Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-08
BRED FOR BEAUTY
Training Of English Women and
It's Results.
SECRETS OF A LADY'S MAID.
Toilet Boxes-MakinS Up the Face
For Day and Evening-whas Chill
dren Should Eat.
Written for THE EVENING STAR.


~HERE is nothing on any toilet not
NI producible before any one, unless
you object to this rice powder. to
take of a flushed look sometimes
The highiy-bred American woman
who spoke lay in an easy Vienna lounging
chair before a large marauise toilet stand.
White, gold and rose Worcester vases with
silver tops held choice French scents and es-
sences, slender crystal HaSons of cherry bios
som and the new honeysuckle odor per-
fumed tho room as their shoppers
were drawn, and the Rose du Barri
powder boxes breathed still daintier
fragrances. Chemists will tell you it is possible
to get finer scents in powders or soaps than
they can secure in liquid extracts. A cabinet
in rosewood with porcelain doors. and minia-
lures charmingly painted disclosed in its vel
vet interior stores of china jars and gilt and
crystal fagons and boxes of porcelain and onyx
with screw tops-perfumed, oh, how it was per-
fumed-and drawer of the toilet table showed
glittering silver and ivory implements in ex-
lector's fancy by their finish and carving.
II can't bear to have anything common about
my rooms" the owner said. noticing tho
admiration which complimented her
pretty setting. THE money other people
spend on second-rate bric-a-bric and
altar to vanity. Instead OF hideous nom
descript gatherings Of china, Hungarian,
Doulton, Swiss and grotesque faience, choose
very few things Of the best design and color
ing possible for their places. Those pieces
are Baltimore porcelain, the most dehcately
artistic in America, aud those are Cincinnati,
the best, you know, and worth al they cost.
That little turquoise-studded flask was sent
from Mexico, that cut-glass vase with strings
OF pink and yellow pearls is home manufac-
tvS~o ~
That tuormaline stopper is from Maine. The
work is by clever people all over the country,
for every village almost nowadays has some
body who does nice things in out-of-the- way
work. That carved pearl box is by soldier
on the plains. As to what is in them you shall
know after WHILE
GOOD LOOKS OF ENGLISH WOMEN.
1--WE have the advantage here" she went on
to say, that three-fourths of our people have
the chance for plenty to eat and good intelli-
gence, which gives a fair sort of good looks to
start with. But it isn't bred to last, ~
English women are. Why, Lady Mary Holland
at sixty had the most marvellous teeth and hair,
and eyes like diamonds, and cheeks beginning
to wrinkle, but fair as an American wife at
thirty-five. The work is done at the beginning
We are not half careful enough about girls
eating. 1 tell you there must be difference
between the complexion of one who is sent to
school and fed on the pastry and biscuits and
boiled rice and cheese, which are the staples of
boarding school fare, from Fifth avenue to the
Hudson river seminaries, and an Eng lsh
nursery table, where every morsel is choice the
rolls and mutton and fruit OF the best, and the
butter sweet, creamy and delicate Did YOU
ever realize what four-tifths of Americans put
into their mouths in shape of butter, and how
much 1t has to do with spelling the complexion?
never did till l went to England and sat at
the best country house tables. think the fogs
and the butter and mutton did as much for my
complexion as anything.
THE NURSERY TABLE
81 tell you slice OF well-done English mutton
is about the best thing child can have to eat
to make good flesh and skin. They really cat
more fruit than we do. in the shape of lam and
compotes. Our children would turn up their
noses at the table served at the duke Of ifs
nursery. Thick slices OF coarse brown bread
but how sweet 1T was, and how Lady Mary and
l used to like to go in for slices of it after our
long walks mornings-cups of creamy milk,
slipped slowly. not tossed off at a draught,
which the head nurse said made cheese in our
lnsldes; delicious cocoa sometimes, and Jam
and marmalade ana compotes aud wall fruit in
plenty. IL the smallest pimpe or redness APP
peared on the face of a child her grace
was sure to call for an account, the cas-
tie doctor was summoned, and diet
and salines prescribed till the spot was
cured. Each month the dentists called
family. fling an edge here or touching the
enamel there with preparation which kept off
decay and left no need OF gold filing Do you
know how many people are poisoned by decay
ing teeth? They suffer with dyspepsia and bad
compilations from nothing else than the con-
slant drainage OF bad matter from an imper-
feet tooth or two. Our compilations depend
upon our stomachs and internal economy and
this thoroughbred English mother fully
understands, or her governesses and doctors
krnft for has IL -
ing five times day, as the English do; but if
we were out of doors in all weather as they
are, for their tremendous walks or rides. we
could eat, too. and eat less after ali than a
middle-class American family at three meals
ENGLISH BATHS.
"Then the baths are part of English upper
class religion. Each child gets out of its bed
into bath, and puts on fresh clothes daily
from the skin out, and after 1 was used to it
you can't think how miserable 1t seemed over
here to see wel-to-do girls put on the same
under linen they took off at night. Like using
the same towel twice over. Then. say all the
family We're out of doors four or five hours
every day for rich color, or mist for fairness as
the nurse maid used to say there was nothing
plexion.
Those maids, again, are treasures. The
best ones mean. My face was rough after the
steamer fare crossing, the first time went
over, and the maid at the castle was quite dis
tressed about it. At night she came in with
poultce OF houseleek. on linen cloths, which
she must put on my poor face and sit by me
an hour or two to renew it and then put on
toilet cream of her own making. and admin
lister q dose of pills, a box of which she relig-
iously presented me when l sailed for home as
q sovereign for the complexion.
WASHING IN DEW.
Imagine the maids going out to wet damask
towels in the dew to wash their ladies' faces
with, and wetting handkerchief in it by night
TO lay on the cheeks while sleeping. II you
don't believe there is anything in it don't say
SO TILL you try it. There was Lady Florence
P. celebrated for her complexion, who
never washed her face in anything but
napkins left out in dew all summer.
Then for color they had the most
marvellous decoction, distilled, they said,
from carrots, an amber liquid, which, brushed
on the cheeks, left no mark at first but presently
bloomed in the softest pink blush, which
wouldn't rub of or wash of any too easily
Oh, the delight after nights in hot gas lit
rooms Of lying under the hands off one of
those clever girls who never needed to
DO told anything, but slipped of your
things and brought your cup of tea, or
chocolate, and tathed your arms and face and
neck with lavender spirits or rosemary water
or elder flower cream, and rubbed your Joints
and your back softly till you fell asleep Regu-
lariy barrels Of sea water were sent to the
house, for the ladies' use, and you have no idea
now strong and supple one feels after having
the spine and limbs well rubbed with rosemary
tincture and salt water mixed. II puts one in
the finest dancing trim imaginable. They are
nevrh hat, - r. IT,