The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-01-30

where a saleswOman was required. |
would try at any rate-the fun | would
probably get would be sufficient re-
ward for a few days work, supposing
| could get nothing more substantial.
My next visit was to place where 1
found that the proprietor had just adj
vertised for a saleswoman, and, al
though she preferred some one with
experience, she said could come and
try the place for d few days and see
how | could get on.
Madame occupied two rooms in
handsome building on one of the prin-
cipal avenues. Every thing was most
gorgeous, turkey rugs and velvet COW
cred furniture, low divans and costly
portieres, with lotions enough to sail a
yacht and powders enough to start a
flour MILL
81 have an appointment at ten
o'clock said Madame; sit 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 | have an idea that
they are rather good thing for the
| temper.
"a 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! I am so glad to see you, dear
Jennie, or Mary or whatever her
name may be-'you must come with
me TO select new winter dress
"Ohn hesitates Mrs. No. /, 4 can
not. / have an engagement; | 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
Nov that is the way they do, and |
never know when to expect my Gus
toners. They always come, though
if not on the day of the appointment,
soon after-and as | understand how it
is, I am not particular about the mat
ter"
when | 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 lone 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
l
every thing new in this line9 thought.
Perhaps it is not to be wondered at,
for beauty's chief point lies in the
complexion, and 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
bodkin to the pupils Of the eyes, up to
the present time, and for all time to
beautiiier 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 Il 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 l have on the authority O.
Madame.
In one of Mr.. Sala's stories we read
that an enemy of the heroine-wnc
was, of course, beautiful -''insinuatet
that her complexion Git was statuesque
marble-like in its pallor) was pasty
and cadaverous; that her hair Git was
blue black as ravens wing) was dyed
and that her eyebrows were painted.
Could her enemy have insinuatec
, any thing more unkind? During thu
day | presume between thirty-five an(
forty people called. 1t is needless Il
d, remark that each and all were in pur
suit OF beauty, and willing for its SAKE
70 put up with any amount of incon
Venlence and go to any expense. Their,
g never was time when women did no
love to make themselves beautiful-.
: very laudable ambition, provided NJ
/ harmful preparations are made use of
o The hest means of nrnsnrrincr Il,