The ugly-girl papers : $b or, Hints for the toilet — John Shaqi
The ugly-girl papers : $b or, Hints for the toiletPower, S. D. (Susan Dunning)
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The ugly-girl papers : $b or, Hints for the toilet
Power, S. D. (Susan Dunning)
Beauty, Personal; Women -- Health and hygiene
To this list of fragrance add a recipe for common Cologne to use as
a toilet water. It is oil of bergamot, lavender, and lemon, each one
drachm; oil of rose and jasmine, each ten drops; essence of ambergris,
ten drops; spirits of wine, one pint. Mix and keep well closed in a
cool place for two months, when it will be fit for use. Ladies will
be grateful for this who have known what trouble it is to find a
refreshing Cologne which does not smell like cooking extract with lemon
or vanilla. If with these hints a woman can not keep herself fragrant
and lovely in person, her case must need the help of the physician.
CHAPTER V.
Morals of Paint and Powder.--Antique Toilet Arts.--Washington
Ladies.--Making Up the Face.--Whitening the Arms.--Tints of
Rouge.--To Make French Rouge.--Milk of Roses.--Greuze Tints.--Coarse
Complexions Caused by Powder.--Color for the Lips.--Crystal and Gold
Hair Powder.--Dyeing Blonde Wigs.--To Darken the Hair.--Champagne and
Black-Walnut Bark.--Doom of the Complexion Artist.
The time has gone by when it was a matter of church discipline if a
woman painted her face or wore powder. Nor is it any serious reflection
on her moral character if she go abroad with her complexion made up
in the forenoon, however it may call her taste in question. All who
paint their faces and look forth at their windows are not visited with
hard names, else the parlor of every house on the side-streets of New
York might have its Jezebel waiting the dinner-hour and the return
of masculine admirers. George declares he could never own a wife who
used powder; and yet Annie comes down, looking innocent in her pink
bows, with a little white bloom on each temple, and a suspicious odor
of Lubin’s Violet floating round her. I don’t think George meditates
divorce on that account. There is something noble and ingenuous in the
sight of an uncovered skin; but we reconcile ourselves to the pearly
falsehood, accepting the situation with the false hair, not so gray as
it is in front, and the long, artificial-shaped nails, and the cramped
feet. Every body knows they are inventions, and accepts them as such,
like paste brilliants at a theatre.
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