The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-23
CARE OF THE COMPLEXION.
An Experienced Woman Divulges Some
Secrets of the Toilet

In the admirable series of articles on
Health and Beauty" running in the Toledo
Blade, lady of experience thus gives a
younger one some points on the care of the
complexion:
'In the first place, it is not necessary to 20
at your face as ii it were piece of dirty linen
to be mauled and rubbed without mercy.
Use a soft cloth or a fine soft brush. A
sponge is excellent. provided 1t is OF the
finest possible texture, but otherwise a cloth
is much better. In fact / prefer the latter
always. Then with clear rainwater into
which you have put two or three drops of
ammonia, rub briskly but gently over your
whole face. The ammonia seems to have a
penetrating power that will take off the dirt
quicker than soap, and is not open to the OBJ
jections of the latter which often seems to
cut ana eoarscn the skin. But if you use
soap at eli, be sure that it is always the
purest white CASTLE or something equally as
fine and cleansing.
Before you 60 to bed wash off your face
with milk diluted with hot water. 1t is
we'll, | think, to have the whole wash as hot
as can be used whenever it is convenient.
Dry the skin always with a soft towel in
stead of the coarse one that you mentioned.
IF you want to keep your skin soft and
fine. don't, / beg of you, wash it Immediately
before or after going into the open air. Take
my experience and your own for it, the re-
suit will be to coarsen and give you asort
of drawn and old look. Then don't try to
strengthen your skin by exposure to the
wind. When the air is calm and still. neith
er extremely cold nor hot, it will do to go
out without veil, but at other times your
face needs protection.
Now, about cosmetics. know you think
/ will agree with you there. Well, l do to
certain extent. A young girl like you should
not need to make a practice of using Them,
and yet if care is taken in the choice not to
ON Low fhnSa xvhicb contains fbif.-yQ urhi oh
are poisonous, / do not think any harm will
be done by applying them occasionally. But
one precauton must be taken: always wash
off the face carefully before retiring. or be-
fore repeating the application A celebrated
physician in New York whose specially is
skin diseases says that, in his opinion cos
metics can be used without injury if proper
cleanliness is observed. The trouble comes
often from putting powder upon powder.
Never do that"
"But how are we to know what kind of
cosmetics are harmless%'
81 will tell you, although do not want
you to begin to use them until you have
tried the care rules have given you. Any
thing that contains sugar otlead is injurious,
and you can always detect its presence by
dropping a little ammonia into it before
using. If the lead is there the powder or
liquid viii turn black. So far as powder is
concerned, you may know it is absolutely
and violets are in bloom, take the fresh bios
SONS and bury them in finely pulverized
starch. Remove the withered flowers in
twenty-four hours and substitute more, and
continue to do this for week, by which
time the starch will have become full of fra
GRANGE. In the summer it is almost impossi-
BILE to do without something of this kind. 1t
cools the skin and takes off the shiny look
that so detracts from the beauty of the COM
plexion."
"But how do you keep off wrinkles? There
are few faint lines upon your face, but one
can scarcely see them"
Lines will come with the years, if you
think and feel. But shall have to tell you
what my dear old grandmother told me, and
/ never forgot it. had been fretting over
some trifle, and she looked at ME through her
glasses in her odd way. Child, she said
don't get into quicker about nothing. 1t
helps to make wrinkle And it is true
More women make lines in their faces by use
less fret and worry than seems possible 1t is
as necessary for your beauty that you look
on the bright side of life as for your health
and happiness. But there are some things
which help to keep the smoothness of the
skin The bath in hot milk at bedtime is
one. And have known persons to use a
wash made of one fluid ounce of gum ben
zoin put into seven ounces of distilled rose
with excellent effect. They battle the face.
let it dry on, then wash it off in the morning
with little soft water and pure white CASTLE
SOAP Be sure never to use hard water on
your face, If there is no other way, soften
it with little powdered borax or few
drons of ammonia y