Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-04-27
Aunt Philura's Eace-Wash.

60, tNat AFTERNOON, we got ready ana
Went to the matinay. Beforehand, /
bein' ready to start first, went into Cous-
in Sarah's room. She didn't hear nue.
comm | guess, for she kind a'started
when she see me and set a bottle down
on a buro. But 1t was too late to back
out, and she took it up again, and went
to putting on stuff on her face. That's
what made her skin look so young-like.
I'd noticed it, specially afternoons.
says ]:
Gland, Sarah! What is that stuff
"It's something to preserve and beauti-
fly your complexion" saws she.
SIS that what makes your skin look
so young and fresh?" says 1. ~ thought
it was probable because you don't haye
to work over a hot cook-stove,"
ever so much better if you'd use it.
Let me put some on your face, too. It's
a French preparation, and you'll look
twenty years younger" And SHE got
| me into q chair and before | knew it, she
had it all over my face. l s'pose all
women, at the bottom, want to look
beautiful. Here was l, a woman of over
SO years, never havin' had any preten-
sions to any beauty, and there bein' no
earthly reason why | should want to
look better'n the average-here was 1,
sittin' down and hein' anointed with
French preparations. When she got
through, ''You must keep still" says
she, 'and let it dry nicely"
"Therei' says she, in a minute, NOW
look in the glass"
l did. an | declare. I should never
have mistrusted twas Philura Winters!
My face was of the most lovely tint. !
amt never seen no girl that had a pref
tier skin than mine was. The first thing
l thought was, s'Now I'll get a bottle of
this to take home"
"My face, as it got dried off tho, be.
gun to feel hot an kind o drawn up,
Cousin Sarah was ready and says :'Come
stand it, "Do wait till l can wash this
stuff otf'n my face. Why, my skin
feels as tho twas crackin' open every
time | move a muscle"
"Oh," says she, lauglin' you'll git
| yer that in a few moments. Come out
in the fresh air"
81 didn't more'n half believe her, but
she hurried me along and didn't give
me no chance to wash my face. Joint
jined us, an says he:
"By Jimmy! Philip! I never seen
| You lookin' so ALFRED putty since l took
you to ride the time we got into the
brook the spring before we was mar
ried."
Any woman would feel fattered at
this, but it didn't prevent my face from
| feelin' all cracked up; an once or twice
l actually looked into them big store
windows that are as good as a lookin'-
| glass, to see if my face wan't cracked
open in places: but it want"
After the matinay when we'd got ou'-
doors JOINT he stared at me, an says he;
"For the Lord sake, Philury, what in
tunket ails your face? It's all streaked
and speckled."
II shouldn't WONDER" says I. eft
been crackin' open ell the afternoon, an
| think likely it does look bad"
But | was afraid, and mortified too, as
we hurried home, an I looked in the
glass in Sarah's ROOM, and ~ should
think as muchW said I to Sarah. Why!
my a was in an awful condition. The
tears had run down through that stuff
and washed it off in streaks, an my nos
stood out red an faynin' in the midst OF
the queerest lookin' countenance you
| yer see!
tThere!" says l to Sarah, scrubbin' my
face in her bathroom; "when you catch
me anointin' my face, or alIowin' it to be
Amounted with ony more ofyour French
dressin', you jest let me know."-(Aunt
Phllura in Boston Times.