BEAUTY WHITE YOU WAIT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8309, 6 May 1905, Page 2

BEAUTY WHITE YOU WAIT.

(By CIXmLDB GRAVES, in the "Pa* Gazette.'') , It is a good thing to 'are (Looiha, the cook, waa heard to say), but .It brings trouble- There waa the lady Mother 'ad me christened after, .being give a couple of order* for. the Gallery) at Covent Garden by the gentlemen where she chared. Looshe of Lanv-Ie?. More was her name^and ▼0914 •£* 'aye come to what she came to, if aha, 'adn't bin beautiful P--_ijise»bly W*; rying the wrong- yonr_ man an «?* ing mad in her top notes at iSdgar • reproaches. Edga* bemg _*• Vjjm man she'd throwed over, and _ai_d«Qma too, with hi- deadly complexieß ai*_ black feather_4-t£ft the 'ole '«*>. *§*■■• plauded./ ' ' «■' "'■,_ ''.■'(• Beauty is beauty „'•» "*»^-> Jf make-up, though sorrietime*. ****"» gets that m&ed you cpn't farto tojl t one from the other. But what;; ITO say is—the newest en* meet fash-oneWa shape in Aggers is not to be reached by 'um-ln means alone. Bot wit" *•»• cords to them young persons -am ye* see in the ladies' pieta-p-papers, sometimes without heads, ,but always^ lee-n ing off below the knee and might 'avqj left off earlier, what I art is, 'O* is it doneP and at least one solM mcc* a d.ay being a necessity of Nmtnx^ where is it to be p«*P __ ____ - I once went to call upon a Iseantjl Sreshulist at a time in fife when . my, feelings was above na&: reason, sm an un'appy attachment to one above vagfi statiom* in life led mef to long for, a fair ;■ ■- fiower-like face and swan-like busk- in* white hands like one .of tfee lady : mo*\ inea in the " Penny Bpiganeey." Him ♦ having gpne for hia yearly fortnight?* 'oliday, an* the other lodgers 'avma dwindled to a elderly gentleman with a wig on the second floor back and a ypunfc lady in Hhe Tr^wf-ori ««»•**• { -dent? what took/'er meals out* X r 9§> the chance of a 'ole day off an' too* j it. -^ - '- -*;V Madame Rlaudeen was the BeaotaM Speshulist I'd made up my mind should; 'dp me to win a 'art that eisewaffe would never beat for me, for I'd N&ard. 'im tell a friend, another gentleman i*. the butter, pork, and general pjpovfci sion line, aa he should neve ? realy ioftij uiitil he met a maiden BEAUTEOUS AS A GODDHSS OJR: r ANCIENT GREASE. y.She 'ad an address in a ttuntng o(Qv O- Bond Street on the tlhifd 1-w^faaf np. There were two young ladiei Jjq( the outside room, proteqdih' to bo. Inujß when they 'card a step. They swopped a wink when I come in an' &c teUes*\ one she swum languidly aver the os~N pet with 'er skirt- trailin' an' spoke to] mo in a lofty, pa-i_-_i__ng kind of tonoil "Did you bring a qmng»^ asym she, . I tells her straight I ain't bcoqgbl. no message an* I've oome on my own. " Indeed I" says the young lady* sniggering at the otheß "We do*rtl atttfnd to clients of ydur rank in US* as a rule," an' glances in a m»nkte glass at the waves in 'er 'air wbi<BK must 'aye took 'ours to do, unlsst shai slop' with ''er head in a bandbox. " } - / 1 should 'ave 'supposed aa cum *uv guinea is as good as another," I saytJ , showing 'er a glimpse of 'arf a JOMtf reign X 'ad ready W iny glove, 'atlas bin paid my quarter's wages of on«| pound ten and eight only that morning " 'Owever, if not, there's other eeto_M lishments in the West End*.' 4 and Xi turns 'aughtily on my 'eel. . 4 " Did you require simple, faoe*_m_W ment, massage, pr el-otrolenseaP" askg the young lady, climbin' dowtt. mari 'or 'igh 'orse, '* or all *hre_P M . And} not knowin' what any pf the tonga . meant, I said I thought all three VpqH l be best. .'".'. , \ *' Madame' s charge will be a gn£naM and a 'arf," says the second ftonm vln for a penny in* for a penndt,'^ thinks I, "an 1 tbat leaves ma -tgl-W I pence to carry on with for a quaHerv*! But I smiled cold and, careless like s*s ' i forked out the sovereign. .- It was aa' awful sight of money to pay away, huti I didn't grudge it to be made baautM ful. . ] I "Will you 'aye manicure si vw ! and 'air-waving an 1 tinting?" asks tha ; first young lady, who'd gpt .quite etviW i "Because we employ specialists in both! | branches. 4 ' My art sank into the soles v of my feet when she said as that wonld: come to 'arf a guinea more, but I, plucked up courage and said I'd 'aye' 'em both if a sovereign and ton aa^ r\ six covered the complete course, j "Madame does not vmake such Mm gains," says the young lady as spoksf ""All right, Miss,": says ,I, «.W 'unt up another Madame 'oo wiU." An" I bid W both good mon-mg_Mt,-lie»! calls me bswkNin a 'ttrry, an \ after BOM talßng : through a spe_-c_n'-.tnba thaf went ; through the wall into^t|Mr W&a room, they took my)one, ten, ■«» aft^ give me ' ' ■' ':'r r ' . c -'-. .''j-'-A PINK SATTN TICKET, Sv_WXfl»IU ) MOST LOVELY. "Maciame is engaged .