Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-12-13
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
INTERESTING GOSSIP FOR THE
WOMEN.
A New Calamity Under which SO-
ciety In Now aboriaE-CulttSate q
Capacity for Tears-Card Etiquette
Coming Fashions.

Whether or not it is owing to the dis
tins1lished example of her royal high
ness the princess Of Wales. who has
taken to replacing the tints OF her
youth by manufacturing roses, it is
certain that painted cheeks are more
often seen than they have been for a
decade or so. 1t is no longer safe to
assume that a woman is either qualify
ing for lunatic asylum or arrayed Tor
amateur theatricals when she appears
with steady. evenly painted flush all
over her cheeks 1t is not long since
there was felt To be something not only
absurd but even disreputable about
rouge NOW it glows upon the faces OF
the eminently correct, and not even the
supposedly sensible are free from arti-
fetal colorins The rouge pot is no
longer hidden in the dark recesses of a
drawer. 1t lies beside the powder box,
ENJOYING equal honor and publicity with
that ON the top Of milady'S dressing
table.
Why women should paint is q mys-
terry to the minds of all those who see
the results To be sure. color is beauti-
full. 1t indicates health. 1t is de-
light to the eye But only the color
that is produced by health. by the Wig
orous courSing OF rich. wel-nouriShed
blood through the veins. only the color
that fluctuates with changing emotions.
is beautiful The highest beauty the
face has is the beauty of varying ex-
preston Anything liked and steadfast.
therefore. is opposed to beauty. And
~ rH rel Of rod
laid upon a pale face. liked there with
mathematical precision. immovable ex
cept by untoward accident, is the most
hideous.
Nature has way Of mixing colors
that should be respected. She does not
make brilliantly red cheeks To mock at
dim. old eyes. or at dull. tired eyes.
She does not emphasize the lack of
bloom in sn elderly face by framing it
in glossy black hair. She produces har-
monies eit:,er OF color or of palor and
the woman who uses rouge filings de-
;iance ut nature and makes herself q
spectacle at which gods and men may
righteously leer.
The mere fact that the color produced
by the flow of blood bcnca1h the skin
is as different from that made by the
mixing Of pigments as the SOFT. yelyety
flush Of a rose from the harsh glitter of
cranberry ought TO be enough to deter
woman with any sense Of the beauti-
full from using rouge. The difference is
so marked that child can detect it.
The most disagreeable feature of the
painting habit is not that it is both IN
natural and ugly. though it is these
things. but that it suggests disease.
There is such thing as healthy pallor.
She who covers clear white skin with
paint cannot fail to suggest to the be-
holder that she is trying to mask IN
healthy pallor The world has an I'M
charitable way Of believing that all dis
guises cover something unwholesome,
and when women lay on what they
mistakenly believe to be the hue Of
health with brush it is natural to
think that they are trying to hide the
hue Of extreme il-health. Sickness
even suggested sickness-is unpleasant,
and that is another reason why rouge
should be confined 10 its old place on
the stage dressing table.