BEAUTIFYING.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2125, 20 February 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

BEAUTIFYING.

"How do you go about beautifying a woman ?" asked the reporter. " Well, we bring: out the eyes by careful pencilling, shading", and underings. The Waahingt n women and the actresses understand ttm kind of thing, the former quite as well as the latter. The beauteous do wafers seen in Wash* ington drawing-rooms assist Nature considerably, I assure you. Beautifying is 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 yon have the expression. That is just the way we do. If the features are too bro id, we modify them with lines ; if they are too receeding, we bring them out in the same way. It's a very simple matter. We keep the 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 iv Paris and New York by rnaray women who will make it the profession of their lives." 41 How do they beautify the lips ?"— " We turn them out and paint them with a salve inside, and the saliva which lubricates them in conversation moistens them jn«t enough tv make a perfect ruby in colour," 11 Do yon brighten the eyes?" — "No, indeed. We don't claim to "do anything of the kind. Suoh proceedings ruin the sight, and arc foolhardy in the extreme." "Can you chnnjre the sh.vpe of the nose?" — " We pan modify the shape by lines, and beautify the no-trita by tinting them. We modify large ears by skilfully drawn lines and by a peculiar arrangement of fhe hair. A hollow cheek is tinted low and dark in order to fill it in." "Do you make dimples ?"—" We paint thpm, making them very white outside. To make them really, the muscles must be cut, and that we never do." " How do you whiten the hauds ?"— " By the use of doeskin medicated gloves. Medicated masks aie 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, mid the effect is whitening and the effect is whitening and healing. Brown powder is used for making up brunettes. There is a bleach for the skin Moles are removed by a preparation with a glass pencil in three hours. Superflouons hair is not removed by electricity, because the effect* are not pleasant, bnt by a prepnration which is put on the fane. When it is rubbed off the hair comes with it." " I presume you have had a lot of experience with the theatrical people?" — " Yes. They are more easily suited than anybody else, because they understand the subject. They take great delight in fitting down to be beautified ; it saves them a lot of trouble, and we perfume them so delicately, 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 be.iutifiers claim that onethird of their business comes from men. They are not fubsy or hard to work for, and they take a delight in being hundFome. — Denver Tribune.