Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-04-17
SOiIed Faces.
A CURIOUS SUBJECT AND A FEW DoAiEs
TIC FACTs-ARE OUR FACES CLEAN ?
FEW HINTS To THE FAsTIDIoUs.

TIC FACTs-ARE OUR FACES CLEAN p
A FEW HINTS To THE FAsTIDIoUs.
1t is a startling and somewhat amusing
fact, says the New ! ork Commercial 81
Uerttser, that the majority of peoples
faces are seldom clean. Generally the
habit of washing the face in the morn
ing prevails, but with many persons is
the only time in twenty-four hours that
this ablution takes place. With some
women there exists prejudice against
washing their faces at all-they believe
that bathing and rubbing produces erup-
tions-that the skin of the face is hand
somer the less it is washed. Men return
from business, and, before entering the
drawing room, retire to their dressing
apartments to ''wash their hands and
comb their hair" unconscious that their
faces are not clean. Ladies come home
from a shopping excursion or a drive in
the park, and arrange their toilet with
out touching their faces except TO dust
them with powder as the last act of en-
bellishment We invariably send the
children to their nurse to have their faces
washed before dinner, or a dozen times
! daily, but because we are men and wo-
men, and have not streaks of black
across cheek or nose, we do not ques-
ton the cleanliness of our faces. 1t is
taken for granted that the faces of adult
creation are clean, unless it be those of
machinists, chimney sweeps or coal
beavers. We are certainly impressed
with the muddy complexion Of Mrs.
SlOvenly, and remark how tsallow" Mrs.
Slipshod has become, but it does not oc-
cur to as that their faces are always
soiled. We meet Miss Blank on the
promenade, who has risen late and
washed her face hurriedly, leaving the
sleepy bugs in the corners of her ewes
we exclaim, chad Miss Blank a clear
skin, how pretty she would be" We
should not believe that it was
rarely that Miss Blanks face was
thoroughly washed-that it was usually
covered with Oriental cream" and dust.
which being slept in at night, and but
half removed in the morning, soon
changes the natural purity of the skin.
There is no portion of the body that
requires so much care, as to cleanliness
as the face. 1t is the receptacle for the
dust from the room day and night. 1t
receives the sitting blown from the ash
barrels and coal carts, and allimpurities
in the streets. Specks of oily dandruff
from the hair are hourly falling on the
face, and the most conservative of us
are constantly placing our faces against
something that soils, from the cheek of
the sour baby, who is the pet of the
household, to the shaggy coat of Romp
the dog, whom we stoop to fondle now
and then, saying nothing of the kittens,
who brush against the side of our faces.
from the backs of our easy chair twenty
times daily, and whom we know to have
f1eas. (This we will never admit to man.
ma, for fear of their Punishment to the
woodshed.l IF the persons who are
otherwise fastidiously nice, would be as
proportionately particular to keep their
faces clean, we should see more of the
fair glowing compilations, and less of
the yellow faded skins with sallow lines
about the neck. There is nothing that
so beauties the face as its freshness and
cleanliness from the frequent use of water
with gentle friction. There is more
truth than poetry In the stale OBJ
servation of persons looking two or
three shades whittier after their ablution.
The face is fairer after washing, be-
cause 1t is cleaner, and when it is not of.
ten bathed 1t is badly soiled. That the
face be thoroughly washed at night,
with little fine soap to remove anv
greasy substance that may have settled
IN the eyebrows and crevices of the
features, Is essential for its perfect clean
illness. The eyes requireiparticIlar wash
ing to preserve their beauty and strength
of sight. How few persons consider
this when they wipe them over once
day with wash rag or sponge. Clean