Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-07-26
BEAUTY IN THE BATH.
New York's Luxurious Women a. De
scribed for English Readers.

New York's Luxurious Women as De-
scribed for English Readers.
Fpom the London Figaro.
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 by the
toilet and cognate matters, no the present
plan Is to engage the services of a woman
who goes out by the day or hour and whose
cards read 4" Ladies' Toilets" She has en-
tire charge of her customers persons, and
II is her duty To see that they are kept
beautiful. Once or twice week she rubs,
combs, brushes, clips and cleans their hair,
undertaking TO keep II soft, sleek and
thick.
She manicurcs the nails and uses and
recommends such unguents as are war
ranted to keep the hands soft and white.
She is podicure as well, and keeps her
customers feet In as perfect condition as
their hands. She has thousand different
devices for beautfying the face, and under
takes to ward Off wrinkles by her rubbings
and emollients. She trains eyebrows in
the way they should go, removes super
Huous hair, induces eyclashes to thickon
and lengthen, keeps the skin smooth, fresh
and fair, and declares she can make the
lips keep their bloom without the use of
rouge She looks after the figure, too, having
n system called the Swedish movement, by
which she tghtens up tlaccid muscles
rounds thin throats and thin arms and re-
moves any of the disiigurcments of out
line that have resulted from tight lacing
and tho abnormal tendency of flesh TO any
one part of the body. She reduces flesh
and undertakes to develop symmetry.
The principal occupation, however, of
this person, and the one best rolished by
her employers, is the massage bath. The
tub is filed 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, -porfumed lather
and leaves the flesh as soft as u child's.
The bather Is rubbed dry and rolled In a
big sheet of Turkish toweing and then
kneaded and pinched with hands moistened
In violet water which impregnntes the
skin with a faint, Howerlike perfume.
This takes the place of exercise in a great
measure, and women who are too indolent
or too busy TO walk or practice in a gym
nasium find this keeps the skin I'm equally
good condition and is II more pleasant
method of setting the blood to circulating.
Another fancy of these dainty women Is
to sleep in silk. They have long abjured
any other wear for underclothes, and now
there arc being shown i'm the shops that
cater to all the new whims of the sex sets
of silk sheets and pillow-ca In all colors.
With these so the beautiful East Indian
blankets, woven entirely of raw silk, and
down spreads covered with surah or satin.
These sheets and pillow leases are hem
stitched with crest or monogram EN-
broidered in one corner. Some of them
have delicate vine embroidered along tho
edge or broad band of Aranu work.
They are of all delicate colors and white
and black