The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-09
TIRE NONPAREJL NAN

The Society Page of Neiehboring Paper
Taken Up with the Consideration OF
Miss Natalie Schencks Skn-How That
Beautiful Ladys Fair Outer lntegument
Is Cared for and So Gets Into the Pub
lie Prints.
Picking up metropolitan paper the
other day glanced over an article
headed Gossip Of the Smart Set by
"Debutante," and we learned that Miss
Natalie Schenck, whose engagement to
a captain in the British army has just
been announced, has probably one Of the
most beautiful skins of any young woman
in New Yorlk's smart set. She is a beauty
of the blond type, with fair hair and blue
eyes, but her lovely pink and white col
oring may be said to be one OF the CHIEF
Of her attractions. She has skin which:
is not only remarkable for the delicacy OF
it's coloring, but for the fneness Of its
texture, and the owner Of it shows her
wisdom and good sense in taking ex-
| tremely good care Of 1T.
Now, we would like to ask you, just
! between you and us. how you would like
to have your 'skin" paraded before
nation of 50, 600, 900 people and held up to
the enthusiastic wonder and comment OF
|
in this broad land Of ours, to say nothing
of Great Britain?
We feel that man, or society bud,
/ should have a certain privacy in his on
her skin that would lead him or her to-
prefer not to see it mentioned in the
| public prints in that familiar and easy
way. We may be too sensitive, but if a
| new spaper had half-cOlumn article de-
scribing our hide we should feel that our
outer integument was something too
much in the public eye.
"Debutante' goes on at some length
about Miss Schencks skin. She says:
when out Of doors, however, this wise
young woman takes great care that
neither wind nor sun shall play havoc
with her fair skin. Miss Schenck was
one of the first young women to adopt
the tissue veil and she has been devoted
to it's use ever since she first took 1t up.
In town and in Newport she always goes
} yelled and frequently her veil of heavy
chiffon covers another net of tule.'
1t may be all right for Miss Schenck to
guard her skin thus carefully, but why
should this simple fact be thrust upon our
notice in the public prints We have
never used wells of chiffon or nets OF
tulle to guard our skin and it seems to
be performing it's offices quite well, bar
ring few wrinkles due to time and to
t thought expended in efforts to prevent
$ certain trusts from ripping it off and
? hanging it on their barn.
( It may be possible, you will say, that
. Miss Schenck has not authorized this
: publicity given to the quality Of her in
tegument and to the efforts made to pre-
e serve it's freshness, and is annoyed that
t,,fo fha H.
: lie thought Then this publication should
: be a warning to her that she is giving the
: impression by her actions that she is
= | more devoted to the care of her skin
d than to the cultivation Of those feminine
n graces that to some extent occupied the
y thought Of our mothers and grandmoth-
r ers.
- AS the moral of all this, let the solemn
question echo in the chambers OF your
o soul to-day, (which is getting the more
# attention, my skin or my mind and
II hearth" A thought like this may well
e give us pause. Let us now sing Hymn
- 234:
a. "Teach us anothers faults to scan"
The Westfeld, Mass, boy holds the
!, palm for being the first to go in swim
ming People were given surprise in
i, that city Thursday noon, to see five
l. youngsters clad in natures garb jumping
:. into the river. The ice had gone out OF
e. the river only the day before One can
almost hear the dialogue
g How is she, Bill?"
Its great!
"Ain't it cold?"
m Nav, just warm as milk. Come
on in!''
We are for that grand old true and
tried statesman, Judge Parker of Illinois
TX Boy or man, he has never failed the coun-
IS try in any emergency yet.
Do you suppose those bulbs had sense
enough to burrow down below the fros
line.
~ Coal has one advantage over radium. i
n is off SOC a ton.
Of Colonel Pollock, of the clipping bureau
re has started a pecullaf business 1aAi 90 q
a. newspaper brokerage. He has from 80 t.
~ 100 neWspap ers listed for sale. Any part!
r. who wants to own little country pape
err where there is nothing to do but to 81
es in the office, take money on SUBSCRIPTION
n and live like a lord on the produce AM
err hard wood that is brought in can MAX
ee his selection from this list, pay down tn
O. price and thereafter feel assured OF
xt steady income, to say nothing OF the pleas
CHI ure of 1nolding public opinion Were J
he not for the duty we feel that we owe t