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Show CARE OF THE COMPLEXION. Fifteen minutes a day devoted to the care of the complexion will improve im-prove your present appearance wonderfully, won-derfully, and will prevent wrinkles and sagging lines in later life You already know that careful attention to all of the laws of hygiene will do more for your complexion than an lotion that ever was concocted. Bathing, Bath-ing, diet, exercise, breathing, cheerfulness cheer-fulness all go to make up the sum 01' beauty. If you are careful in all these respects it will be difficult for you not to have a good complexion. Ne ertheless, different skins varv iu their structure, and you must use your good sense In caring for your own. If, for example, you have a tendency to enlarged pores, you must take certain care and precautions thai iyou would not need to observe if your skin were of a fine texture. Perhaps the most essential factor in the care of skin is cleanliness. The fkin of the face needs more care than that of any other part of the bod because be-cause it is more exposed than any other part, and it is more delicate. In washing the skin of the fact the first step should be to wash the hands thoroughly, then pour out this water and use perfectly fresh, pure water for the face. Various troubles are caused by rubbing the soiled hands over the face, for although they may not be conscious of it, the hands harbor har-bor many microbes, even when you think that they are comparatively clean, and these you may easily rub into the skin of the face, if you handle it much. |