The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-07-09

sfSect but dotted wells, By breaking the
barred lines, prevent any serious affec-
ton Of the vision.
Besides. they cast q soft and tender
shadow beneath the eyes, and soften
. direct gaze into one which be-
comes sympathetic and confiding.
through the fine meshes. They are in
finitely valuable TO the woman with mo
COMPLEXION. She may havesa thousand
tiny bletnishes which thecarefulfy adj
justed dot win conceal, while as for her
smile, the CLEAN OF pearly white teeth
under the dark shadow renders it hope
lessly enchanting.
The art Of adjusting the veil coqact-
tishly belongs % the French woman.
The veil Is thing Of utility to the
English woman. The American woman
Is like her French sister, and to the
Spanish woman alone belongs the skill
full arrangement Of the veil in such
ravishing folds that every good point OF
her features become prominent, and all
the-unpieasanto ones retire into an igno.
minions back ground
A few years ago there was 4 curious
fashion In wells, when oil th3women
were wearing bits Of scarlet tulle
stretched over their faces, which gave
one the idea that scarlatina had ravaged
the city. There was sanother fad for
tulle of absinthe green, pale violet
olive and old gold, which gave the same
CHASTITY effect one has to endure on .
ballet night. when the calcium lights
are on with all their briliiancy.
So, A woman never grows SO confidential
with salesman nor so wretchedly con-
scious as when she buys veil A diff
ference in the size Of the dot is mat
ter for serious discussion; its thickness
is another; its color a thing to be ner-
vously considered; and its length an
other irritating question Shall she
cover only her eyes? Is II the thing to
wear long walls? Doesn't white make
the skin look fairer? isn't black, after
all, preferable? And after all, she is
filled with the consciousness that she is
openly acknowledging her vanity.
Women, however, are not the only
victims of these. longings to render
themselves fair. In the early part OF
the Christian era men affected the veil
as an additional charm to their dress,
and even in A. D. 374 Ambrose speaks
of "silken garments and wells. inter
woven with gold, with which the body
of the rich man was encompassed.
In the tropics to this day the dweller
is obliged to resort to the softening
medium of a veil between his eyes and
the glaring sky, and to the traveller in
dusty lands a veil is an absolute neces-
sity In Washington, several years ago,
a young attache of the French legation
made q tremendous impression by APP
pearing always, when driving. with his
features protected by the folds of a veil
of palest blue tissue.
In writing of wells, it would not be
fair to neglect the mourning veil, which
has done such good service to the sin
cere and insincere bereft ones 1t is
very much the fashion to denounce abb
solutely the Grape veil, which is one
sign 81 mourning, but thezveil-as an in
dication of woe has the authority of the
earliest history among all nations Of
the earth,
In sorrow the mourners OF the olden
time were wont to veil their heads, like
the daughters of Jerusalem; and the
Celtic custom still prevailing in Ireland
to-day of yelling the face with the hair
is a remnant of the more ancient GUS
TOM For the sincere bereft ones the
veil serves as concealment of the
tears, which rise unbidden to eyes
grown used to weeping. 1t serves, too,
as distinct protection from idle or
frivolous conversation.
The abuse and misuse of the mourn
ing veil have led rapidly to its being
discarded, and the Grape bahnertof woe
is more infrequent than informer years
There are those who object to any veil
as pernirious and trivial. But the veil
will live. It enhances the beauty Of the
beautiful; 1t conceals theFblemishes OF
feature which afflict the plain; it gives
expression to an expressionless face,
and protects the ultra mobility Of the
sensitive ones. It's frivolous, yet Sym
pathetic; coquettish, yet graye4at once
a revelation and 4 Disguise. AZ. Y. Con
t1nent N M%& #4