Wichita eagle., 1888-07-13
POISONOUS COSMETICS.
RISKS RUN BY WOMEN IN TRYING 20
BE PRETTY.

BE PRETTY.
Many Devices Resorteo 60 oy enc Fair
Sex-Bleaching tho Hair to Give It .
Fashionable shade-yiaking Up-Terri-
bio Consequences.
"Can / get my hair bleached herer
asked on entering q well known Chicago hair
dressers establishment.
Certainly" said the smiling attendant
"What color do you wishY'
Il am rather undecided between blonde
and the new auburn shade" replied un-
blushingly.
"You had better decide in favor Of the red
That is the shade just now, and your hair
would take it splendidly. wouldn't have to
touch the ends at all, Just here next the scalp.
where it's SO dark"
Don't you consider it dangerousr
"Weu, I've had my hair redeemed for six
years now, and it hasn't hurt me-" she said,
smiingly. There's not so much risk with
the red dye as with the extreme blonde"
''Can dark hair be bleached whitef"
mot on the head-at least not in this
country. have heard it could be done in
Paris, and lady buyer for one Of our large
dry goods firms is going to try aud discover
the secret for me when next she goes
abroad"
said l would think it over ana would call
again.
QUITE BUSINESS LIKE.
While I sat in another fashionable hair
dresser's shop, waiting for my hair to dry,
idly watched little woman through glass
partition as she made up her face She
rubbed her entire face with some fine white
powder until she looked like clown at the
pantomine; then she took a chamois
skin and carefully rubbed and smoothed
it until only the suspicion Of the
powder was visible Next she took a small
hare foot brush and, dipping it daintily into
a box OF rouge, proceeded to redden her
cheeks This was then carefully toned down
with another dash of white. Then the eyes.
She penciled her brows and drew black lines
close up to the under lash Then dainti,y
wettlng her finger she drew it over her eye
brows, the moisture emphasizing as it were
the blackening process. Then she took a
hand glass and regarded herself from ell
points of the compass. The result evidently
was satisfactory, for she came out with q
gratifed smile. She had gone in the little
room dark skinned, rather tallow faced
person; she emerged with the pink and white
complexion that should belong to radiant
blonde. This process had been gone through
with in plain view of the rest of the people
In the room, and with a serious and business
like air that was quite astonishing
DO you make up many society ladiesF' I
asked. "Yes, indeed, though not here We
are sent for and go 70 their houses to dress
their hair and then make up their faces for
them afterward Oh, yes, we have a great
many regular customers in the mako up
line"
u suppose you have actresses, tooq'
swell, not SO many. You see, they know
how to do their own make up. That's a part
Of their business just as much es fine dress
ing; but ladies generally make botch
Of it-either get too much or too little, so
they save themselves the bother and fuss by
having it done for them just as much as hair
dressing or manicuring. There, your hairs
lone-now better let me touch your face up
A little-you've no idea how nice you'd look.
Noa Well-good day"
My Turkish bath attendant tells me that
he has seen the frightful ravage which cos
netlcS and dyes have produced.
II wish ladies would see the results Of such
'ollies as l have" she said, "they would not
ny every vile cosmetic and hair wash in the
Market"
Hair dressers say that the yellow bleach is
lot much in demand now. The lemon haired
blondes are not in vogue. The red haired
,irl is the rage The hair that looks brown
u the dark and turns red in the sun is also
7ery desirable.
POISONOUS CoSNETICS
I know lady who had such hair, or, at
east, her back hair was that color. Her
,angs were much darker than her back hair,
md the contrast was not pretty Her hair
lresser suggested doctoring them bit
II don't dare" she said
81 have stuff which will do ft-positively
harmless" he urged.
"Drink some OF it and III believe you, she
aid, and he complied. She argued that IL it
ouldn't hurt his stomach it ought not her
lead, and allowed Transformation to take
,lace. Nor has she ever experienced any i'll
esults But it is generally very unsafe to
amper with ones hair. Blindness and in
anity are often brought about by this folly
his has been told women again and again,
Tut they pay no heed and rush madly In
where angels would fear to tread There is
10 risk a woman will not run, no pain she
viii not suffer, if she thinks thereby she can
70 made more beautiful
/ know a woman who has used cosmetics
II her life, and those, too, of the rankest and
most poisonous kinds Now she is paying
or it Her skin is something terrible to see
physicians tell her it's her stomach, but those
tho have seen her daubing on lotions, pastiles
nd powders know better. She was q hand
ONE woman, too-she had no need of these
ccessorieS Her friends often demonstrated
Nth her, but to no avail Now she is reap
az the whirlwind.
l know Of another lovely woman who was |
ensitive about her freckles. She took some
owerful cosmetic and removed them She |
ever seemed strong after that, and died be-
ore she was 80 l knew another who would |
AXE infinitesimal doses Of arsenic She |
led With some unknown stomach disease
But the saddest case know OF was one Of
most beautiful, dashing society woman l
emember seeing her one night in her sump- |
uous, glowing beauty, the queen of an ice
arrival, surrounded by 6atsere9s and ad-
nirera did not see her again until three
ears afterward, and then she was being led |
long the street by en- SYSTEMATICALLY
lind from the excessive use Of cosmetics
nd, worse than that, continually subject to
errihle epileptic fits
These are awful examples, but true ones,
md still in the face Of these and kindred
warnings women viii insist upon painting
md powdering and dyeing Themselves
Edith Sessions upper in Chicago Herald
The Victory Gained.