Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-10-01
Mount Vernon,
February 10, 1887.
A POINT OF FEMININE BEAUTY.
Some Women Who Have Exquisiteiy
Nodded Necks.

Nodded Necks.
From the New York Sun
Every woman likes TO have q beautiful neck
And every woman who hasn't IL is looking
around for way to get il. A neck NAV be
slender, and, if it is white will look well: but il
the bones stand up as if in opposition to their
existence, veil Of chiffon had better be drawn
over them. neck that is tolerably well COW
cred by flesh may be improved by a very simple
treatment This consists of bathing it every
night with warm water SO that the pores will
open, drying it softly. and before it has time 10
thoroughly cool of giving it gentle massage
with cocoa butter. Now. most people think
that cocoa butter is hard stuff that is solid in
cakes, but it isn't You have got to go to a
drug store to get IL. 1t i about the consist
ency and color of lard. and when il is in a warm
place 1t VIII melt so that il is as thin as sweet
oil. good many actresses use it to take their
makeup off, and that is the veritable cocoa
butter.
Speaking of beautiful necks always suggests
people who possess them. That Of the Princess
Of Wales, which looks so lovely in her pictures.
is not really beautiful for her throat is too long
and her bones. which the kindly photographer
spots out, show very perceptbly. The Counties,
OF Dudley has an exquisite neck. and so ha,
Lady de Grey. Mrs. Langtry's neck aud throat
are absolutely perfect: the poise of her head or
her shoulders and the lines from her ears dow
to her shoulders being absolute Greek. JAM
Hading has beautiful neck. which, unlike that
of most French women, is not too suggestive OF
great fitness. The present Empress of Ger
many has q handsome neck and SO has Nine
Carnot. Mime. Adam has long been celebrated
for the beauty of her neck and shoulders.
In this country it is most noticeable, espe-
cially in Washington, how much handsomer
are the necks of southern women than are
those of women from the east or west. South
ern women always credit their fine necks TO
their eating good food, so that IT is likely that
in the next generation the east and the
west will be equal with the south, for they are
learning the value, as far as personal beauty is
concerned, of good living Fanny Davenport
has beautiful neck, white firm and dimpled.
Mrs. Potter's is decidedly bony. Elsie de
Wolfe's is slender, but white, pretty and well
formed. George Drew Barrymore has a mag
nifcent throat and neck, perfectly nodded
and white milk. tombstone Bennett has
a handsome neck, that is essentially that of
a young woman; unlike many women on the
stage she can wear a low bodice without its
ever being suggestive or immodest
Athletics do not tend to make beautiful
necks, SO that the girl who goes in for out
door sports may be healthy and very wise;
still. as she grows muscular, she takes away
from the feminine appearance of her neck and
is apt to give it rather stringy look How
ever, if she is healthy and wise perhaps she
doesn I care for beautiful neck. and vet il is
the one feminine bit of loneliness that poets.
painters, sculptors and even mere ordinary
men have rayed over from time immemorial