The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-03-13
SOME SECRETS OF MAKING UP.
II Woman Must Use Artificial Color
She Can do 10 without Rouge.

II Woman Must Use Artificial Color
She Can do II without Rouge.
The idea of making up" is extreme
ly distasteful and suggestive of the bal
let to the woman of refined taste, and
yet such is the delicacy of coloring in
most American faces that in the blaze
of brilliant lights their beauty seems
faded, or is lost altogether. Particu-
larry is this noticeable in boxes at the
theatre or opera, where the glare of the
footlights increases the pallor of deli
cate women, and dims the coloring even
of the freshest and fairest youthful
faces.
The great beauties of bygone ages
owed much of their triumph to the
secrets of the toilet, but, unfortunate
", SO jealously were these secrets guard
ed that they were buried with their
owners. But since it is every woman's
bounden duty and privilege to make
the best of the beauty which she pos
sesses. whether the Creator has en-
lowed her with a greater or lesser share
of charms, little chapter on the
..makeup" for ladies may interest some
fair reader.
Some one wise in the arts suggests
that the appearance of the neck and
arms is always most pleasing in evening
dress when they have been sponged
with perfumed tepid water, thoroughly
dried, and then bathed with a lotion
composed of equal parts of glycerine
and rose water. While this is still
damp a thick coating of powder is ap-
piled with puff and left on till the
last moment. If it is then rubbed in
thoroughly but gently, the skin will
seem beautifully white, and all traces
of powder will have disappeared.
The scarlet tint of the lips is intensi-
fed by wetting them with perfume,
and when that has dried touching them
with cold cream to soften them. This
treatment should not be applied very
often, as the delicate membrane of the
lips may become hard and dry.
Powder on the face shows less if APP
piled with n bit of chamois rather than
puff, or if puff is used the powder
should DO rubbed gently into the skin
with harc's foot or small soft brush
such as is used on babies heads.
Eyebrows are wonderfully improved
by rubbing good brilliantine into them,
and then coaxing or training them into
proper curves with q fine tooth comb
or the fingers. The brilliantine does
away with the need of the actors pen
Gil as it darkens the hair.
There was once q famous lady who
tinted her cheeks with mashed straw
berries washed off with milk, but the
inexpensive and easily obtained garden
beet will give the cheek as fair and
natural q bloom, and can in no sense
be construed as rouge or paint. Just
why it is so much more shocking to use
q bit of color on the cheeks than any
amount of powder on the face and
arms and shoulders is bit difficult to
comprehend, but such seems to be tho
prevalent opinion among conservative
women.
The homely vegetable is simply cut
with knife, and left to drain it's juice
out for beauty's use. The liquid should
be applied with a came's hair brush,
and toned down after it dries with a
coating of powder. But the woman
who uses it must have such artistic in
SEPARATIONS and nicely of execution that
even her most intimate friends will
never imagine that she is "made up"
or the whole process will result in dis
astrous failure.-New York Sun.