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Show Removing Wrinkles And How to Avoid Them Massage the Face and Don't Be Self-Conscious Relax Your Muscles and Your Mind By DR. EDjTH L. MACKAYE. sure on the bones beneath nnd work tho flesh round' and round to tako out the crow's-feet wrinkles. To obliterate tho wrinkles around tho mouth and cheeks, work tho whole mast of fleh upward with the palms of the hnnds, the left-hand palm applied to the left cheek and the right-hand palm to the right cheek. For the flabby and wrinkly wrin-kly skin of the neck, massa It with the back of tho hr.nd. one on each side of tho nook, lifting up th- mass of tlesh and pressing it against the jiw bones and pushing it backwards toward to-ward tho oar with a firm and equal pressure. These are the directions a3 to how you can ma-tsaro tho face yourself and, prevent and remove wrinkles, wrin-kles, if you will learn the movemeuts and do them every time that you wash washing. If this is done rightly, not only will wrinkles be prevented, but a fine complexion will be maintained. The face should be washed in hot water, and during tho process should be carefully massaged with the pulps of tho fingers of Loth hands, which take the placo of wash-cloths or sponges. Feel out with tho fingers tho spots where the blackheads form, such as tho creases about the nose and the folds between the mouth and tho cheeks, tho little dip between the mouth and tho poiut of the chin, tho place between the nose and the forehead; fore-head; rub with a firm, yet gentb.. pressure, pres-sure, which btimulates tho blood and brings it to the surface and mal es the oil glands do their work. Dash tho water on the faco between the times of this faco massage. vous, worrying lines. Often they betray be-tray a self-consciousness and senstite-ness senstite-ness of rtho Individual. They aro formed early. Crow'o-Feet No Blemish Those are tho laughing, merry wrinkles, wrin-kles, which are seldom a blemish. Generally they bespeak a happy, contented con-tented spirit, which sees the bright side In life and tries to make others do so. One need not worry over crow's-feet or try to vigorously remove them. Ugly wrinkles arc those which mako a parenthesis about the mouth, coming com-ing between the comers of It and tho cheeks. These lines are not formed much before thirty. They are made or exaggerated by deposits of fat about tho mouth, and they are tho most difficult dif-ficult to efface. If possible, their formation for-mation should bo prevented. This Is an axiom In regard to all wrinkles, but they steal upon one liko a thief In the ulght. I It is only as tho years accumulate that one is apt to take a eerlous view In regard to good looks in general and of wrinkles in particular. Mothers who have discovered this truth should exert themselves In behalf of their daughters, that they may bo wrinkle-less. wrinkle-less. And now I am going to impart to you the gTcat secret of prevention of wrinkles. The s.ed for permanent wrinkles is sown with tho daily face B AM moved to write you about wrln-I wrln-I kles, although tho subject U by no I means a new one in these columns. The other day I was taking a train to go out of town. I found my-celf my-celf In tho midst of a crowd of wonieu. On woman'a faco was seamed and lined with wrinkles. Seeing hor, I was led to examine the otters, and scanning scan-ning ono by one the faces of thlrtv or more women. I was amazed to 'find that there was not one who did not have oue or two deep furrowing lines In the mlddlo of her forchoarl betwr-en tho eyes. Some were deeper than others, but all harl tbcm, from tho youngcBt to the oldest. Those wrinkles, wrin-kles, being interpreted, mran several things In the llrst place, and the simplest sim-plest causo of them, is exposing the eyes to a strong light, auch as going without a hat or wearing a bonnet without a protecting brim. Next, there may bo trouble with tho eyes am difilculty In seeing. Too often they Indicate a tension of mind and body, anxiety and care, mental stress and Ktralu If you have the wrinkles between the eyes, draw long breaths, relax your muscles, and tako a more rotate view of life. They aro the ureu. unbecoming wrinkles, which should bo banished, for they La-ow ever deeper and deeper as the years to remote mrC and mr dJUlcult Sometimes alone, but moro of- hosrS-V 6UCh Tinkle. & moan wliic'u form transversa line. aero,, the forehead. ThSJ io ic? your face. After a time your skin will become smooth. It Is much belter to keep up for yourself these simple methods thau to take at intervals a so-called "face treatement" if tho wrinkles hau been left, to themselves a long lime and are deep J'O'i will have to go at. them more I vigorously, aud iu addition 10 tho moveni-nts when washing the face you will havo to ppread the skin smooth ni'd apply strips of zinc oxldt p'aster at nivht. The kkin softens und-r it and the wrinkles will become smooth, ow, zinc oxldo plaster is nothing but ordinary surgpons' plaster, which vou caa get any druggist's. No "Skin Foods." No soap is necessary, nor yet ekin foods, so-called. If you begin this process proc-ess early euough. Never neglect the places where tho wrinkles will come, and if they havo come pay them special spe-cial attention after this manner. Iron them out with your fingers. Press and rub them out just a3 you would if they were wrinkles in a piece of cloth. Spreading the skin of tho forehead out on tho bony framework of the skull underneath with a firm, deep pressure, with the tips of tho forefingers at the angles of the eyes, make a firm pros- |