Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-22

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GSSsG lare very few words to the process.
GSMSlG They understand the art of being
GesNSTI good to themselves. In the first
place they are very clean; that is, the pretty
ones are. You won't see . really charming
woman in any class who isn't given to personal
cares more than the rest / went into wo-
mems meeting in the basement of a city church
the other day out of curiosity, and if the truth
has to be told on the Testament none Of them
would ever be martyred for their beauty, and
not one looked as if she knew the virtue of hot
water and soap for herself. The only right
pretty one was flirting with the minister's
handsome son, who was usher in the infant
lass room outside, by the big heater. To
match those mission women for LONELINESS you
could only think of the girls in theater
chorus. The extremes Of female ugliness
are found in the two collections of women.
A smart young man here says he thinks that
the homelest women in America are banded
together under the name of Kings Daughters,
but don't pronounce on the opinion because
l never knew Kings Daughter by name.
heard OF one last night, a maid of all work.
VINO scrubbed the front steps and made the
nre, tended the furnace and ran errands and
swept and cleaned, worked the machine and
carried coal up three flights for 81. 80 a week,
every cent OK which she saved to give an aunt
with a drunken husband. while she boarded
scrap IRON, rags, paper and old shoes to sell to
get few pence for herself She never could
have paid dollar fee or bought badge in the
world, but she was gentleness, faithfulness and
unseihshness tpersonified, without any organi-
eaton to make her 30. I'm going to get up
early some morning and go round to get look
at tnat girl while she scrubs the steps. BalZac
or victor Hugo or De Maupassant would find .
heroine in that slave of charwoman.
STAGE BEAUTIES.
But how do the sirens of the stage attain that
peculiar melting plumpness, like Kitty Blanch-
ard, Nelly Stevens Lillian Russell and Georgia
Cayvan? You will see them in the restaurants
after the play supping quite demurely, or meet
them full face on the ladies mile between
23d street and the Metropolitan opera house.
where their compilations show charmingly, as
young society buds do not always. The linen
woman at our hotel who used to be on the stage,
took up the parable as follows: Stage beauties
as rule have peculiar training. Few of
them have enough to eat when they are chill
dren. and they have to work hard till they gain
success, and then work hard to keep it.
girl who has never known what it was to have
too much to eat, and who has run errands
after rouge saucers for actresses or sew
ing silk and buttons for dressmaker till
she Is In her teens, gets thin skin which don't
show blemishes easily, and when she has little
easier life and takes to the study and fixes up q
little it seems like paradise to her, compar-
lngly. When the girls begin to try to flesh up
h.
with a little of the least ever is in it, and
they are always taking physic if anything is
the matter, they are SO afraid Of being laid
aside. The English girls always take Beech
ans. but Americans stand by castor oil. If
they have a cold on the chest and their insldes
are out of order with the horrid board they
have to put up with there's nothing brings 'em
right like dose of oil, any time of day or
night 1t carries the cold off in two or three
hours and leaves their heads as clear as a bell
FOR COMPLEXION
every one Of them has some device or other
private of her own. One takes the skin off of
suet and binds it on her face, another wears
surgeons plaster to soften it, but to my notion
there's nothing like bread and milk poultice
used regularly. More stage beauties owe their
complexlons to this than you will ever get EN-
to own. Take the crumb of bakers bread and
steep it in milk and warm it just as you put it
on, with linen cloth over, and you've no idea
how fair 1t leaves the face. 1t seems to plump
the face, take out the lines and whiten it lust
as you whiten chicken by boiling it in milk
and water Sulphur and milk or molasses
clear the face beautifully and keeps the flesh
down too It's nonsense about the paint and
powder worn three or four hours on
the stage spelling the face if it is cared
for other ways. II you go to bed and
sleep with it on, of course it don't
do any good, but actresses as a rule now know
how to take care of themselves better than thev
used to, better than any other class of women,
really. They wash the face and neck off well
IN hot water before making up, and while the
skin is warm rub it with cocoa butter or the
grease sold for the purpose, which is almost
the same, and powder over that. paint and add
the lines with a whole palette of crayons that
come for the purpose, with a big book OF plates
for making up the face in character. Then be-
fore you leave the theater this is all washed Off
the face well veiled-you'll see the stage ladies
very particular about their veils-and before
they go to bed the face ought to get another
wash in hot water. That leaves it fair enough,
and the stage paint don't amount to more than
the cold cream ladies sleep in over night"
ARTS OF BEAUTY.
Young ladies studying for the stage are de-
voted students Of the arts of beauty, for talent
is not always accompanied by attraction. The
Deisarte movements and the Dowd gymnastics
bring out the muscles better than the Ling or
Swedish system. As usual the schools which
are enthusiastic over theories of gymnastics
adopt the system which does the least practi-
cal good 1t Is the easiest and so commends
itself to the pupil who feels no interest in the
exercises and shirks work as far as possible.
By singularly illogical process these school
gymnastics are supplemented in some families
by the eccentric movements detailed by
female lecturer under the sO-called advice Of
a German physician. 1t is only necessary to
mention the pivot exercises, in which the
muscles below the waist are twisted and
squirmed about in a way to set the beholders
in torture by sympathy, practice said to OBJ
viate all weaknesses of the hips, but which
would bring them on in most cases. Such vio-
lent and unnatural methods bring on more
displacements and distortions than all the
house and garden work of which women are
capable.
BATH AND REST.
After the exercises comes the bath, which
improves in luxury and efficacy year by
year. A few favored beauties in California
know the tonic effect of wine baths, which are
administered with some economy by taking a
warm water bath first and when the pores are
open entering a wooden tub containing cask
Of red wine, which does duty over and over
again. Or bath towels are soaked in wine and
laid on the person after a warm dip. and GER
tainly the wine bath is very refreshing and re-
timing to the skin. Fifteen minutes is the
proper time for the application either way. 1t
also whitens and softens the hands to soak
them in a basin of red wine.
baths are delightful. though a private bath is
to be preferred to public one by a person of
the least refinement. People ought to be a
great deal more fastidous about baths and con-
veniences for washing than they are. A woman
Of spurious refinement will make furious fuss
If some dirty water happens to fall into her
bath tub, while she contentedly permits her
family and guests to battle in a dark rough
ened zinc tub which never shows whether it is
clean or not and which can hardly he claanad