The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-02-02

Perhaps | could find some place
where a saleswoman was required. /
would try at any rate-the fun 1 would
probably get would be sufficient re-
ward for few days work, supposing
l could get nothing more substantial
My next visit was to a place where |
found that the proprietor had just ad-
vertised for a saleswoman, and, al
though she preferred some one with
experience, she said l could come and
try the place for a few days and see
how | could get on.
Madame occupied two rooms in a
handsome building on one of the prin-
cipal avenues. Every thing was most
gorgeous. turkey rugs and velvet-cov-
cred furniture, low divans and costly
portieres, with lotions enough to sail a
yacht and powders enough to start a
-four mill
Il Nnave' an appointment at ten
O'clock" said Madame; ''it is with a
lady who is having her skin treated,
but she may not come in until after
noon or tomorrow"
/ expressed some surprise, as | had
supposed that a woman would keep an
appointment of this kind if she never
kept any other.
"'Oh! not at ALL" replied Madame,
who, by the way, was most friendly.
Such people usually are, notice. Cos
metics may not improve the complex
ion, but some way l have an idea that
they are rather a good thing for the
temper.
ga lady makes an appointment to
come to me at ten o'clock certain
morning, an appointment which she
religiously intends to keep, and she
leaves her home in time to do so, but
on her way here she meets Mrs. So
and-so, an intimate friend, who ex-
claims:
"Oh! am so glad to see you, dear
Jennie, Or Mary or whatever her
name may be-you must come with
me to select a new winter dress
"'Ohr hesitates Mrs. No. 1, 4 can
not. have an engagements; l am going
to
"And here she hesitates again. No,
not for all the world would she tell her
nearest and dearest and best friend
that she is not satisfied with the COM
plexion that has been given her and is
having another one made to order.
Oh! no. She can't do that; her friends
may make the discovery, but the sub
ject must not be mentioned, so she
vacillates. and can think Of no excuse
except that she was going to Macy's
for soap or hairpins-and so she agrees
to go with her friend.
''Now that is the way they do, and I
never know when to expect my Gus
toners. They always come, though
if not on the day of the appointment,
soon after-and as l understand how it
is, am not particular about the mat
ter"
when l started business here a
year ago." Madame told me in one of
the few and far-between times when
she had no callers, my first advertise
ment brought me thirty-One costumers.
That is, the first day l opened the es-
tablishment, thirty-one ladies called
here, and nearly all of them bought
some of my goods"
Are people so quick to run after
every thing new in this line? thought.
Perhaps it is not to be wondered at,
for beauty's chief point lies in the
complexion, ana since the time that
Cyrus old grandfather, Astyages,
adorned himself with paint around his
eyes and color on his face; since the
time that the Egyptians applied a
black powder by means of an ivory
bodl1in to the pupils Of the eyes, up to
the present time, and for all time to
come, the art of the costumer and
beautifier will be in demand.
My days experience showed me that
from the young girl only fourteen or
eighteen years of age up to the shock
ing old woman who paints, powders
and wears a wig, all ages and condi-
tions are represented among the GUS
toners of such an establishment. Nor
is it only the one sex who give good
money in exchange for such articles.
There was a case not so very long ago.
reported in the papers, of a man who,
so it was stated on the authority of his
wife and six daughters. used baby
powder, pink face powder, and burnt
cork to darken his eyes. That face
powder is occasionally used by the
sterner sex have on the authority of
Madame.
In one of Mr.. Sala's stories we read
that an enemy of the heroine-who
was, of course, beautiful ''insinuated
that her complexion Git was statuesque,
marble-like in its pallor) was pasty
and cadaverous; that her hair (it was
blue-black as ravens wing) was dyed,
and that her eyebrows were painted"
Could her enemy have insinuated
any thing more unkind? During the
day l presume between thirty-fve and
forty people called. 1t is needless to
remark that each and all were in pur-
suit of beauty, and willing for its sake
to put up with any amount of incon-
venience and go to any expense. There
never was time when women did not
love to make themselves beautiful-a
very laudable ambition, provided no
harmful preparations are made use of.
The best means of preserving the