Year: 1869

THE CONSERVATION or BEAUTY.


"There's the remains of fine woman about
"Sairey,n was the remark of Bailey Junior, as
he pazed upon the venerable features of Mrs.
'Gamp. All! what would Mrs. Camp have
been then if she could have availed herself OF
the resources Of modern science-lt she could
have been dyed as to her hair, enameled and
rouged as to her cheeks, with the trlumphs OF
n fashionable dentist in her mouth, and the
padding of an artistic dressmaker in all the
proper places Beauty need no longer sigh
over suspicious silver in the flowing tresses,
over the wrinkles which time has been wont
to write upon the snowy brow; there is grace
and brilliancy for sale in the shop, and "an
"outline" to be purchased as graceful as that
of Mad. Mantilini. To be sure, there is
difference between Norahs gown which wan
tons in the mountain breezes," leaving
"every beauty free to rise and fall as nature
"pleases," and that thing of silk and stuff and
bucllram and whalebone which is called Z" a
dress But artificial manners and customs
demand artificial expedieDts. The little girl
cries when mamma sternly insists upon the
first corsets-but mamma knows best, and is
wiser than nature, and the time comes, alas !
when the little girl cries no longer. If she
lives long enough she will have all manner OF
washes and eradicatOrs on her dressing
table, and then, in due succession, Will
follow the more recOndite mysteries OF
rejuvenaton. She will read, with more
than curiosity, advertisements like this
one now before us. 1t is that Of a miracle
worker in Boston, who promises to restore to
the belle of the period every charm which las
flown, and every beauty which has faded No
matter though a face may be as ugly and
wrinked as any which ever grew in deform-
ity and decay upon the easel of Dennerl !
Madame p of - street, Boston, has rare
secrets which will make the roses and the ILL
les of n second Spring bloom there in more
than pristine freshness. She addresses herself
" to the elite of Boston and of New-England
generally The climate of New-England.
we are told, is great destroyer Of female
beauty. The young ladies there are the most
charming in the world, but the climate is well
known to be implacable The east wind has
way of its own of impartng certain rosiness
TO the nose, and kind of pallid delicacy to
the cheek-a most unfortunate distribution OF
color There IS apt to be great precoclty OF
wrinkles, and for wrinkles Madam - has
what she is pleased to call the "Destructeur
"des Rides" or "Wrinkle Destroyer" All
seams she speedily obliterates-all corrugations
disappear after "two slight applications of the
"Destructeur." under the eye, on the brow.
"around the mouth they are no longer to be
observed by the most fastidiOus connoisseur.
MADAME addresses herself especially to the
daughters of fortune" who languish under
the effects of frequent rounds of gaiety, and
the ennui which so surely follows" These,
when the mirror has notified them of their
"altered features" arc invited to call upon
Madame and to test her chemical triumph"
1t is thus that she puts out her Gard to the
" Fashionable and invites them to come and
be beautifed.


All this is evidently IN improvement upon the
process to which the daughters of Pelias sub
jected their reverend but wrinkled papa There
is no cutting up, and no dangerous boiling, in
tho establishment of Madame" Under the be-
nign influence of her Destroyer" n marble
smoothness returns to the countcnance, and it
becomes at once "polished after the similtude
" of a paace.n One rubbing may accomplish the
wonder, but two will be found infallible. A
woman may go in witch, crone, beldam,
\ hag, ana come out nymph' Cleopatra,
fairy, and form of life and light! There is
only one objection to this great process. twill
make beauty too common. Wrinkles, as being the
exception, will come to be admired and some
other MADAME win set up an opposition
and advertise herself as n
Wrinkle Restorer."
We trust that Madame" will not be too |
extensively employed. We hope that some |
lear old venerable faces with a beauty in their
iecay which "the fair, fallacious lookss of |
Dalila never knew, will be left us to love and |
reverence. We hope that there are young la |
lies still who. will be persuaded that cold |
water is the best cosmetic, and cheerful, |
mind the best Destroyer of |
Wrinkles" Would that women could be made
% understand how little these arts avail them
with men whose admiration is worth havingi


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