The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-17
BEAUTY IN TIE BATH.
New York's Luxurious Women as
Described for English Readers.
From tie London Fgaro

from tHe London ftqdr0.
| The luxurious habits of New York women
| are still on the increase. The maid has
ceased to be sufficient attendance, her time
/ being more or less absorbed bv the toilet
and cognate matters, SO the present plan is
/ to engage the services OF a woman who goes
out by the day or hour, and whose cards
read Ladies' Toilets" She has entire
charge Of the persons of her customers, and
| II ts her duty TO see that they are kept
| beautiful. Once or twice q week she
rubs, combs, brushes, clips aud cleans
their hair, undertaking TO keep it
Fl, sleek and thick. She mani
cures the nails and uses and
ranted TO keep the hands soft and white.
She is a pedicure as well, and keaps her
customers feet in as perfect condition as
| their hands. She has thousand different
devices for identifying the face, and under
takes to ward of wrinkles by her rubbings
and emollients. She trains eyebrows in the
way they should 90, removes superhuous
hair, induces eyelashes to thicken and
lengthen, keeps the skin smooth, fresh and
far, and declares she can make the lips
Keep their bloom without the Use Of rouge.
She looks after the figure, too, having a
system called the Swedish movement, by
which she tightens up faced muscles,
rounds thin threats and thin arms, and re-
moves any of the disfgurements OF outline
that have resulted from tight lacing and
the abnormal tendency of flesh to any one
pa of the body. She reduces flesh and
undertakes to develop symmetry.
The principal occupation, however, of
this person, and the one best relished by her
employers, is the massage bath The tub is
filled with warm water, quite as hot as can
be comfortably borne, and into this is
thrown bath bag, consisting of little
sack of cheese cloth, loosely filed with
almond meal, powdered orris root, and
grated soap. The water turns soft and
milky as the contents Of the bag dissolve
and the skin is rubbed with the bag, which
makes smooth, violet-perfumed laUher,
and leaves the flesh as soft as a child's. The
bather is rubbed dry and rolled in a big
sheet Of Turkish toweling, and then every
inch of the body is carefully rubbed.
kneaded, and pinched with hands moistened
in violet water, which impregnates the skin
with faint, hOwer-llke perfume This
takes the place of exercise in q great meas
ure, and women who are too indolent or too
busy TO walk or practice in a gymnasium
lind this keeps the skin in equally good con-
dltion, and IS more pleasant method of
setting the blood to circulating
Another fancy of these dainty women is
to sleep in silk. They have long abiured
any other wear for underclothes, and now
there are being shown in the shops that
cater TO all the new whlmS of the sex sets
of 81 k sheets and pillow cases in all colors.
With these go the beautiful Eat Indian
blankets, woven entirely Of raw sila, and
down spreads covered with surah or satin.
These sheets and pillow cases are hem
stitched, with a crest or monogram embroid-
cred IN one corner. Some of them have a
delicate vine embroidered along the edge, or a
broad band OF Aranu work They are of
all delicate colors and white and black.
Mrs. George Gould, who has passion for
violetS, has several silken bed furnishings
OF pale lilac, with wreaths of Parma violets
embroidered around them. The Hindoo
blanket is deeper purple and the violet
colored down spread is pertumed with
sachets of violet