The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-09-04
HOW SHE RETIREs,
Arts Practiced by Young Ladies'
Before Going to Bed.
Some OF the Secrets Of My Lady's Dress
iuG-Room Disolosed--Treatment for
the Nails, Teeth and Complex
ion-The Evening Bath

a man Will 90 to his room at night,
and II there Isn't match handy, he
won't even trouble to get light.
He simply gets out Of his duds as
quickly as possible and jumps into bed
without more ado.
Now, writes "Carrie Careless" in the
Chicago News, let us watch girl and
consider her ways:
First OF all she must have light, and
q 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
parry, but that doesn't make any differ
ence. A girl has regular way of going
to bed that she does not depart from on
any account.
The moment she enters the room she
goes straight to the dresser and looks
in the glass, I have seen a girl 90
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
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 chanadre-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
toned-just tied with ribbons. Next
the hair-pins come out, and down falls
the hair. It has been washed in soda
or ammonia once q month to make it
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 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
f1nery 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 tooth
brush can't reach; then she takes q
little orange-wood stick, dips it into a
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 che can bear it,
She uses flannel cloth and holds II
several minutes against every part Of
her face and neck.
| Miss Sallie Hargous, who is famous FOL
her peachy skin, says that she owes II
all to hot water. "Its the best remedy
in the world for sunburn," says Mis-
Sallie, 'and no one who uses 1t persist
entity will have pimplesor black-heads.
And now the nails must be attended to
just little clip here and there with th'
scissors, rub with the polisher and =;
touch Of cold cream to keep them bril-
liant. ...
There are thousand and one thing
that some girls do after they 60 to thei
rooms at night. They take medicines
and pills and powders and cough syrups
they use inhalers, atomizers, flesl
brushes, and dumb-bells. Our girl ha
no need of all these. She sticks to he
ounce Of prevention. There arc girls
too, who think they must have some
thing to eat or drink before retiring.
Miss Kathryn Kidder, who appears t.
the public as such an ethereal, daint,
creature, eats a big saucer of onion
every nigh:. She munches them whil,
her maid combs her hair. And Mis-
Dorothy Dene, the young Englisl
actress, sits upin bed until one o'clock i,
the morning with novel in her hant
and big plate of cake on her lap. Sh'
reads the novel and eats the cake; AND
the most astonishing part Of it is, no
that she doesn't have indigestion, bu
that she doesn't die, for with the CAKE
she drinks quantities Of chocolate.
And now, out goes the light and dowz
goes theeurtain- The scene is done.
Wanderings OF = Needle.
| Fergus MCCARTHY, of Philadelphia, was