The age-herald., 1897-11-07
Copyright. 1Ss7.1

[Copyrlght, 1S971
 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 to l their round cheeks and paint the lily a rosy red, But alasl all that is changed now. Taking a walk, one is surprised at the number of women whose faces are made up in the most extreme fashion. The lips are reddened, the brows are darkened the lashes are blackened and red is applied to the checks in such way that it intensifes all these color ings and makes a prettyqface look like a dolls face and removes from the intelligent face every appearance or good sense that it ever had.
 ! Occasionally a man admires woman who puts a dab of rouge (for evening wear only) on her face cleYerly ana skillfuIly. When he realizes that she does it to look prettier, to appear Tn perfect health or for some reason that will make her seem more agreeable 10 him, then he is in favor of it, 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 prettler or the other thing.
 A man has good taste. He does not want to gild 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 will f1 hair, become an eastern blonde, so that her skin and hair may be in harmony.
 wonder when women will under stand that just as soon as they begin to fade, coloring the hair makes each one who does it look at least 10 years older, 7 while face makeup adds about eight years to her appearance? Consequent ly. If you are 30 you look AS if you paint youf face and dye your hair. Whereas, by brushing your hair well, washing your face clean and wearing happy smile, you may look only 25. The fact that men dislike rouge and it's first cous- in, the paint saucer, should induce wo- men to drop them and in their places . to choose @ 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 being weedlike, but they like to think that her skin is her own, her hair is her own and the larger part of her anato- my is her own, though they will forgive the use of 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 if they had before them the Scarlet La dy, against whom there is so much very loud haranguing? Every we'll 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 few red roses, while there are 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 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 learned gardener? The green earnation was the fancy of month. Let congress pass a law mak- 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 mistake made by almost every dressmaker in regard to black. The average modiste says: Anybody can wear black. It is suited to old and