Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15
NO MORE WRINKLES.
Modern Cosmetic Art Has Succeeded
in Making the Old Young.
TAKING SILVER OUT OF THE HAIR.
Hints in Regard to the Proper Perfumes
and How to Use Them.
COARSE WHOLE MEAL FOOD THE BEST
WRITTEN FOR THE p1spIrcu

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Come with me to New ork toilet house
have in mind. A page opens the door to
the shadowy, scented interior, deliciously
fresh and cool with its tea rose tinted walls,
polished floor, bare but for Turkish rug
here and there, and the harmonius bric-a-
brac which fills without crowding the room.
The semblance of a shop is almost lost, for
there are no counters or wallcases, but white
and gold tables strewn with luxurious toilet
wares, and Louis XVI. cabinets, also white
and gold, loaded with charming things,
each in its own color, one violet scent bags,
boxes. china pots and perfume cases all in
the favorite tint another jonquil yellow, a
third robin's-egg blue, a fourth jade-green,
pretty and soothing attention to color. A
white and gold hamper is piled with pale
purple satine bags of lavender flowers for
scenting linen, generous bags holding a pint
of the sifted flowers, the sweetest, freshest
scent in the world. Another great basket is
heaped with almond-meal bags in white
muslin for the bath, yet another with the
finest velyety sponges. One glittering case
Is filled with brushes and combs in en-
bossed silver of rich designs, others with
tortoise she'll and gold, in Marie An
toinette's taste, and you can order toilet
comb set with rubies and pearls, if you like,
with your crest in the middle.
sPECIALTIEs IN PERFUMERY.
The scent sachets are a specially, for the
perfunling of houses and .wardrobes is a
business by itself nowadays, and an order
Tor seeming house is very welcome and
profitable thing. The variety of sachets is a
credit to the invention of the makers.
These lengths of wadded and painted satin,
yard and a half by three-eighths; what
are they for but to line bureau drawers, SO
that every piece of lace laid in them will
take the perfumes as it waits the wearing.
Longer and broader ones in pale India silk
or chinee with flowers are to lay in the great
boxes which hold rich dresses, or hang up
in closets against the wall. SO that gowns
and cloaks may take the scent. Long ones
are to hang inside the skirt of dresses when
worn, thin ones to baste inside jackets, and
round ones to wear in the crowns of bonnets
TO perfume the hair.
Glove sachets of white satin, embroidered
with the flower whose fragrance they carry,
are luxurious enough for the pillow of the
loves and graces together; and ladies have
their foot-rugs interlined with vertivert and
sandalwood dust to keep away moth. As
all women know, it is the hardest thing to
that will carry the essence of the flower
without more OF the base, as perfumers call
it, the inhnitesimal of musk, ambergris or
pimento. which serves to give it body.
INDIVIDUALITY IN PERFUMES.
A lady's perfumes are serious considera-
tions, for they carry her individuality with
them, and it behooves her to be careful
what she allows about her. Some women
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rose sachets, which smell of pepper and
musk combined, with a suffocating effect,
and others have cheap heliotrope which saw
ors too much of the vanilla bottle in the
kitchen, and others use those cosmopolite
scents which belong to no flower in particu-
lar. The odors of white flowers now suit
fashionable taste from an idea that they are
more delicate than colored ones, at least the |
suggestion of flower and scent together is
more pleasing. Accordingly, white rose,
white lilac, white violet, white iris, jonquil |
and white orchid figure on the list of new
perfumes.
The heavy cut crystal bottles with silver
or enamel holders are the choice at present,
but porcelain fagons are the best to keep |
scents in, for an experienced chemist says |
they should be kept cool and dark to pre-
serve their essence, and prevent their grow |
ing fiat. The delicate and costly handker- |
chiet extracts are used in spite OF the para
graph that everything is scented except the |
kerchief, one of those emanations which |
smells oil the brain it came from. The toilet |
waters for spraying rooms and using in the |
bath are usually tinctured with some re-
freshing herb, lavender, citron, or the East |
Indian grass vertivert, and rich, old-fash- |
ioned scent breathes of sandal, cedrat and |
bergamot in skillful blending, an odor |
which charms and invigorares.
soFTENING THE HANDS.
What do you want to supplement your
defects, it one may imagine you to have any,
madam? Something to whiten and soften
the hands and keep them supple and soft
while you are camping out this summer In
the Sierras, where one grows so healthy and
SO brown? Cream of strawberries, if you
please. Here it is, delicious looking, del
lcate scented emulsion, tempting one TO
taste it as some luscious fruity con lection.
1t is unrivaled for the hands, whitening
and softening them to perfection, the newest
and one of the oldest French cosmetics re-
vived again.
The latest Partisan lotions are colorless
liquids which astringe the skin and neu-
tralize it's oiliness, or creams, with glycer-
inc, which keep the face in a perpetual
moisture, plumping the tissues and erasing
lines: There is real benefit for wrinkles and
Iallow compilations in these famous recipes,
if intelligently used. This charming little
pot OF toilet cream will last two months
lightly applied, and soften the face to a
marvel by its protecting layer on the skin.
saw it made the other day In the labora-
ory, and had hand in the mixing, just to
Iay so; and for all there was in it 1 should
rot be afraid to eat it now, The freshest of
resh eggs and lemon juice, sugar, almond
vii and rose water mixed with utmost care
Ind cleanliness, stirred and beaten for hours
lpon hours, smelling delicately as II rose
lad been dipped into it sometime, should
make tempting cosmetic to create beauty
II restore it to itself.
swEETENING THE BREATH.
Cosmetic medicines form separate branch
# study, and supplement toilet dealers
tock in trade as naturally as tooth brushes.
think you asked me awhile ago for some
hing to keep your breath as sweet as your
overs, madam-how did you know it was
o sweet? No matter.
"We all feel the charm of balmy breath
hat doth almost persuade justice to sheathe ;
er sword, and this bottle of clear red 1
liquid, with few drops poured in glass {
t water, will purify the breath and all
Tithin the lips that one need not mind how
losely the hearers attention hangs upon
hem. The same liquid is sovereign for {
dyspepsia, and reduces the interior to an
miable state very quickly. 1t is nice to
ave something one can depend on to neu
rallze the breath from a decaying tooth in
hat state where the dentist cannot work at
or undo the effects of sleepless night,
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