Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-11-11
Special Correspondence OF Gazette and journal

Special CORRESPONDENCE of Gazette and Journal
New York, Nov. 5.--We used to say when
we met a girl whose face was painted that she
came either from the South or The West.
for IL was claimed that New York girls had |
too much taste TO apply the brush 10 their /
POUND checks and paint the lily a rosy red. |
But alas all that is changed now. TuKing |
walk, one is surprised ut the number OF |
women whose faces are made up in the |
most extreme fashion. The lips are red |
dened, the brows are darkened, the lashes |
are blackened and red is applied to the |
cheeks in such way that it ntensities all |
these colorngs and makes pretty face look |
like dolls face and removes from the in
telHRent face every appearance of good
sense that it ever had.
Occasionally a man admires woman
who puts a dab of rouge tfor evening wear
only on her face cleverly and skilfuliy.
When he realizes that she does it to look
bretlier, to appear in perfect health or for
1ome reason that Will make her seem more
,greeabe to him, then he is in favor of it,
but the average man, detecting paint on a
wOman's face, especially in the daytime, is
very certain to object to 1t, no matter
whether 1t makes her look prettier or the
other thing.
A man has good taste. lie does not want
TO gid refined gold. He knows that the
bright paint is not in harmony with the
hair and eyes, and he begins to wonder IL
this special woman will be foolish enough
to use henna on her hair, become an eastern
blonde, SO that her skin and hair may be in
harmony.
wonder when women will understand
that just as soon as they begin TO fade. color
ing the hair makes each one who does 1t
look at least 10 years older. while face
makeup adds about eight years to her APP
Iearance? Consequently, if you are 30 you
look III you paint your face and dye your
hair. Whereas, by brushing your hair well.
washing your face clean and wearing a
happy smile, you may look only rs. The
fact that men dislike rouge aud its first
cousin, the paint saucer, should induce
women TO drop them and In their places to
choose good brand Of soap and a soft
flannel wash cloth.
Men like natural girl. They don't want
her to be natural in tue sense of being weed.
like, but they like to think that her skin is
her own, her hair is her own and the larger
part OF her anatomy is her own, though they
will forgive the use of little curled hair to
make one look better, because after all, II it
is properly arranged they don't know that
it's there. But they see the rogue and they
see the dyed hair and can you blame them
If they feel exactly as if they had before
them the Scarlet Lady, against whom there
is so much very loud haranguing? Every
well bred woman ought to do her duty in
life, just now particularly, and her present
duty consists in tho downing of the use of the
extra color and the encouraging of what
ever healthful exercise will make the skin
look well.
Why should women who are naturally
pale caro- to have red cheeks? In the great
flower gardens there are only q few red
roses, while there il no end OF white buds
and of pale-hued flowers. Why won't the
average woman learn lesson from the
pretty blossoms and realize that they are
only worth admiring when they are as
nature made them and not when forced to
become black or green by some scientific
application given by learned gardener
The green carnation was the fancy of q
month. Let Congress pass law making
the fancy for artificial redness of the face a
Fancy limited to q week.
Bv.the-by. the woman with the made.up
face looks more bizarre than ever because
she is wearing so much black. There is a
mistake made by almost every dressmaker
In regard TO black. The averag? modiste
says: Anybody can wear black. 1t IS
suited TO old and young, to the fat and the
thin, TO the girl who is very healthy or over
painted and to the one who is fair as the
lily" Now, this is absolutely untrue
Black is just now. very fashionable There
fore It behooveth every woman to know
whether black suits her or not, The scarlet
lady With her tery red cheeks and her made
up eyes and her henna dyed hair is made to
look 40 times as loud when she puts on a
black gown as she did before. The som bre
color intensities every artificial aid to beauty
and seems, in its very blackness, to call out,
Look ut the red look ct the blue look al
the black and see how am made up!"
The fat woman who has black silk
gown, made with great simplicity, wonders,
as she stands in front of her glass that She
looks stouter than ever; that every pound of
Iesh seems TO be announcing itself. She
does not know that. instead of black SILK,
she should have chosen some soft wool for
her frock; that, instead of plain, she
should have trimmed gown, for under
trimmings both flesh and bones are hidden.
Perhaps she has made even greater mis-.
take than getting for herself black silk
gown and has chosen a satin one. Then
indeed she will look twice her own size, for
as the light comes upon it the material acts
as series of looking glasses and repeats her
size until she seems enormous For evening
the stout woman should wear black velvet
trimmed with lace. The softness of the
velvet apparently reduces her size. and the
lace in its pretty frou frous does not call at
tention to every overdeveloped curve For
day wear, If she prefers black, she should
have black wool, and that should be a
trimmed gown also.
The slender girl can easier afford 10 wear
plain black frock than any other, since
putting some trimming on the shoulders
she Will look broad there, while her waist
Will seem small; but if she is wise she will
have an artistic decoration where she is
boniest and plain effects produced only
where it is counted smart to look small II
is she who eau wear the black satin, the
black brocade or the black silk; but She
must beware of fiat trimmings of Jet that
IN their simple lines, do nothing but call
attention to angles The black tulle dinner
dress is the refuge alike of the stout and the
thin woman. Properly made. it brings out
the best parts of each and coneeals the
weaknesses of each. But the dressmakel
who knows insists on combining another
color with the black gown of the season
and so. according to the figure and age o.
the wearer, there is scarlet, white, the new
hyacinth blue, the new emerald green, Oh
any one of the wonderful and many pur
pies used either as a decoration or u com
bination with the black fabric.
With the injunction that we all remem
Der. Put money in your purse" comes the
need every season for the newest stvle d
purse, because, while no wise woman carrie,
much money with her still. necessity de
malds that she have sufficient small cor
to fetch her through an afternoons VISITING
and even allow her to have afternoon tea II
some favored tearoom. With her daint,
toilet her purse must be in harmony, anc
the heavy leather or coarse looking purse il
as much out of place with visiting getuI
as pair OF cotton gloves would be.
Last year we all carried coin purses o.
melted gold. suspended on long gold chaini
around our necks. Those of us who useC
our savings to buy these purses since man,
ducatS were required for one, are glad Il
know that they are still in vogue, although
something little newer has appeared, III,
happy woman is The one who did not get /
new purse last year. for the latest in purses i
pronounced the most chic ever known. II il
hke the melted gold purse in shane, but i,
made oil bright colofed MORE or brOcade
mounted in gold and having semiprecinns
uncut stones set in the gold mounting, I'll,
pnrseis then hung on gold hahn and worl
IKE those OF last wiutar Tho F,,.,r,,J - = :.