Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1880 — Listen to This, Chris. [ARTICLE]

Listen to This, Chris.

Dr. Carbally, eminent physician and chemist, testifies that the cosmetics which the fashionable belles of the present day are so fond of using, and deem so indispensable to their oeauty, are the moet deadly enemies to the vital system. Paralysis, that fatal and frightful form oi bodily infirmity, is said to be the result of the continual use of the paint* or washes used for enameling or otherwise artificially whitening the skin. Dr. Carbally further tells us, seriously, that the peculiar droop of the hands, sarcastically ailed the ‘'kangaroo atyle,” and one which was supposed Ire the community to be a mere freak of fashion, really and truly had its origin in a partial naralytis of the extensor muscle of the forearm, produced by the use of those outward poisons. Some fashionable belle, no doubt, had suffered in this terrible way for her folly, and *U the fashionable geese of her acquaintance followed suit by crooking their wrists and drooping their hands, like so many hens with their wings broken. We learn also that all powders, paint and liquids which impart a polished, scintillating whiteness to the skin, contain metallic poisons, and are extremely perilous. The more beautiful, the more aaugeroua.

—The perceptive faculty of women Is asualiy keener than the same phrenological organ in man. Woman knows, or strongly believes, that beauty rgther than genius is worshipped by the sterner sex. A man may talk of the latter to his lady love, but the keenness of the woman knows he is thinking of x the former in his heart. Women have an innate desire to please their beaux. They are fond of admiration, hence one of fceir longings is to be beautiful; to be called pretty, handsome. The grand secret of female beauty is health; the secret of health is the power, the appetite to eat, digest and assimilate a proper quantity of wholesome food; yet, m connection with this there is something more important— which will efeanaeand tone The vital organs, gain perfect digestion, purify the blood, dear the coniplexion and produce a state of mental ana physical electricity, which gives symmetry of form, bright eyes, white win ana glossy hair, the last a genuine type of female beauty and loveliness which no cosmetic can , eves produce. . '** ‘ "The wise daughterly the pride of her father; yea, her mother also doth delight in her, but tho fbqlish maiden bringeth sorrow.” She bangeth her hair over her right eye; she tippeth her hat on the back of her head. When evening cometh she walketh on Main street, with her left eye she glanceth at the patient youth who cougheth on the curb and wipeth her nose with a red bandanna. Her handkerchief also is seen. Then the youth smileth to himself and follow•th In her footsteps. She setteth a snare and scoopeth the wayfarer in,