The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-09-01

ekes out a slender income, but she prefers
jelly-making for profits. Lik newspapers,
a large way. The women who deal in them
are apt to be the veriest sharks, but there
are honorable exceptions. 1t Is greatly 70
the credit of one woman, whose name Is
that all her employees share in her prosper
1ty. Not Ia any yearly profit sharing, TO
meet which expenses are cut to starvation
rate In every point, but by the payment OF
Just and liberal wages to every soul
In her employ. Her quiet help to
needy women, especially poor ladies.
never figures in advertisements, 1t has
never get into the newspapers and is only
known from those VINO have been SO helped.
Women who will consider almost anything
legitimate in business in an advertising
way will yet have their reserves as to prl-
vate benefactiOns, as 1t were. q side account
kept with heaven. And the help Is not
assistance in difficulties, which is so much
harder to find than pocket aid. friend to
stand by a harassed woman, to direct and
say the right word in the right place is
bringing of a fortune sometimes. Women
of force and penetration are capable OF these
services to needy friends, and 1T Is a keen
sense of fitness which takes from women q
love of beauty with one hand to bestow
generously on their poorer sisters with the
other.
Jeweled girdles and corselets are the
coming e-xtTavagances OF moneyed women.
The dealers in uncut stones. and the
lapidaries can tell of turquoises, seed pearls
and pink garnets by the pint, which are
set in these cinctures. The shadings of the
Byzantine and old French designs from
purplest amethyst to pink. alive with the
flash of small diamonds and cut silver. is
exquisite. and as art work. far beyond the
rather stiff and commonplace arrangements
of diamonds which depend more on their
value. Toilet and writing sets or crystal,
a ~ ~ n 1hsA md TnAH0Id nrQ
very elegant. Hair-pins with heads of
carved agate or beryl supplant the amber
and silver pins. 1t is the thing to have the
shoppers of scent bottles cut from one
piece of agate, amethyst or carnelian.
There is an electric attraction between hu-
mainly and precious stones. At the high
class jewellers you will see enormous topaZes
Ii amethysts, cut, but unm0unted, solely
for the cabinets of rich collectors, who de-
light to look at and handle them.
There is an u~naccountable pleasure in
the touch of these fine stones, they are so
smooth, cool and soothing, and seem to
charm the fingers which caress. them.
Where are the great ~carbuncle, valued at
100000 crowns. worn by Mary Stuart, and
the string of six hundred fair white
pearls" left by Leicester to Queen Eliza
bethf Good society may want them again,
if it takes ajewel mania. 1t used to wear
them by the province-worth. Jeanne of
Navarro had her wedding dress so thick
with jewels that she could not move in it,
and the Great Constable had to pick her MP
and carry her. Gabrielle d'Estues had
| Nearer our own times Prince Esterhazy
wore 5000 brilliaptsin the diamond a~igrette
of his hat, and the Swedish MOBILES wore
pearls innumerable, gathered from the
mussels of the Swedish rivers. where they
are still found. The Countess of Northamp-
ton wore S150,000 worth of diamonds at a
coronation. What do our little republican
II f,~ &c 900 nO0 nnolv1o n ~ n,,, fnv
j. l.. E.-"What is the benefit of massage
treatment, and how is it given? Is it good
for the complexionf"' Massage is not rub
kneading and working the muscles by an
other person. The limbs and muscles of
the trunk are grasped, pressed and moved
with the same motion as kneading
bread Ihe effect is to stir and
g%estion, and stimulate functions. In short,
| it is exercise taken secondhand, and much
in favor with persons who object to any
personal exertion. 1t %brightens the skin,
just as rubbing does, but its benefits are
not to be compared with those of bodily
| effort, where one is not in an invalid state
and IS capable of exercise. The contrac-
ton of our muscles by the force of ones
own will and nerves is the only wayto gain
strength and sound circulation. Passive
exercise by massage will never develop
sound muscles or prove more thar a tempo
rary stimulus. 1t aids the system like a
crutch. and like it, is to be dispensed with
whenever possible.
J.. H., Camden-The lotion you mention
is safe and excellent. 1t soothes the skin
and keeps off sunburn and pimples. Idon't
know any Philadelphia cosmetic artists,
but suppose they advertise.
N. Pr like to look very pale. What
have / got to takei / do not like POWDER
Eat slate pencils, chalk, clay and arsenic
waters, and you will be pale enough before
the fOOlkiller m round to you. To turn
your blonde hair white: try jayelle water.
and repent it the rest of your life.
Inquirer-The French recipe for pre-
venting wrinkles is harmless. Boil the
white of four eggs in a half pint of rose
water, add half an ounce of powdered alum
and the SAM of sweet almond oil, beating
all to a paste. 1t is better than benzoin
recipes. To soften the skin, afteposing it.
try cacao butter, five cents worth from the
druggists will last a long time. To darken
gray hair. burn peach stones to charcoal.
powder fine with two parts of bruised gall
one ounce of gall nuts, and put in a pint of
strong white wine vinegar with two ounces
of iron filings. Boil half away, strain and
bottle. Use either liquid by dipping a
comb in it and combing the hair till quite
hour after. Don't cut your hair.
Carrie B.-Champagne will sometimes
bleach the hair. To change commonplace
brown hair Ito a warmer tinge." infuse
fresh saffron in rosemary tincture and
steep the hair in it, by wetting well and
covering at night with an oiled silk cap to
prevent evaporation. Put one small hand
ful of saffron in a pint of tincture. This is
entirely safe.
Daisy Deane-Don't pull out superAuous
hair. Nothing is worse. as they grow again
coarser. Try touching each hair with a
wooden toOthpick dipped in the strongest
I've, taking care not to touclf the skin.