Morning journal and courier., 1892-12-01
Some stage Secrets.

Paris Correspondence of the London TRUTH
Gentlemen and ladies belonging to the
house of Moliere have utter faith in the
power of art to prop up and repair when
nature fails to keep on giving the face
the bloom of youth. But each of them
has tricks of the toilet which he or she
would not for the world divulge to any
one else. It is thought (so stroug 10 the
feeling that secrets of this kind are worth
being kept ungentleman-like or unlady-
like for members of the Francois to en-
ploy the femme-de-cbambre or Wallets
whom their fellow-players have dismissed.
In the course Of some pleasant blabbing
talks cleaned few toilet secrets which
give for what they may be worth.
1t ia generally supposed that the best
way to whiten the teeth is to get good
bleaching dentifrice. This il a mistake.
The tooth-powders for making yellow
teeth look nice only ruin them. Should
one wish to dazzle in smiling, the thing IL
to redden the lips and to leave the teeth
alone. It may be objected that painted
lips would never do In the crude light or
proximity of an afternoon or garden par
ty. There are all sorts of contrivances to
meet sunlight VIGOROUSLY. One is the
veil of roseate tulle, that covers the lips
and makes the whole face glow, even
where 1t is most thickly busted with white
powder. Another is the false lip. French
ingenuity is boundlees and above preju-
dice. Some inventive person has 1atterly
hit upon a means for securing cherry-ripe
and humid lips, just like those of young
country girl in rude health; but have no
hot he Cd 90 &.
The false lip is made of specially pre-
pared and supple kind of parchment,
hardly thicker than film. The under sur
face is covered with carmine and strong
ly adhesive pigment, and the whole is so
realistic and nicely crinkled that when ap-
piled 1t looks exactly like q young lip.
The outer edge of the parchment may be
hidden with pearl powder or little paint.
The wearer of the false lips can often
moisten them by petits coups de lange.
Should one wish to reverse the effect of
youthful freshness the false lip should be
painted a pale lilac, more BLUSH than
pinkish. The person wearing 1t would
then have an aspect so woebegone as to
BILE. If the nose be wanting in distinction
wax well applied will remedy this defect.
Wax tells best at the end of the nose. OF
at the nostrils to helm the nodeIIer There
are now waxes specislly manufactured to
resist heat. The Grevin museum gave q
new impetus to the manufacture of flesh
oolored wax. To make up about the ewes
one should watch natures methods in
dealing with the Young and the elderly.
You NAV have noticed That the nnner lids
of the former are pink and the lower ones
region of the ewes to harmo1ize with the
oherry-ripe Inns. IF Won want Il To 90
with the bluish-lilac ones reverse the pro,
cess. The hair is an important factor in
an artificial harmony. An elderly lady
who goes in for keeping her tresses dark
looks at least ten wears older than her real
age. She would do much better to remain
gray. But with Venetian blonde hair and
the other aids to beauty that I have lust
| mentioned she may seem Younger than her
birth certificate makes her ont. The Ro-
man ladies were not LONG In finding this
ont. and hid their years Nv borrowino The