The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-23
NEW WAY TO GET TANNED.
Instead of the seashOre Buy 1t in a
Bottle for the Sum of so Cents.
From the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald.
Let the knight of the ribbon counter re-
joice and the lovely Sc a week typewriter
girl clap her hands, for a great boon has
come TO such of them as will receive it,
1t is now possible to acquire a rich brown
tan without going to the seashore and
without even suffering the discomfort of
a preliminary sunburn.
Every body knows-at least everybody
who is anybody in select circles-of the
impecunious lords and ladies who mas
querade as counts and heiresses, and who
work just to pass the time away--aRd OF
all things the surest and most enviable
proof of real aristocracy is a sunbrowued
skin, acquired by basking in the sands of
Newport and Bar Harbor during the hot
summer along With the Asterbilts, Van
ders and other proud patrician families.
ii costs to be looked up to as a social
lion, even by the office boy. Hitherto a
darkened skin has been painfully and eX-
pensively acquired and, in many cases,
by dint of great self sacrifice In times
past, to many poor people Of vain social
ambition and inflated reputation, the pos
session of a tan sufficient to give color to
tales of brilliant conquests at fashionable
sumner restaurants for ten months of
the year To the initiated il is now a
cheap and simple luxury. This is all due
to a new preparation, 1t is applied with
a little brush, like that used for water
colors. What makes it popular among
it's users is the fact that after the desired
shade is obtained some months are re-
quired 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 It. Yes
terday sold two bottles to well known
all ,rTcrh xra hrAu
out only a little while ago. Last month
an actress who has seen her best days,
but whose name was on every tongue a
wear or two ago, came in here and want
ed 10 get something to brown her up,
She SAID she was looking for an engage
ment for this fall, but had been twice re-
iected by managers to whom she had APP
piled on the ground that she was white
as a sheet. She said she couldn't afford
To 90 10 the seashore. ] didn't have any
hing to suit her. but told her to call on
me again in n day or two Meanwnhe,
/ experimented a little, and finally settled
on this prepara ton. The actress used II,
cot a fine brown complexion and a good
enoa cement. Then she told her friends
about II who in turn told others-and it
bas nroven to be an endless chain. Since
then the place has been overrun with Gus
toners for it. No, / shall not advertise
n for we are making money by Keeping
il quiet. and advertising such thlhg
would Kill it."
~ is "a great thing to be able to thus
aaeilv 10. acquire a complexion that viii
he beth the envy Of all your friends when they
return TO the city in the fall, sunburned
little perhaps. but out Of pocket good
deal Til. whole Secret of II Hes ~ the
answer of one frank girl who had been
conhdng to her friend how she got her
ION. You brazen faced thing, your said
her listener.
at comes in botI3S. and / got 1t Tor ~
cents in the 'Tendfd dn