The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-11-01
BEING ONLY A WOMAN
DEMANDS MADE nv THE WORLD
UPoy THE GENrLE:R SEX.


IL is only when one begins to study ths
"Wonan's Columns Of the tifferer'
newspapers with a view TO discovering ths
particular sort of information which such
colnmns are designed 10 ampart. thas one
really comprehends what a fearful and
wonderful thing IL Is 20 be a woman.
IL - not so much the intellectual and
ethical SIDE of the problem which IS here
| insisted upon. as the domestic and dec
| orastve phase Of woman's missionA
One learns here that side ny side with
| the duty of knowing how TO make a great
| many kinds of pickles. and TO WASH fan
| neis without shrinking them. Is the more
| difficult. bur also more important duty for
a woman, of remaining young and beauti-
| ful and blooming and weli-dressed and ad-
1 mirahle as long as she lives RI one may
| believe the lesson OF most OF the literature
| and tradition since the beginning 81 time.
1 10 woman has any clearly defined right 70
! live after she Is 20. passing that age she
must either make herself 80 undeniahiy
useful as 10 present some reasonable ex-
/ ctise for being, or else acknowledge herself
| a mere cumherer of the earth. During the
| brief heyday OF her charms. TOO. she
/ should he willing 10 spend the greater ror-
| zion OF her time in brushing her hair, pol
| ishing her skin. trimming her nails. beau
| tifying her Inquire. and taking sarsapariEla
for her blood.
| OF the complexion thai the womans col
| umns get IN some of their best work. Ono
| learns here thar the pathetic and familiar
| question: What is home without moth
| ere'' Is not half so vital as. What IS wo-
! man without a complexion Just as soon
as she begins TO talk, every girl should be-
| taught the burden Of the hymn. a charge
| to keep i have" and be further instructed
| that in the matter of complexion eternal
| vigilance is the price of safety.
| Beauty is but skin deep and a complex
| ION is so easily perishable. the sun may
| burn II. the winds roughen IL. disease fade
! IL. years damage IL. therefore let us work
while 1t is yet day.
OF course every woman who has a proper
! notion OF her responsibility in the matter,
| and who has read the advertising depart
| ment in the magazines. knows that after
| she has anointed herself with lemon juice
| and cocoanut milk aud Recauiier cream
| and cutaneous remedies. it becomes her
| sacred duty when the hour of night draws
| on TO muzzle herself with a complexion
| mask before she goes TO bed. III a woman
| only blooms all day. what matters it what
| sacrifice she offers to the gods during The
/! hours OF rest,
/ But after she has. as one may say.
| watched with her complexion all day and
dreamed of il all night. no woman need
fiatter herself that she can rest on her
laureis. Her first waking thought should
be: What can I do for my complexion
today and when she rises from her
nightly couch, and takes her muxxie of.
and washes her face with somebody's soap
and a rubber complexion brush. she re-
members. IL she is a woman OF conscience,
that The next paragraph In the woman's
column was headed. How 10 Avoid
Wrinkles
has crossed the dead-lins. but a woman
who permits herself at any age 40 become
wrinkied, has no less inevitably passed
that fatal boundary. 1t must needs be-
the Scripture tells US. that offsnses
come and II must needs be that some
time in the sad by and by wrinkles come
alike upon the just and unjust, but there
are ways of STAYING them of. and those
methods should rest upon the female con-
science day and night. In the first place
there is a system or massage by which
the flesh and muscles OF the face and neck
are rubbed and smootiled and pinchesi ard
persuaded. and there Is regular course to
pursue in these proceedings. rubbing
south by southwest. and pinching north by
northeast, with other mystic processes.
which do not now recall. but which are
all laid down In the woman's columns
In the second place. there Is one ssiccinct
piece of advice offered to all women kind
who desire To remain unwrinkied, namely:
AVOID emotions
This injunction sounds simple enough.
yet II really involves several little things
such as loving and hating and joysng
and gr.eving-which In the remuneration
mean something of sacrifice. Life thrills
and pulses all about you, love calls TO you
with passionate voice. grief srnites your
heart strings with violent hand-and you
SIT stolsd. Ike patience on A monument.
and thank God you have a complexion.
You have never
Sighed deep. laughed free
Starved. Toasted, despaired- happy.
You have kept your skin smooth. which
after all, is one of che chief duties Of
woman. That duty accomplished. what
matters II If you have never stimulated
any mans soul. or satisfied his heart. II
children have never loved You. or the spir-
1t OF noble womanhood has never been
written on Your faces
You Will. while you last. be just as salts
flying as a landscape by Turner. where the
colors never fade and the tants never vary.
but the molly calm which arises from this
ennobing thought. vii be- sogrew hat ruf-
fled by tne reflection that, after all. your
doom is always hanging over you-sooner
or later that sacred complexion VIII he a
dream of The past The landscape erldures
but YOU do fade as a flower. and in rte
world TO come. TOO. all f\ese tolls and
zr.ais VIII ne as naugnf. since IL IL under
stood that the angelic complexion Is OF a
permanent dye.
The FOErnfex1or. however. II not all A
ntsie farther along I'm the womans col
umn We come upon instructions relating 20
the care Of the hair. and we ind that a
womans hair was gwen her IN he at once
her glory ard her despair. From earliest
EirIfood she IS 10 be- pursued by the
haunting fear that her hair may fall out.
or lose Its natural fuSfre. or tina. the en-
vtous hand Of tim. may weave SILVER
threads among the gold: and she needs 20
arise early ard 70 to bed hare IN the artor
Of brushing 81. amounting n with vsxeltne
pomade. or eau de autusne. washing il
with tar soap and smuggling IL at the fun
OF the moon.
eanont b. sure she has done the right
thing. The first authority she consuifs
win tell her 20 wash the hair freely. and
method Of cleansing n with a dry brush.
hence she VIII always be torn with the
fsangs of doubt and unrest
Then as the years go on ard the tsrrsbis,
fear ~ gray hair a=saiis her. the unsns-
ysctfng female wal be tempted into
deeper deep. She viii read In the womans
column that the female scalp needs 20 be-
nourtsted and stimulated by tho free ap-
r.sicasson of eggs. the Write OF the eggs for
kght-bairei and the yoik for dark haired
perzons-or IL may re. after ali. thar
blondes require tbs yolk and trunettes tsss
Write Of thu egg. ] am not prepared 20
take oath 20 s1e exact manner ia which
the neringue ard the custard are eppor-
tsone6-bEt this I know. that whoever n
a moment OF weakness In tempted to use
either application will and herself sold
snso bosdage. When the egg has heen