The morning news., 1891-09-23
In MY LADY'S BOUDO[R.
THE BELLE OF THIS GENERATION
IS WELL GROoMED.

Beautiful MUST w Crk 1udu5trlOuSly
to accomplish the Purpose-Nature
Is Well In It's Way, but Art is Better.
From the Nero York Advertiser.
Cleanliness is the direct road to beauty" +"
said pretty woman WITH roseleaf COM
plexion and about her an odor of violets.
the other day. MANY women get credit
for being Leautiful when, in truth, they are
only exquisiEely clean. Cleanliness, with
many women, is no longer next to godli-
ness; it is ahead Of it.
"Just let me tell you what pursuing this
entirely immaculate physical condition
means to an ardent devotes of the god, if it
may be called god. She must diet her
self carefully-5ut not necessarily on
things she doesn't ike-to insure a clear
skin and bright ewes.
"All her exercise, from the iolliest spin
on bicycle or gallop through the park to
the contortions and gyrations before her
mirror in the seclusion of her chamber,
which are called beauty exercises is taken
with the one end in view-the increase of
personal beauty. She walks and rides and
drives aud twists and turns and sways and
bends TO take away the too solid flesh from
where it shouldn't be and to add it where
there are angles instead of curves.
''5he has made a science of bathing, and
understands to shade the virtue of Turk
ish, Russian, Roman, vapor, air and sun
baths.
80 attain the high standard Of cleanli-
ness, which is the first step toward beauty,
she must take Turkish or Russian bath
once a week, and that means matter of
from one to three hours and from 50 to S5
With the bath she has her hair shampooed,
which is one of the extras. She has ner
own soap. brush, towels and shampoo, and
would as soon think of being scrubbed by
the common bath brush as of using some
one else's toothbrush. After her bath she is
rubbed down with alcohol or a toilet water
that comes at S3 pint, or if she isn't plump
enough to suit herself she adopts Roman
custom and enjoys the luxury OF an oil rub.
Then, rolled in q warm sheet, her feet
wrapped in a warm towel, and the at
tendaut seated near her head tanning her
hair dry, she llesIon a couch and enjoys a
nap. The nap over, manicure takes the
towel from her feet and files and rounds and
pollshes the roenails into a senbanca of
what nature intended before pointed -toei
shoes perverted. She doesn't touch her
tinger-nails, however. They are reserved
for the visi ing manicure, who comes twice
a week, at 81 a visit. AID who knows the
latest style in fngernails In the Princess Of
Wales set.
"No sensible woman, who has any re-
gard for her figure and her color, eats much
after her bath.a A cup Of bouillon or glass
of really good clare6, with few waters,
suffices till she gets luncheon at home.
"When the manicure makes her bi-weekly
visits she finds madame in lner boudior with
tiny table iu easy reach, on which are a
crystal bowl half filed with tepid, scented
water, and silver tray holding the i'm
plements, paste and powder necessary. The
tray and its little collection If, of silver,
represents an outlay of from $25 to $50,
and it usually is OF silver.
MADAME inserts the tips OF her fingers
in the scented water for a few minutes
Then the manicure files the softened nails
into the most approved shape, rubs away
the feathery edges with the sand boards, )
trims away the little tag ends with the tiny
curved scissors, rubs Off the stain aud un-
covers the ''moonn with a cleansing acid,
applies the rose paste or vaseline or cream.
whatever Is the fashion, with a soft little
finger tip, touches each nail lightly with
the powder, and polishes it with the buffer
till the ten of them shine like opals. Then
she says: How beautiful madame's hands
look to-day and madame looks them over
III seif-satisfied way, and SAYS with q
smile. They'll do very nicely
"Once a month the hairdresser makes a
visit to keep the bang aud loose locks in be-
coming limits, and to singe all the ends Of
the back hair.
'Tf madame has arrived at the age when
she has wholesome fear of wrinkles and
crows feet, or sees plumpness intruding and
destroying clean outlines, the masseuse is
summoned ard madame undergoes a mas
sage treatment that costs, by the time the
desired result is obtained, not less than a
dollar per square inch.
There is the morning bath, which is no
longer simple matter of water, soap and
towels. The water must be perfumed by
dlssolving in it tablet that is worth its
weight In silver, or by liberal dash of toilet
water that is double the price of the choicest
extra dry, A bag Of iris powder, or some
thing equally fragrant and soothing, takes
the place OF the oid-time plebian washrag
and a silver tray holds soap at not less than
40 cents a cake, and ivory or silver-backed
flesh and nail brushes that cost money
enough to supply a poor family
with coal during a hard winter.
When beauty steps out of her bath she
is fragrant as whole bouquet of exotics.
and she doesn't waste the fragrance on the
orthodox bath towel, but with softest linen
pats away unnecessary moisture. wrans
her bath-rObe around her, sli os her feet into
her sandals aud lies down for a few min
utes. Then from neck to heel comes a coats
ing OF velvety powder, and she is ready for
the dainty garments that lie batween sach-
cts absorbing sweetest odors.
"Her dressing table, with its array OF
brushes, hand mirrJrs, bottles and iars
suggest something Of the mysteries OF the
fashionable toilet, and the fact that 500
900, coo is spent in America each year for
cosmetics speaks for itself
There's an atomizer filed with perfume
made especially for the hair. ard this she
sprays on the cloud of silky locks that she
shaker out over her shoulders.
"rhis same hair comes in for goodlv
share of attention, for every night. before
she goes to bed, it must be brushed this way
and that till her scalp tingles with the vigor
of the strokes, and every crimp and curl
that was made in the morning by irons
must like smooth aud silky. Then it is
braided with as much care as if she were
going to ball. aud the end tied with a
pretty ribbon, the same shade as that in
the neck OF her night dress. II a strand too
much comes out, some tonic she has faith In
is rubbed iuto the roots, and the brushing is
done with increased vigor and care.
"The dainty woman doesn't use washes
and heavy powders on her face, nor psrcep-
tibly darken her brows and lashes, nor tint
her hair so 'he who runs may read It's
not in her nature to d. it. She may resort
to artif1ce, but she does it so artfullv that
she deserves eternal gratitude And, as for
the time she wastes in her self no!nting,
who can even think of it when she appears
on the scene like dewy wild rose or dove
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