Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-09
PAINTED FACES.
The First Charm of n Woman Destroye
by the Rouge Pot.

Ehe First Charm of Woman DestroveS
by the Rouge-Pot.
In spite of salves and oils and pe-.
fumes and baths, no woman ever had s.
much care taken of nor health and he,
person as the modern woman has. In.
Iced. so thoroughly is the care giver
nowadays that the unpleasant term.
well groomed," is applied to it, as il
the object OF the care were placed in the
same category with the brute animals
For 1T is somewhat of "horsey" age.
and to call woman thoroughbred il
considered by many men and women,
too, the best that can be said of her.
Although in classic times the bath
seems to have been one of the chief
features of life, yet in the medieval
1ays-so had things changed-a lady's
toilet, if not by any means a thing of
brief or slight matter, had very little
20 do with the bath. When her hair was
pomaded and braided with jewels, and
her head-dress, her gowns and gear
were arranged, the thing was done.
Nor was there much bathing done in
he days of rouge and patches. Even
less than hundred years ago the habit
Of frequently bathing the entire per-
son was called by the good, old, careful
housewives nasty French fashion"
At the present day the first charm OF
a woman is the sense of cleanliness
about her-the bloom on her sweet
skin, the luster in her hair. the sparkle
Of her teeth. This cleanliness it is her
wise effort to maintain, and if the least
particle of what is known as making
Up" should become apparent about her
she knows her charm is lost. The rouge
pot. the hare's foot. the pencil for the
eyebrows. the coral lip salve-if there
IS a suspicion, of the, use of any of these,
there will be left a hint. . suggestion of
uncleanliness in the beholder's mind
which utterly destroys anything accom-
p1ished by skill IN the pictorial line;
for no one who is not virtually an artist
can use these articles so that she will
not be discoveries; and she who is dis
covered bears not only the stigma OF
having failed in her purpose, of the
vanity of caring too much for her APP
pearaDce. but of having tried to cheat
and been unsuccessful in that also.
For the woman who makes up in her
dressing-room never knows exactly
what the effect is going to be in the
full sunshine of outdoors, and she who
powders and paints and pencils in the
daylight has no notion of the effect oil
her work by candlelight; and she who
puts on her bismuth and her anthony
ard goes to a ball or theater does not
know at what moment the gas from the
chandelier or from other sources is to
streak her with moldy green and bistre-
brown and blue.
The good grooming of the bath, the
brisk rubbing of the brush, is really all
sufficient wherever there is any good de-
gree of health. Those whom that does
not make lovely will never look lovely
in false colors, and it will make every
one who is at all wholesome and healthy
lcok more so, and in the long run the
wholesome look is the greatest attrac-
tion of all. For when the beauty Of
early years has faded the perfectly
healthy woman who never had beauty
is bound to be more attractive than she
who has neither beauty nor health,
health itself being a beauty, and con-
tinuing beauty into old age.
It is fortunate that good breeding
and good taste have now become so gem
'eral, and that the finer world has so
much to preoccupy it's thought and ac-
tivity that the fancy for heightening or
for interfering with the work of nature
Is found only in the most feather
Drained and empty-headed.-Harp
Bazar.