Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-07-12

~ Jou pioho ny nldHy ooCiCty
LADIES'" / asked, " Yes, indeed, though
not here. ''We are sent for and &c
to their houses to dress their hair and
then make up their faces for them at.
terward. 0, yes, we have great
many regular customers in the make
up line"
4 suppose you have actresses, too, :"
We'll, not SO many. You see they
know how to do their own makeup.
That's part of their business just as
much as fine dressing, but ladies gem
orally make botch of it, either get too
much or too little, SO they save them
selves the bother and fuss by having it
done for them just as much as hair
dressing or manicuring There, your
hairs done-now better let me touch
your face up little-you've no idea
how nice you'd look. No? Well, good
day." 80
went into another fashionable hair
dresser's shop. She was applying
bleach to the long dark tresses of d
lady sitting there. The hair-presser
had gloves on her hands to prevent the
stuff from touching her skin!
My Turkish bath attendant tells me
that she has seen the frightful ravage
which cosmetics and dyes have pro-
duced,
VI wish ladies would see the results
OF such follies as / have" she said,
''they would not try every vile cosmetic
and hair wash in the market"
Hair-dressers say that the yellow
bleach is not much in demand now
The demonstrated blondes are not in
vogue. The red haired girl is the rage.
The hair that looks brown in the dark
and turns red in the sun is also very
desirable. | know a lady who had
such hair, or, at least, her back hair
was that color. Her bangs were much
darker than her back hair, and the
contrast was not pretty. Her hair
dresser suggested doctoring them bit.
~ don't dare, she said.
~ have stuff which will do it
positively harmless" he urged
Drink some of it and I'll believe
YOU" she said, and he complied. She
urged that if it couldn't hurt the
stomach, it ought not her head, and
allowed transformation to take place
Nor has she ever experienced any i'll re.
suits. But it is generally very unsafe to
tamper with ones hair. Blindness AND
insanity are often brought about by this
folly. This has been told women
again and again, but they pay no heed
and rush madly in where angels would
fear to tread. There is no risk q
woman will not run, no pain she viii
not suffer, if she thinks thereby she
can be made more beautiful.
know Il woman who has used cos.
metics all her life, and those, too, O
the rankest and most poisonous kinds
Now she is paying for it. Her skin il
something terrible to see. Physicians
tell her its her stomach, but those whit
have seen her daubing ON lotions, pas
tiles and powders know better. Sh,
was handsome woman, too-she hat
no need of these accessories. He
friends often demonstrated with her
but to no avail. Now she is reaping tn,
whirlwind.
know of another lovely woman VIII,
was sensitive about her freckles Sh,
took some powerful cosmetic and re
moved them. She never seemed stron:
after that and died before she wa
thirty. | knew another who woul,
take infinitessimal doses of arsenic
She died with some unknown stomach
disease.
But the saddest case | knew of wa
one of a most beautiful, dashing socie
ty woman. remember seeing her on
night in her sumptuous, glowing beauty
the queen of an ice carnival, sun
rounded by fatterers and admirers.
did not see her again until three year.
afterward-and then she was being lie,
along the street by an attendant
tally blind from the excessive use @
cosmetics-and worse than that, con
tinually subject to terrible epilepti
fits.
These are lawful examples" bu
true ones, and still in the face of thes
and kindred warnings women will in
sist upon painting and powderin
and dying themselves.
Now, if they fancy men admire thi
sort of thing they are awfully fooled
Men have harsh opinion of wome
who paint their faces. Men do not Xix
to be seen on the streets with rouge
and powdered faces.
Your little friend is bright and in
teresting," said man to woman i
my hearing, "but why does she max
up her face in that senseless fashion?
Miss Blank is charming girl"
said to a young friend of mine.
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"Why not?" l asked.
"She rouges too much," he sale
bluntly.
30 fie, for shame" / answered
how can you tell?"
AZ can tell he said, frownin
blackly, .if the girls think they ca
fool us about that they are mightil
mistaken, I'll give them straigf
tip"
"She's very pretty woman" said
gentleman, speaking of handsom
widow, "but she uses too much Spar
ish brown on her face.
His little son heard the remark, an
few days later when the same wido-
was calling on her mather, went an
stood in front of her chair and delil
erately scrutinized the pretty face.
why are you looking at me S
sharply. TommyP' asked the visitor.