
the fair, fresh skin, classical mold, and
every law of proportion, and in defer
cncc to an arbitrary fashion, which can
not but prove fatal to beauty and
health, u 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
dropped pillow-ward minus curl papers
or leads is exceptional. Hot foot baths
are a 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 a piece of satin and has a grain,
and the dainticst feature of the toilet is
the preparation of the same. Each
side, beginning with the middle of the
forehead, is treated separately with a
soft handkerchief dipped in role glyc-
crime and then powdered. Every lady
DESTROYS OF social recognition knows the
faite VI ph uSlCSiDlS CJiSClllDlc ldl StlN
dependent on harmonious drapery, be.
coming couture and stylish carriage.
Dame Nature may have made the ordi.
nary endowment of passably regular
features, intelligent or expressive eyes,
a complexion not impervious to expo
posure, dissipation or indigestion
These qualities may pass muster, bu
then the aim to please is so much NOR,
readily gratified by toning the unctiou.
condition of countcnance with a deli
cate powder puff and shading with tn,
harmless burnt match the outline O
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 anG
index finger, the latter thrust jus,
through against the thumb and the 9th.
or fingers open and hold out any way
from the cup, save the second, which
should press against the side to steady
it. This gives a graceful appearance
to the hand. In holding a goblet i
should be graspad by the thumb and tn.
two first fingers around the smallest
portion Of the standard. between the
bowl and the bottom, throwing the las
two fingers out well. Get through thi.
ordeal successfully-no tritling matter
and your reputation is assurcd.-G
cado Mail.