August 2, 1909 
The Ladies’ Page 
An Empress’s Toilet. 
Tsi Hsu, Dowager Empress of China, 
‘has always been extremely vain of the 
good looks to which ‘her rise to power 
would seem originally to have been 
‘due, though one might, perhaps, be 
excused for doubting the fact to-day. The 
‘cosmetical facilities of her palace to-day 
afford an outlet for the beautifying 
‘energies of no less than nine young ladies 
of the imperial saite. 
Her Majesty is rouged every morning 
regularly after breakfast until her cheeks 
flame delicately against the creamy com- 
position with which the rest of her face 
‘has been coated. A huge mirroc is then 
rolled-to the couch upon which the 
‘source of all power in China reclines. 
Tsi Hsu studies the effect of the labors 
-of her young ladies so critically that it is 
said to be necessary occasionally to rouge 
her twice or thrice before the technique 
of the operation quite realizes the im- 
‘perial ideal. The monotony is made less 
tedious by song, the narration of Court 
gossip, and not infrequent applications of 
her Majesty’s rattan cane to sensitive 
‘surfaces... 
The pencilling of the eyebrows and 
eyelashes has had to be abandoned, owing 
to the growing weakness of the old lady's 
sight. But the lips continued to be car- 
mined. The slightly stubborn growth of 
hair on chin and upper lip is dealt with 
after the fashion of those Western artists 
“who obliterate black eyes by “as ae 
cation of heavy paint. 
No attack of illness could be too'severe 
to justify the ‘slightest omission of cos- 
metical detail by the several ladies 
concerned with the Empress Dowager’s 
; ‘toilet. 
_ pencilled, an¢ massaged, without — rising 
‘to dress, just the same as if she were up 
and about, . ii 
-Years:of study ‘have Paade her Majesty 
ah such a perfect! ELE os the fanguager fof! 
‘Though ‘Tsi Hsu be so ill ithather explanation by either of the theories BboKe,: 
day must be spent in bed, ‘she is‘ rouged © 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
of the Court circle form themselves. Also 
she is in the habit of having her own 
way in all things, perhaps more often 
than any other woman in the world. 
Why Hair Goes Grey. 
The real: reason why people’s hair 
grows grey is'something which puzzles the 
doctors not a little. 
The colour of the human hair is due to 
the deposit of pigment in the interior of 
each hair, and greyness follows the loss of 
this pigment. That is self-evident; but 
the puzzle is, what causes the pigment to 
disappear? 
—The Colouring Pigment. — 
Some have believed that it is due to 
the drying of the hair, which causes a 
shrinkage of its fibres, and so allows the 
entrance of air bubbles, the refraction of 
light from which then gives the white 
appearance. 
The proof which is adduced in support 
“of this belief is that if a grey hair is put 
into the receiver of an air-pump, and the 
air is then exhausted, the colour of the 
hair may return more or less com- 
pletely. 
—Destructive Bacteria.— 
Metchnikoft, the famous bacteriologist 
says the cause of greyness is the pene- 
tration into the hair of wandering cells, 
resembling the white blood corpuscles. 
These cells, assisted by other cells, the 
“aggregation of which makes the hair, seize 
upon the granules ot pigment and destroy 
them. _ ae 
Nearly every one has read of instances 
of the sudden bleaching of the hair— 
- éveii ina single night—under the in- 
“fluence of fear, grief, or some other 
intense mental emotion. That such cases 
“have, occurred is undoubted, but the 
mentioned i is difficult. 
No Cure for. ey Air. — 
' There is no certain cure’ for: “grey hair 
so far as is known (0 scientists say). The 
use of curling i irons is said to’ retard its 
formation; ,perhaps, if- ‘Metchnikoff © is 
«tight; - 
ed 
; the 
re 
: flounder, 
by ‘. destroying , the activity. of 
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consume the 
cells which 
pig- 
ment. 
Sometimes in the young, even in chil- 
dren, there is one grey lock, like an island 
in the sea of normally coloured hair 
about it. This is usually a family 
peculiarity, occurring in one generation 
after the other. 
—‘ Scraps,’ 
Why His Marriage was a 
Failure. 
He regarded children as a nuisance. 
He did all his courting before mar- 
riage. 
He never. talked over his affairs ‘atih 
his wife. » . 
He never had time to go anywhere with 
his wife. ' 
He doled out money to his wife as if to 
a beggar. 
He looked down upon his wife as an 
inferior being. 
He never took time to get acquainted 
with his family. 
He thought of his wife only for what 
she could bring to him: 
' He never dreamed that there were two 
sides to marriage. 
He never dreamed that. a wife needs 
praise or compliments, 
He had one set of manners for home 
and another for society. 
Flesh, Fish, Digestion. 
Foods easily digested: Meats easy to 
digest are mutton, venison, hare,” ‘sweet- 
bread, chicken, turkey. partridge, phea- 
sant, grouse, beot tea, mutton broth, and 
- beef. 
Hard to. digest: Pork, veal, goose, liver 
i heart, brain, Jain, duck,’ cealt; moat, uel 
“sausage. : 
Fish Gacy to; digest: Turbot, haddock, 
sole, roasted. oysters, and 
trout, : } f 
‘Hard to digest: Mackerel. eels, aalifen 
herring, halibut, salt fish, lobster, ° Srabs 
mussels, and Code eer ai. soma vita 
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