-W^^ef - DuoHess of Dimblemere, the Countosri of Crumplehorn and Xacly^Lonmhaw^ J. says the first youpg lady, "but.m^srf an 'our she will be free to attend to; you." An' they give me a red .rmm - chair, an' I set down an', .waito-L No] duchess didn't come sailin' out of tha nex' room, nor no counte-f, nether; only a greasy young man /in a .wftttaj apern, with upright 'air. went m be-*, - tween the pale blue velvet doprHWW tains, earryin' a tray with a pewter^ -pot an' a covered -i$ dish, an com* back without, an' then there was a' smell of chops as made me feel 'ungry.' An' both of the young ladies put Q» / their 'ats, ono after the other, an' went out to lunch in turns. It must 'eva been a 'our before Madame .Clauaoag runged a little bell, an' I was showed > into the nex' room. It ad no secona door, and was no more «gn of duchesses an' countesses than ef the ohops Claudeen bin eat-^ -ing. ..'.'■' - *-'.." Perhaps it was the o»B-ooloun« blinds an' We blue velvet 'angin's, but sbe certwnly did seem a lovely v oreetur in a voylet velvet teargown \out low in the. neck an' abort sleeves, thoudi stouter than when in early youth. 'Er face was the loveliest smooth pirik-an'-white you ever see, an* she 'ad wates upon wayes of goldeq ; 'air an ? lips as red as sealing-wax, an' ■ large dark eyes trimmed with blue. An' you coulljl see the veins as blue on ;'er white skin as if they 'ad bin drawed on it. An' rosy nails si shiny as yoti could 'aye seen your face in em. . She smiled at me with a flash of pearly teeth an' gold stoppings, an' I fair opened my 'art to 'er and .told 'ot. I /aid come to be made beautiful, __ti' Madame Claudeen made me tfJce off my 'at an' jacket an' turn down | neck of my three-an' -eleven silk .-'*• blouse, an' put on it cotton dresein'* gound, an' my 'art jumped into tha roof of my mouth as I thought of one. as shall be for ever nameless, comin .'•';".'.. back in a fortnight ffom yesterday to / find the humble LnVviha beautapus at '■ y^. : -'■.■-■iV:0~:- -yy -yrr^ l iH v.-" ''■' ■ ■ ■'\r.\'y- : yy^y : l'rif^^ii-^^

tne of them goddesses of Ancient Grease what he was always talkin' about. : I must say Madame Claudeen knoo 'er business to a tick. First she got a litle tin-pot with "a sperrit lamp an' lighted the lamp, an' when the water in the pot begins to steam she 'eld it under my nose until I were 'arf boilad; andf- judgin' .from the glimp I 'ad ©f meself in the glass over the sham-poo-basin, lobsters couldn't be redder. An' then she rubs my face over with a nice-smollin' paste an' : SCRAPES THE PASTE OFF WITH A j SCRAPER, an* then with a thing like a toy garden roller she goes over me eyebrows to me chin an' back again, over an' over. ' "This," she says, "is to illimilato tho 'ard lines of care and soften the fatigued linements to the rounded contoors of earliest youth. When this process is finished we will tint the 'air ■with our oelebrated Flooid Door, an' while it is drying we will apply our wonderful Skin Food." Took aback is not the word for me %hen I found Madame an' a young lady she'd called in to 'elp 'er meant to wash my 'cad before tintin- : my 'air With the Flooid Door. But 'ad to be, 'ad, an' when the rinshing an' towelling was- over they dabbed my 'ea"H all over with a wet sponge they kep^ a dippin' in a green glass saucer, an' brought a tin thing like a chimley-cowl np behind my chair an' puffed 'ot air down the back of my heck until I could 'aye prayed for mercy. " Now we will .apply our famous Skin Food," says Madame, emptying some thick pinky-white stuff out of a bottle into a pink glass saucer,, an she gets a ootton-wool dabber an' dabs me all oyer. " Smile as little as you possibly can," says ( she, " while the medium is a-drving,"' an' she opens a box full of pink stuff and takes another bit o' clean cotton-wool and-: — "'Old 'ard, fnum," I- says', as er ,'and comes my way. ' ' That am t— paint, is it?" , v ' ' . " Of course not,'* says Madame Claudeen. "This is pur exquisit Bloom of Health, and this,", an? she opened a pot of red lip-salve, " this is our Roßy : 43_ow. Do not imagin' for a minnit - that we employ _o_ma-ticks in this es-tablishpi-nV' she goes on, takin' a little bottle of blackin' out of a -drawer an' dippin' a brush in it. Nothmk so vulgar is employed in our Course of Treatment, and the effec's we arrive at are those of Nature and not of Art^. 