AN EX-BEAUTY'S REMARKS ON BEAUTY.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 1374, 27 August 1895, Page 2

AN EX-BEAUTY'S REMARKS ON BEAUTY.

A REPBESENTATIVE of '* Cassell's Saturday Journal" has been having the benefit of an erstwhile fashionable beauty's observations on the lengths to which women, will go to acquire or preserve beauty. "A woman's last sighs," observed the : lady, " are for her beauty, and there is no pain she will not inflict on herself or others for the sake of it. Take Spain, for instance, where a small foot and white hand are the mode. There the women tightly bandage their feet up at night on going to bed, and sleep with their hands suspended over their heads from pulleys, so as to keep the blood out them. ' ; ■•''■ "A French beauty, too, who used to plaster her face every night on retiring with a paste, to keep away wrinkles and give a clear complexion, had a pair of white satin boots sewn tightly on every morning and ripped off at night—a new pair being of course required daily. Sleeping with the face in a paste plaster is very common, however, and a good ma-iy, also, use thin slices of raw beef. To such discomforts will women subject themselves to retain their dominion over men. " Their tender hearts, moreover, ate not tender enough to prevent them from dealing out wholesale discomfort to man and beast to the same end. Husbands, who have to pay millinery bills, experience some of the tortures that beauty unflinchingly distributes. The poorer Parisian?, too, used to suffer from the scarcity of milk, by the rage for milk baths. "Look, again, at that American millionaire's wife, whose dress and shoes were trimmed with the red breasts of robins. What butchery of twittering little innocents did such a display not suggest! "But there is nothing—be it ever so ridiculous or ever so costly, or involve ever so much pain to procure—let it only get the name of being a beautifier, and women will have it. Yet strange to say the greatest beautifier of all—because, I suppose, it is within everybody's reach—is the one most neglected, and that is a sensible way of living. Temperance—by which I don't mean teetotalism —exercise, and cleanliness form the beet recipe for the beauty of the mind as well as the body. "If anything mote than these be let it be linked to bathing in tepid water mixed with bran."