Evening star., 1898-09-10
NEW WAY TO GET TANNED.
Instead Of Senshore my Ii in n Bot
tie for Fifty Cents.

From the New York Herald.
Let the knight Of the ribbon counter re-
joicc and the lovely So week typewriter
girl to clap her hands, for great boon has
come to such of them will receive II. 1t
is now possible to acquire n rich brown tan
without going to the seashore, and without
even suffering the discomfort of a prelim-
| mary sunburn.
Everybody knows at least everybody
who is anybody in select circles, Of the i'm
pecunious lords and ladies who masquerade
as counts and heirssses, and who work just
to pass the time away-and Of all things
the Surest and most enviable proof Of real
2riStoCTacy is Il Sunbrowned skin. acquired
by baskInS in the sands of Newport and
| Bar Harbor during the hot summer along
with the Astcrbilts. Nanders and other
proud patrician families.
it costs to be looked up to a social
lion. even by the Office boy Hitherto a
Garkened skin has been painfully and eX-
penSlNely acquired, and, in many cases. by
amt Of great self-saCrifice. In times past,
TO many poor people of vain social ambition
and inflated reputation. the possession OF a
tan sufficient to give color to tales of bril-
liant conqUests at Fashionable summer re-
sorts has meant lodging in cheap restau-
| rants for ten months of the year. To the
initiated ii is now a cheap and simple lux
ury. This is all due to a new preparation.
1t is applied with a little brush, like that
used for water colors. What makes 1t
popular among its users is the fact that
after the desired shade is obtained some
months are required for it to wear off.
In response to a question as to what kind
OF people buy it, the druggist who sells it
said:
MOSTLY shop girls and clerks, but we
have all kinds of customers for II. Iester-
day | sold two bottles to a well-known So
ciety woman, although We brought ii out
only little while ago. Last month an
actress who has seen her best days, but
whose name was on every tongue year or
two ago. came in here and wanted 20 get
sonnet hing to brown her up She said she
was looking for an engagement for this
fall but had been twice rejected icy man
ayers to whom she had applied on the
ground that she was white as a sheet. She
said she couldn't afford to go to the sea
shore. / didn't have anything TO suit her.
but told her to call on me again in a day
or two. Meanwhile. | experimental a lit
tie, and finally settled on this prepare ton.
The actress used it, got fine brown COM
pleXiOn ard a good engagement. Then she
told her friends about it. who In turn told
cthers-and ii has proven TO be an endless
chain. Since then the place has been over
run with customers for it. No. / shall not
advertise it, for We are making money by
| keeping it quiet, and advertising such n
thing would kill it,
1t is a great thing to he able thus easily
to acquire a complexion that Will be the
envy of all your friends when they 1eturn
to the city in the fan sunUulned a little
perhaps. but out Of pocket a good deal. Tire
whole secret of it lies in the answer Of one
frank girl who had been coniding to her
friend how she got her dark skin.
'Oh. you brazen-faced thing, you.' said
her listener.
1T isn't brass said the frank cne; "it
Genes III a bottle and L got ii for 80 cents
in the Tenderloin'