St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-14

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 enti 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 cleauS their hair, I'M
dertaking to keep it soft, sleek 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 as well, and keeps her custom
erS' feet i'm as perfect condition as their
hands She has a thousand different
devices for beautifving the face, and
undertakes to ward off wrinkles by her
rubbings and efhOllents. She trainseye-
brows i'm the way they should go, re
moves suIperfiuOlls hair, induces eve
lashes ito thicken and lengthen, keeps
the Skin,SmoOth. fresh and fair, and de
clares she can make the lips keep them
bloom without the use of rouge. She
looks after the figure, too, having a -syS-
TEN called the Swedish movement by
which she tightens up flaccid muscles,
rounds thin tlIroats and thin arms, and
removes 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 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 a little sack of cheese
cloth, loosely filled 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 a oth.violet-perfumed lather,
and leaves the flesh as soft as a childs.
The bather is rubbed dry and rolled in
big sheet of Turkish toweling, and
then every inch of the body is carefully
ru bbed, kneaded and pinched with
hands moiStened in violet water, which
ImpregnateS the skin with a faint,
flOwer-like perfume. This takes the
place of exercise. IN a great measure,
and women who are too INDECENT or too
busy to walk or practice in gymnasium
find this keeps the skin in equally good
condition. and is a more pleasant
method of setting the blood to circula-
ting.
Another fancy of these dainty women
is to sleep in silk. They have long all
jured any other wear for underclothes,
and now there are being shown in the
shops that cater to all the new whims of
sex sets of silk sheets and pillow cases
in all color6. With these go the beauti-
full East Indian blankets, woven en-
tirely of raw silk. and down spreads
covered with Surah or satin. The
sheets and pillow cases are hemstitched
with a crest or monogram embroidered
In one corner Some have a delicate
vine embroidered along the edge. or a
broad band of Arann work. They are
of all delicate colors and white and
black.
Mrs. George Gould, who has passion
for violets. has several silken bed fur
nishings of pale lilac, with wreathS of
Parma violets EN- broidered around
them. The Hindoo blanket is deeper
purple, and the viOlet-colOred down
spread is perfnmed with saehets of VIC
let powder.