Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-05
PAINTED FACES.
The Eirst Charm of Woman Destroyed
 by the Rouge-Pot.

The First Charm of a Woman Destroyed
 by the Rouge-Pot.
 In spite of salyes and oils and per- fumes and baths, no woman ever had so much care taken of her health aud her person as the modern woman has. In deed. so thoroughly is the care given nowadays that the unpleasant term, Swell groomed," is applied to it, as if ahe object of the care were placed in the same category with the brute animals. For it is somewhat of a shorsey age and to call woman thoroughbred IS 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 days so had things changed-a lady toilet, if not by any means thing Of brief or slight matter, had very little 10 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 the 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 fhe 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 narticle 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 suspicion, of theuse of any of these, there will be left hint, a suggestion of uncleanliness in the beholder's mind which utterly destroys anything accom- plished by skill Tn the pictorial line; for no one who is not virtually an artist can use these articles so that she will not be discovered; and she who is dis covered bears not only the stigma Of having failed in her purpose, of the vanity of caring toe much for her ap- pearanee, but of having tried to cheat and been unsuccessful i'll that also.
 
 dressing-room never knows exactly wliat the effect is going to be in the full sunshine of outdoors. and she who powders and paints and pencils in tine daylight has no notion of the effect of her work hy candlelight; and she who puts on her bismuth and her antimony and goes to a ball or theater does not 2 know at what moment the gas from the chandelier or from other sources is 10 streak her with moldy green and histre- 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 ill false colors. and it will make every one who is at all wholesome and healthy lcol more so, and in the long run the wholesome look is the greatest attrac. l 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 a beauty into old age.
 It is fortunate that good breeding and good taste have now become so gen. cral. and that the finer world has sc much to preoccupy its thought and ac xivity that the fancy for heightening or for Interfering with the work of nature is found only in the most feather, hrained and empty headed Harper's saxar.