The Osceola times., 1888-05-19
COSMETICS.
Tho Ualy Gill who Tried To Mako
Fers elf Reautiful.

Who the girl was makes no differ
opcc. Her bitumcn for the eyebrows,
white she'll powder and red for the
face, were found in the tomhs of the
Ramcscs dynasty. ut the feet of Helen
and of Lolita in Greek and Latin sepul-
clres. The bean and lily pastes for
the complexion, which she buys Mt
costly prices from French perlumers
to-day, were court secrets of Madame
de Pomralour The frcckle wash she
uses on tie sly is old rs the times of
Chauccr ard Queen Elizabeth dipped
her kcrchiefs in May dow 10 freshen
her royal checks, ms Long Island girls
do to-day, when they happen to think
Of it, You will find her buying the
little bags of prepared meal to salve
the face, at the Bon Marchc in Paris;
going mp steep stairways to the dealers
in cosmetics, who do such tlourishihg
business in quiet way in our cities;
or spending quarter of her income by
mail for wonderful Preparations for the
skin and hair, which never prove salts
factory in the end.
"You never would believe the
amount spent for cosmetics by country
girls unless You were clerk in vii
lase drug store" said friend, who
had once filed the place. The pearl
powder and pink, Spanish Grape and
liz ..,t,-. anil 11nn
els, ! should think took all the spare
money in the country. II was as much
as our business was worth to risk being
short of those articles. Girls who had
but one dress TO 90 TO all the parties
in winter would spend their last dol
lar for liquid balm and paint
"Whcn they couldn't actually afford
any thing else I've known them to buy
five cents worth of white lead house
paint. aud go out the same evening
arms and shoulders I'd know it by
the smell of linsced oil their palchouli
and Jockey Club couldn't quite con-
ceal They were not so far put using
it, after all, for house paint snd their
face washes were the same thing at
base, white lead yariously prepared. and
some Of them used TO make very good
show with it. Only it was bad when n
fellow got some of it on his coat sleeve.
| kept a preparation ready mixed l
used TO make a point of Offering them
next day for taking paint out Coat
Sleeve Tonic the boys called it"
The desire for cosmetics takes n girl
most recklcssly in early teens, when
she begins to read love stories and act
in tableaux. In most cases. she has
been used TO eating any and every
thing not especially good for her. at
nondescript hours. The appetite nat
urally varies at that ago. and she is
often yoraciously hungry. and ought
TO be, for she is making her growth.
But hearty eating and being shut up
in the schoolroom or ut lessons all day
do not agree, and the pasty complex
ion grccnish eyes and cold sores which
result are too strongly in contrast
with the girl Ideal This ideal, taken
from her fayorite heroine. is very like
ly to be n face of creamy pallor, with
great dark eyes like pansics in dew,
long lashcs that sweep the checks or
east shadow on them. don't know
which, and lips of vivid scarlet A
most unwholesome sort of make up,
which figures in stories of the intense
order, and was rather affected by the
Black Crook beauties who first came
Over
remember seeing a celebrated mem
Der OF the troupe at n table In fash
lonable restaurant one evening. and
really tho effect of the dead gold hair,
dark eyes, smooth, pallid checks and
gcraniun rcd lips, set off by the high
est, quiet art in dress, was very strik-
ing, and the combination of color was
captivating not only to the country
girl who saw stage beauty for the
first time without knowing it, but to
the polished. artistic man beside her.
1t was an effect for avcning, but on the
street next day, as happened to meet
the same woman, the charm was
broken. The pale, puffy face told of
beer and over-rich food, suppressed
humors in the blood. and the vermil-
hon lips were rcpulsivc as painted lips
on corpse.
Whatever high-nown ideal you
choose to live up to, don't choose the
pale, red-lippcd sort, which is the un-
hcaithiest type. l speak of this because
had an early friend, a most modest,
carefully bred Boston girl with fresh
face and blue eyes, whose hopeless de-
sire was to be one Of these pallid, in
tense heroines.
There were at least, twenty girls Mt
boarding-school signing for this pale
idc"l, and rs arsenic complexion loz'
enges for securing the same unwhole-
somc pal'or stare every one 10 the face
IN New York shops. tho style must be
n A. l-.~