The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-22
VOMANS ARTIFICH.
How 1t Is Employed to In
crease the Charms Be-
slowed by Nature.
SOME yILLAlNOUs HAIR DYES.

Women Who Paint. MASKS, Veal
and Beefsteak for the Com
plexiOn.
1t is said that women dress for each
other and not for men, but when it
comes to powdering and rouging the
men are entirely to blame. 1t would
be difficult to get to any accurate es-
innate of the amount of money spent
in one year on cosmetics blythe women
in New York and Jersey City, as the
larger portion used is of native manu-
facture.
In both of these cities there is ex-
actly one drug store, and that is on
Fifth avenue, where they do not sell
a variety of these beautifiers, and even
in the largest they do not hesitate to
say that there is more profit in this
counter than in any other. Then,
every dry goods shop of any preten-
sion has its cosmetic department, and
this is the case now also at the leading
grocers. New hair dyes are required
every six months to keep the locks
tight up to the fashionable shade at
the moment.
Some two years since a decidedly
reddish chestnut, which was worn
with black eyebrows, was in vogue.
This was because a favorite actress
had adopted thi style. Since then
pale mouse, light gold, red gold and
canary have each had a turn. These
hair dyes cost about $40 a bottle, and
each bottle only suffices to color a
good head of hair once. This is only
the first expense in reality, as a physi-
clan has soon to be called in to attend
to the neuralgia in the head and vari-
Gus other diseases caused by the use
OF the dye. Even insanity is oc-
casioned by the use of these poisons.
Fortunately, now a days, it is the
fashion for women of thirty-fve or
more to wear their hair snowy white
if possible, and much of this is effected
by artificial hair, so that one does not
see now many of the greenish yellow
shades that used to be prevalent on
heads that were not freshly dyed.
Whatever color the hair is worn,
black eyebrows and lashes are the
thing, and the women resort usually
to the hair shops to have these
arranged.
THE FASHION IN EYEBROWS.
Eyebrows must be worn In narrow,
straight lines, and the way is, when
they are broad and arched, to have the
line marked over them. The
superfluous hair is then removed and
the deficiency, if any, made up with
India ink. The eyelashes are colored
also with this ink.
Only q few specialists not very long
ago attended to removing slight nous
taches and moles from more or less fair
feminine faces, but now there +
plenty who make it their business.
Electricity is the means employed and
the only sure method. 1t is not the
fashion to wear much backing under
the eyes, a very delicate tinge, pro-
duced either with the ink, a small
burnt cork or match, is all that is re-
quired.
Artificial hair Is said to be going up
very much in price, which will add to
the toilet expenses of most women, as
there are very few who do not depend
on it more or less.
Actresses are exposed to strong
lights when they are on the stage and
require artificial aids to beauty. They
are, as a rule, very careful to select
vegetable preparations SO as not to in
iure their skins, but ordinary woman
kind rush into buying all sorts of o
metics and whitewashes made of zinc,
lead, belladonna and bismuth.
Cleopatra is said to have had 100
different washes, and some of the
women OF this alleged enlightened
day have tried about as many. A
large majority of the women paint
and powder more or less when they
go out, and their husbands and FAM
lilies never suspect them of doing such
a thing. They think they look better
under their wells when they are
touched up. Among the fashionables
there are a great many who have al
ways ronged and painted when it was
altogether unnecessary.
WOMEN WHO PAINT.
Mrs, Hughes Hallett, formerly Miss
Schaumberg, of Philadelphia, who is
IL of the well known American ladies
now in London, was always-as she
would frankly acknowledgement
much painted from the time she was
quite a young girl. Yet she was UNI
usually handsome; had a clear skin,
regular features and large eyes, and
those who were familiar with her with
out the cosmetics said she was much
prettier as she was naturally. or
course she has had to add to the
quantity and depend on it more and
more as time has advanced. Mrs.
Potter's pretty complexion is said
now to show the effects OF the paints
used for the stage.
An old friend of the Empress
Eugenie's, who had not seen her for
years, spent a day with her at Chisle-
hurst some fifteen years ago. She was
only fairly middle-aged then, and he
had remembered her as the most love-
ly being he had aver beheld, but the
cosmetics had done their deadly work.
Her skin was quite CHASTITY through
the powders, and her eyebrows were
entirely artificial. She was exposed
during the time she was Empress when
standing or sitting for hours to the
gaze of the public, and her numerous
maids and hairdressers arranged her
then with an eye to having her
look as well as possible during the
whole time. 1t is said o that she is