The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-11-07
Copyright, 1871

copyright, 1871
We used to say when we met girl
whose face was painted that she came
either from the south or the west, for
it was claimed that New York girls had
too much taste to apply the brush 10
their round cheeks and paint the lily
a. rosy red. But alas, all that is changed
now. Taking walk one is surprised at
the number of women whose faces are
made up in the most extreme fashlon-
The lips are REDEEMED, the brows are
,darkened. the lashes are blachened ana
red is applied to the cheeks in such a
way that it intensifies all these color
ings and makes a pretty face look IKE
a dolls face and removes from the
intelligent face every appearance Of
good sense that it ever had.
Occasionally a man admires woman
who puts a dab of rouge for evening
wear only on her face cleverly ana
skiIifully. When he realizes that she
does it to look prettier, to appear IN
perfect health or for some reason that
will make her seem more agreeable TO
him. then he is in favor of 1t, but the
average man, detecting paint on Wo-
mans face. especially in the daytime,
is very certain to object to it, no matter
whether it makes her look pretter or
the other thing.
A man has good taste. He 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 if this special woman VIII
be foolish enough to use henna on her
hair. become an eastern blonde, so that
her skin and hair may be in harmony.
I wonder when women will under
stand that just as soon as they begin TO
fade coloriig the hair makes each one
who does il look at least 10 years older,
while a face makeup adds about eight
years to her appearance? Consequent
". if YOU are 80 you look As if you paint
your face and dye your hair. Whereas,
by brushing your hair well, washing
your face clean and wearing happy
smile, you may look only 20. The fact
that men dislike rouge and its first cous-
in, the paint saucer, should induce wo-
men to drop them and in their places
to choose a good brand OF soap and
soft flannel wash cloth
Men like a natural girl. They don't
want her to be natural in the sense of
D9lnG Weeul1he, DuI tney ike " lllilh
that her skin is her own, her hair is her
OWE and the larger part of her anato-
my is her own, though they will forgive
the use of a little curled hair to make
one look better, because, after all, if it
is properly arranged they don't know
that it's there. But they see the rouge
and they see the dyed hair, and can
you blame them if they feel exactly as
I,a hafnrl them the Sea rpt la
DIV, against whom there is so much very
loud haranguing? Every well bred wo-
man ought to do her duty in life, just
now particularly, and her present duty
consists in the downing of the use of
the extra color and the encouraging of
whatever healthful exercise will make
the skin look well.
Why should women who are naturally
pale care to have red cheeks? In the
great flower gardens there are only a
few red roses, while there are no end
of white buds and of pale hued flowers.
Why won't the average woman learn a
lesson from the pretty blossoms and
realize that they are only worth admir-
ing when they are as nature made
them and not when forced to become
black or green by some scientific appli-
cation given by a learned gardener?
The green carnation was the fancy of a
month. Let congress pass a law max
ing the fancy for artificial redness of
the face fancy limited to a week.
BY the bye, 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 average 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 overpaint-
ed and to the one who is fair as the
lily" Now, this is absolutely untrue.
Black is just now very fashionable.
Therefore it behooveth every woman
to know whether black suits her or not.
The scarlet lady with her fiery red
cheeks and her madeup 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 somber
color intensifies every artificial aid to
beauty and seems, in its very black
ness. to call out, Look at the red.
look at the blue, look at the black!
and see how I am made upl'
The fat woman who has a black silk
gown, made with great simplicity, Won
ders. as she stands in front of her glass
that she looks stouter than ever: that
every pound of flesh seems to be an
nouncing itself. She does not know
that. instead of black silk. she should
have chosen some soft wool for her
frock; that. instead of a plain. she
should have a trimmed gown. for under
trimmings both flesh and bones are
hidden. Perhaps she has made even
Z greater mistake than getting for her
self a black silk gown, and has chosen
a satin one. Then indeed she Will look
twice her own size, for as the light
comes upon il the material acts as a
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 re-
duces her size. and the lace in its pref
~ frou frous does not cali attention TO
every overdeyeloped curve. For day
wear. If she prefers black. she should
have black wool and that should be
q trimmed gown also.
The slender girl can easier afford TO