St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-13

this has been used she proceeds to
scOur; every tooth powder under the
sun is used, prepared chalks, pastes and
liquids. Every month or so powdered
pumice stone should be used, which
takes off all tartar, making the teeth ap-
pear "as good as new"
Of course, the bath is the most i'm
girls do not use this at night. There
may be a few who do. 1t is not good
thing. for one requires exercise and
food after a bath or else run risk of
taking cold. She washes her face and
hands, however, and, perhaps, neck,
arms and feet. In regular bath many
girls use salt, alcohol or ammonia for
their strengthening and cleansing
effect. and baby powder after
wards. There is nothing, however,
like delicate soaps to give fragrance
to the body. Many battle in
perfumed water, but it is an expensive
habit. After she has washed her hands
she must give little attention to her
nails-a little cleaning with the file, a
little clipping with the crescent scissors,
and rub or two with the polisher.,
Probably an hour has been spent mani
curing them in the daytime, and this is
all that is needed. Let no one say this
age has degenerated when the nine
teenth century marks among its i'm
prOvementS the manicure set. There is
hardly girl in all this land without
one. Are we not repaid for her toll
when we see the dainty, pink-tipped
fingers of the modern girl. The stubbi-
est hands and worse shaped nails may
become tapering and beautiful with
persistent use of these pruning imple-
ments. The hands
MUST BE SOAKED,
dead skin clipped away, nails cut down
on each side as far as possible, making
a point or curve as you prefer. Pow
der, salve and polishing are the finish
ing touches. There is hardly girl in
ChristendOm but in winter time, and
more often all the year round, uses an
JUNCTION of some sort on hand and face;
glycerine, cold cream and many other
preparations. The wearing of kid
gloves after the hands have been oiled
is time-hOnored custom, and the best
cure for rough hands. | know one girl
who positively does not wash her face
but once week. She uses cold cream
of her own manufacture, rubbing it off
with flannel, which takes all extraneous
matter with it, leaving the skin as soft,
moist and "unshiny" as possible.
There are thousand and one other
things that girls do after they go to
their chamber at night. Some take
medicines,n pills. powders and cough
SyrupS, use the atomiZer and rub them
selves with the flesh brush. Some go
through gymnastic exercises. Others
believe in eating small lunch before
retiring, and the very swell young lady
will sip cup of chocolate as she re-
clines in a fauteuil, her feet on the
crate fender and her maid combing out
her hair. And l know two English
girls who read novels until IL Or
o'clock at night, sitting upright in bed
each with big piece of cake before
her.
Multitudinous and diverse are the
freaks of wOmankind in all circum-
stances of married and unmarried life.
And lastly, as the minister says. we
come to the browning scene of all.
Sweet girl is in her robe de mutt, which
is generally made in Mother Hubbard
style, the most becoming, kneeling be-.
fore her bed, pink heels just showing
beneath the white folds, her braid hang
ing down her back, the dainty head.
rising from the waves of lace, buried in
two pink palms; if she is New York
society belle she will be kneeling on a
prayer rug or prle-Dieu. She is pray
ing, suppose, but can we not imagine
that this prayer is interlarded with other
thoughts, and do not the incidents of
the day keep crOwding in? There, she
has finished. Put out the lights, draw
the curtain. The scene is ended.