Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-27
PAINT, USE COSMETICS
This Is the Horse Shows Mes
 sage to You, Ladies
A R0sEATE FLUSH NOW THE STYLE

I'm Fashion, 1t Is s'Down Mnd Out.'
 Kate Carew Says Fashionable wo-
 men of 1903 Have Grown to Look
 Dissipated - Two Ways of Using
 Cosmetics.
 Kate Carew, in the following article in the New York World, discusses the artiices employed by society women to enhance their beauty, as seen at this years horse show in Madison Square Garden:
 Has madam an interesting pallor? Then hasten, O madam, to change it for a roseate flush!
 For your interesting pallor is no lon ger in fashion. It is out of style, it is obsolete; it is down and out" as the pugilistic gentlemen say. In a word, it is as dead as last years horse show.
 The horse show of 1903 has lighted a flame in the cheeks and the lips of women, and that flame is fashions latest word to the woman of New York a flame for each cheek and a brighter hame for the chin.
 Not within the memory of this gener- ation-perhaps not since the days of wigs and patches-have women of ire proachable character permitted them selves to dip so deeply, with quite so obvious effect, into the pigments of commerce q had almost written quite so unblushingly," but that wouldn't be quite accurate, you know).
 Then, it's hey for the complexion art ist and the beauty doctor" and the young man of 1903 can sing, My love is like a red, red rose'' more fervidly than ever it was sung before, for King Cosmetic has come by his own.
 And that's the horse shows message to the sex, mesdames. There are other messages, other clarion blasts for an over-bedizenment of person which marks the highest flood in the tide of public ostentation, but the complexions are what strike one first
 To borrow phrase from the vernac- ular, they have last years complexions faded"
 The beauty of the horse show in these social developments is that 1t presents the evidence for all it is worth. He who runs-that is, he who treads the sluggish whirlpool of the prone. nade-may read. There they are, the familiar faces in the familiar boxes, and when 1t is seen that beauty's face has taken on a deeper carmine all around the great glittering ring there's no getting away from the fact that fashion has spoken.
 There are two ways of using cosmet- ics. You stain and polish a piece of mahogany to bring out its interior beauty-that's one way. You paint a fence to disguise the wood-thats s the other way. The fashionable wom- an of former years treated her face as piece of mahogany. Pm afraid the fashionable woman of 1908 treats hers as a fence.
 We really ought to be more respect full to our own faces!
 They do these things better in France Let Frenchwoman embellish her lips with touch of carmine, and the effect is gay and sparkling, with no loss to youth and naivete; but after a consci- entious tour of inspection round the promenade in Madison Square Garden one is forced to the sorrowful conclu, sion that Mime. and Mile. New York when they make up' their charming lips look-er-well, dissipated.
 It's a fact. We have grown to look dissipated, and it's all the fault of old King Cosmetic. It's a great pity, too for many of the faces under their horlo disguise are pretty, and some are dig nified and few almost patrician in 6 vivacious way, and nearly all are in telIigent, and stripped of concealmen they would eclipse the faces of womeI gathered by chance anywhere in the world; but, alas, old King Cosmetic has smeared them all with his crimson fin l gers and leveled them down to a leVe 1 that lacks the softness and gracious ness that one looks for in the caste o1 We're de We're.
 By the way of an exception to prove | the rule, the pale, indefinite face o1 Miss Alice Roosevelt shone from con spicuous box and offered the unadornet 1 work of nature as contrast to the re suits of reckless art. Singular among ! women of society Miss Roosevelt is a innocent of makeup" as the palm O. ones hand. There is something star 1 ting in the simplicity of her appearance in such an environment as the horse show. It reminds one of the studied simplicity of her illustrious father 1 habits and the family affiliations witt l the Dutch Reformed church. I've beer l in that little old church in Washington i and I can see the hair of pastor ant congregation rising at the apparition O the horse show complexions of 1903.
 Miss Roosevelt's indefinite pallo makes her an extreme type of the un adorned, as the form of her features and carriage of her head make her 1 very distinguished one, and with onl. the most delicate accentuation of brow
 and lashes the presidents daughte would present an invaluable object les son on the art of establishment with out exaggeration.