The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-02-01
A FINE COMPLEXION,

November.
FINE COMPLEXION.
To soften and whitcn the skin there
is nothing more beneficial than oatmeal,
taken internally and used externally.
AS have no wish to- encroach upon the
housewives domain. Ill simply give
directions for its external use. After
warm bath il may be used dry, or pour
boiling water over few spoonfuls of
it. and let stand a few hours. On 90
ing to bed. wash the hand and face
freely in the starchy water, and dry
without wiping. Bran and Indian-meal
may be used instead, with nearly the
same effect. For the full bath put the
bran or oatmeal into small bags. other
wise difficulty of removing the particles
which adhere TO the skin is considera-
BILE.
Instead of the poultices of bread and
asses milk which the Roman ladies
found so efficacious for softening and
whitening the face, we may use a mask
of quilted cotton or channels skin, wet
in cold distilled water. This will not
be the most comfortable in the world,
but no great excellence is ever attained
without labor and care. Many ladies,
whose compilations are the envy of all
their friends, acknowledge that they
owe it all to distilled water, which they
use for their face and hands. Queen
Victoria is to be envied for one thing,
if nothing else. for she has the delight
full comfort and luxury of having dis
titled water for all her baths.
Ladies with oily or greasy skins may
use, sparingly. few drops of camph0r
in the bath. Borax and glycerine COM
bined, are used with good effect by
some people, while thoroughly disagree.
ing with others. Glycerine alone soft
ems and heals, but in time will darken
the skin and make it over-sensitive;
the bOraX obviates this, and has a ten
dency to whiten. No toilet table is
complete without bottle of ammonia.
A few drops of this in the bath, cleans.
es the skin and stimulates it wonder
fully. 1t is especially valuable in re-
moving the odor from those who
pcrspire freely.
To remove tan and sun-burn, cold
cream, mutton tallOw, and lemon juice
may be used; for freckles, apply the
latter with camers hair brush. The
country girl. deprived of many things
which her city cousin finds indispensa-
BILE. discovers that she can remove the
tan from her face with a wash made OF
green cucumber sliced into skim milk,
OK, failing in this, she makes a decoc-
ton Of buttermilk and tanSy.
A well-knOwn writer on feminine
beauty recommends the use of finely.
,ar fnr hn
plexion. A tcaspoonful of this, well
mixed with water or honey. should be
taken for three successive nights, fol-
lowed by simple purgative. 10 remove
it from the system. The aperient must
not be omitted, or the charcoal will re-
main in the system. a mass of fostering
poison, with all the impurities it ab-
Serbs.
None of these things will bring about
the desired result unless the foundation
is first laid by proper food, exercise,
and bathing; above all things do not
neglect tn" bath. Cleanliness i one OF
the cardinal virtues. and woman fresh
from the bath feels Il good deal like an
angel. ia EcH'is' .ROnthiy.
CHARMING w0MEE AND WOMEN IN
EARNEST.
When it was all over, my friend said,
$50 that i Il woman in earnest. DO
Won suppose it is her earnnstness that
makes hrr so unprepossesSing?'
That is my perplcxity reduced to its
last equations: Was it her earnestness:
NY friend held that it was. If you
have observed" said she, "women with
aims are always like that. They are
too superior To cOndescend to make
themselves agreeable. Besides. they
haven time. Then they never can see
but one side of a qucstion.-the side
they are on. They are always drag
ging their own opinions to the front.
and always running full tilt against
every one elsr's. That is where they
differ most from women who haven't
purposes and who have seen a good
deal of the world. |, is the business of
the woman of the world TO be agreea-
BILE. She spares no pains to make her.
self Just as good-looking as possible,
and just as charming. And she is al
ways tolerant. She may think you
fool for your beliefs, but she does not
tell you SO brutally, or try to crush You
with an avalanche of argument. She
tries to look at the matter from your
point of view; in short. she feigns a
sympathy if she have it not. Your
women with purpose think it wrong
to feign anything. They won't pretend
to be sympathetic any more than they
will powder their faces, or let their
dressmaker improve their figures.
That's why they are so boring; they
are too narrow to be sympathetic and
too conscientious to be polite. 1t is
earncstness does it; earnestness is
naturally narrowing. II is earnestness,
too. sets their nerves in a culver and
makes them so restless. They can
never sit still; they are always witch
ing, don't you know? That's earnest
ness. 1t has kind of electrical effect.
Women in earnest have no repose of
manner. But woman of the world
feigns that. just as she feigns sympathy.
because it makes her pleasant to other
people. Oh. there's no doubt of it:
women with purpose are vastly better
than other women, but they are no.
nearly SO nice!'
NV own experience cOrroborates my
friend opinions. Women with pur-
pose, women in earnest, have MOTTO
able lack of charm. And 1 regret to
say that the nobility of the purpose does
not in the least affect the quantity OF
charm. Very likely their busy lives
and the hard fight they have had to
wage with social prejudices and moral
anachronisms may have something to
do with it.
But after making all deductions,
wonder if my friends theory does not
hit somewhere near the mark!-NOren,- |