Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-26

the use of cosmetics been so great, for
what the princess does every woman in
Britain, old or young, fashionable or
questionable. aims TO do likewise. OF
course this is the most subtle form of
fattery possible. 1t takes every young
and beautiful woman out of the race as
a rival in beauty TO the fair Alexandria
of Wales.
In New York. however. the fact that
the Princess Of Wales has taken to
rouge and powder is only felt as an in
direct influence. Indeed there are no
women in New York society near
enough TO English royalty to authori-
tatively know what is going on in that
sacred circle. It 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 no
young women who are famous beauties
OF the first class. Sibyl Sanderson is
over 30. Lily Langtry has begun to wor-
ry about wrinkles, Lillian Russell has a
daughter as tall as herself and Patti is
trying a third matrimonial experiment.
| Yet none of these women have lost
I l,r;r oh hn Will
which they combat old age has its in
fluence on younger but less lovely wo-
men.
| There is something else, too-women
grow old faster now than they ever did.
1t 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
profession or a business, is, so far as
| nervous energy is concerned, burning
the candle at both ends, and she knows
/
with little thrill of anxiety, wonder
| ing how many new lines her latest bon
mot or speech or book will cost. She
knows that for every bit Of used up
gray matter in her brain she may ex-
pect a line ON her forehead or a hair
out of her head. That is one reason she
awhile ago became so feverishly ath-
| letic. Exercise and wholesome living
| were the secrets of perpetual youth, she
| thought. Perhaps they are, but society
women and women wage earners alike
the fullness that would bring the de-
sired results. And so, in spite Of golf
and tennis and basket ball and the rest
of it, the networks grow on worried
foreheads and the hint Of gray creeps
into the hair.
And then cosmetics! At first It was
only some harmless remedy. Milk
baths, vinegar, alcohol, benzoin and all
| the medicinal washes failed. Then
came tonics for the system, and after
bit face scrubbing brushes and mas
sage. After that arose the use Of face
creams, warranted to be invisible, and
now Indifference and a resigned con-
viction that If the washes and rouges
are put on artistically they are just as
pretty as a real complexion.
Prince Bojidar KarageorgeYitch, the
Russian prince OF Marie Bashkirtseff's
journal, writes in recent number OF
The Magazine Of Art on this craze FOR
| cosmetics. Profound philosopher that
he is, when ne comes TO analyze wo-
mems motives he gragely lays it TO the
false ideal of beauty, fostered by the
constant association with the doll faces.
The prince, it would seem, has been
much struck by the spectacle OF a little
girl nursing large doli-a doll dressed
in the latest mode and having ''prepos-
| ferrous eyes set In darkened circles as
large as those OF a real woman and
looking like black holes in the pinky
white face with scarlet lips" This IN
natural looking doll, he declares, is the
real cozrupter Ct womanhood. the in
sidious seed which. dropped in willing
soil, produces later On that desire to
paint and dye to have sealing wax Inns