New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-28
THE UGLY WOMAN'S FRIEND
REINc MADE REAUTIFUT.


"The Hottentot belle hangs bangle in her lip ana
paints her nose sky blue. doesn't she ~ asked the
proprietress of "TolIet Emporium on an uptown
street a few days ago. Yes she thinks she Is JUST
about right when she has put the last and brighes'
touch the round top of her fat nose, and Win .
delighted shrek looks at her reflection in bt VI
polished brass or maybe pool of water. Weh
there plenty of girls I'm this brilliant city, In thiS
advanced nineteenth century, who, though they DO
not paint their sky blue, have ideas on the SUD
Jet of beauty quite faulty aud very nearly as
absurd. Sit down for a moment and let me tell you
what l mean, for you look very sceptical.'
She shook out her cool, gingham skirts aud clasped
her large, dimped hands under her chin The CORNER
she had selected 10 chat in a secluded one Her
assistants softly crossed and Iecrossed the long,
carpeted room. A delicious breeze courtesled over
the rooftops and cTept in beneath the gay. striped
awning A brass band in neighborlng street began
play the garden music from Faust" which reached
the ears softened by distance. Altogether IL was not
unpleasant morning to sit there DISCUSSING
feminine beauty with bright eyed intelligent apostle
who protested to be able 10 do wonders toward re-
deeming ugly face.
"What does the average girl OF to-day do If she
finds few pimples on her face" she asked pursihs
up her lips "Why she kasomines them with one ot
the many toilet pastes flooding the market IL sho
has frecldes she persstently avoids the sunlight
altogether has a langud, unhealthy appearance Ike
a plant grown in cellar. Do you see :
All kinds OF skin diseases covered over
by a layer OF powder. perhaps rouge too. ana thls
while the skin Is irrtated and in need OF most carfli
treatment OF course it becomes worse. Now, uOh
decry cosmetics. / have large stock Of my own
manufacture on hand But the skin should DO In
healthy condition before any artificial means are usen'
and If It is well enough without cosmetics, why don't
with
noted for a good complexion, you Will say. IL Is
National pride with us. But take Individual cases
and tell how long It lasts? Consider the gils Vi
your own acquaintance. For my part, cannot tell
you how many society girls have known IN ousi-
ness way who had a complexion as delicate as porce-
lain until they about eighteen or nineteen years
OF age, and who began to powder because 1t was
fashionable and soupcon OF color on the cheehs Do-
cause was " Frenchy"
But do YOU really think the Of rouge is gen
eral among American girls 2!
at do And the habit IS on the increase II You
will take a walk down Broadway with me any hne
afternoon in early spring fall am sure VIII Dc
able to point out every third girl at least with rouge
on her cheeks. You cannot hell It. nor can the
majority of people and why not? Not because it Is
applied so artlstically, bur because the youthrnl
faces are smooth as the petals OF rose, ana re-
ceive the rouge that the blush appears trans
parent TO the mpractlsed eye. Put touch OF canne
upon the smooth, round cheeks of healty baDy, anu
YOU will have the efect-a delicious PINK glo"
Ike that on the side Of peach which has been purned
10 the sum- The success IS not due TO the cosmetic,
but IN tbe exousite texture Of the baby's skim and
the same can be said Of the clear skinned girl OK
eighteen. who begins to keep her own rouge anu
powder boxes securely locked in the very bottom vi
her trunk Two years pass, and II the same gltI
should rub on slightest BIT Of rouge any one couu
tell It was artificial Because the skin has become
I.fa-
blush. however, delicately applied, in Jumps The
rouder would take ON the hldeos buish.red tinge SO
often Seen in the enlarged pores around the nostrs
When girl has reached this state 1t seems impossDe
for her to do without cosmetics In the morning sue
| peers dlsconsolaely into mirror. ana hor lace
an nature frfghtens her 1t Is palld, pio'chS' VII"
all the hidden pmples and black-heads III fnli Oioo
| Now when she smear this diseased SKIN win CHAIN
and cal1nine ties Elusive, dotted veil over all anu
u,e satisfied with the temporary result, starts ouo
for an afternoon walk or drive, she is Just as much
TO be pited as the Hottentot spoke or
Here the speaker complacently nodded ber heao
and swayed a large. palm leaf fan to ana no
@wbat do you do to make ugly people more con-
! tented with themselves asked tho writer.
"Nlv customers people who nave rescheu "o
state describe through ignorant Use of cosmetics,
| and those with a naturally bad sldn The one TIME
| beauty with ruined complexion and the woman
| N,r,e sent into the world without any decorative
| toucbes are now on the same level They nave
to undergo the same treatment. can't MAKE aoroohea
nose straight, or chase away squlnt OF lemouiu a
mouth or make square jaw conform to the line OF
beautv But can make scant hair thick and glossy
color the gray threads here and there, clip ana Color
Iashes and brows cleanse the skin, cure plinple''
f,eces etc take care of the hands and feet remove
snneruous hairs prescribe proper Diet exercise
and do much toward keeping wrinkles at iespecuui
distance