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ten with the delightful disregard for
spelling that characterizes all old
printed matter. OF course, schooling
was scarce in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, and words went
down as they sounded-to the lasting
entertainment of future generations.
To take selections at random from
this volume of three centuries ago
No. is AN Excellent Damask Pow
der" The ingredients contain rose
leaves. cloves, storax, musk and civet.
Beat and incorporate this well to-
gether" is the quaint instruction.
No. is "A Sweet and Delicate Po-
mander," No. Z "A White Fucus or
Beauty for the Face" and No. II
claims ito allay heat and cleer the
face" No. is. to help face that is
red or pimpled. reads Dissolve COM
mon lemons and with a linnen cloth
pat the patients face that is full Of
heat or pimples. 1t cureth in few
dressings
Freckles are not a new heartsore
for No. % is Ito take away the
freckles in the face" No. 2S deals with
divers sorts of sweet hand waters,
made suddenly or extempore, with
extracted oyles of spices" No. 80 re-
introduces the old art of hair tinting.
1t tells how to make "haire Of faire
yellow or golden colour" And the
prize for ingenuity goes to No. 81 "A
- f4 To
ing was advised for Cheering" the skin,
and the necessary heat was induced
by the covered-in stove.
IN 1882. the date of publication of
= this little Library of Congress
treasure, there had been colonists in
Virginia for almost q quarter of a
century and the Mayhower had de-
posted its passengers on Plymouth
Rock IL years before. What connec-
ton is there between such frivolities
as cosmetics and these events that
mark new epochs? Just this-the
secrets that had crossed the Mediter-
ranean Sea and the English Channel
now came over the immense Atlantic
and what was to become Americas
billion-dollar industry established
modest beginnings.
The interplay between social condi-
tions and personal habits was nowhere
more plainly marked than in the New
World. In the aristocratic slave
owning Colonies of the South, for in
stance, the ladies did up" as matter
of course. That had been the fashion
in the ''set" from which they came in
the Old Land, and they continued it
without question. The Puritan maid
of the Northern provinces, however.
met with stern opposition If she
touched her face. Yet there were
times In plenty when Penelope out
witted parent, using chalk for powder
and fresh-cut beetroot or crushed
rose leaves to deepen the natural car
nation of her cheeks.
And now we switch, fashion,
to the London of, say, 1649, the event.
full year in which Great Britain en-
tered upon q republican form OF gov
ernment under Oliver Cromwell. It
is riskng repetition to point out that
history makes and unmakes social
custom, that the trend of the times
is reflected in daily life. Thus in
these II years of the protectorate,
when theaters were closed and even
the observance of Christmas was
frowned upon, personal adornment
was strictly banned, too.
k* x*
COSMETICS. which have been the
object of attempted legislation by
the United States Congress in the
1900's, appear in the records OF the
Mother of Parliaments as far back as
1850. In that year the Puritan party
introduced a bill into the House OF
Commons "for suppression OF the vice
Of painting, wearing black patches
and immodest dress of women" The
measure was dropped, as was an even
more stringent one drafted the fol-
lowing century, and then came the
big year, 1860, in which Charles II
was restored to the throne OF his
Stuart ancestors. Court circles, IN
an effort to Offset the repressive years
Of Cromwellian rule, became wildly
extravagant. It was IN the reign OF
this merriest of monarchs that powder
and patches became internationally
important. Tradition says that the
little black patch was first used by
a court beauty to cover. disfguring
mole on her cheek. According to H.
Stanley Redgrove, 1T added beauty to
features and hid blemishes." He also
tells how Pepys speaks Of lady
wearing many black patches because
Of pimples about her mouth. The
fashion fell into disuse because OF the
extremes to which it was carried" No