The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-19
IDEAS for duomen.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. salves and oils and
perfumes and baths. no woman ever
had so much care taken OF her health
and Der person as the modern woman
has.
indeed, 50 thoroughly is the care
given nowadays that the unpleasant term
well groomed" is applied TO it as If
the object of the care were placed in
the same category with the brute ami
mails. For it is somewhat of a "horsy'
ase. ana to call a woman a thorough
bred is considered by many men-and
women, too-the best that can be said OF
her.
Although III classic times the bath
seems to have been one of the CHER
features Of life, yet in the medieval
days-se had things changed-a lady
toilet, IL not by my means a thing OF
brief or slight matter. had very little TO
do with the bath.
When her hair was pomaded and braid
ed with Jewels, and her headdress. her
gowns and gear We're arranged. the thing
was done. Nor was there much bathing
done in the days of rouge and patches.
Even less tina 100 years ago the habit OF
frequently bathing the entire person was
called by good. old. careful housewives a
nasty French fashion"
At the present day the charm of a
woman is the sense of cleanliness about
her-the bloom N her sweet skin, the
Iustre in her hair, the sparkle of her
teeth. This cleanliness 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 PEN
ell of the eyebrows, if there is a suspicion
of the use of any of these. there will be
left a hint. a Suggestion of nncleanliness
in the beao.der's mind. which utterly de-
stroys anything accomplished by skin
in the pictorial line; for no one who IS
not virtually an artist can use these
articles so that she will not be discover
ed. and she who is discovered bears not
only the stigma of having failed in her
purpose of the vanity of caring too much
for her personal appearance, but OF nav
ing tried to cheat. and having been un-
successful in that, also.
For the woman who makes up" in her
dressing room never knows exactly what
the effect is going 10 be in the full sun
shine of outdoors. and she who powders
and paints and pencils in the daylight
has no notion of the effect of her work
by candle light, and she who puts on
her bismuth and her anthony and goes
to ball or theatre does not know at what
moment the gas from the chandelier or
from other source, is to streak her with
moldy green and bistre brown and blue.
-.
The good grooming of the bath. the
brisk rubbing of the brush, are really
:, ---cr-..-A -L.-a--on 4l1,o Il. apx- ran1
degree of health. Those whom that does
not make lovely will never look lovely in
false colors, and it will make any one
who is at all healthy and wholesome look
more so; and, in the long run, the whole
some look is the greatest attraction of
all, for when the beauty of early years
has faded, the perfectly healthy woman
who never had any beauty is bound to
be more attractive than she who has
neither beauty nor health. health itself
being a beauty, and continuing a beauty
into old age
And then the .twell-groomed" woman
knows not only what sort of clothes to
buy, but how to wear them. She is
aware that style is not a matter of
money, not yet exactly of brains, but of
taste.
No matter what the fashions decree, a
~well-groomed'' woman always discovers
something which is becoming to her.
Every year wider scope is allowed for in
dividual fancy.
Everyone knows tina summer always
gathers itself together for an unusual eff
fort in August, and to those who are in
town just now it is a season of mingled
torment and pleasure. The torment comes
in the accumulated heat IN brick or as
rhalt, the humid days and the hot waves;
hut the pleasure shows itself in the shape
of all the luscious fruits that crowd the
street stands and the first hints of cooler
weather that are to be seen in the stores.
Fruit grows far enough way from town,
as farmers sometimes know to their dis
may. but it is to be had more easily in
the city than at any country home in the
heart of f~iourishing orchards.
The town man or woman who wants
luscious peaches now, who likes a fresh
melon at breakfast or iced fruit after
dinner, can get it easily by sending an
order to a grocer or a caterer, or by
stopping on his way home to purchase
the desired luxury at a stand. The re-
frigerator will do the rest for him, and
he has all the enjoyment of the August
ylelu TOT d HlOSl IIOuerdt6 price. But the
out-of-town man does not fare nearly so
well.
He must depend upon a very uncertain
huckster for fruit that looks suspiciously
like picked over" shipments, or he must
go up hill and down dale to find a farmer
who can be coaxed to sell him a part of
the consignment for the next market day
in town.
AS for ice cream. it is a dream in the
eeuritry. which does not materialize with
satisfaction to the summer girl. whose
taste is cultivated. 1t is always least de-
sirable in a country village and when
homemade lacks the flavor that is espec-
tally it's own when it is ordered in town
or eaten within the circuit of an electric
fan and at a small table that has dozens
of others for company. And as for soda
water. etc, etc, the country knows them
not. They are the panacea for the town
man's ills, the soothers of. Il shoppers
nerves. Just now the dwellers in the eoun-
try have the fun moon as recompcnse.
They nave the chorus of August insects
as a substitute for the out-of-door con-
certs, and the cool, comforting murmur
of rustIing leaves instead Of the elang Of
the trolley bell and the hustle of town.
After wearing thin muslins and silks, a
clath gown If fhe 1av he cool looks very