The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-11-16

they fail to eHlist the sympathy OIL
arouse the enthusiasm of the great
mass of womsnkind. They have
the Interests of all women 1t heart
and their conventions are fertile in
expe dients for the advancement OF
women, but only one woman out Of
every ten seems 20 give the eabjec,
q thought. Possibly the conven-
tons aud ssconferences devote too
much atteation to cheTnlloons and
new tangled corsets, and not enough
TO . subject much nearer every NO.
mans heart. Wherey IIha average
woman most demands reform is ia
complexion. Worth and the other
fellows seem to suit them very well
in the maGter of dress, bus the march
of Improvement in regard to the
complexion does not keep with the
times.
Give 9 woman . day In the stores
and ehops of Chicago and she will
manage TO find bonnet, dress, and
sAoes to please her, but place all the
cosmetics on the continent ct her
feet, and give hera year for expert
ments, aud her complexion will
still be horrid.
The reformers cannot be blind to
the great demand there Is in the
country for improved compilations.
and they with their courage and
accustomed boldness, should Crap
pie with the question. Its impor-
lance cannot be overrated. A pim-
pie on Q Woman's face becomes q
very mountain of annoyance as soon
as it is discovered. A shadowy
freckle broadens to a thunder cloud
in her imagination, and pimples and
treckles coming together will make
her as desperate as high-spirited
horse in fly time, or q General
harassed by an enemy's shsrpshoot-
els. Ia
Women are always struggling
with bad complications. House
cleaning comes but once Q year the
worry of dress-making is over in
good time sickness cannot last for
ever, bnt 8 bad complexion is ever
present, nerviDg q woman to hsz8r-
doUs experiment or desperate deed.
Tue woman who never forgets her
selfin society who always remem-
bers to be graceful and polite, even
under the most exscting circum-
stances, faced by 3 bad complexion
becomes AZ reckless as q mad ele-
phant, and INDUCES in coAtortions
attended by 9 sort of spasmodic We
hemence, to which a dog trying
to catch his own tail is the mercsl
sport.
A woman will plunge through
fire to save her child. This would
seem to indicate the highest degree
Of her daring and courage. But to
secure q good complexion she will
dare anything. She win catch al
every nostrHIn advertised in the pa.
pers, and use it, though il be the
deadliest poison. She may have i
yoluble nei2hbor who knows nc
more about chemistry or medicine
than her poodle, but let this volnble
friend suggest that arsenic will
whiten the skin or strychnine- i'm.
prove the complexion, and she will
experiment with both. She will
battle in blood, or plaster her face
with meal, or wear masks of buck
skin TO secure the same end. She
will do any thing that any one sug-
gests, be 1t sensible or otherwise, be
it dangerous or not, and the Verlesi
qnack on earth may lead her as he
would q child.
When woman is sick, or when
her child has diphtheris or scarlet
fever, she seeks advice of q phys.
iclan, and is careful as to the. use OIL
remedies, and stands guard over
conditions aud circumstances, pain
fully anxious, and supernatuTa ally
watchful. In time of danger, In the
hour of need, when disease puzzlei
and despair almost crazss, ths phys.
icisn is appealed to ae the one who
must take responsibility and give
direction. His experience, hi
study, and his Judgment make him
the man to struggle with the most
serious disease. But curious fact
All this units him for any treatment
of bad complexious. Any woman
will tell you that q doctor know
nothing about compilations, and
that his advice to the effect that the
way TO secure q good complexion
is to so live as to have good health
is the veriest nonre 1se.
A woman never advises with 1
physician as to her complexion, bul
the tremendous promises of . quack
advertisement have almost the dig
nifty and force of law. AS q mattel
OF fact, women are in q frenzy about
their cOmplexions, and Ia reckless
eudeavOrs to make them better uni
formiy make them worse. The
question of suffrage. is the meres
trifie 10 woman with Q pimple OF
her nose or freckles on hGl cheek
Dress loses its Importance to 3 wo
man faded and sallow, and woulC
the retOFmers interest ell such theN
must invent methods to insure {,
all ladies the fair complications anC
blooming cheeks OF women in gooC
health. Ii they will retire the chem
loon for the lime being, and talk
ever so mildly, of complexion SIM
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