The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-09

who habituaMy uses paint and powder
awakes some fine morning to find herse II
uglier than before.
Rice powder and potato powder will not
injure the skin very much for the very ex-
cellent reason that they do not resist the
effect OF heat. When the glands begin to
act, the Precipitation drives away the pow
der, and nature. unchecked, performs it's
function.
This fact makes rice powder somewhat
unpopular. A powder which will adhere
to the skin In spite OF heat is more in de-
mand.
To secure this end. rice pow der Ia there
fore often mixed with chalk or subnitrate
OF bismuth. The more successful the result.
the greater the injury done to the skin.
Simple rice powder ia not always quite
so innocent as il seems, for manufacturers.
to improve the effect OF the powder. some
times add 900 grammes of something or
other to 900 grammes Of rice
Better than rice powder Is gin and water;
no better beautifier could be desired. BY
dabbing little on the cheeks, color Is i'm
parted to them. The mixture brings the
blood TO the surface and gives II life. As. In
addition it softens the skin, there is no
reason In the world why 1t shouldn't be
used occasionally.
A mixture Of honey three ounces, Vine
gar one pint, nutmeg one ounce and ism
glass one and half ounces, allowed TO
simmer, not boil, over slow fire for half
an hour makes a face lotion which, used
occasionally. will counteract the effects of
cold raw winds better than any costly
cosmetic that can be purchased.
And what. its friends will ask. II to be
said against making up?
A question answered by another-what
Is the use Of doing questionable thing for
an Internationally undesirable end'
what eyes can look love. even to eyes
that speak again, through painted borders;
what intelligence can beam from orbs set
in dark bands ike rubber spectacles? What
man cares to kiss the dalnask cheek that
borrows its bloom from the rouge potf
ask the opponents Of the practice.
The art of Identifying the complexion
bv artificial means ia very old. The women
Of gray antiquity knew how to give their
cheeks the rosy hue which nature had
denied them.
In Nineveh. the practice Of ennmeling
was quite common. The skin was made
smooth and clean with pumice stone and
then covered with layer OF " hite chemical
preparations. A toilet case found in the
ruins D1 lncDtS a NoIltttIOU
of little bottles full of perfumes and COM
pleXion medicines.
The women of Athens painted themselves
with white lead and yermilion. Ovid
describes various paints which were used
by the Roman matrons and complains
that the women tried to initiate with cos
rnetics the rosy compile xions which health
alone can give.
He also spoke of the deceitful pallor lent
to checks by white, lead and OF curious
methods women had OF beautfying their
eyes Again. he mentions that pale face
IL necessity for every women who aspres
to be good form, because for a woman
TO look delicate and thus play on the feel
ings Of the men was the fancy of the hour
This fetching pallor was produced 10y means
Of white lead and other stuffs.
Pliny speaks OF a connection OF flour OF
peas and barley. eggs hartshorn and vari-
Gus other things which fashionable women
in Rome put on their faces at night and kept
on part Of the day for the purpose OF clear
ing their compilations.
Cleopatra not only had every cosmetic
known in her day TO add TO her good looks,
but she also wrote book on the care OF
the skin which, unfortunately for the bellies
Of to-day. II out of print.
Italian ladies' of the fifteenth century
wore red and gold powder and also blue
pow der. During certain political troubles
women altered the color Of their cheeks
to indicate their political opinions and
changed the shade OF their hair.
The eighteenth century was most trying
for the complexion. which was put on with
the gown with infinite pains. A toilet
table had Dutch pink, Bavarian red, Chi
nese white and liquid to produce blush
II was all as dangerous Tor a novice to
NEEDLE with the bottles and jars on dress
ing table as with those in a chemists lab
oratory.
This was the time when the English Par
lament, which always looks OUT for the
protection of the men, considered q bill
which read this way.
AN women without distinction ms to age
or rank, maidens as well as widows, who
should deceive the male subjeota OF his
Majesty and mislead them into marriage
by means of paint, salve, beauty water.
false hair, false teeth. cotton wool. corsets
or padded hips. or high heels should be
punished under the provisions Of the law
against sortrry, and the marriage shall
be declared null.
The bill did not pass
There is story of court beauty who
went to the famous preacher Massillon
| and asked him whether II was an unpar-
donable sin to Use rouge,
The tenderly sarcastic answer was TO the
effect that AZ some thought 1t wicked to
Use artificial bloom and some did not, the
best means Of saving ones self from hope
less perdition was to rouge on only one
check History tells not whether the lovely
ma rotiiae tnok the vhola ifSk