, 1890-11-06
SCIENTIFIC BEAuTIFYINa.
Results Of Girls Attempts TO Aid
Nature.

Results Of a Girls Attempts TO Aid
Nature.
San Francisco Examiner.l
Once upon n time-a recent time
there was a charming girl who
wished to be more charming. She
had n clear, soft complexion, but
she was always pale. Her eyebrows
were not dark enough to suit her, |
and in her moments of deep humil-
ity she contided to her dearest friend |
the conviction that she was 'pasty"
and eXpressionless.
She read somewhere that vigor-
Gus rubbing with crash towel
dipped in Ice water would bring to
her checks the color she coveted,
and that it would keep them rosy
for two or three hours afterward.
She forgot that this was meant for
thick skins and that hers was as
thin as an cggshell's lining. The
result OF her experiment was an un-
natural flush that lasted for an even
ing and n brace of nice little brown
patches, the monuments of de-
lbui teNt SttlClt, NbiCb oBDNoiNo WV
next morning and kept her indoors
for nearly two weeks.
Somebody wrote that a decoction
Of tea leaves would dye pale eye
brows permanent brown, and she
rubbed the blackest infusion of the
blnckest tea into the golden brown
arches over her eyes until there was
u shedding of discouraged eyebrows
on all her towels; and then she de-
cided that eyebrows of any color
were preferable to no eyebrows at
all, and threw away the tea.
The punice stone was recon-
mended as sovereign softener of
rebellious roughnesses and q reliable
remover Of superfuous hairs; so she
bought piece aud used it once as
an adjunct to her morning bath.
An hour afterward she found that
she was a human monolith, streaked
with hieroglyphic red scratches in
every direction, and two weeks af-
terward all the soft little baby hairs
that had been rubbed off her downy
upper lip and dimpled chin at the
roots by the pumice stone had grown
again as tiny bristles and had
brought reinforcements with them.
! She saw bearded future yawning
before her and sadly laid in small
pair of tweezers with which TO
swoop down upon every whislSer
which presented length enough for
"a nip.
She read that Turkish baths were
the lovcliest purifiers of the skin
known to man, and skinned over
the note that suggested consulta-
ton with the family physician be-
fore they should be taken by per-
sons with little vitality or excessive
heart activity. One bath contented
her. for she was borne out of the hot
box in u dead faint and employed
that tired feeling" for a week after.
One counselor told her to keep
soap away from her face as If it were
II "leprous distillment," and another
assured her that she would never
have n perfect complexion until she
used soap as freely In her face ablu-
lutions AZ she did in washing her
hands. One recommended diluted
ammonia ian excellent thing for
oily skins and another almond oil
| (Which Is II specific for dry skins,
, and this girl tried both. She brought
out n symmetrical crop of pimplcs
, by taking n medicine which was
. recommended for an entirely differ
ent sort of constitution, and over
taxed all her vital organs by course
, of exercise which was arranged for
, girls of twice her vitality and four
, times her muscular activity.
. She took rest when all her
muscles needed exercise, and
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, out for rest, and her Baths We're cold
1 when she needed the nerve relaXa-
, tion and soothing of hot water aud
Q steam, and hot when she needed
' the bracing and invigorating effect
of cold plunge and quick rubbing
\ down. In fact, she took all the
> beauty recipes as if they were so
' many pills that could be mixed up
4 aud portioned out without any re
lation to the ailments they were to
[ cure or the constitutions for which
r they were proportioned.
Her last effort was a thinly-pad-
: ded white mask which she dipped
Q in milk and put on every night,
r and q pair Of enormous mittens
=. stuffed with bran and oatmeal pud-
| ding. She had settled herself for
A the night with these decora-
| tions very much in evil
3 dence, and her hair in pappillotes.
9 When her mother came to herroom,
and upon sight of this object fell
= into u violent fit of Mysteries, which
D brought the entire family upon the
r scene.
t That was the end of Mademoi-
: selle's scientific beautifying. Her
4 father made IA few remarks on the
. following morning which closed the
: case as eifectually rs that of the
1 Vicar of Wakefield's daughters was
, closed by that excellent Clergyman
{ when he discovered them in the
: cooking of cosmetics. Neither of
1 these cstimable gentlemen had the
= modern idea that beauty is an ac-
e durable thing, and not n mere acci-
e dent of birth. They would have
t agreed with Sir John Sucking
/ about that sort of good looks that
There's no such thing as that We beauty
cal,
/ 1t is mere cozenagc all.
I A PRETTY STORY.
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