WITH HELENA RUBINSTEIN IN EUROPE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 86, 4 January 1908, Page 11

WITH HELENA RUBINSTEIN IN EUROPE.

THAT LADY WRITES AGAIN > i : ■ • Berlin, October 15, • ' \ | I am hungry, for, a .chat -with someone;in,:. v<>»( But nP. chance forgone •here—in-, Berlin!. 1 ' Tlie.'other:., day", on-'jnyi" .hrMs .wayilto,.Cook's.,jtP arrange for. my prospco-• / • V ;:j tiyettrip through'the-Balkan;Statbs; ; .l caught -; sight of;!a nwn'whom to i .'^j /Australia Hotel-;iri Sydney .over .a- yesir ago. .' y., ißut ; spebdi'ng-in one^irep-;yf ;,i;- 4 tion!. and: my cab in; another. That. was 'the • . -' , nearhst .I-: : carae 'to -.a;- living .Australian since.. . ' !,;j my arrival in Berlin. '•' " You know, • 1 have: .been 'moreHhaiifortu-\ nate ;,in thechoice'; of my instructors, ad- - ; ■risers,' and''.agents" oh my; present, .trip.....ln '• ' '>j the 1 work- of';arialysing ; and experimenting; '-'j ..with.,-ne-K preparations I.have here the' ser- ':. ..j vices—l must-riot call.;it that, but; the-kind-'. liest of help. and the, invaluable experience— .-'' J of Professor Buchka to draw upon, and the 1| freedom, of ;the,:niost perfectly equipped: laboratory. .1 'hare ever seen;- He has practic-' .l; ally stepped , into..the shoes 1 of' that., other .. '.;§j great German chemist,! Prof. .Frisenius ..of, : Wiesbaden, of whom he told me a most- de-, / ' j iigbtftil -story: Frisenius's, laboratory* was / ." :-. ; 's 'one of the'; show ■ places .of Wiesbaden. - Jt' 3 "used to be 'quite the .thing for ." iljustriou's " ..':; ;-| la'dies.,tp.look up■ the.genial Professor.in his . . sanctum; whenever. chance, brought them to .1 iWiesbaden.: The Professor liked. his. littlo . : i 'joke, and enjoyed it all-.the-.more.when it !:j could he had at the. expense of an " illustri- , . ous" ladv.. When. tho,.face .of any of his ,: j visitors - snowed traces of..rouge,he would.- S conduct her into a room ,in . which his stu r . \\ dents were, generating sulphuretted hydrogen',, ' . •".{ -whose'fumes would turn the artificial colour :i of the face .black. The Professor,would.th.pni : . j squeak out; innocently Strange, how heir.. .j !graciousLadyship have" bhaiiged colour!" ,- : Speaking of rouge:! It has for years been a. !dream:of mine:'to discover a- rouge :,which- .: . Syi could be made to harmonise with all com- '-:-i plexion tints.- 1 This was out of the question . - r\ as long as the colour of. the. rouge had to be.- ■ ■a red of some 'shade' or. other. Nov.- that may; ... • J seem;like a paradox. Still,'.l;am now work- -. K irig..ori a rouge lvhich is not red at all, but., : j :white.'■ -The' substance to be used .has. the V' peculiarity that wheiv applied to' tho'skiu it' ■ suffuses, by niere contact, a red/colmir vrhich, . . .with "some • deftness,- can'.be intensified 6t~' yj 'moderated 'to.'.'Suit!.'the individual taste! ~The'-: ; : '1 discovery is. being patented by me,' arid' I' ' :; predict/ for. it'n "glorious future. : ! I ain- (jetting ready to fold my tents.here,. .where ! have spent two months of hard work' . ' i s in gathering'up new preparations and modes-' ■'... of "complexion, treatment for. my. institutes' ' *-"-'U in-Australasia. -Vienna will see -'me -next.; ' j-.'j From there I go on the waves of the Blue- i ] Danube down,to Belgrade; hence ; to Con- 1 ' ' :;'j c-tantinople, and ; by way of Kussia ; ..back to- •'? Paris.. -Tho trip, 1-am told, is rather an unusual, one for a .woman to take, but niy ; -'ii errand-in the interest of the enhancement' of woman's beauty is unusual in itself, and! : . can only be accomplished by unusual moaiiß.-

Think of me kindly. In the. words of Heine: " Sei nir guetig, sei mir gnacdig." 6546 " HELENA RUBINSTEIN. ,