The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-09
DAINTY GOTHAM WOMEN.
M4SS1GE BATHS and TIOLET
PERFUMED LATHER.

Silk Sheets and "NightIes''-Cycles OF
Girls N~ames-Naomi, sarah-Janei
Cornelia, and Edith-Presentation
Ceremonies Why the Boy Was
Whipped.
From the London Figaro.
The luxurious habits of New York
women are still on the increase, The
maid has ceased to be sufficient at
tendance, her time being more or less
absorbed by the toilet and cognate
matters, SO the present plan is to en-
gage the services of a woman who
goes out by the day Of hour, and
whose cards read Ladies' Toilets"
She has entire charge of the persons
of her customers, and it is her duty to
see that they are kept beautiful. Once
or twice a week she rubs, combs,
brushes, clips and cleans their
hair, undertaking to keep 1t
soft, slick and thick. She
manicures the nails and uses
and recommends such unguents as are
warranted to keep the hands soft and
white. She is a pedicure Is we'll, and
keeps her customers feet in as perfect
condition as their hands. She has
1000 different devices for identifying
the face, and undertakes to ward oil
wrinkles by her rubbings and enroll
ents. She trains eyebrows i'll the way
they should go, removes superfiuous
hair, induces eyelashes to thicken and
lengthen, keeps the skin smooth, fresh
and fair, and declares she a make
the lips keep their bloom without the
use of rouge. She looks after the fig
ure, too, having a system called the
Swedish movement by which h
tightens up fiaccid muscles, rounds
thin Threats and lean arms, and re-
moves any of the Disbursements OF
outline that have resulted from tight
lacing and the abnormal tendency OF
flesh to any one part of the body. She
reduces flesh and undertakes to de-
velop symmetry.
The principal occupation, however,
of this person, and the one best re-
lished by her employers, is the mas
sage bath. The tub is filled with warm
water, quite as hot as a be comfort
ably borne, and into this is thrown a
bath bag, consisting of a little sack of
cheese cloth, loosely filed with al
mond 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 a smooth, VIC
let-perfumed lather and leaves the
flesh as soft as a child's. The bather
is rubbed dry and rolled in a big sheet
of Turkish towelling and then every
inch of the body is carefully rubbed,
kneaded and pinched with hands
moistened in violet water, which i'm
pregnates the skin with a faint,
fiower-like perfume. This takes the
place of exercises in a great measure,
and women who are too INDECENT or
too busy to walk or practice in a gym
nasium find this keeps the skin in
equally good condition and is a 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 YEA for III
derclothes, and now there are being
shown in the shops that cater to all
the new whims of the sex, sets of silk
sheets and pillow cases in all colors.
With these go the beautiful East In
dian blankets, woven entirely of raw
silk, and down spreads covered with
surah or satin. These sheets and
pillow cases are hemstitched, with a
crest or monogram embroidered in
one corner. Some of them have a del
icate 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 a pas
sion for ~violets, has several silken bed
furnishings of pale lilac, with wreaths
OF Parma violets embroidered around
them. The Hindu blanket is a deeper
puple and the vine colored down
spread is perfumed with sachets Of
violet powder.