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Show I Baths in Slimy Hot Mud, a Machine That Makes You j- 1 ! rw i 1 iniiF" i I V' Nv bath she takes Ilaller and Other Odd 1 New Ways of Enhancing and Preserving Your ! Good Looks A WELL known New York society J woman created a sensation at the fashionable opening of tho jBSk grand opera season tin ning when the color of her skin as far as tho eye could see was revealed as a rich golden brown From Tmi the roots of her hair to the ex- JSttg ' pansc of throat, chest and back )Sff uncovered by her daringly cut 1 evening gown sho displayed a complexion as brown as ;,).. j vp sun-kissed South Sea maiden t '''' ty-ever ty-ever boasted. Rut it was not, as many 5us-pecred, 5us-pecred, monlhr of care by -r the sun's rays that had given r 'r v this society woman's skin its I !y jjrtlfc surprising aspect. She v.'--' percd the secret to an admiring and JyF SSme I envious friond in vijT 'j j "is all the rage in Paris. We Ameri- I cans have been J -t-, hennaing our hair for yj.r.; The i-Parisian i-Parisian women use it on the.r skins. It not only gives you a t&Kfc&r. healthy brown complexion, but it bHk. is good for the skin because of its VprSV vegetable derivation. It won't Xjpflilfcy wa-h oft', and a bit .f n-uj"1 on j the cheeks makes the picture com- '' Iplete." The quest of beauty is a helter-skelter one and leads in devious paths. No doubt Eve in the Garden of Eden, as .-oon a she had eaten of tho apple of knowledge, felt the cosmetic urge, and handed it on to her daughters. Women will go to any lengths of expense and personal inconvenience to obtain this elusive quality. And who wT71 say that the end does not justify tho means? Beauty culture has become a highly specialized business in this day and generation. gen-eration. Shops equipped to dispense pulchritude at so much a square inch spring up like mushrooms overnight in all communities large enough to boast a post office and a public library. Historians His-torians are delving into the dusty records rec-ords of the past to find out what methods meth-ods Cleopatra and other famous beauties of ancient times used to enhance en-hance and preserve their charm. Chemists Chem-ists are continually trying to discover ways of improving on the buttermilk and mutton tallow which our grandmothers grand-mothers used on their cheeks with such happy results. A man would hardly recognize his wife or daughter as she looks when undergoing un-dergoing one of the many beauty treatments treat-ments that are popular nowadays. When she is completely "fixed" she resembles re-sembles a cross between a member of the Ku-Klux Klan and an animated rag doll. For in order to use the multitude of creams, lotions and astringents which are essential for the creamy complexions com-plexions and unwrinkled skins of to-day I it io in:i.csoui y iu siiuiini i.i i lie v. .ui mx-of mx-of hideous (though comfortable) masks, headgears, straps and mitten3. The society woman with her maid in constant attendance is a slave to tho pursuit of charm. For one thing, believe be-lieve it or not, but it is so, she has been brought to realize that nature after all is the moat essential beautifier, and that plenty of sleep, in spite of her constant round of social duties, must be had if ijl tained. ' wt No wonder that the nation's annual 'M bill for cosmetics is mounting faster B than any other of our expenditures! It. is amazing to see how not only society women and the professional beauties of the stage, but humble house- "'H wives and women who earn their living ''M in store, office or factory, have become M slaves to this quest of beauty. .uH "What can I do to enhance my good jH looks? How can I fight off old age?" eH These are questions over which they are $jm i continually pondering, and goodness knows what they won't do in their effort $Bm to find satisfactory answers. iJjH When the fashionable society woman jjttfl reaches her room at night worn out with jH a long round of social duties she cannot Efl' think of sleep for a long time yet. No; rH first there must be a warm bath, a vigor- yjK ous brushing of the hair and a massage i ''.:''? ' .: '( J"- "" " "' rc new rnnchir.o thru ndds I rrr severrl inches to your ing your bones ( ' ; '' ' yv" ( . y kf: s j ' i ' ' " J Three devotees of the mud bath after a HH phmge into the unpleasant looking pool where they have coated their bodies with slimy hot mud of the body's muscles at the hands of her maid. When at last she is ready to creep into a bed it is into one with a mattress of Spartan hardness and with no pillow. Only with such a bed, she thinks, can the graceful lines and youthful suppleness supple-ness of her body bo preserved. And, appreciating that sleep is one of the greatest aids to beauty, she tries to get at least nine hours of it out of every twenty-four. In tho morning for her there is another an-other bath with perhaps a handful of Epsom salt3 or some bath vinegar thrown into the water to vitalize her skin. A bag of table salt is sometimes used instead of the Epsom salts and many women know the officacy.of specially spe-cially prepared bath salts, with their slight fragrance. Added sparklo is now given to a woman's eyes in tho beauty shops or in her own home and not through the ap plication of harmful drops. Cold water