The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-04-04
THE SECRET OF A PRETTY
SHOULDER AND NECK
CBy Marian Martineau in Chicago
Tribune.)

! THE SECRET OF A PRETTY
SHOULDER AND NECK
| (By Marian Martineau in Chicago
Tribune)
There never lived woman with a
naturally pretty neck and shoulders.
So declared an expert on the subject OF
woman and her good looks. Outside a
painters canvas the neck is either too
fat or too thin And the shoulders sell
dom harmonic with the throat. One
is too heavy, the other too thin, or vice
versa. There lives no woman with
shoulders fine enough for the worlds
gaze, if left undraped and unadorned"
This statement is both sweeping and
severe. But it is true that few can
admire the undressed shoulders. They
are so seldom of the right color, so
seldom Of the right degree of plump
ness, so rarely do they look artistic
and pretty.
Looking about the opera house at
the row of women in the boxes. all in
low-necked dresses, one is constrained
to echo the opinion of the man who
says that bare shoulders are never
pretty. Either the neck is so stout as
to look unrefined, or it is so thin as to
look scrawny. The back absolutely
offers temptation, in the case of the
IL,
so that the shoulders can lie fiat.
1t is, therefore, a daring woman or
reckless one, who will bare her neck
and without ornament go to public
places OF amusement or to dances and
evening functions of any kind.
ana, with the abundance of resources
at her command, there is no reason
why any woman should do so. She
can drape her neck with chiffon: she
can cover uneven shoulders with pic
tGresque shoulder puffs; she can hang
curl or two over a hollow in the back;
and she can band her arms and her
throat with becoming strings of heads
ana with the most elaborate neck
laces
But how to do this in the right way
is a question for all women to answer.
ana rev can answer it readily.
mere are few women who do not
wear the decollette gown at one time
or another, and the Importance of
dressing the neck as it should he
dressed is apparent
In dressing low neck il is NOT 81
much the throat that must receive at
tentlon as the back or nape of the
neck. Here is the trying place. the
spot winch brings the greatest strain
upon Woman's looks and her efforts
should be upon dressing the hack so
that it will look just as it should look.
which is the best that nature viii all
low.
PRIMAL IN Importance comes the need
for trea ting the skin. for no neck ever
looks nice that is creased or yelIowed.
If there are lines that go around the
throat, looking like the prints of tiny
fingers. if there are spots on the back
OF the neck that look like rain drops.
If the chest has mole or two or. worse
still, quorum of pimples. how can
beauty prevail?
The skin should be smooth and fair.
and of about the same hue as the face.
Where the neck is yellow and the COM
plexion a cream, it shows that there
is something wrong with the beauty
preparations which the woman is using.
Where there is a quick demand for
a nice neck, and where a woman who
mas worn high-necked gowns and tight
stocks for a year is suddenly called
upon to don a loW-necked gown. the
condition is pitiful one
The lights of evening beam down pit
ilessly upon the throat and chest. and
the woman who would look well in
hight hroated gown looks positively
grotesque in one that is cut low.
For her there is but one quick rem
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is the best that can be done and it
does well.
Let this woman see that the skin is
well cleaned, and for this there is
nothing that will take the place of soap
and water, and let her use a camels-
hair face scrubbing brush to be sure
that the work is done well.
Now when the neck is Well dried
there must be rubbed into the skin d
pomade, which should consist of the
puest oil of sweet almonds, sperma-
ceti, and glycerine. one-third of each.
If glycerine cannot be borne by the
skin, then let her substitute lanolin.
Let the skill be so well rubbed with
it as to be saturated and let it fairly
stand out in oily drops. Now all the
superfiuous grease must be rubbed off
with a bit of cotton and the neck left
for a few minutes to dry out a little.
Preparing the complexion for even
ing is no light task. and the famous
beauties the professional beauties as
they are called, take hours for il, be-
ginning sometimes when dusk comes on
and working steadily at it until a late
dinner hour.
But the domestic woman, who is
merely going to put on pretty decol-
lette gown for evening, will want to de-
vote no SUCH great llIlle 10 06F TASK. So,
by rubbing in the pomade, and rubbing
it off, and letting the skin rest awhile.
to absorb the grease, the work is short
ened.
Now. over it all, there must be
rubbed a good face powder. Let the
| layer be put on thickly and get an
assistant to plaster it on the back of
the neck and dow to the shoulder
-.lades, wherever the eye can possibly
penetrate. In putting on the powder
it is well to work on the principle that
if little is good, a great deal more
will be a great deal better. And so let
it be applied in such generous measure
that it will feel as though enameled on.
If agreea BILE, the face can be treated
at the same time, and the same gen
erous coating applied. The powder will
be plainly visible. but no one is there
TO see. except the woman who is MAX
ing up for the evening and her attend
ant
! In reading this beauty sermon there
Will be women who condemn this prac-
ltice and Who declare it is not good
form TO make up for evening at all.
But don't you think that women with