Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-01

| pound when il suddenly took jump TO
20 cents year or two ago, and suppose
because it is as plenty and cheap as sand
in the Western states
Copperas, the best disiufectant for
| family use, costs a few mills a pound +,
| but we pay at least 8 cents. The bar
soap women use for the laundry cost
more than their cosmetics in proportion
TO the expense of manufacture and put
ting on the market. Curiosity led me to
look into these things lately. It is quite
the thing lately for women of fashion to
| get their cosmetics from private hands,
| from some clever gentlewOman who pre-
! pares her own special recipes. Her pre-
| parati0us 20 by worth, not show. The
| bottles are not manufactured for her, or
| put up in charming boxes. They are
as likely to come in old sarsa-
| parilla or salad bottles, without
much satin ribbon tied on the corks. But
the generous bottles and tumblers, with
directions in delicate handwriting, are
more priced by the possessors than all the
limOge and engraved glass of the whole
sale mixtures. You can put them into
! the limoge and Carlsbad jewel glass, you
! know, for yourself. A cosmetic has to
| be good to sell in SUCH a way. But by
! the time the maker sees her bottles into
! the express office the profit won t inter
! fere with her going to- heaven. 1t is
! hardly one of the genteel emplOyments
! to recommend to distressed gentle
women this making cosmetics. l know
| one lady who makes them, and very
! good ones, too, i'll the intervals of house,
! hold work and ekes out a slender income,
! but she prefers jelly making for profits.
| Like newspapers, the cosmetic business is
! only profitable i'll a large way. The
women who deal in them are apt to be
| the Yeriest sharks and disreputable as
| you please, but there are honorable eX-
! ceptions. 1t is greatly to the credit of
one woman whose name is prominent in
! connection with cosmetics, that all her
employees share in her prosperity. Not
in any yearly TOft-sharing, to meet
which expenses are cut to starvation rate
in every point, but by the payment of
just and liberal wages to every soul in
her employ. Her quiet help to needy
women, especially poor ladies, never
figures in advertisements, it has
never got into the newspapers and is
only known from those who have been
so helped Women who VIII consider
almost anything legitimate in business in
an advertising way, will yet have their
reserves as to private benetactions, as it
were a side account kept with heaven.
And the help is not merely in money, but
in shreWd advice and assistance in diff
culties, which is so much harder to find
than pocket aid. A friend to stand by
harrassed woman, to direct and say the
right word in the right place, is often
bette than fortune, and is the bring
ing of a fortune sometimes. Women of
force and penetration are capable of
these services to needy friends, and it is
a keen sense of fitness which takes from
women love of beauty with one hand
to bestOw generously on their poorer sis
tiers with the other
Jeweled gIrdles and corselets are the
coming extravaganza of moneyed
women The dealers in uncut stones
and the lapidaries can tell of torquoises,
seed pearls and pink garnets by the pint,
which are set in these centuries. The
shadngs of the byZentine and old French
designs from purpest amethyst to pink,
alive with the flash of small diamonds
and cut silver. is exquisite, and as art
work, far beyond the rather stiff and
commonplace arrangements of diamonds
which depend on their value. Toilets
and writing sets of crystal, set with
minute rubies and emeralds are very ele-
CANT Hair-pins with head of
carved agate or beryl supplant the
amber and silver pins. 1t is
the thing to have the shoppers of
scent bottles cut from one piece of agate,
amethyst or carnelian. There is an
electric attraction between humanity
precious stones. At the high class jew
eIers you will see enormous topaZes and
and amethysts, cut, but unmounted,
solely for the cabinets of rich collectors,
who delight to look at and handle them.
There is an unaccountable pleasure in
the touch of these fine stones, they are so
smooth cool and soothing, and seem to
charm the fingers which caress them.
Where are the great carbuncle, valued
at 500 900 crowns, worn by Mary Stuart,
and the string of 600 ''fair white pearls
left by Leicester to Queen Elizabeth? |
Good society may want them again if it
takes jewel mania. 1t used to wear them |
by the province worth. Jeanne of Ma |
varre had her wedding dress so thick !
with jewels that she could not move IN it, |
and the great constable had to pick her |
up and carry her. Gabrielle d 'Estues |
had a black satin dress so bejeweIled she !
could hardly walk in it. Nearer our own |
time Prince Esterha4y wore 5000 bril-,
liants in the Diamond aigPette Of bis hat. |
and the Swedish mobiles wore peaTls in |
II tTaaeatae, gathered from the mussels of
the Swedish rivers, where they are still |
found The countess of Northampton
wore $50 900 worth of diamonds at
What do our little republi-
can fripperies of 500 200 necklaces
amount to?
J. L. E.: ''What is the benefit of
treatment, and how is it given?
Is it good for the complexion?' Massage
is not rubbing the body merely, as peO-
pie think, but kneading and working the
muscles by another person. The limbs
and muscles of the trunk are grasped,
pressed and moved with the same motion
as kneading bread. The effect is to stir
and equaliZe the circulation, relieve con-
yeStion, and stimulate functions In
short it is exercise taken secondhand
and much in favor with persons who OBJ
ject to any personal eXertion. 1t bright
ems the skin, just as rubbing does, but
rs benefits are not to be compared with
those Of bodily effort where one is not in
III invalid state and is capable of eXer-
Else. The contraction of our muscles by
he force of ones own will and nerves is
he only way TO gain strength and sound
circulation. Passive exercise by massage
yill never develop sound muscles or prove