FOR WOMEN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 17 April 1907, Page 1

FOR WOMEN.

ANCIENT AIDS TO BEAUTY. Tke beautios of the past evidently did not believe that the best cosmetics lie in. ">the merry heart that ■maketih a cheerful countenance." for they depended very largely upon artifictal aid in the preservation of the complexion. [The Empress Poppaoa kept 100 asses to supply her bath of milk, and always retired with a mask, or poultice, of bread and milk upon her at night. Over this n bladder w a s drawn to exclude tho air. The eyebrows of the Roman beauty were tipped with black to resemble the "dx-^yed Juno;" they were decroatod with paints and sprinkled with perfumes, and woro a quantity of false hair, or dyed their own according! to the prevalent stylo of the time. Tho Greek lady had a retinue of rotirinfr maids, who rubbed o!ut the wrinkles and shaded thb face with red and white paints, and anpinted the face with white of esss and tfCose grease, to protect it against the air and sun. Thoy also had a recipe to turn blue eyes into- blafiki All throu s h the history .of famous* w)omon wo find ideas <of the bath) as an improvet- of the complexion. Jsabello of Bavaria had enormous decoceions of rhickweod poured into hers; Queen Elizabeth bathed in wine' Mary Quev-n of Scots in milk. Italian iadies of the mediaeval times ln warm blood; Madame Tallien in crushed strawberries and raspberries poured into water, the Empress Josephine in milk perfumed with violets; and the beauties ot th* eighteenth century used such infusions as bouillon in which veal bad been cookod, roswatur and honey, and Juice of barley mixed with the yolk of an ef?g. Iti the time of CalhoTitto do Modlcl and her famous daughter. Marguerite of Valols, the fafle was covorod at night with a linen. cloth dippod in milk, into which slices of lemon and orange, with sugar and, alum, had boen laid. or into a distillation of snails and lemons-; but tho beauties of the court of Cbnrlcs 11. of England wont further, and applied crude a_uicksilver to § their skin, so that a now ono ** iQ '''? !l '' come ia Us place. Tbe Buchess ol Newcastle especially recommended this. Noarlv all these fashions '.wero derived from Italy, where tha most extravagant toilet arts were pracedscd. Nothing frightened the beauty. Lucretia Borgia is supposed to Hive been a brunette but Bho dyed her hair any colour she pleased. When she -went to ler, rara Blie made her escort/ halt fol days while she applied her cosmetics, aivd she dyed her hair fivetimes during the journey. In .ho eieihteant'h century I^ftdy Coventry diod from the effects of rouge, as did many othor less famous wimien for their beauty.

A'traejic incident of the snowstorms has just '.became known in Italy. Sone country people in the sparsoly-populatcd 'district of Aschel merinos in Bavaria, found buried under the snow in tho open country tho dead body of a •nanThere "wffl-o no traces of violence. Tho pocket contained . jnnney. and all the circumstainces mctica'tod thati tlh body was that ofa str a ngier who had been overtaken toy a tampest ■bf wind and snow in which ho had perished. A portfolio of drawings and a case of sketching materials indioatod that the unfortnate man wan an artist, and some visitinu cords bore tho name ••'Napileono d'Bste, Venice." Inquiries made in Venice through the Consular offices soon established 'the dead painter's idontiy. He was known in the city as an artist of promise in decorat'ivo and kenro paintinw. lb was his custom to travel abroad for purposes of study, He had a particular likinc for ' CRooimamla and Russia, to botll of w"hich countries he haxUmade many journeys. Signor d'Esto leaves a youtwr widow, to whom he was married scarecely a year aeo. To-day," said Mr Haldamo at the mcoUiiK of the British Science Guild, at the Mansioni House, "brains have a butter market in Great Britain tban for a lons time past." Ho spoke with satisfaction of the progress of technical teaching,- mentioning Iru particular Birmingham University. under Mr Chamberlain. To show how science developed .new industries he citod the motor c a r. He Commence^ 500, on the strikinc development in railway j nanaKoment. While ifha feet that the private employer was giving way to the Joint-stock company had i|ts disadvajntaffes. the ready command of caTwW possessed by the company meant more and more that the price of brains was tho price paid tothe manager of a company and less and less to the pri-vate individual. Enortnous enterprise was elvinjr more opportunity to make colossal fortunes than oven before. Besides industrial magnates there were other magnates, who commanded colossal salaries because they were men with tha power of. organisation. /Through thb whole hierarchy of business wo had a capacity such as wo never used .to know. Attention is called at. tho Vatican to the mislen/Hnjr reports that large offerings from aU parts, of the world are pourinjr into the Holy See. The opinion is held in Rome that the real object of these reports is to stop, or at least diminishi the oflerinfis of tha faiith ful in a permit in which the nows of the Pope have augmented. In this way the- money loft by Monsignor Adami to the Ponl/IB was represeneed as amounting to! millions, while it it only about £20, 00.0, which very likely, will not go at all to Pius X, as the relatives of Monsignor Adam! are contesting tho will. Cardinal Tripepi left scarcely £10,000, not to the Pope, but to lievevolont instifcut/iora, merely entrusting! the Pontiff wfit-h tho manaKcnvcnt of the money. In. a Bimilar way, tho larßo sums supr posed to have been given to tho Pontiff by other Cardinals and by Sovereigns Wo me?B InVBaOWh The truth 'is, according to t-ha Vatican, that while in conseauenco of the Separation Law in France, the Church loses there £-1,600,000 yearly, the Peter's penoe. revenue i-a constantly diminishing 1 , and the ordinary revenues of, the Holy See ar6 scarcely sufficient for eight months of tho year, so tihtait for the remaining four Jnontihs the Pope is entirely dependent upon the offerings of the faithful.