Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-09-10
HOW SHE RETIREs.
Arts Practiced by Young Ladies
Before Going to Bed.
Some of the Secrets OF My Lady's Dress
inS-RoOm Observation-Disclosures for
the Nails. Teeth and Complex
lon-The Evening Bath

A man will go to his room at night.
and If there isn't match handy, he
won't even trouble to get light
He simply gets ont of his dads as
quickly as possible and jumps into bed
without moro ado
Now, writes Carrie Careless" in the
Chicago News, let us watch a girl and
consider her ways:
First of all she must have a light, and
good bright one She may have been
entertaining her young man in the par
lor until-well-we will say, until bed
time, or she may have been out to a
parry, but that doesn't make any differ
ence> girl has regular way of going
to bed that she does not depart from on
any account
Ihe moment she enters the room she
goes straight to the dresser and looks
in the glass ! have seen a girl go
down on her kness and scan every
feature, turning her face this way and
that as if what she saw was something
quite new to her. Then the sweet girl
4 begits to undress. She takes off her
waist, views for a moment her pretty
neck and arms, then she slowly slips
out of her shirts and dons silken robe
de chdm6re-for our girl is very swell.
! The robe is loose, of pink, blue or
white. with cascades of lace falling all
about the neck and bosom and way
down to the dainty feet 1t isn't but
I toned-just tied with ribbons. Next
/ the hair-pins come out, and down falls
the hair. 1t has been washed in soda
/ RI -
! fluffy, and also to give it the golden
brown hue so much admired. Mrs. Pot
ter's copper-colored tresses owe much
of their luster to the frequent washings
in soda and champagne which her maid
| gives them. Our girl brushes her hair
and braids it in a loose braid; but she
doesn't twist it up into hideous curl pa
| pers. Curling irons have done away
with all of that, and the dear girl is just
as lovely after the ball with all her
sffnery off, as she was during it.
And now she takes bit of silk and
draws it carefully between her teeth. 1t
gets out all the PARTICLES that a tooth
| brush can't reach; then she takes
little orange-wood stick, dips it into
| little round silver thing that holds
powdered orris root, and proceeds to
scour each individual tooth. after which
the toothbrush and cup of warm
water finish the operation. She would
rather do this every night than pay
dentists bills, she says.
OF course, the bath is the most essen
tial thing about the toilet, but our girl
takes hers in the morning. She does
wash her hands and face, however,
with water as hot as she can bear it.
She ases flannel cloth and holds it
ses1c$s minutes against every part of
her face and neck.
Miss Sallie Hargous, who is famous for
her peachy skin, says that she owes it
all to hot water. ''Its the best remedy
in the world for sunburn," says Miss
Sallie, land no one who uses it persist
emily will have pimples or black-heads. ;"
And now the nails must be attended to;
| just little clip here and there with the
scissors, rub with the polisher and a
touch of cold cream to keep them bril-
liant.
There are a thousand and one things
that some girls do after they go to their
rooms at night. They take medicines
and pills and powders and cough syrups;
they use inhalers, atomizers, flesh
brushes, and dumb-bells Our girl has
no need of all these. She sticks to her
ounce of prevention. There are girls,
too, who think they must have some
thing to eat or drink before retiring.
Miss Kathryn Kidder, who appears to
the public as such an ethereal, dainty
creature, eats big saucer of onions
every nigh. She munches them while
her maid combs her hair. And Miss
Dorothy Dene, the young English
actress, sits up in bed until one o'clock in
the morning with novel in her hand
and big plate of cake on her lap. She
! reads the novel and eats the cake; and
| the most astonishing part of it is, not
that she doesn't have indigestion, but
that she doesn't die, for with the cake
she drinks quantities of chocolate.
And now, out goes the light and down
goes the curtain. The scene is done.