The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-11
THE SECRETS OF BEAUTY.
How TO Improve the Face, Figure
Complexion, &c. - What Scienc'


ltu III Iuo DIOuuCllOu OF a DOCK on L 6i-
sOnal Beauty; How to Cultivate it in ac-
cOrdance with the Laws of Health, which
contains many important maxims, from
which We CLEAN the following:
PROPORTIONS OF BEAUTIFUL BODY.
The height should be exactly edual to
the distance between the tips of the middle
fingers of either hand when the arms are
fully extended. Ten times the length of
the hand, or seven and half times the
length of the foot, or five times the diane
ter of the chest from one armpjt to the
other, should also each give the height of
tine whole bsdy. The distance from the
junction of the thighs to the ground should
be the same as from that point to the crown
of the head. The knee should be precisely
midway between The same point and the
bottom of the heel. The distance from
the elbow TO the tip of Jhe middle finger
should be the same as from the elbow to
the middle line of the breast. From the
top of the head to the level of the chin
should be the same as from the level of the
chin to that of the armpits, and from the
heel to the toe.
A want of symmetry in the shoulders is
very common among those who write or
paint steadily. The right shoulder usually
inent These persons should practice
daily and regularly sitting with the LETT
shoulder elevated and the right depressed.
They should avoid low-necked dresses, and
on state occasions conceal the lack of uni
formity by a soft padding. A course of
calisthenics is also of great service.
In regard to obesity and leanness, the
Banting system of diet is explained and
recommended, but with canton. 1t seems
that corpulence is often protection thrown
out y the system against some threatening
disease. If the corpulence is then success
fully attacked, the victory may cost the
person her life. A case is recorded by DR.
Maccary where an obese child was reduced
in flesh, but became ever after subject to
epileptic fits. A number of instances have
been recently published in medicinal Jour
mails, where ladies have brought Oh fatal
disease of the kidneys by too determinate
and unwise reduction of their weight A
case came recently under our own notice,
where young lady weighing nearly 200
pounds entered upon the reduction of her
size with great zeal, but little discretion.
Sne succeeded, but developed in the process
the seeds of hereditary consumption of the
lungs.
HIGH -FOREHEADs.
In some persons the hair grows down
upon the forehead, destroying its contour
and beauty. This may be remedied by
carefully removing the hairs, which are
generally thin and fine, by one of the de-
pilatories to be mentioned hereafter. Char
lOtte Bremen, in her Life of her sister,
Frederick Bremen, relates that this was one
of the giIlish troubles of the gifted author
ess, and her mother often regretted the dis
fgurement One day Frederica cut off the
hair around her forehead with the scissors.
Her mother, not at once perceiving what
she had been about, remarked IN the course
of the day, ''Wby Frederica, your forehead
is not SO low after all This delighted her
daughter, but soon the hairs commenced
to reappear, stiff and bristly. But with he
rOic perseverance, Frederica pulled them
out, one after another, with pair of twee-
zers, until she had achieved that fine high
forehead, which those who saw her in her
visit to this country may remember.
REAoDELING THE NOSE.
DR.. Cid, an inventive surgeon of Paris,
noticed that elderly people, who for long
time have worn eyeglasses supported on
the nose by spring, are apt'tO have this
organ long and thin. This he attributes
on the arteries by which the nose Is nour
ished. the idea occurred to him that the
hint could be made useful. Not long af-
terwarl a young lady of fifteen years con-
suited him, to see if he could restore to
moderate dimensions her nose, which was
large, fieshly, and unsighfly. The trait,
he found, was hereditary in her family. as
her mother and sister were similarly affiic-
ted This was discouraging, as hereditary
pecularities are particularly obstinate, but
the doctor determined to try his method.
He took exact measurements, and had con-
structed for her a "l,ulette pince nj"
spring and pad for cOmpressing the artery,
which she wore at night, and whenever she
conveniently could IN the daytime. In
three weeks cOnsolatory diminution was
evident, and in three months the young
lady was quite satisfied with the improve
ment in her features.
WHERE To WEAR CARRIERS.
A handsome leg is a rarity, we had al
most said an impOssibility, among Ameri-
can women. The reason OF this is the
place where they wear their garters. No
French woman, no English woman of cul-
tivation, nowadays wears her garter be-
low the knee. 1t is ruinous to the shape
of the calf. More than this, it has serious
consequences of another kind. The prin-
cipal vein of the leg (UenG S"pheRd breUiS)
runs Just beneath the skin until it nearly
reaches the knee, when it sinks between
the muscles. Now if this Is constric ed at
its largest part by a tight garter, the blood
Is checked in its return to the heart, the
feet are easily chilled, and more liable to
disease, the other veins of the leg are swol-
len into hard, blue knots, become varicose,
as it is called, and often break, forming
obstinate ulcers. This is q picture which
a physician sees nearly every day. With
the garter fastened above the knee, all this
pain and defornity is avoided, but it is
still better to wear no garter at all, and Sc
cure the stocking by tapes to belt around
the waist. In this case, however, a we'll
fitting stocking is needed.
FALSE CALvEs-CURING CoRNs.
The wearing of false calves is condemned,
as is also the practice OF resorting to corn
doctors for the extirpatiOn of corns. In
stead of this, every one can extract his
own corns. The only instruments needed
are pair of small steel forceps, and two or
three bluut-pointed steel or silver instru-
ments, technically called quadrilles. The
corn is first softened by immersion in warm
water, or by a drop of oil or glycerine.
The foot is then held in a good light, and
the centre of the corn loosened by passing
the point of the quadrile gently around the
circumference of the callous portion. This
is seized by the forceps, and held to one
side while the instruments loosen the other
side So the operation is continued, very
gently and leisurely until the whole cal
lous is loosened and picked out by the for
ceps. Under ordinary circumstance, not
the least pain need be given and not a
drop of blood shed.
WHEN To CUT THE HAIR.
The growth of the hair IN IA healthy scalp
is from eight to ten inches year. Its IA
pidity is not the same at ali times. A
German writer who has given great atten-
ton TO this small matter Gf, indeed, any of
the operations of nature should be called
small) has found that it grows faster in the
daytime than at night, and in the summer
than the winter. There is a common no.
ton that the increase is also more marked
in the first halt of the lunar month, and
there are not wanting men of science who
have endorsed this belief. ''Who does not
know by his own experience" confidently
saws the Able Toaldo in his Saggio Meteor
| ologico, ''that the hair and nails grow fast
er after the new than after the full moon?
To which question most physicians coolll
reply that nobody knows it. As it is q
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