The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-23
HER WONDERFUL COMPLEXION.
Painted by Nature on Young
Women's Faces.


Painted by Nature on Young
Women's Faces
NEW YORK, June 2L-One of the brides
who have been cheering New York with
their bright faces and the charming man.
ners Of early matrimony, is young woman
from New England. She has just gone with
her husband back TO their home near Provi-
dence, and she has left the recollection with
those who saw her of the most exquisite
dellcacy and beauty of complexion ever
seen. Las o. q, EI.-..r.
The girl, for she is still In her teens, and,
therefore, girl though bride, was not
conspicuous in other ways. She was Just
as pretty and charming, and deliciouslY
innocent and yet demure as are all the other
sweet creatures who come here on their
bridal trips, and who make one of the most
entertaining sights in New York.
But she had a complexion that poet of
passion would go into delirium over No
body saw her who did not look at her as
long as courtesy or opportunity would
permit, and no doubts would rise about the
artifciality of these exquisite tints. The
maker of cosmetics or flesh enamels
who can initiate such coloTing as that has a
fortune at hand. But it can't be done,
because the play and movement of color in
the cheeks are beyond imitation.
and perfectly describe this young brides
complexion Her skin al tie forehead,
temples, nose and chin were white, and her
skin seemed soft as the petals of a rose.
White does not accurately describe the
color, but there is no word that does express
the idea of the perfect purity of skin which
is meant when we speak of creamy white
ness. Her nose beyond the eyes was as
nearly like the tint of polished pearl as
flesh can be. Then the color, beginning at
the cheek bones, by the most infinitesimal
shading. warmed from gentle pink like
the inside of sea shell to a roster color
lower down the cheek. The sun makes such
tints in the clouds at sunset sometimes, but
no painter ever mastered these gradations
In his colorlng.
There was besides the coloring a soft,
exquisite gloss, that revealed the healthful-
ness of the skin, and when, through ex-
| element or action the tints became more
| prominent or softened away, as they were
constantly doing. it seemed that here was
the flower of the beauty that is possible in a
perfect complexion.
But this young bride is no exception to
the girls who are born and bred where she
was. There is strip of seacoast, stretch
Ing say from New haven around to Cape
Cod, where the breeZes, the sea air, impreg
mated as it is with balm from the Gulf
stream, gives TO the girls this wonderful
beauty of complexion. And there is also to
be found along this coast the most perfect
cosmetic in the world.
1t is somewhat strange that this pink and
alabaster coloring, this mother-of-pearl
gloss. is confined TO the cheeks of the girls
who live within sight of the sea, and to
those who dwell within the limits of the $50
miles from New London to Cape Cod. OF
course those who expose themselves reck-
lessly to the sun lose some of the delicacy.
vat ava IN hot Ioao not thf
skin swarthy or tanned. 1t seems simply
to take off the exquisite polish of the skin.
Some OF our painters have long known
of this delightful popularity and charm Of
this coast line, and among the young men
of this desolate country there has long been
belief that the girls that grow up there
have the most beautiful compilations to be
found in the world. Those who are suscep-
tible to such charms should in their summer
vacations take a trip along this sea shore,
not where fashionable hotels are, but among
the plain farmer folks, or even in the fisher
mems homes, where, though the swell of
the sea abounds, those delicious colors that
nature puts upon the girls faces are to be
found.
Is it the sea air that does this lovely paint
ings 1t may be, though the sea air else
where is sometimes apt to make havoc with
a pretty complexion. Some of the artists
think that the low sandy stretches along the
shore give back heat and reflection of the
sunlight that paint these delicate tints, Just
as they do with the shells on tropical shores.
Others believe that there comes from the
Gulf stream a balm that moistens the cheeks
and puts the touches of beauty upon them.
But the girls believe in nothing but the
| pools. There they find the needful cosmetic,
as they believe. Sea water makes the
pools, but sea water directly from the ocean
| will not do. The girls would as soon wash
| their face in soap suds as in the water that
the last tide has brought in. The pools are
| made by the rush of the sea during very
| high tide or a blow. The water is
| dashed into little hollows in the rocks.
| or in little shallow places in the sand, and
| when the sea recedes some water is left i'll
these hollows. Then when the sun has
come out and warmed it and the mist has
mingled with it and it has lain there ex-
| posed to the silent chemistry of nature for
some days, it becomes the true cosmetic.
| The true sea-shore girl knows her favorite
| pool. She will go In the morning and battle
| her face in it, aud if during the day she
! happens by she will lave her skin with the
water, and she believes that as the inside of
| the oyster shell is often beautifully tinted
and that ali living things that the water
| laves has delicate color, so it is this same
water that brings the charm to her skin.
| The men use the water for neuralgia and
| have great faith in its healing powers, but
the girls never have neuralgia, and so they
| get the virtues of the water upon their
| cheeks.
There is one popularity about this tint
ing, and that is that it is hollow and a
tickle blessing and is very apt early to leave
the cheeks of the girls. The tints begin to
show themselves when the girls reach the
age of II or 15, and grow more and more
dazzling until they are about Is or 10, but
after that they begin to fade. 1t is very
rare sight to and woman of rs who pos
sesses these charms.
Another popularity is the certainty that
removal from the shore will play havoc with,
the color. Even in brief absence of
month the luster is dimmed and the color
| faded, and if the girl returns and has oppor-
| tunity to use her pool of sea water, the
| charm will return.
Sometimes when they go away upon a
visit they will take bottle of the magic
water with them, but its potency seems les
sened, and, unlike wine, it is spoiled by
| bottling. 4i.ssl .,3d ,tEOHDE
Tints belong alike to tho dark-haired,
dark-eyed girls, and the golden-haired,
| blue-eyed beauties. So far as cheeks and
complexion are concerned, the girls upon
this seacoast are all ravishing blondes.
t-In this explanation is to be found the
secret of the glorious complexion of the