SECRETS OF THE TOILET.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 184, 17 August 1871, Page 7

SECRETS OF THE TOILET.

(" Court Journal")

In the accounts we read in some* of the A mei'icun journals are correct, enamelling would seem to be much practised in New York. However, ws ure bound to admit that the principal facts ate given in a New York paper, edited by ladies, who are naturally far harder on their own sex than any maa would be. We receive the story therefore with suspicion. But the art of enamelling has evidently been investigated carefully by the writer to whose account we are indebted for the. principal facts in this article. All the mate-rials for the operation being at hand, thf operator begins to overlay the skin of his patient which nature ga?e to her witli a skin of his own composing. He applies the enamel to her face, ar>d then to her bust;. This enamel consist* chiefly of white lead or arsenic, made into a semi-liquid paste. It requires a good deal of skill to lay it on, 30 that it shall be smooth, and not wrinkled ; and two or three hours, and sometimes a much linger time, are consumed in m, 1 king ago of it. This being done, there yet remain the fiuishing touches and adjuncts of head-gear and cheekge ir. So down she sits again, and he, with his pigment of Indian ink and pencil of camel-hair, paints her eyebruws divinely. Then her cheeks ar# inlaid with "plumpers," which she brings with her, and which coat her t.venty dollars. They are made into p ids, and c imposed of a hard substance, which combines various chemical tnateri its. After the cheeks are thus made to look hko a girl's cheeks, they are ctnmni'd with a vegetable liquid rouge, laid on with a hare's foot. The finale of the make up is the adjustment of the teeth, which, when properly set, gives ih,; rao'it'i a lustre as of opals. Tho Lilly iLkhi go';.s away with a chuckle of d! j c[j satisfaction, as she thinks of fcha conquests she will make in the evening in the gtaiv. of the lamps and wax candles and gas. She has a bust as white as alabaster, with shoulders and arms to match, and yarranted to " stand " firm for six niontba. She wears, we should observe, when dressed,, a corset of steel, padded about the waist and hips. The make-up is" concluded !>y a piece of work which occupies nearly an hour to finish. This consits in punting the bauds white and the veirn b!uo, and thea powdering them. T'.if nails aie also trimmed . aad coloured ; and then come the adornmpjits- of tlje...chiguou, and the . long curls. ■„&traijg|3.f' rU;ts these, ii true, but ;we cannot believe such tricks are at all common, whatever exceptionally foolish women may do ; \i Idle we certainly hnve no desire that such practices should obtain in Ln^iand.