Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-01-05
ROUGING A DUTY.

matSrmOny. L KNOWS you nam got uo
money ter pay him wild, an eff we's ter be
| married we's got ter start sQuar."
ROUGING A DUTY.
The Interesting Point of View of One
Woman.
From the New York Herald.
It was late autumn. A few guests only
| remained in a large hotel in fashionable
mountain resort. They were waiting for
the glorious fall weather that always comes
when the long rains are over. One MORN
ing six women, whose ages ranged from
| tw enty to forty-five, were. sitting around
| an open fire. Five Of them had their en-
broidery in their hands, the sixth was read
ing aloud She was a woman perhaps
| thirty years old. with pretty, soft hair,
in fact. a woman entirely fascinating in
manner and appearance. Suddenly she
stopped reading and put the book down.
You will not like ent this story she ex
who made herself beautiful. She did
great many wonderful things to her face,
and in her method was included little
judiciouS 1ouging."
| The speaker was looking in the faces OF
the other women as she spoke, and the ex-
pected look Of dsapproval appeared IN
every face. Then she said: You don't
| think she was justified in rouging, or that
| ii Is ever eXcusable in any woman"
"Never!' exclaimed a demure little girl,
whose pretty cheek was tinged with that
charming color which goes, as rule, at
| twenty-five, never to return. Il don't think
| nice women ought to do anything of that
sort"
TT always seems to me uncleanly," said
another maiden. 60 20
1T is repulsive," added a matron of
| forty-five, embrodering very fast and
speaking very decidedly, land cannot see
how there can be two sides to the ques-
tion." H.H
Il do not agree with you," answered the
young woman who began the discussion.
Il going to tell you secret now-l do
it myself!'
II have always had an idea that your
color was not NATURAL said the matron of
forty-five, disapprovingly.
Now, that does not annoy me In the
! least. 1 am quite willing to have it known.
I am not at all ashamed of it. You see,
continued the young woman who rouged,
"it was all a mistake, my being created
with nice enough hair, good but colorless
eYas and Q akin that must say is fault
less in texture, and then to have 1T all
spoiled by fatal sallowness. 1t was not
artistic. 1 think if nature makes mistake
We should make an effort to remedy that
mistake.
This Was Her Argument.
"You, my DEAR" she said sweetly to the
young girl who had called the process of
rcuging "uncleanly,' sit is your misfortune
to have hair that does not curl. In your
case natures mistake is very prettily RENE
died, l must admit" observing the fluffy
waves in the hair Of the rather discomfort
ed maiden.
Now, L." went on the champion of color,
"do not have to use curling longs My
hair behaves itself. But the blood that be-
longs in my cheeks does not behave itself,
and so l make an effort to do without it,
Does your husband know that you
rouge?" asked the demure maiden.
"Why, my dear child, have never tried
to conceal the fact from any one. 1 found
out very early in my life that 1t was less
disagreeable to know that people We're say
ing, What pity Janet rouges! than to
look in the glass and think, How really
we'll l should look if / had a little color
AS to my husband, soon after We We're
married he found it out, and one morning.,
she went on, with contented niue iaugh;
when came down to breakfast he looked
up from his newspaper and said: Janet,
you will oblige me by going up stairs and
washing that stuff Off your face Certain
| ly' l said, and I washed off my beautifer
and reappeared before my good husband.
| Again he looked up from his paper. Go
and put it on again. he said. GROSSLY. Ger
| tainly, I said, and we have never men
| tened the subject SINCE
| The young girls in the room We're begin
ming to take a deep interest in the story,
and even the matron of forty-five looked
| furtively at the dainty cheeks OF the lady
WHO TouSeu
II fancy I do it well, too" continued the
| heroine of the moment. There is every
| thing in that. 1t is vulgar if it Is done in
any other way. 1 assure you it is very ex-
citing to know that people, men especially,
are looking at you very closely, and trying
| to make up their minds whether the color
| is natural or not. Just because vulgar Wo-
| men plaster their faces with rouge, that is
| no reason why the whole thing should be
called an abomination. The use of strong
| perfumes is disgusting, but we should not
| on that account be obliged to refrain from
putting orris and sweet-scented sachets in
| our clothes presses
Half Convinced.
"There is a great deal in what you say
said the fair, demure maiden, musingly.
There is everything in what | say" said
| the other, enthusiastically. There Is as
| much difference in the way look now and
| my appearance without mon ami rouge as
| there is between the autumn leaves as they
| look now, full Of color and life, and the
| way they will look tn two weeks, shriveled
| and dried UP. Moreover, 1 am pleased with
myself when I look well, and one cannot
! be charming unless one Is pleased win
| ones self. With nay rouge on can De
| sparkling and clever, without 1t l am as
| dull as my skin is. 1t is like the conscious
| ness of being well gowned And now l
think I have talked enough. | am going to
| luncheon. Tomorrow we Will hnisn our
| book