SHE PAINTED HER LIPS.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 58, 9 March 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

SHE PAINTED HER LIPS.

The Humiliating For.itioa of a Society Bello. A very funny accidenb happened at a recopfcion where a bright woman, who was out for the first time after a long illness, was the victim. Just before she left home someone said that she had better put some colour on her'lips, as they looked perfectly blue. A serpent in the shape of a charming girl volunteered her mixture, one of carmine and glycerine (which, if any is to be used, is most desirable), and she carefully painted the invalid's mouth,_ putting the most colour in the centre, to give it the desired rosebud effect.

The newly-painted was warned that she could eat or drink anything cold, bub of anything1 hot she was to beware. Eemembering this she declined going into the supper-room, and was the centre of a croup of men and having the largest kind of a time, when an imp of darkness in the form of a footman came along with a tray on which were cups of coffee and glasses of. punch. Without a thought the ' ladye faire ' took a cup of coffee ; she sipped it slowly, and then, horror of horrors ! made bad worse by wiping her mouth on a tiny napkin which had been given her. ' She soon saw surprise on the faces of some of the men. One glance at the damask in her hand told her what was the matter, and with providential presence of mind she pub it bo her lips, again, leaned on the man nearest to her, whispered in muffled tones that she was ill and must go home: Out ot the drawing-room, quickly she gob on her wraps, and when she was helped to her carriage bhe man who had been her stand-by could nob resist telling her that he was sure she must be ill, because her lips had grown so pale. However, the men were good fellows and they never told on her, though she swore by every one of the Buddhist pods and all of the Chinese devils that she'd submit to green lips again before sho would get into such a fix.