St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-09

mocracy Evidently this Wing was IN error.
II belongs bv right TO these noble danes and
damsels who fear lest drops of wafer shall
heck the whiteness of their pearly faces.
What do they, then? Go dirty faced? No;
they wipe tenderly their dimpled cheeks
with bit of chamois skin. If they can
afford the process, they become enameled.
Pshaw! We do not believe a word of it. 1t
Is a libel on society wOmen-on woman as q
woman.
But. really, is not the greater part of what
is written for ladies gush of utter non
sense? To judge from this, one might be led
to believe there were women whose whole
existence is drawn out agony of endeavor
by every vile and device to be-
come beautiful, EN- regle for polite
society. TO this end personal COM
fort is sacrificed. A degree of martyrdom is
endured that. in any other cause. woud be
heroic. The poor votary of fashion is told
Qn the intervals of rouge and POWDER to
wear tread ana milk poulticeS upon her face.
Or better, avail herself of Nine. KS
special mask. How one is to manage The
eyelids is not laid down. We infer that the
proverbial heroine of romanceS. who appears
of morning With dark circles under her.
eyes, has worn This prescribed poultice or
mask aforesaid. Surely, who could rest
whose eyes were weighed down by both poui
tice and peoples of the dear god Morpheus?
Also, this devotee of fashion is admonished
to go weekly TO the manicure, and with semi
frequency to the chiropOdist. The nail of
the hand of n professional. The
arch of the delicate protector of
the digital extremities must be
shaved and fashioned to an infinitesimnl ex-
actness of nicely. The f1eshy points of this
score of members must be pulled, pinched,
massaged into infantile plumpness of shape.
Al half hour at morn aud half hour at night.
and even intermittent intervals, are to be
spent in polishing ones nails.
" hat dainty piece of mechanism does
become this distorted feminine creation!
She has passed from the finishing. hand Of
the Infinite. through the fashioning modes
and enervating processes of artiSteS till, an
exaggerated silly. insipid monstrosity you
behold her as she is. caricaturc of wom-
anhood.
For one. returning to the first person,
have too much respect for, and too much
faith in. the women of society," as class to
believe that they are those most governed by
these so-called fashionable letter writer's.
Sooner do l think this aping and
fioio wing OF the Ways of actresses
not in the higher walks Of life. The lady
accustomed always to wealth and the refine
mentit brings cannot but be elegant, delicate
and charming; and those less highly fa-
vored attribute this superior grace to an
adoption of those rules which flood the pa
pers ard magazines, and which, if
long time followed will be sure
to render their faces blotched PIN
pied and altogether uni eautiful An
deiuging Instructions: 1t is not enough that
face fingers and feet must be manipulated,
but the soul, if that can be found. is to be
called into requisiiion to govern the express
sion of the countenance and to control all
emotion. To smile, to be surprised. TO be
pleased or disp!eased. is not to be though of.
And SO even the seamstress thinks she must
become an automaton. I would not be mis-
understood. The heart may not be worn
upon the sleeve. pearls may hot be cast be-
fore swine; but would as lief my two lips
were sown up by that terror of childhood
the devils darnIng needle-as be obliged for
ever TO lie thinking how shall l act, what
shall / say, and how do l look? To have
every faculty OF the mind thus drowned in
eternal self-consciousness must be hideous-
equal to an imprisonment tor life.
A great many things might be said by these
letter writer's that would be tar more useful
and far less deletericuS in their applications,
than these Accommodations of boutades, paga-
teiles and rodomon.ades that fill endless col
umns of valuable space
MINNIE MARY LEE.