The herald., 1895-03-06
THE NEW WOMAN

women. Red does suit some brunettes,
usually the clear. pale ones, but yellow
suits great many more, and pale Olue IS
often charming for them The fact is
people are far too much influenced by the
names of coiors. No name tells exactly
what a color is, and the subtleties that
can't be put into words are exactly what
makes the difference in actuality. Women
who dress well, or the great professional
artists In dress. go by nothing but the
actual trial of color and complexion to-
gether. 1t is the same way about putting
colors together The woman is lost who
has ittIesrliess about blue and pink going
together, or green and violet not. going
together everything depends on shades.
You've got to put them together and see,
and then if you can't see, If you have no
eye for color, get some one to see for you.
A great deal can be learned by noting
what nature does. She puts green and
flame color together in nasturtiums, but
see what delicate gray greenP'
A southern woman, new in the north,
talking to a New York man, happened to
say that she thought the prettiest women
were usually the most amiable, that social
bellies usually had the sweetest manners
as well as the prettiest faces. That's so
in the South, % said the man, ''but it is
not so with us. In New York | could tell
handsome woman in the dark by the
arrogance of her manner; just in proper
ton to her good looks is her uppishness,
and | will say for her that she generally
has just, well-founded estimate of how
good looking she is" This is in perfect
the ''chaste depravity' of the fashionable
American girls he met. He found their
knowledge of their own points like
brokers' knowledge of stocks and the
market.
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really want to clean your face. Learn. Il
lesson from the actresses. If an actress
tried to wash with soap and water her
nightly makeup from her face, she would
have no skin to speak of in week, to say
nothing about complexion. She never
makes any such mistake. She removes
her makeup with oil, usually and prefer
ably cocoa oil. And she learns by expert
ence to do the same thing when she wants
to get rid of the CRIME OF travel. Oil cleans
the skin more thoroughly than soap and
water, as you can thoroughly demonstrate
after journey or any such soiling expe-
rience. If you don't mind the abuse. OF
your skin for once, just wash your face
after the old fashion as we'll as you can;
then cover it with oil and remove the oil
with soft cloth. One look at the cloth
will prove that the. soap and water did not
get it. clean.
Mrs. Langtry says she still keeps up her
devotion to hot baths. She attri butes her
preservation of her complexion to the
habit. She bathes as much in hot water
al japanese. She says the proper tenn
perature is as hot as you can bear it,
whatever that may be, and that the de-
light of the sensation and the good results
OF the bath depend on having it just that
hot.
A New York woman brought home from
Europe on her last voyage two or three of
the little low high backed chairs that are
used in the cathedrals. She had them
upholstered and turned into prize dieux
for private oratorys, keeping one herself
and giving others to friends. This started
fashion, and now one OF the fancy
dealers is importing these plain little
chairs and making not only praying
desks" of them, but upholstering them
handsomely for bedroom chairs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox is having her petit
coats made on a peculiar pattern invent
ed by herself or as she says by her hus-
band and herself together. She dotes on
white petticoats and so does he (for her;
it is not meant that he wears them him
selt), but she concluded that she paid for
a great deal of unnecessary laundrying.
So the new garment is made in two
pieces, a top and deep fiounce that but
tons onto it. The fiounce can be changed
as many times as You like and buttoned
on to the top piece. al
Mrs. Governor Morton, the ''first lady"
of New York state, has great talent in
dressing and it is sign Of it that she has
recently taken to wearing Princess of
Wales collars with her full dress toilettes.
plexion fresh beneath her silver-gray hair,
but her throat is no longer the throat of
girl and she has no need of undulY i'm
pressing the public with this fact. The
Princess of Wales invented this deep,
closet fitting necklace to hide scar on her
neck, but it is useful for softening various
defects.
Women can make for themselves some
dainty conserves of flowers that are spe-
cially recommended as giving dainty
perfume to the breath and lips. They
are made from violets or very highly per-
fumed roses or carnation pinks. Take
half pound of loaf sugar and moisten
with rose water; melt the sugar slowly
until it reaches the boiling point; have
your violet, or rose, or carnation petals
ready, and stir them quickly in the liquid,
then pour the whole into shallow dishes
or pans.
The State Entomologist of Massachu-
sets has been making himself useful by
looking up the ways of the carpet beetle.
He warns housekeepers that they had
better be on the lookout for them as early
as February. They are particularly fond
of attacking red carpeting, are these es-
thetic beetles. Paper under carpets pre-
vent their attacking the under side, es-
pecially If the cracks of the floor have
been saturated with benzine.
Mrs Frederick W. Vanderbilt has fancy
of her own in note paper. 1t is sort of
cross between the old correspondence card
and the ordinary sheet. 1t is so small that
it is put in the rather big square envelope
unfolded, and on some OF the paper, such
as is dedicated to- very intimate CORE
spondence, the upper left hand corner is
decorated with her Christian name,
Lulu, in gilt script. All her station
cry is French gray or pale gray blue.
A New York woman was recently doing
the sights in Chester, England, and at
Eaton Hall, the Duke of Westminster
place, the cicerone showed her some bat
le-flags captured at the Battle of Bunker
Hill, remarking in her tactful British
way that as she twas Hamerican they
would probably especially interest her,
she was. equal to the occasion and said:
"I don't mind seeing them, for if you
have the flags we have the hill"
Mrs. Eva Wild err Broadhead, known in.
literature aslEya Wilder McGlasson. and
who is now enjoying IA Wedding trip on
the Mediterranean, is said to be the
Youngest established magazinist in the