St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-19
ARTIFICIAL BEAUTY.
Bellies Who Aid Nature In Making
Themselves Attractive.
Secret Processes By Which Artificial
Beauty is Made Permanent.

Minneapolis has long been noted for the
beauty of complexion of her charming
daughters. Visitors notice it and drum
mers go elsewhere and rave over it. 1t is
not peculiar to the maidens of Minneapolis,
but it is the common gift of most Mime
sOtiennes and is breathed in of the fresh,
free air Of this favored cline. There are
compilations of such dazzling beauty as
defy all influences except that of ill health
and are impervious to soap and water;
they CLEAN with the rose and glow with the
lily and fiaunt the banner of health in car
nation triumph. And there are other COM
plexions, born also of the lily and the
rose-the lily of the tear-drop
and the rose of rouge, but
such are foreign to Minneapolis. A fine,
elements of beauty and the possessor of
such can scarcely be homely; yet complex
ion alone cannot make beauty. Beauty is
not the regularity of feature alone, but lies
largely in the harmony Of the features; it
is not the color of the eye but it's depth
and brilliancy; it is the gloss of the hair,
not it's shade, and it is in the piquancy of
feature arrangement, and the tinting
of the complexion to harmonic the
whole. Nature rarely errs in her choice
of color, though she sometimes shows
beautiful and startling contrasts. A bright
blue eye will often look out from a gypsy
face and a soft black orb frequently &C
companies brilliant fairness of complex
ion and lightness of hair. Nature produces
oddities in her way, but they are not start
ling and are usually considered beautiful
No matter how fair the hair may be,
mark of beauty is the dark, penciled eye
brOws, while dark, curling lashes are
beauty's sine qua non. One other feature
there is that is often considered indispen-
sable to beauty-the alluring, seductive
diTiple. In the matter of dimples nature
is very capricious and bestOWs them with
an eccentric hand, much to the regret of
many fair Ones who lack none else of
beauty's charms.
From the day scissors first trimmed, and
razor cut hair and beard, art has come to
the aid of nature in enhancing beauty. but
it remained for latterday art to create
beauty. 1t is saying nothing disparaging
to Minneapolis beauties to give out the in
formation that many of our most fascnat-
ing bellies employ more or less art in their
personal make up. But they do
net monopolize this process by any
means, though they carry it to
greater extent. Barber shops could many
a tale unfold in convention chapters of
dyed mustaches and powdered chins. but
the story would probably end there, while
our fair sisters, could their mysteries be
explored would more interesting state of
affairs reveal. AT least one physician in
Minneapolis derives thriving business in
removing delicate HustacheS from above
ruby lips. Olive-skinned beauties are too
prone to this d0wny growth, and tweezers
are tried in vain to remove the ornament
many dude WOnld envy This physician
has a process by which the follicle is
destroyed and the hair killed. A needle,
attached to a powerful electric battery, is
inserted through the pore into the fOllcle
and the root of the hair is destroyed. The
process is free from pain, and though nee
eSSarily slow, is sure. So that now a mus
tache is decidedly Outre. MOles are re-
moved by a process somewhat similar,
though, after the diScoloratiOn has been re-
moved, the spot must be covered up and
piece of skin neatly grated on to avoid the
scar.
81 know of no process" said lady manip-
ulator yesterday by which the eyebrow can
be successfully darkened. 1t may be colored,
place the eyebrow with new one, and the
process is q very delicate and painful one.
The light eyebrow is cut Off, and the neatly
pencied dark one is grated on. To my mind
it is disgusting"
Dark, curling eyelashes are inserted very
neatly. The former lash is extracted and
the new one deity inserted in the hole
where it becomes permanently fixed A
Third avenue belle who recently spent a
mouth in New York returned very much
improved in beauty and her dropping, dark
lashes contrasting with her pnre blonde
hair were commented on. in secret. by her
lady friends. The lower laShes cannot be
touched, but little dark pomatum is
all that is necessary for them. 1t is also
said a certain Park avenue young lady,
who spent year abroad. returned with a
very seductive dimple never before noticed
She had also acquired habit of leaning her
chin on her hand with one finger extended,
pointing toward the dimple. Nobody in
Minneapolis processes to make dmples, but
the process is familiar one in Paris. The
dimples, is cut out and delicate skin is
grated over it. the operation requiring two
weeks. and entailing no little suffering on
the part of the patient. But what lady will
allow little pain to stand in the way of
permanent beauty?
There is now at one of the city hotels
lady who makes a profession of beautifying
the complexion. la belle of Baltimore.
She uses only harmless unguents. essences
and colognes, and says she can tell one of
her subjects across the street by the brilliant
bloom OF her complexion. The claim is
made that this bloom is permanently i'm
parted to the skin and is warranted to
wash.