Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1894 — CHAT ABOUT VEILS. [ARTICLE]

CHAT ABOUT VEILS.

They Are Expensive and Sometimes Unhealthy Luxuries. Dearer to the average woman than any other dress items are her veils. It is to these she looks for the finishing touches of her toilet, and with a wellstocked veil box at hand she has no fear of unbecoming street rigs. Veils have been declared ruinous to the eyesight, and certain kinds have by no means a good effect upon the skin, but for all this woman regards them as her especial gowning rights, and will deny herself a notion here and there if she can indulge in the latest veiling whims of the hour. There is no doubt about it, good veiling shows for itself. It would astonish many of the brethren to learn how much the modish bit of gauze or net that screens feminine features costs per yard. Expensive? Oh, dear, yes, and so the fair one who has gathered together from time to time quite a collection of veils is anxious to keep them in the best possible shape. When my lady starts for a morning’s shopping she usually draws over her face a substantial veil of sewing silk, either in black, brown, white or darkblue. The airy, butterfly fancies in tulle and lace she lays aside for less practical occasions. The sewing silk is a great skin protector; that is, to a certain extent. It prevents the dust from sifting into the wearer’s pores,as a fancier mesh would do. This is all very well, but meantime the veil takes up the flying particles of dirt and holds them. Therefore if the veil is laid away in its perfumed nest after a wearing without being given a thorough brushing and shaking, when next it is donned the dirt specks it caught on its last outing will be transferred to madame’s fair skin, and if her pores are not as fine and close as a baby’s will settle in and form those disfiguring blemishes—blackheads.