Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1886 — Beautifying. [ARTICLE]

Beautifying.

“How do you go about beautifying s woman ?”_asked the reporter. “Well, we bring out the eyes by careful penciling*, shadings and underlinings. The Washington women and the actresses understand this kind of thing, the former quite as well as the latter. The beauteous dowagers seen in-Wash-ington drawing-rooms assist ifature considerably, 1 assure you. Beautifying L the bloom of youth with them. Have you ever seen Nast draw a picture. He draws a line here and another there, and when presently it is finished you have tho expression. Thai is just the way we do. If the features are too broa.l we modify them with lines; if they are too receding we bring them out in the same way. • It’s a very simple matter. - We keep ideal heads and faces hanging on the wall and approximate to them as closely as we can. Beautifying is an art now. It is studied in Paris and New York by many women who will make it the profession of their'lhtgs.” “How do they beautify the lips?” “We turn them out and paint them with a salve inside and the saliva which lubritates them in conversation moistens them just enough to make them a perfect ruby in color.” “Do you brighten the eyes ?” “No, indeed. We don’t claim to de anything of the kind. Such proceedings ruin the sight and are foolhardy? in the extreme.” ■ “Can you change the shape of the nose ?” “We can modify the shape by lines and beautify the nostrils by tinting them. We modify large ears by skill-fully-drawn lines and by a peculiar arrangement of the hair. A hollow cheek is tinted low and dark in order to fill it in ?” “Do you make dimples?" “We paint them, making them very white outside. To make them really the muscles must be cut and that we never do.” “How do you whiten the.hands?” “By the use of doe-kin, medicated gloves. Medicated masks are also used to sleep in. They are manufactured of silk rubber; a lotion is’ first applied to the face; then the mask is put on and induces perspiration and the effect is whitening and healing. Brown powder is used for making brunettes. There is a bleach used for tho skin. Moles are removed by a preparation with a glass pendil in three hours.. Superfluous hair is not removed by electricity, because the effects are not pleasant, but by a preparation which ii

put on the face. When it is rubbed off the haif comes with it.” \ * “I presume yon have had a lot of experience with theatrical people?" “Yes. They are more easily suited than anybody else, because they understand the subject. They take creat delight in sitting down to be beautified; it saves them lots of trouble and we perfume them so delicately, you know, and make them feel so comfortable. I wouldn’t mind going through it occasionally myself.” “Do you beautify gentlemen?” % “Well, I should think so. They are as vain as women any day in the week! The Washington beautifiers claim that one-third of their busihess comes from men. They are not fumy or hard to work for; but they take delight in being handsome.” —Denver Tribune.