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Show Beauty Chats i By EDNA KENT FORBES i: i X A DAIXTY SKIX A BEAUTIFUL skin will do more than any one other thing to make a woman beautiful. For a beautiful skin is the barometer of health and well-being, if it is clear with a soft coloring, it shows that digestion is good, that exercise, bathing, right living, have all helped to build up a healthy system. No amount of external ex-ternal treatment can overcome internal in-ternal neglect. Of course, many skins are too oily; these need to be washed at least once a day with soap and hot water, they need occasional steaming to remove superfluous oils; they must not be treated with cold cream. At least, they must have oaly a greaseless cream, If any. Other skins are dry in texture ; these need a cream daily, and care just before exposure to sun or wind. f 'J Never Let the 8kln Become Harsh or Coarse in Texture. One of the daintiest things to use upon the skin Is a lotion made by shaking together equal parts of glycerine and rose water. The glycerine softens the skin, prevents It drying or chapping, helps to prevent pre-vent freckles, makes the skin feci wonderfully soft The rose water Is simply a fragrant medium used to dilute the glycerine. The skin feels delightfully dainty after its rubbed with this mixture. Keep the skin clenn, keep the digestion di-gestion right and forget your complexion. com-plexion. More harm Is done by overusing over-using cosmetics than by not using them at all. (Copyright.) O |