Show THE MIST TREATMENT c The Summer Girl Takes It Often For Her Complexion From the New York World CA mist and a weeping rain is 4 I eagerly welcomed by the young woman of the period For her complexion is her fondest care and on the altar of the goddess who bestows skins of roses and snow does she sacrifice day and night And everyone who thinks of English complexions and English fogs must see why the American girl with aspirations toward beauty re loices in rain and welcomes a drenching drench-ing mist with joy She does her hair up in a neat tight roll unless she happens to be one of those happy persons whose locks become be-come bewitching curls at the touch of dampness She dons walking hoots with cork soles and < a short skirt of mackintosh cloth Her blouse is of I flannel and her long cape with its I brightlylined hood is of the same stuff brghtylned II as her skirt So is her cap An umbrella um-brella of course she scorns She wishes her face to receive all the I moisture the kindly clouds will send I down She tramps her five miles along I the beach or the country road and the natives marvel at her taste and I speculate on her chances of acquiring rheumatism and neuralgia She goes i home rosy from exercise and maybe i from mist also Meanwhile the native i girl is getting a complex n which I would drive the other mad with envy S as she takes her exercise fr the washtub I 2 wash-tub and the steam from boiling water 5 wa-ter does its perfect Tvork |