The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-02
THE GREAT
RAGE FOR
MAKING UP"

| nowadays driving down flIth avenue
are painted and powdered and enameled
with a liberality that recalls the be-
daubed face of the circus clown Of our
childhood. There is no sense or reason
in it. for many of these women are too
young TO need the aid OF art 10 hide the
heeting loveliness-
The same may be noted on society
nights at the Metropolitan Opera House.
The women in the millionaire boxes are
ten times more made up than the
prima donnas. who are supposed TO need
touch of art TO give the facial chsrsc-
teristics required by the role.
/ Dyed hair. too. shade Of deep bronze.
which has a greasy. unwholesome look.
is seen upon many heads that one would
fancy too fastidious to permit the con-
Eliminating touch OF dyes and bleaches.
! The reason given for this is that the
/ Princess OF Wales has taken 20 the use
OF make up" Never in England has
/ the use of cosmetics been SO great for
what the princess does every woman in
Britain. old or young. fashionable or IN
| fashionable. aims TO do likewise or
/ course this IS the most subtle form %
fiattery possible. II takes every young
and beautiful woman out OF the race as
rival in beauty 10 the fair Alexandra
OF Wales.
In New York. however. the fact that
/ the Princess OF Wales has taken 70
rouge and powder is only felt as an in
direct influence. Indeed there are no
women in New York society near
enough 20 English royalty 10 authoritR-
/ lively know what is goinS on in that
sacred circle. IL is only partly because
the fashion OF making up the face is an
English society fad that the fad has set
| in with the Four Hundred.
| In considering this fact II Is also
worth while TO remember that. with the
| possible exceptions OF the Princess Of
Pless and cleo de MerOde. there are 10
young women who are famous beauties
/ of the first class. SibyI Sanderson Is
over 30. Lily Langtry has begun 20 wor-
nv about wrinkles, Lillian Russell has a
daughter as tall as herself and Pats -
( trying a third matrimonial experiment.
Yet none of these women have lost their
! charms. and the success with which
they combat old age has its influence on
Younger but less lovely women.
There is something else. too-women
grow old faster now than they ever did
Ii is all nonsense TO say that woman's
wider sphere and interests will make
her face attractive into far advanced
age. Well. maybe but her energy is
wearing out her beauty and her body
all the time. The average modern wo-
man. whether she be in society or in a
profession or a business. Is, so far as
nervous energy is concerned, burning
the candle at both ends. and she knows
it, She looks in her mirror every night
with a little thrill OF anxiety. wondering
how many new lines her latest bonmot
or speech or book viii cost. She knows
that for every bit OF used M gray mat
ter in her brain she may expect a line
on her forehead or a hair out OF her
head That is one reason she awhile
ago became so feverishly athletic Ex-
ercise and wholesome living were the
secrets Of perpetual youth. she thought.
Perhaps they are. but society women
and women wage earners alike are un-
able to live up TO this theory in the full
ness that would bring the desired reaults.
And so. in spite Of golf and tcnris and
basket ball and the rest Of IT, the net
works grow on worried forehcads and
And then cosmeticsl Al FIRST IL was
only some harmless remedy. MIX baths.
vinegar. alcohol. benzoin and all the
medicinal washes failed. Then came
tonics for the system. and after a biz
face scrubbing brushes and massage.
After that arose the use OF face creams,
warranted 10 be invisible and now in
difference and resigned conviction
~ a -
on artistically they are just as pretty as
z real complexion.
Prince Bojidar KaraFeorgcvitch. the
Russian prince OF Marie Bashkirtsefs
journal. writes in "A recent number Of
The Magazine Of Art on this craze for
cosmetics. Profound philosopher. that
he is. when he comes to analyze wo-
mems motives he Eravely LAYS IL 20 the
false ideal 81 beauty. fostcrcd by the
constant association with the doll faces
The prince. II would seem. has been
much struck by the spectacle % little
girl nursing a large dolI-a doll dressed
in the latest mode and having "prepoa-
ferrous eyes set in darkened circles a.
large as those Of a real woman and look
ing Ike black holes in the pinkY white
face with scarlet lips" This unnstu
raj looking doll. he declares is the rea
corrupter ~ womauhood. the insldious
seed which. dropped in willing soil pro
duces later on that desire 20 paint and
dye. 20 have sealing wax .ps and a
masklike face. which r. 80 conspicuous
among women ~ today. This imbeeiie
looking toy. he goes on % say iH looked
upon by the small EiTi ~ vision -
beauty and Joy. what more natural
then. than a desire on the part n the
child % simulate its unnatural charms
as she grows Up and r. able 70 play
tricks with her own person.
The fact that women Eho few years
ago would not have dared - appear
with a face made az now paint bra
zeniy j. due 10 she value that women
set on beauty. There - m doubt that
The end n the century woman is good
deal cieverer than her mother was Is
years ago she has learned. wheth-r she
BE- the humble typewriter girl or the So
-lety leader. that beauty 81 power. and
90 matter how vel she ray - endow-
n with ult and wisdom beatty wH
help her % climb the ladder % fame and
fortune where a more brilliant but ieza
ovely sister would have failed u ia
phase II the desperate AMBITION ~
reckless age. and no wonder any means
are grasped az "a trying e attals e.
rhe society woman caverfiy adulirss che
beautiful. daring beauties - me stage
She asks them 20 her house. fsfes therr
md studies them ~ order 20 asizh
.hoss charms that have - often 81
'usred the men q her circle. Ehs lrssI
sfes ths opera singer ~ fhr vauseytlfe
queens airu ard grsees hgt she makes
ne mistake - forgetting that zhe- en-