Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-07-19

be she did not press this easily OBJ
tanned beauty upon me.
"Do you make up many society
ladies?" / asked. Yes, indeed, though
not here. I'VE are sent for and go
| to their houses to dress their hair and
then make up their faces for them af-
terward. o, yes, we have great
many regular customers in the make
up line"
Il suppose you have actresses, too. :"
"Well, 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 gen.
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."
went into another fashionable hair
dresser's shop. She was applying
bleach to the long dark tresses of q
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.
Il wish ladies would see the results
of such follies as l 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 lemon-haired 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 q 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 a bit.
81 don't dare" she said.
81 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 ill 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
woman will not run, no pain she will
not suffer, if she thinks thereby she
can be made more beautiful.
know a woman who has used cos
metics all her life, and those, too, of
the rankest and most poisonous kinds.
Now she is paying for it. Her skin is
something terrible to see. Physicians
tell her its her stomach, but those who
have seen her daubing on lotions, pas
tiles and powders know better. She
| was handsome woman, too-she had
no need of these accessories. Her
friends often demonstrated with her,
but to no avail. Now she is reaping the
whirlwind.
know of another lovely woman who
was sensitive about her freckles. She
took some powerful cosmetic and re-
moved them. She never seemed strong
after that and died before she was
thirty. l knew another who would
take infinitessimal doses of arsenic.
She died with some unknown stomach
disease.
But the saddest case l knew of was
one of most beautiful, dashing socie-
ty woman. remember seeing her one
night in her sumptuous, glowing beauty,
the queen of an ice carnival, sur
rounded by latterers and admirers. l
did not see her again until three years
afterward- then she was being led
along the street by an attendant-to-
tally blind from the excessive use of
cosmetics-and worse than that, con-
tinually subject to terrible epileptic
fits.
These are lawful examples" but
true ones. and still in the face of these
and kindred warnings women will in
sist upon painting and powdering
and dying themselves.
Now. if they fancy men admire this
sort of thing they are awfully fooled.
Men have a harsh opinion of women
who paint their faces. Men do not like
to be seen on the streets with rouged
and powdered faces.
Your little friend is bright and in
teresting," said man to a woman in
my hearing, "but why does she make
up her face in that senseless fashion,"
Miss Blank is charming girl" I
said to young friend of mine.
81 can't see it. he said, sulkily.
"Why not?" asked.
"She rOugeS too much p" he said