Show teapots and complexion frequenters of the popular afternoon tea are remarking the extraordinary pains pretty girls who conr the amber beverage are at to direct the tapering spout of the kettle in the direction 0 their rosy cheeks or white brow and chin it appears that some one has assured them that the warm fragrant steam arising from the steeping leaves is most beneficial for softening and purifying the complexion the heated vapor does bring a deep pink flush and cause dampened locks to curl tendril like about fair foreheads but these amateur waitresses are laboring ander a grievous error when they imagine that this treatment beautifies the skin it is harmful in the extreme and unless the suffusion is immediately followed by a brisk toweling a chapped and roughened complexion be the result all through the orange growing country where that exquisite fruit is eaten from the time its rind shows the faintest gilding girls always peel the oranges at arms length being fully convinced because some negro mammy has told them so that the pungent oil springing from the skin will leave a freckle wherever touches illustrated american |