Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-10-07
TULLE DOTTED MASK.
WOMEN MADE WEIGHING BY THB
VEIL.
Those who Dsspiss the Veil and These who Think
il too Sweet for ArythiDg-Casthan Beauty,
Partisan Charms and American
loneliness.
San Francisco Examiner.


A witching woman's face is never hall
60 witching as when half revealed and
half concealed it smiles out from behind a
tiny mask of dotted tulle which the
wearer will seriously assure you is worn as
a measure Of protection against the winds
of HEAVIER, bat which you well know she
wears with the clear and celebrate purpose
of making herself beautiful.
The veil is an olden custom-as old as
the vanity of woman or the curiosity OF
man. It's origin is lost somewhere in the
vague and misty remoteness OF that past
which 70 firmly refuses to yield up any of
either its dark or precious secrets.
1t is curious to trace thu veil from the
time when its use had practical and i'm
portant significance to the present day,
when it is worn with no l)ftier idea than
to besutify-which, after al, is perhaps
the loftiest of all ideas. The master of the
seraglio in Eastern countries lad very
sensible idea of Ii, intention when he
yelled his women. The eye is seductive
fsature-but the eye clone cannot conquer
the world. The eye is deceptive. When
the women of the sersRlio appear with
70 hing of their face yisitls but one gleam-
ing orb, is not the thought ever present
that the expression Of that eye might mean
any one OF the thousand qualities which
make up woman's character? Hit be
large and lustrous, as one usually finds
the E ,stern woman's eye, it may mean
ANYTHING from tenderness to stupidity. If
il b. Brilliant and sparkling, it may mean
either vivacity Of spirit or sharpness OF
temper.
Therefore was the Sultan wise-for to
him only were the mysteries of these eyes
revealed. There was very pslpable reason
for the rejection, however, Of the woollen
veil, which was originally the proper
thing amongst Eastern women. Its grace
of fold as it fell into mantle sb)ut the
shoulders, l,ft nothing to be desired, but
its weight was unsupportsble. There was
another reason. As women grew less
timid, there was longing within them to
do something just little daring or risky
to show b more of the features than
they had shove before-to venture upon
the uss of both eyes instead Of giving all
their laDguishing glsnces through the
medium OF one. Oae maiden more
courageous than others, appeared one day
in silken veil, as transparent as the wells
of the priestesses of the temple. The effect
was ustantaneous-heavyv wells were cast
aside and women smiled through the filmy
silk folds with sense of infinite joy and
fieedom.
Now, it is we'll known fact that any.
thing we dislike or which bores us we are
apt to find bad for our health, bad for our
tempers, b ID for its irfl1encs upon our
minds. Therefore faintipg became the
fashion, and to it alone are We indebted
for the veil of transparent, filmy tissue
which superseded the cashmere and soft
silk OF the earlier period. 1t must not be
supposed for an instant that oculists have
any right on theirside when they inveigh
against the dotted veil which is the
triumphant evolution from the bauge and
thick gauzs which wee the mode but
few generations ago. The crossbars OF
thess old-fashioued wells were indeed irri-
tating to the eight, aud crossed-eyes were
frequent from their effect. but dotted wells,
by breaking the barred lines, prevent any
serious affection of the vision. On the
contrary, they are benefit, besides they
cast SOFT and tender shadow beneath the
eyes, and soften a direct gaze into one
which becomes sympathetic and contiding
through the fnr meshes. They are in-
finitely valuable 10 the woman with no
complexion. She may have q thousand
tiny blemishes in her skin which tie care
fully adjusted doy will conceal, while as
for her smile, the:gleam Of her white teeth
un6er the dark .hsdow renders 1t hope
| sssly enchanting:
To the FrenchSoman belongs the art OF
the weld ccquettishly. To the
Englishwomsn it is thing of uSlNty.
The American is like her French sister,
and with the Spanish woman alone belongs
the skilful arrangement Of the veil in such
ravshipg folds that every good point Of
her features becomes prominent, and all
the shaky ones retire into an iguominious
backgl o md. The ian and the veil are the
two weapons of warfare With which
Spanish woman attacks the world. They
are her defsuce, az a modest maiden, under
her doc mas eye, and they are her valued
mise en- scene whtn the duenna looks the