'Arid as she keeps on a-workiqg, she keeps on a-working one as fast jas the ether— until that lovely complexion o% •ers begins to get a bit streaky an the. lovely blue borders to 'er eyes run? into a smudee, an' I see as she must be for-ty-five if a day. „ Will you behove it, when they d rwaved my 'air an' done it up, .an •oaked my 'ands an' done mynaib With plate .powder an' pink paste, an taken off the cotton dressm' gound. an wive me the 'and mirror to look in, I could not, 'aye believed the face I see in it belonged to Loosha Hommans. For one 'thing, I 'ad a complexion, as mnk att' white as Madame Claudeen s *ad bin when I fust oome in, an my "'ntr 'ad become a. goldeny-brown , j with <«reemsh lights -&i' lovely waves in tf , Mv^ arched daricWebrows would, aye Wttod one of the young lady «romes In the " Penny Romancer." My lips Vas a lovely red, an' my eyes was rimmed with blue an' ad ..-■>. i'_LN APPEALING KIND OF LANGTJISHIN' LOOK. , j % never 'ad noticed before. I 'ad only «bthtpenoe left off my quarter's wages, but I was a" fair treat to look at. Talk tof the goddesses of Ancient Grease t If any one of 'em 'ad 'ad as much attention goin' '.me in the omnibus as I 'ad she iriight 'aye bin proud. With a conductor which I 'ope were not a. ifiarri-d man spendin' more, tune inside than out, an' every female passenger. *-_ady jbo 1 bite my 'cad off. My missus was out.wheri I got !ome, 'aving token the opportunity of goin' to the theatre, but when the evening's * milk come olashing cans doWn the area steps an ' the five o'clock postman knocked with ,-'4' circular, I begun to •comprehend the power of Beauty, tor neither of them two men could tear themselves away under a promise of Valkinfc out on Sunday, an when 1 took in 'is tea to the elderly gentleman with a wig what lodged on the second floor, 'c couldn't 'ardly bear to think of my carryih' the tray, thougn one as would ring for coals constant an' grumble if you stopped on the first floor with 'arf a 'undred in the scuttle I. took a long time undre-sm for bed that night, an' went to sleep with a lighted, candle an' a lookin' glass on the chest o' drawers opposite the bed, so as I could gaj-e on my own loveliness whenever I woke up. But I for- \ got to wake up, an' when the missuses bell rang I jumped up, 'ad the usual 'asty wash with a bit b Sungleam , Soap, an' run down to light the fires ___* get the breakfastes with a 'appy 'art., The kittle was on the boil when I 'ears a tremenjous ringin' at the 'all door. 'Ow my 'art beat wfien I drawee, the bolteses I never, no! never, shall forget. 'Im as shall ever -"be nameless 'ad returned unexpected from the seaside in a cabl " 'Ow are you, Loosha?" . says- he. , "'Ow are you, Mr Simms!" I says, siriling an' turning my beautiful face, np at 'im. 'E give a sort of crowing cry an' 'is eyes got as round aB sorcers. ...-.' . I keeps on smiling, waiting for what should come. It come V^en 'c dropped into the 'all chair an' larfed as- if Yd kill 'isself, and the cabman what was waitin' to be paid larfed too,' an' the milkman an' the early post what 'ad arrived simpultaneous, GRINNED FROM YEAR TO TEAR. "What ever, , 'ave — you done — to lyc_r_elf— -galP" gasps him as I shall laever name. .. Mr Simms,"' says I, with innocent kind of smile them " Penny Romancer" ; . 'eroines always 'ad on (ton? "Why do you ast me, sir?" ir "G-^-go an' look in -the— the glass!" he gaspses. J . "Turf, go Ai' look „ -in the : glass, | Miss !" • says; the cabman 'oarsely . "Yes, do go an' 'aye a look ill the > glees I" says the early niilk an? the ■/•postman. . ■>'■*■. There was a glass in the 'all 'at- - stand. I give orie stare in it — ani* when I see my face one mask of smudges—^pink an' black an' blue 'an .White, under my dyed 'air — then I knowed all. You can buy Beauty, if you 'aye enough money to pay for it— but it ain't the sort to wash.

t J_ x>f *- ,or l4mgl«y recently, stated j trait when the bolometer; was invented, ! some twenty years, ago* it was able to measure temperature to about one ctae-ttundr_d-fhou_andth of a degree. Since ; ' tjhen the instrument and its adjuncts : vhaye been so far improved that tem-"Jj£-_f-ti_» Can now be- measured to less . than one onerhundred-millionth of a .degree with precision. ; The recent ceremony of blessing the .waters of the Neva, attended with suoh tra^c circumstances, at S.t Peter-burg, dates from about. a thousand years ago, when Vladimir embraced Christianity. His first act was td destroy. .be idols of Kieff. Que of the idols was attached to the tail of a horse and dragged through the Dneiper. All the people then walked into - the river, and the . priests baptised .them. It is in com- ■ jnemoration of that event- that on tbe 1 Feast , of the Epiphany 'the waters are •formally" blessed thro_ghout the Rub* >«ian Empire. k\ ■ -' : „._.-..-....- _-^