The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-02-28
(From Chicago Tribune.l

at an informal at home to her royal
relatives with a patch upon her cheek
and to make the matter still more
incontrovertible the society women OF
Washington not infrequently wear a
bit of court plaster when dressed for
the evening.
There is something coquettish about
the patch, the queens of other days
found it great aid to beauty, and tie
kings favorite, in the days when 10
king was without such a feminine Der
sonage, usually could be found with a
patch or two upon her cheek, or brow,
or chin. With characteristic enterprise
the woman of today decorates herself
with bit of plaster that may be called
an up-to-date patch. 1t is placed near
her cheek or near her chin, just ac-
cording to which may be her best fea-
ture. Or it is put calmly upon the
brow, where it will do the most good,
pictorially speaking.
The only excuse for the patch is that
it is becoming. And to make It more
so 1t is placed here or there, always
bringing out the best point of a wom-
ans face. There is in Washington So
ciety a pretty young girl with dim
pies. Her face is not regular, and she
is not blessed with particularly deep
eyes, lOI Will d SuDlu DOM llOuAl.
She has dimples and plenty of them.
And, with American ingenuity, she
places a bit of court plaster near her
deepest dimple spot The tiny speck
of black catches the eye and one sees
at the same time the dimple back
of it.
The plaster, with all the cunning in
the world, should not be placed exactly
upon the pretty spot in the face but
Inv 10 cf6 of 10 attention 10
it and to emphasize it. Actresses I'M
derstand the art of placing the patch
properly, and if you viii study these
women you will get many a lesson
in the track of making the most of
your best feature and putting the bad
one out of sight.
An English beauty quite famous for
her pretty eyes is always spolen OF as
a pure Grecian type. Really, she is
nothing of the sort. Her chin is far
too receding for the Grecian outline,
and her nose is too short. But she
manages to look pretty and to give the
Grecian impression. She does it by
bringing out her eyes, those beautiful,
dark, deep, mystical eyes, which are
the light of the face, figuratively as
well as actually. Usually she wears
bit of court plaster in the shape Of a
delicate half moon upon the temple,
letting the point come we'll forward
so as almost to touch the corner of her
eye.
Lady Marjorie, the beautiful daugh-
ter of the countess of Warwick, is an
other pretty girl who depends upon her
style and taste to maintain her repu-
tation for beauty. Always a sweet
faced girl, this young woman under
stands that she must be something
more than merely sweet. So she
dresses" her face, if one may so use
the expression, to enhance such beauty
as she has. A diamond of black court
plaster is stationed at one corner of
her pretty mouth, or a little circle OF
the plaster decorates her cheek bone.
The patch, for street wear, is not con-
sidered good form, though it can De
worn. And there are women who find
il so becoming to them that they never
appear without it. A start of black,
small and placed jauntily upon the
chin, is seen shining throug the lit
tie vein. which all women careful OF
their charms now wear.
Another Partisan patch in this year
of patches is cut in the form of a sill
yer dime and about as large around. |
This is placed in the middle of a rosy
cheek. Or, according to Partisan stan
dards of beauty, in the middle of
perfectly pale cheek.
In Paris women do not as rule |
paint the face nor court a touch of
color. They prefer perfect pallor and |
they sometimes go to great lengths to
secure it.
And charming they look, with their
exquisite gowns and their fair faces, |
without a touch of color save in the |
lips and in the nostrils. To get this |
peculiar touch of color they touch the |
rouge to the lips and to the inside of |
the nose, and they also touch the tips |
of the ears.
Bernhard IS said to color her face |
in this fashion and to paint the inside |
of her hands with saffron, making |
them quite a yellow. To Nine. Sarah |
is also attributed the fad for coloring !
the nails a bright strawberry, and |
bleaching the backs of the hands a
pure white.
But the home woman must remem-
her that the features which are excus-
a Bile and even admirable in a great |
artist would not do at all for the home
circle. Nine. Sarah is said to be
viewed from over the footlights, and
il devolves upon her to invent such
novelties as shall make her most pleas
ing to her patrons. Certainly, in her
heightened tones, she is charming TO
behold
But in using the patch, as in using
any other aid to beauty, the woman
whose high lights are to be. viewed
under the candle light, or under the
electric or gas lamps, must remember
that a little art goes a great way.
Just tiny crescent upon the Shout
der looks coQuettish and pretty. But
the group of patches which are placed
upon the shoulder sometimes looks
grotesque. One little diamond is good,
but not three or four in group, dis
figuring a chin where they might adorn
st, and the woman at home must con-
slider this, and when she buys her
patches she must use them one by one
and with discretion.
But, while the patch is a good thing
in moderation, it must be acknowledged
that there is such thing as carrying
It little too far.
Yet, who is to be the judge Of how
far it shall or shall not be carried?
At an English restaurant dinner given
at the beginning Of the winter season
in London not more than two weeks
ago, there was a handsome young
matron present whose chin was Dec
GRATED with no less than five patches.
Crescents, stars, circles and diamonds
were alternated to make a semi circle
around her mouth. Of course, it is not
to dwell long upon the fact
that the young matron was sweet of
chin and that her mouth was the
bright, particular beaut yof her face.
At the same dinner a young beauty
wore j little set of three patches upon
her cheek. Another so placed a bit of
the black plaster that it brought out
her eyebrows, which were of singularly
pretty curve.
But the domestic women, the woman
OF less society pretention, and the