San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-08-16
THE USE OF Wells.
Banning 4its of 0auxe Behind which
Women Hide Their Wrinkles


The strongest defense woman has,
bessie distinctly pretty or fascinatingly
plain, is her veil Ever since the world
began she has been wearing some sort
of a tissue face covering, thick or thin,
large or small; IN this day and genera
zion refined down to a mere gauze face
mask, yet likely to remain the dearest
and most important possession in her
wardrobe till the millennium arrives.
1t is a barrier between herself and
prying eyes, through which very little
can be read by an uniuitiated gaze,
but nothing can escape her keen
glance.
OF course, wells are not hygienic-
any woman will admit that-but they
are necessary, and if you want to
know how youthful woman believes
she books notice what sort of a net she
uses.
IN the language Of wells only fresh
faced girls can afford to wear the plain,
flmy, undotted tulle that for comfort
is the one to be preferred, yet on any
but tender, peachy young face it
seems to curiously fetch shadows that
look terribly like wrinkles, conse-
quently when q woman sees in her
hand-glass that her ephemeral girlish-
ness of complexion is slipping from her
she begins to buy dotted nets. At
first the tulle is very fine and the dots
far apart. That's the sort of a veil a
woman affects on the days when she
looks her best, discreetly resorting to
a very closely-speckled affair ON other
days when her cheeks lack their ac-
custoned color or there are plaintixs
blue shadows under her eyes. To, and
from the dentists she is likelyao adopt
a veil with deep lace edge that hides
the poor, suffering month and makes
the eyes all the brighter for the lower
face thrown in soft eclipse.
Besides these is the suoburn and
frecklevveil of silk tissue, white and
brownor dark blue, liberalSy peppered
with wee dots, behind which the most
dou btfully pretty face takes oniS sort
of mysterious charm.
Butoutside this given fist,thcre are
1 weilsrfhat particularly becomercertain
faces, as the milliners have discovered
whodrop a blue check-woven gauze
4 overthe face of a blue,eyed, retrousse-
nosed little person, who is trembling
4 on the verge of indulgence in her third
\ or fourth spring hat. That veil
4 clinches the bargain, and a sallow,
| brown-eyed girl buys a wide black
| straw because the .artful >saleswoman
| flung over the front q breadth of the
| newyvery smart gray tuxedo net, bear
ing7at short intervals big gray velvet
spots. The creed of the milliner runs
that almost more on the veil than on
1 the hat depends the 'becomingness OF
| ones headgear.
IL is maker of irresistible bonpets
that has taught women the Itrue CO.
quetries of the veil Thatsthe charm
of it lies in its exceeding freshness; no
veil should be worn more than six or
eight times; that it should be adjusted
with most exquisite neatness and care,
tucked in bit of q knot inst under
the bonnet's back, without any pin
ming, drawn smooth and close over the
features and when not in use rolled
and pinned in a satin case, perfumed
ever so family with orris. She has not
failed in finding apt pupils.
One pretty woman has set the fash.
ion, because her eyes are fine and the
rest of her face unimportant, of wear
ing awhile gauze mask, drawn up to
the lower lids of her liquid orbs that
look out on the world with all the CO.
quettish complaeeney of a Turkish
belle. 1t was she who has-excited a
curious little local vogue in favor OF
wearing wells at night, for, when asked
to dine at a house where the cruel
white light of electricity is used, she
made her appearance with one thick
ness of black chiffon falling just over
those same splendid eyes, which she
plaintively protested could not stand
the glare. Chicago News.