The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-06-10
Milk as Cosmetic.

The use of cosmetics is common to
all ages and to all chimes. Jewish ladies,
| in the time of Solomon, and Christian
ladies, in the reign of Victoria, have not
been Lnmindful of adding to their
charms by applying different ingre-
dents 20 their skin for the purpose of
preserving it's delicacy and identifying
it's appearance Nine. Rachel was Meth
er the first nor the last artist in skin
decoration, although she certainly was
one of the most expensive to deal with.
From the painted wife of the Indian
chief of the backwoods or desert, to
the powdered and rouged dowager who
| drives along our parks, the gentle sex
are skilled in the secret arts of making
themselves g, beautiful for ever" We
hear little however, in the present day,
of the use of milk as beautifyer of the
skin. In the country we have seen milk
| applied to the body in various ways.
Pure cream, as cold as it can be obtain
ed, is used to chapped lips and to scalds
Skyblue," made lukewarm, is not
unc omonly used as fermentation, and
rustic maids who have had their hands
and faces scorched by the sun in the bar
vest-field, attempt to cool their skin and
restore its color by washing it with but
ter milk. We have never known in this
country auy preference given for one
milk over another for such purposes if
We except a supposed remady for any sore
eness of the eye, viz: that of forcing milk
from the human brest into tia quack
practice followed by the peasantry of
some districts, and said by them to be of
! l.
etetic purposes the difference between
the milk of various domesticated ami
mails is not unknown to us. We have
seen children reared on goats milk in
preference to that of cows, over which
! it was supposed to contain more nutri-
tious and digestlble elements for the
infant stomach Mare milk fermented
and made into koumiss has for ages been
priced by the Tartars for its health-re-
storing qualities, and is now becoming
widely known in England for It's valu-
able properties since its introduction
by Dr. Jagielski. But ass milk We
are told, was the great favorite with Ro-
man ladies The Imperial wives of the
voluptuous Caesars revelled in it, A Ro-
man lady IN those times went to bed
with court plaster of bread and ass
milk applied to her face. The applica-
ton of this novel cosmetic, or rather
poultice, gave her, on awakening, very
cracked appearance, but when it was re-
moved by further washing in ass milk,
her skin was considered to be sufficient
ly perfect as a groundwork for the red
and white pigments with which the
slaves decorated her face. Some fine Ia
dies of that olden time took a bath of
ass milk as often as seventy times day;
and whenever Poppea, Nero's favorite
wife, travelled with her gay retinue
she took along with her herds of asses,
so that she might take her usual bath
whenever she pleased 1t must have
been a luxury which the wealthy only
could enjoy to such perfection. Should
the popular Roman custom revive among
English ladies, we assure them also
that their additions after the Roman fash
ION will not be III expensive. We have
just purchased of Mr.. Deverson, of Ed
geware road, sample of ass milk, which
he retails at five shilling per quart. A
sufficient quantity for bath for a moder-
ate sized lady would considerably add
to the daily expenses of the household
OF course, where there was a tendency
to en3bo0potat among members of the
family it would be still greater, dlsplace,
ment of the fluid, milk, would bear the
same proportion to the foreign body i'm
mersed as happened with water when
the Greek philosopher shouted the
memorable word s Eureka l"-The Matk
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