| Show FOR THE COMPLEXION Isabel A Mallon Tells How to Treat the Skin THE FACE LIKE DELICATE CHINA It Must be Taken Excellent Care of If You Would Keep It in the Best of Condition 1 There has never been a great beauty who had not a fine smooth skin It may not have been rosy or fair it may have been that most exquisite of tints a clear olive But it was at least free from spots and imperfections and sufficiently fine to show the veins under it She may not tell it but every woman whose skin keeps good takes care of it A perfect per-fect complexion is like a fine bit of china it needs continual consideration and though it is not kept under glass it must be treated all the more carefully because of that fact The blonde with a pure clear skin is undoubtedly a joy forever If it needs softening she will be wise to use upon it the wash known as virginal milk This by the bye is a cosmetic known to Cleopatra favored by Marie Stuart and most popular among all English women today It is made in this way To a quart of rose water add drop by drop an ounce of simple tincture of benzoin stirring constantly This creamy looking look-ing liquid is put in the water used to bathe the face just enough being used to make the water the color of skim milk and it is really deliciously fragrant and softening to the skin Next to haying hay-ing little black spots all over ones face the blonde most dreads a greasy looking skin which is apt to come after her thir ieth birthday Bathing the face night and morning with ordinary Rhine wine is said to tone down this objectionable feature feat-ure but a remedy given by a physician consists of Sulphate rino 2 grains Com tincture of lavender S minims Distilled jter 1 ounce This lotion may be applied one or two times a day and should be dabbled on the skin with a soft rag For acne steam the face over a bowl full of very hot water When the pores are perfectly open press out a few of the blackheads and anoint the place where they have been with a little sweet oil I Do this at night and do not attempt to clear your face all at once instead devote I I de-vote three or four weeks to it If the skin is harsh and dry then take a warm I bath in which you have put a wineglass I fiji of glycerine Take this bath at least I three times a week and you will find that you are then ready to take the one said to have been a favorite with Marie Antoinette j toinette and higl esteemed by beauties 1 of bygone days This is very simple consisting of tepid water into which has been put half a pint of pure vinegar It is a bath that acts like a tonic on the sldn giving it life The spring and the early summer months are essentially the time to get ones complexion in good order the danger dan-ger of catching cold from various simple medicines not being so great as during the cooler days There is nothing so good for the skin as what the English people call brimstone and treacle but which Americanized becomes sulphur and molasses Five cents worth of sulphur sul-phur with enough molasses mixed with it to make itof the consistency of custard is the prescription take a teaspoonful every morning three days in the week and then stop three It is just possible that for a while you may be spotted like the leopml but these spots will soon disappear and your skin will be as white smooth and delicate looking as that of anew a-new born baby Dr Erastus Wilson the great authority on the care of the skin evidently believed in the advantages to be derived in the liberal use of lemons As a beverage and also diluted with rain water as a cooling wasli for the face he places them before everything else therefore if used with liberal dis vretiim lemons may bo cited ns n villia ble medicine and aid to the woman who wishes to make hercomplexiou c1ea erA er-A wash for the face recommended alike for freckles and tan is composed of two parts of lemon juice and one of Jamaica Ja-maica um This should be dabbled on the face with a piece of soft linen and may be so applied several times during the day and just before retiring at night If the skin evinces a tendency to look I dull a tonic should be applied and a little gin in the water used for bathing the face is about the best that can be procured it reanimates the skin and in addition is very cleansing A box of powderedbo rax should be kept on the washstand and will be found of great service If the water is hard it will soften it and if the soap does not readily lather a little borax will hasten the operation I I The writer this frequently found when it was necessary for her to keep awake and she felt as if her skin was drawing together in her effort to keep her eyes open that a little alcohol put on with a small sponge and left to dry gave new life to the face and made it possible for the eyes to stay wide open Where there is an inclination to spots on the lips a wash of tepid milk and water applied many times during the day is efficacious It should be dabbled on with the bit of linen which every wise woman keeps for such purposes Dabbling by the by is exactly what the word expresses and is the right way I to apply any cosmetic intended to be healing The average woman treats her face as she might the kitchen floorshe rubs it with a coarse towel shes not at I all particular about the kind of water she uses and a hard scrubbing is her idea of making it clean t Now the trouble with the average woman is that she dont know how to wash her face Shes horribly insulted when she is told this butitis true nevertheless never-theless How shall she do it She wants a big bowl full nearly to the top with water that has had the chill taken off then plunging both hands down in this Rhe should bathe her face again and again until the water is dripping from all parts of it then it must be gently dried in a soft towel Hardening the skin a process proc-ess that some of the so called health reformers re-formers suggest is an insult to it it would have been mado like ones fingernails finger-nails if it had been intended that it should have been treated in such a rough way wayThe The best washrag for the face is the union of the hands for they form a I washrag with a mind and never hurt one If the fare is dusty and sean in ta Ibe I be applied then the washrag should be a flannel one Dont be afraid to use hot water on your face Florence Nightingale I Night-ingale said that when it came to a question ques-tion of removing dust or dirt from the face and anybody wanted to see which was efficacious she washed one sick soldiers i sol-diers face with cold water and one with hot and the difference between the two the color of the water after use and the result on the skin left no doubt in the minds of the looker on as to the desirability desira-bility of that which was warm I If you ask your physician anything about freckles he will learnedly call them lentigo Now freckles are not altogether I al-together the result of the sun on the skin the skin itself is in a supersensitive supersensi-tive condition when these spots come out so the first thing you want to do in an effort to get rid of them is to induce I your physician to give you a good tonic I and to take it regularly I If the freckles do not go away of themselves I them-selves then try that simplest of remedies reme-dies lemon juice for them Too much food and lack of exercise make the skin I doughy looking the eyes dull and asa as-a natural result the temper very unreliable unre-liable Avoid shocks When you are very warm do n bathe the face in cold I or even cool water instead choose that which is tepid and the skin will not then I be rendered sensitive by the rapid change from heat to cold Distilled water is I best for the skin and the next best is I rain water Hard yater makes it coarse and eventually causes deep wrinkles I In the country where hard water is often the most plentiful she who would preserve her beauty of color and softness of time skin should be careful to use nothing noth-ing but rain water Borax in the water makes the skin lustrous andpossesscs the recommendation of ancient favor as it was in use by the omen of Egypt who extolled its value for this purpose Too much cannot be said in favor of the bath It not only keeps tjhe sldn in good order but has a delightful effect on the mind It rests refreshes and improves the body and in time of worry is almost as soothing sooth-ing as sleep itself It may be said that we can drown trouble in it Certainly the bath will rid us of care for a time and that is a great deal in a world that morbid and dyspeptic people pronounce full of woe ISABEL A MALLON I |
