The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-20
WOMEN MADE PRETTY.
A Physician Tells How Women May
Preserve Their Beauty.
Good Health, Warm Clothing, Ex-
ercise. Careful Diet, and the
Charm or n Clean. Well
Kept Face


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ranged the moment l SEQ her face" said a
west side physician to the writer. 81 ask
her casually, not meaning to be o~ficious,
How is your health? and invariably comes
the answer, AN right, doctor But it's not
all right. Sunken eyes, hollow chests, round
shoulders, blue-pinched features, sallow COM
plexion, often marked with patches of deep
yellow, chapped lips, tainted breath do not
exist when the health is all right. The Amer
lean women" he continued, 'are going
down, and going rapidly, too. Why, not
one in a hundred sleeps enough or at the
proper hours; they don't eat the right kind Of
food or wear the right kind of clothes; they
don't take outdoor or indoor exercise.
What does an aimless walk amount to, or a
drive, lolling in a close carriagei Bah, it's
preposterous. Our women are outrageously,
shamefully lazy.
Just get your pencil out, and I'll tell you
what to advise them if they want good com
plexions.
SIN the first place, she wants plenty of
warm, loosely fitting Undertaking, withone,
or not more than two, heavy wooden skirts,
hung from the shoulders or corsets, for the
sex would fall to pieces without corsets; they
are all that keep women in an upright posi-
ton. Now, then, you want good, thick
shoes, with room for at least three toes
spread out, rubbers, a gossamer, light hat,
wraps and gloves, and an umbrella if con-
venient- For outdoor exercise have the
young woman do the marketing and family
buying, and make sure to have her take back
spurious purchases. Do as much of this
shopping as possible without the aid of a
street car. Teach her n lesson in economy by
sending her on al errand down town, max
ing her walk the distance to save 10 cents.
If the trip does not exceed five miles, two
doses a week will not do her any harm. Ex-
ercise to be beneficial must have an object,
and there is nothing better for a woman's
muscular development than a limited amount
of homework taken regularly. Sweeping is
good, so is busting, when the windows are
open admitting air and sunshine without n
draught: bread making can be done in a
couple of hours, and is invaluable for ex-
ercising the arms, chest and lungs; garden
ing is fiIst-rate, and so with rowing, skating
and horseback riding, if such exercise can be
INDUCED in. But impress upon your readers
that exercise means work.
''Now for the diet. Some people eat them
selves to death and others are dieted to death.
When a woman is feeble the first thing she
does is to take a hearty meal. The very worst
thing she could do, as nature purposely takes
away the appetite, for when a woman is fee
BILE her feebleness extends to every muscle of
the body, and the stomach, being made up of
a bundle of muscles, has its share of debility,
too. 1t requires several hours for the stom-
ach to work off a meal, and to give it that
amount of work when it is already in an ex-
hausted state is like giving a man who has
worked all day a task that will take him half
the night to perform. Eat little, eat it slowly,
and eat it when you are hungry. Avoid
pastries, too much fatty substances, and
everything that does not agree with you.
Always on rising drink as much cold water
| ne the cuGtan1 will taka Praca1a vnnr braok-
fast with fruit, a baked apple, a dish of ber-
ries, grapes, r%aisins, or any kind convenient,
only make the item imperative. The best
thing in the world to aid digestion is a couple
of figs, or any fruit, fresh or dry, containing
seeds. Don't drink much coffee, and none if
you can subsist on milk or water. Have
what you like for dinner; make your supper
the lightest meal, and, ignoring the old adage
that fruit rs golden in the morning, silver at
noon, and lead at night, eat a small quantity
of fruit before retiring; if, however, it does
not agree with the stomach, avoid it in fu.
ture.
81 would advise your young lady readers to
take their baths daily if they so desire, only
have them at night just before retiring, as
they will thus escape many severe colds.
Take warm, but not hot water, which is too
enfeebling. Let cold water alone, save for
the morning toilet; then use plenty of it,
bathing the chest, in order to guard against
IN attack of cough or catarrh- When she
gets up some morning, feeling as limp as a
piece of plotting paper tell her to sit on the
edge of the bath-tub, take a sponge full of
cold water, and, applying it to the nape Of
the neck, squeeze it till the water has all
coursed down the spinalc column. Repeat the
operation. The attempt will require some
indomitable pluck, but will waken her up for
all day.
Now for the face. First use good, clean
soap, and don't be afraid to put plenty of it
on the face, only rinse it of with a couple of
additions of clean water. About the tenn
perature / say nothing, for some people use
warm and some are habituated to cold, with
equally good result. In washing always press
the hands over the eyes, rubbing them toward
the nose. Roughness of the skin may be re-
moved by a little glycerine. For black specks
or heads in the pores of the skin here is a
remedy | think will avail: Get a dun knife
blade, or any instrument of similar surface,
and if the skin is sensitive cover it with the
fold Of a cambric pocket handkerchief, and,
thus protected, scrape the affected parts as q
barber scrapes the face. If the blade be
pressed down as it is moved some of the heads
will be expelled. In the morning saturate a
piece of soft cotton cloth with acetic acid,
wet the parts treated the night previous and
remain in bed until the acid is thoroughly
dried. Wash it off in the toilet with soap and
water, and repeat the operation until all the
hnimalcule disappear.
"There is a great charm In a clean, we'll
kept face which is positively refreshing.
Aside from her pretty manners and teeth,
the clean, healthy appearance of Mrs. Lang
try's face is half her beauty. Freckles must
be endured, but it is stated on authority that
a real good case of sun-burning or a couple
of coats of tan will remove them for keeps,
II the skin has a sallow hue the liver is out
of order, and IS or so invested in the advice
of n good medical doctor who makes a
speciality of the internal organs will not only
have a beneficial effect on the blood, but will
tone up the system Gnd brighten the COM
plexion. II the eyebrows meet, and thus an
noy the lads do not try to correct the luxuri-
ance by pulling out the hair, as that will
make the bridge of the nose sore. 1t is not a
Disagreement, but, If deemed so, nave n doc
tor pluck the hairs out. The same remedy
is suggested for removing those unsightly
little tufts of hair that so many ladies permit
to grow on moles. Where the discoloration
is of strong fibre the hairs may be pulled out
as they grow, but If the blemish is large and
of delicate structure, serious damage may ro-
suit by tampering with it. In either case,
however, these brown moles can be removed
with little pain and slight Inconvenience"
A Great Discovery.
This is daily bringing JOY tothe homes OF