The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-05
AN OLD BEAUTY-BooK.
An Ancient CHEMISTS Recipes for Blemish
Cures-Curious Compounds.

An Ancient Chemists Recipes for Blemish
Cures-Curious Compounds.
Among the things Christmas brought
me was choice little antique receipt
book, and am willing to share its con-
tents with the general public.
The Ladies Cabinet, the title page in
forms US, is collection of the newest,
most select and valuable receipts for all
sorts of cosmetic washes, oils, unguents,' -
etc. Useful in repairing lost beauty and
procuring handsomeness. Published for
the general good, after many years ex-
perience of the efficacy and excellence OF
every one of them, by 81. v, phylo-
chymist and medicus. - The "excel-
lence'' is as clear today as when written,
for many of the receipts remain unsur-
passed. A pungent sense expresses itself
in very good English, as in the preface.
''To the Fair Sex,'' which is worth quot
ing $50 year later.
although piety and modesty, virtue
and good sense, wit and ingenuity, and
such other ornaments of the mind
ought to be the only objects of men s
affections, yet since the frailty of human
nature inclines US more to listen to our
senses than to our Judgment, and the
outside by being most seen does soonest
captivate or repel the adorer's heart, it
must be allowed an innocent, at least, if
not necessary, care in the fair sex to cul-
tivate beauty
The fair sexi One thinks of the collec-
tions of women seen where they most
congregate, in shops and church, con-
ventions and in travel. Is it necessary
that women should so rapidly fall into
uglyhood, almost before they enter the
thirties, certainly before they are out of
them? Need they grow sallow, coarse,
with gray, thinning hair, jaded eyes and
fUrrowed foreheads, when they have hus-
bands to work for them, to keep the
heaviest cares from them, and there is no
lack of the comforts and pleasures in
their lives?
At the best, their faces broaden into an
expression of commonplace comfort,
without one trace of the ideal which re-
deems life, and for which men married
them.
1t is no wonder such women complain
that their husbands and sons cease to
show affection for them. A soulless
fidelity is all they can expect from their
sons. When there is nothing lovely it is
hard to love. We may mend our author
nocent care in the women to cultivate
beauty.
HFor many, very many Beauties he
goes on to say. are spoiled and entirely
lost by the possessor's negligence. For if
beauty, as it undoubtedly is, be the kind
gift of heaven, can you fair charmers
think yourselves guiltless in permitting
that flower to fade for want of culture. -
Is not that courtly, persuasive way of
1Er ax-6T fG1 ha nl
neglect of women who must work long
hours in close shops and live in cheap
boarding houses, where good food, baths
and personal care are unheard of. But
women with decent husbands who sup
port and care for them, are blind to their
own interests when they fail into ugly
and unwholesome ways. Pretty dress
may catch a man, but he wants the spring
and suppleness of health and lasting
youth, the play OF spirits and natural wit
to complete the charm.
Casting about for 'ssecrets of beauty, -
seeking to replace or renew their lost
destinations, women eagerly patronize
the ssface bleaches'' and creams, the
ssfairy waters" and ssbloom of roses, y
put up by unprinciDled vendors who
charge 81 for two ounces Of refined lard,
made causIic with potash, which elm
percepti1ly eats away the dead skim and
they try the sticky creams of glycerine
and bismuth or zinc-white, which has as
much effect on saHow, porous, coarse
compilations as on the back of a kid glove.
Perhaps the nostrum purports TO be
some newly discovered mineral spring,
which is tabled TO bleach the face from
tan, morphew and freckles. The adver-
tisements are wide and Understanding,
or effusively affectionate to readers.
Il l..
druggist in one OF the first houses in the
country within week, taking up the
newest quackery in a freckle lotion from
the case, ''that will never sell with our
customers. The woman who makes it
does not even know how to put it up.
She has it in second-hand bottles, with
dirty corks, and the bottles are not even
rinsed clean. She depends on her adver-
Using entirely to sell her stuff. 1t won t
go down with us, can tell you.''
He spoke from the trade standpoint
alone, the contents of bottles being as in
different to him as the literary merit OF
books to publisher.
The trade mark of quackery was on the
label in bad printing and broken spelling,
as directions were to apply the wash 'still
the skin peals from the face.n The maker
undoubtedly sells the freckle wash to
make money, but 81 for six-ounce bot
tie is rather high price for javelle water,
cents a gallon. Dilute the javelle water
dear to laundresses as bleach for wash
ing Iinen-dilute it with five times it's
a more eficacious freckle wash than the