The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-03-24
woM6N WHO WANT TO BE BEAUTIFUL

"0"Ar WHO WANT TO BE BEAUTIFUL
How the Foolish Creature Is Gulled by
Washes and Lotions.
New York is paradise for vendors of
cosmetics for women, treatises on how to
reduce the flesh or increase the avoirdu-
pois of the body, hair restorers, bleaching
processes for the hair and a score of other
things, all having in view the making of
women more beautiful than they are.
There are scores of places in New York
for the removing of superfluous hair from
the face, for bleaching hair, for the treat
ment of the skin, and there are no end of
patent medicines sold for all sorts of pur-
poses, the end in view being to make the
human form somewhat more divine. The
men and women who run these beautify-
ing parlors reap large rewards for little
labor. The more preposterous the prob
lem is of making women beautiful, the
easier it is to furnish some high sounding
medicine or cosmetic or wash at large
price. Thus it comes that there are for
tunes for the proprietors of these places,
and foolish women spend no end of money
in trying to remain young or to add to
their physical charms.
There is one place in New York where a
fortune is made every year by the sale of
wash that is said to remove freckles. Now
every body knows that a freckle on a wom
ans face is the one thing that will keep
her awake day and night. There is no way
that she can forget it. Sleeping she dreams
of it, and waking She is constantly rubbing
it with some sort of composition that has
been recommended and that usually costs
dollar or two a bottle Perhaps after
the lotions for the face there is nothing in
which so much barefaced fraud is exhibit
ed as in preparations for the hair-washes
to make gray hair black, washes to keep
the hair from falling out, washes to make
straight hair curly, washes for a score of
other real or imaginary troubles that wom-
en- imagine aflict their crown of glory. 1t
costs only little money to put up some
sort of wash, giving it high sounding
name, that can be sold to foolish women
for almost any purpose. It is in this way
that the proprietors of identifying parlors
make large fortunes, for after one lotion or
wash becomes SO we'll known that its fraud
is perfectly evident, it is put up in another
kind of bottle, given another name, and
the sale of it continues.
As an evidence of how foolish some wom-
en- are when personal beauty is being con-
sidered, l heard day or two ago of a
young lady of twenty who went into one
of these identifying parlors determined to
find out if there was any remedy for de-
creasing the size of her feet. She exhibited
to the woman in charge well formed feet,
but complained that she thought they
were too large for her body and besides
were not beautiful. Couldn't something
be done, either to keep them from growing
larger, or, if possible, to reduce them in
size a trifle. Of course the woman who
makes a fat living out of quilting silly
women declared that it was the easiest
thing in the world to make large feet
small. So the dainty miss took off her
silken stockings, her feet were bathed in
lotion of some kind and then tightly
wrapped with pieces of stout linen, and
she was asked to recline on lounge for an
hour.
She suffered the most excruciating
agony, and was told that a daily repeti-
ton of the bandaging process was neces-
sary, and so she would have to return once
day for at least couple of months be-
fore there could be seen any noticeable de-
crease in the size of her pedal extremities.
In consideration of the fact that she would
have to call each day for such a length of
time she would only be charged So visit.
The silly girl paid the money unhesitat-
ingly, is daily suffering the tortures of the
inquisition, and is looking forward to the
no distant time when she will be able to
wear No. shoe.-Foster Coates in New
York Mail and Express.