The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-07-19

Everyone May Have-simple Methods
of Developing the Figures Improving
the Contours-Cuiture Under Difiieui-
ties.
CHAPTER L.
beauties born and beauties bred have
shared admiration since the days when
the human race dwelt in tents Few
tori bs are so primitive that a woman 5
rouge pot and mirror are not found in
them. Tho Greek elegante, we arc told,
kept no less than fifty cosmetics for skin,
teeth and hair on her toilet. Aristo-
phanes jests at the city dame. redolent of
saffron pomade. Atbenian women used
the same process ms the Venetians to dye
their hair bright shades, bleaching their
locks with N lye of wood ashes, and color-
ing with saffron or other vegetable tin ct
ures The true pomade Of apple pomace
was applied TO whiten the skin, and those
who are curious 10 toilet art will find
this antique cosmetic has lost none Of It's
value. Lais and Aspasia were adopts in
the use OF
Rouge and ceruse,
Salvcs of wax and honey;
Sure YOU might buy "A new
Face for half the money"
as ran vers dc societe time Of the
tHgsHrs, or ffttfc fster.- 80 ffiee had- the
senses of patricians grown by that time
that no public celebration or temple festi-
val was complete without libation of
perfumes. Fancy our city fathers voting
appropriations for violet, cologne and
lavender to sprinkle the crowds on Fourth
of July or the 22nd OF February
Equally naive and poetic are the records
of the age when monks aided knights and
poets in teaching women of the court and
nobility who accompanied men falcon
hunting, spun and sewed at home, and
were queens of beauty at Journeys. Such
union of outdoor sports, the practical and
refined in life never fail to produce the
most enduring types of beauty.
My doar woman, you may gain n com
plexion of white sugar, and eyes as bright
as "a Circassian's, with hair "a yard long,
and it will be no more than face
painted on n plaque. You may try the
virtues of electric baths and massage
eat arsenic till your skin Is translucent
and get the pink in your check and the
dazzle in your eye, but one grain of gen
uine unselflsh goodwill, absolute truth
and sympathy, will outdo all the rest in
making your charms felt and enduring
The husbands and lovers OF beautiful
women lind attractions wear off very
fast and you want some quality that Will
last thirty or forty years, perhaps. How
is it that most of the sonnets are TO dead
women
Next to expression, grace and exactness
of carriage are the most patent charms IA
woman can have. You Will lind forty
pretty women before you can find one
who knows how To carry herself as she
ought The charm of n finoly-beld head
and noble poise Is owned at once. The
true parisienne has an elegant figure,
very seduIsant in its lines, and evidently
her corsetiere is an artist, for the fine
lines are perfection in their silken sheath.
But the typical American Is elastic as a
rapler in the shapely, matchless ngure,
always perfectly dressed, which draws all
eyes after IL on the street. Among a
score of London beauties In photograph,
hers is incomparably the noblest figure,
so full of nerve so instinct with the pride
of womanhood. A career belongs to such
woman, by right.
Women ought 20 be kinder TO each
other; the pretty ones TO the plain, be-
cause they miss the gift aud power of
beauty tho plain to the beautiful, out of
compassion for the certain bitter In their
experiences. Not u few of tho love
liest women find their uncom-
mon beauty an annoyance, almost IA
curse. In my school days, girl
of Southern beauty, with peachy cheeks
and dark, velvety eyes, used TO DO SO
plagued by the ipsolent, prosecuting ad-
miration of men on the cars that she gave
up going into Boston for lessons There
was no affeotation about IL. She was a
modest. we'll bred girl. and the notice she
attracted would have boen odlous to any
woman. Extremely beautiful women are
not seldom genuinely modest and unoon-
cerned about their looks, far more 50 than
palmer ones anxious TO cultivate
beauty one of the most charming
women of the Philip Livingstone family
once told me she never knew she was at
all pretty till sho went to Europe, long
past thirty. OF course, she said, she
knew her husband thought she was good
looking, but she supposed IL was his par
TALLY
"Can anything be done TO increase the
stature of an adulty' writes an anxious
woman. rs there any course OF exercises
that will aid, or any special diet one may
adoptY | nm ono OF many women who
arc short and ungraceful, but not fat
and Will bo glad of any Information on
the subject" p"
Patients In hospitals, In protracted
cases. have beon known TO actually in
crease i'm length with rogained health.
Rather than bc stupted' stumpy or
dumpy- looking woman, one would enter
ones self at city hospital for any length
of time that might be named. Why
doesn't some one with brains open n hos
pital for defects ns we'll ns diSeasosY IL
would take very smart man and very
skilful aud learned one 10 gain fhith.
however, In such practice. ihere arc
charlatans I'm plenty TO attempt such
things, but there 10 great risk OF being
indicted for malpractice In some OF their
experimcnts made on flesh and blood.
Your friend must give time 90 her
growth. IN she can give tho bcst part OF
a year to the work. she can probably In
crease hor stature. 10 Is not exercise 20
much as idling that is needed 20 lenRthon
the limns. But she can give the time O.
study or fancy work. while lying arOuLd
aud not count 1t wholly lost
firsL roctify the proportions as we'll as
possihlc before putting on heavy traction.
III tlse hips are too broad. stout bandage
should be worn constantly, close enough