and a cooling lotion applied by expert fingers are used, and then the eyes are bandaged. The beauty seeker must relax re-lax in a chair, in temporary blindness, for some two or three hours. Buc the results are thought to be well woith all the time and trouble. Fat, one of the enemies of women which Ibanez forgot to mention, is the bete noir of the woman who is trying to hold her end in a beauty competition, and double chinsj sagging jaws, paunchy cheeks must be guarded against by constant con-stant attention. A chin strap, therefore, in pulchritu-dinous pulchritu-dinous terms, has nothing to do with a soldier's helmet, but is a bit of equipment equip-ment applied from ear to ear which holds a woman's chin in place for hom , at a time, while underneath tho effecta of a vigorous massage with efficacious cream, followed by an astringent to hold those sagging muscles in place is doing its work. True, the chm strap isn't any too comfortable, but then Madame shouldn't have eaten so many chocolate nut sundaes and other sweets during tho past year! If your complexion is three shades darker than you desire it there are certain cer-tain beauty specialists who claim to have a cream which will lighten it to the desired de-sired shade. But you must be prepared for a lengthy siesta in a mask w hu h y v pulls oil over ; your head with y slits fur eye;-, j n o s e and mouth. 'Lh'.a givi-s y...u th'- appr.-.ran 1' the V. hite r:. Libit Li-bit who a- -c o m p a n 1 ed gtfr Alice through ( W o n dcrlaml ! In order to gjHpi make your arms and hands of the w same hue there aSL are huge mittens mit-tens w h i c h c o v e r your . creamed hands at the same time. How would vou like to take a bath in mud? Slimy, oozy, black mud such as Fido used to roll in right after he had taken a bath? It doesn't appeal ap-peal to you? No? Well, there are women who will tell you that this very mud has healing heal-ing and tonic quali- t :- ; 1 Below js' the grotesque mask and gloves worn when having tho skin whitened it ' ' i2nf '" ' ' v- . ' ' t .;. " y . yy ' ' i r ryffi nWK h i if .. '. : Jit MMit:? yT,j ties which are said to make a new person ' f of you. Out in Calistoga, California, are the fa- mous Pachcteau baths, where society women -' daily can be seen, stepping out , of their cars, disrobing and rolling in mire. It's hot mud boiling with the steaming water of natural mineral springs and its devotees guarantee guar-antee it to cure everything from fallen arches to falling hair and back again. In Germany and other Continental countries healing mud baths have been the vogue for years. What is really a species of mud baths is the preparation which so many women are using in their homes. It resembles plaster of paras wet and slimy when you put it on then when it begins to dry, all desire for conversation ceases, ' "''4 ;: ' .'!yv,r v i ..... jv.r - Bringing the roses back to faded cheeks by patting a stimulating cream into the skin with a rubber rub-ber padded wand for your lips become fixed by its stony qualities, your facial muscles seem bound by cement and only your eyes and nostrils nos-trils are permitted to move for an entire en-tire hour. At the end of this time the treatment is finished. The mud or clay is removed by warm water, and the face beneath is supposed to blossom into new youth. A bit of ice applied to the skin to stimulate circulation completes tho process. So far has the cry for beauty gone that there are even beauty surgeons who undertake to restoro your youthful appearance and remove the age-showing wrinkles by the use of the knife. The operations are delicate ones. "Face lifting" lift-ing" is the name given one of them. It requires a very slight cut in the skin at each side of the face at the roots of the hair, where it will not show, and is done also at the eyes for women who are courageous enough to brave it. The wrinkles are literally "lifted out." . Speaking of operations, it might be well to mention here the gentle process of the permanent wave, whereby a woman is given a "natural" curl for six months and a guaranty that she will not have to resort to irons or curlers during j J I .'41 .1 i : .7 J that time. A hug 1 merry - go- ' round ar- I rangement su-jfl ponded from the ceiling is"! y attached to Madame'i 1 yf locks while she sit j jT patiently in a chair iranA waits for science to accom- ' phsh what nature failed to do. It takes only about three hours M and so long as sho holds still there i 9 little discomfort in it. And then for the girl who isn't tall 9 enough. You may not by thought be m able to add a cubit to your stature, but A there is a new stretching machine which a, can do that very thing for you so it is I claimed. The one who would be taller lies full W, length on a wooden bench and her chin is strapped securely and fastened to thea, headgear. Her feet are attached to an s apparatus at the other end of the bench and then the stretching process is begun, j They say it is painless and that repeated W treatments will often add several inched m to a person's height. The old adage that there is nothing Mf new under the sun apparently does not X apply to beauty aids. There are so j m-any of them that claim and seem to w be brand new that no woman could ever.M live long enough to give every one OlM them a thorough trial. |
