Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-01
TOWN AIRS AND GRACES.
Women as Correspondents Newspaper
Work for Women-BuSineSS
Pays Better.
The Cost Of Cosmeties-Deeayed GentlewOman
Preparing Cosmetic Articles-Jewelled
Corsets Coming Into Nogue-A
Revival of Old French
Luxury.
1Copynghted.l

With nearly two hundred letters to
answer. 1 packed them sacredIy and fed
to the wilderness. Life is short, letters
are long. If imam is immortal till his
work is done, - as the school motos used
to tell US, life insurance may be dis
pensed with for some time to come in the
present case Whether all the homely
women travel in summer and the good
looking stay at home, or not, think
some thousands of the former, all
freckles, eye teeth and deep leathery
wrinkles have gone on the same rail-
roads. If one were a cosmetic cOnsuelO,
il would be a temptation TO take van
like the quack vendors, and travel from
town TO town, applying frecSle washes,
face bleaches and wrinkle pastes. What
hosts for a whimsical genius, and what a
missionary work in general To our
correspondents at once.
1t IS out of the question to answer all
letters which desire private reply, were
time and strength gwen up to them.
Still those wishing personal letters should
at least risk stamps on the chance, for if
the answer to their inquiries is not worth
postage to them, it can t be worth taking
time for A letter was lately received
from Ireland, imploTing directions for
removing personal blemishes in heart
moving terms, but the evidently well
educated writer quite overlooked ocean
postage. l don t know why author
time, should, in the Adirondack phrase,
be considered worth no more then set
ting hens time. If people imagine that
authors write because they are good for
nothing else, it viii do to remind them
that this may be true of a good many
writing folk, but those who make the
truest success Of writing are usually
capable of making NOR emOney in COM
mon business. MIR. Isaac Bromley " TOte
the wittiest articles, political and other
wise, for the Tribune years ago, at $4,000
a year. Times changed and the salary
was reduced, a year or two, when that
was thought too much. Mr.. Bromley
left newspaper work and took railroad
Office at a salary of $40 600, where he is
considered well worth the sum. So
newspaper man told me. l know a
newspaper woman, very bright and cute,
whom the jealousy of INSCRIPTIONS
women writers without half her talent at
anything but lying, edged off the Boston
press into other business where she is
able TO clear $50 a week, which is thrice
more than any OF her rivals are doing.
Two or three women I declined to help
forward in the crowded field of news
paper woTl-yOuT thanks, if you please.
NesseuTs Editors were wTOth with me
until they found themselves substan-
TALLY placed in other work with three
times the salary they could possibly hope
for IN journalism. So please inquire
within yourselves if SO q day is a very
moderate price for an authors time,
Tho could make five times as much out
SIDE OF newspapers, and if a letter of
advice often takes hours of study and
writing, ism t that reply worth postage?
Another rule which writers soon
find themselves forced to observe
IS never TO notice letters with
cut the writer's real name and address. !
II is not remarkable that women do not
wish 10 sign some of the silly illusions
they SEND. Bear in mind, il is an affrOnt
60 yourself TO write a letter you are I'M
willing TO sign and nearly as much to re-
ceive Il, and all such are quickly dropped |
into the waste basket.
Women are queer about their own In
teCest often. For instance, one writer, |
pathetically deploring a Disagreement of |
face and person, which she fears VIII |
render her an object of dislike to the |
husband she is soon to marry She |
has been minded to break off the /
engagement on this account, but to do |
so, she says, viii be TO break her own |
heart. She has found 4 proprietary |
remedy which entirely removes the de-
1ect, in a most satisfactory way, but she |
gTudges the price, and comes to me to
tell neg how to reach the same effect for
nothing. Now here is a defect which is
likely to cost her future happiness, and
safe remedy whose virtue she knows.
Does she ever balance the two things, |
and ask herself whether she would
rather LET her life's hopes and affections
90, or pay even 500 to be without
olemish and happy? Even a servant
girl VIII often pay as much for an opera
Jion, md think il well worth her hard
earnings. If good looks and contentment
with oneself. and the gain of husband
are not worth dozen bottles of depila-
tory even at So a bottle, the price of a
silk gown, they can [ be worth troubling
about, and I decline 10 spoil other peo-
pie profits.
The papers have had q good deal to
say about the price of certain cosmetics
in proportion 10 the cost of material.
To be consistent they should also attack
an articles sold by druggists, for it has
long been one Of the proverbs of trade
that no business was more profitable
'i-'iA me safe OF drugs. The story has
gone from Maine to California about
the Norwood druggist near Boston who
pun up lotion for a friend, charging |
% cents. ''See here, - says the buyer,
You needn Z spoil trade like that if
you are friends with me- The last
time 1 had that lotion put up in
Town, they charged me 81 %. - 81 ,
guess won suffer, - SAID the druggist |
iTEly- - only made ~ cents on the /
bottle They say that the drug trade
mas gone down since then and doesn't /
make SO much money, but It is pertinent
10 say that the cost of bare materialsis ]
Usually The least item III cosmetics or
medicines. People leave out the rent of
1aliolngS to manufacture and sell them :
= the cost Of the mereiputtlng up, clerk !
are and advertising, which often costs {
more than ali other expense put together. 7
'ut these things together and medicine I
"a cosmetic 1T 81 bolcIe viii be more :
than sewing machine or a {
lav cutter or pound Of Gne cheese. 1t
odd how people weekly pay charges in
dozen directions for necessaries '
f life, which they grudge '
Utterly for the essentials Of rafinensrt q