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Show A DEEP WRINKLE: RUB, SCRUB, STEAM IT AWAY It was a. holiday wrinkle. Il appeared a -?ay after Thanksgiving pud threatened to last thiough the stress ot I'hristniaf; shopping and into the holidays. It might have been the icsult of a turkey dinner. Or it might bae come 'from late hours and house parties It was a deen wrinkle, and it was defined sharply against the whiteness of her skin an ugly line, hard and dark and disfiguring, jut where the skin thould have beer, white and smooth and pretty. The tranquility of a woman's l.row has been famed in poetry. But with a scowl, that charm is gone. It was in a particularly bad place. It settled between' ho eyes, and it made the woman look as though she were i'i owning. "What shall ! do?" asked the woman of a friend. ".My face is spoiled. This w rinkle makes me look at least ten t years older." "I once had a wrinkle," said the wo-ii:an wo-ii:an friend, "and it cost me $tOfl. It mme suddenly, during a season of jollity, jol-lity, and when the merry making had passed, it left me wtwr-and much sadder. sad-der. There, right in the middle of my lorehead, right between my two eyes, as a line which made me look precisely pre-cisely like my grandmother. "When I "woke' and icalized that T had this wrinkle right in .the middle of my forehead 1 mourned for an hour or two. Then. ' with aiv inspiration, I started out. determined, if possible, to get rid of my blemish. "I went U a beauty specialist arid found that he was an atlvocate of the s.i stem which r uts open the forehead and takes a little fold in it. The skin takes two or three weeks to heal. But when it is well there is no scar at all. ! "I shrank from this plan. I had an American's aversion to pain and, I did not want to suffer, not even for sweet btauty's sake. So I said: " "What is the next best thing?' "The next best thing consisted of a rather complicated beauty treatment, but I decided to take it. It began with face steaming and it ended with facial massage, taking in a touch of face f,k inning, and face scrubbing, and make-up. "First, a thorough cleansing was given to the skin. I heated my face hot with water, which 1 scooped up In my hands. And I held my hot hands en my face, dipping up more and more water, "In the water was just a little pow-tered pow-tered borax to soften it, and this application ap-plication to the face was good for the eyes as well as the skin. "I felt like another person before,. I Lad completed steaming my "fate. It made me breathe easier. It seemed to clear out air my air cells and it took away my headache and. made in: fuel new again. "i heated my face so thoroughly that when I had finished it was as red as a btel. I then spatted it dry and then I applied a good skjn.food to it. 1 made the food after tha Parisian recipe. "I took enough sheep's fat to fill a tablespoon, and to.it I added enough sweet ull to fill another spoon. And when I had heated the two together I reded another tablespoon of the oil, beating the whole into a creamy foam.. "This treamM rubbed into n;y faie. taking special care to pitss it into the j wrinkle. 1 massaged the wrinkle be-(tween be-(tween my eyes thoroughly and carefully. care-fully. Instead of running in the line ot the crease, I went across it lightly with my linger.-;, precisely as though I were rubbing the wrinkles out of a piece of tissue paper. "When 1 had tubbed the cream into my wrinkles and 'nto mv face. I rested for fifteen minutes, lying down and closing my eyes. Thi ia pan of the beauty treatiner,.. Pie clown for fifteen minutes and siiut your ey s. Think of nothing at all. It is the best way in the world to get a good bit of relaxation. re-laxation. "My third process lay in washing off the cream on my fare. 1 took a bi basin of 'very hct water and churned it tc a lather with soap jelly. I then ad-fled ad-fled a Hill? horix and. finally. I covered cov-ered my face with a soapy lather. '"After it had partly dried on I went to work and washed off the whole j thing. And with the lather of soap j and the cream and the massagt there tame off the veiy last, wrinkle. j "It would have pleaded you to see my skin after I had washed it in this manner. It was six shades lightEr ami my wrinkle was so faint I had to look fgr it. "It K,k five '-barges of hot water to j.;et all the soap ofl". But with each change the complexion became clearer i nd pinker and the wrinkia harder and 1 ai dor to see. "In tho last change of water I cashed enough benzoin to give the water a .milky appearance. And with this 1 splattered my fac?. "Then cam0 the nxt wrinkle treatment: treat-ment: A little thick cold eraam was rubbed into the fae and into the wrinkle, wrin-kle, and was left therr. 1 now lay down to take a nap with a towel doubled doub-led over my face. It was a hot towel, end I chansed it once before setting .sleep. "It protected the skin from draughts and kept it soft and nice Without this last treatment the skin might be. sore. But. w ith the cream and the hot towel and the little nap. .he sk'n is protected. "Finally, for th;rc is one more treatment, treat-ment, I woke and went over my face with powder. I laid it on pretty thick, and particularly in the wrinkled portion. por-tion. I fairly rilled the wrinkle with it. "This powder, which was'a vey fine fate powder, 1 allowjd to r?n:ah: up n ihe skin. While I was dressing, the skin absorbed it, and after I had fln-irhed fln-irhed I dusted off a little of the superfluous su-perfluous iayer. But, as a matter of I fact, it had. most of it. been absorbed by the oores of the skin. "At this stage, I may say that I was i'.d vised, before putting on the powder, to use a very little rouge upon rny cheeks. Most 'ashionable women do this', and a great many women who want to look nice who are not fash-:onab!c fash-:onab!c women do it also. "I did not applv the rouge, though I think it a good thing to do so. Use ., vegetable roug that cannot injure the skin, and rub Jt in ever so lightly. Do not use muih. Then apply the powder over it. The effect will be very rietly. "But be careful, O woman of taste, and use very little. A good rouge and a good powder will not injure the skin. But the danger is in using just a little lit-tle too much. V "I applied the powder, filled the wrinkle between my eyes with Tt, dusted it all off with a bit of cotton and took a look at "myself. The; wrinkle was gone. . "To keep the wrinkle away use the plaster treatment. After you have massaged it. and before you go to bed. take strips cf adhesive plaster and cut them the shape of the wrinkle zone in your forehead. "If you Put it correctly you will have a triangular piece, with one long point coming down between the eyes upon the bridge cf the nose. The other two pieces will necessarily extend over the eyes and across the forehead, j "Then you can, while you are applying ap-plying the plaster, cut two strips, one-for one-for each side of the mouth. These are "for the parentheses which make you look so old and disagreeable.. : Stretch the skin between the thumb and first finger, warm the plaster and apply it. It will work wonders with your face. The plaster treatment is used by many of the best specialists in Europe. , "Be sure to get a plaster that will not injure the skin and do nat leave it on long enough to make the skin tender. ten-der. It requires quite a little strategy to apply the plasters right. "Then, once in a while, bathe the skin with a carbolized lotion-. Thif) carbollzed facial bath is an excellent thing to keep the skin clear ana to keep away wrinkles. "So here are the ami-wrinkle pro- Cfcses: ' "Face scrubbing with the tips of the fingers. "Facial massage with a thin, soft cold cream. - - "Face steaming with hands scooped full o.' ht water. "Carbolized facial baths prepared with much care. ' "And daily attention to keep the wrinkles from coming back." |