The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-03-20
WOMEN,S COMPILATIONS.
The Importance of Fresh Air, Cold Water
and Good Ventilation.
"What a beautiful complexion !"

and Good Ventilation.
"What beautiful complexion '
eyes, and what's more, it's all her
own !''
The words we're passed by we'll
known physician and Times reporter as
they sat in the formers Office. The sub.
ject Of their criticism was lady who had
just left.
els it 80 rare nowadays for ladies to
use their own complexions?" asked the
reporter.
"Doctors hear and know great many
things under the seal of confidence
which they dare not reveal, but if you
had been into as many ladies bedrooms
as l have, and seen woman who imag-
ined she was sick, looking old and hag-
gard, because only the doctor is going
to see me- and who in company has a
complexion which Cleopatra might have
envied-only the modern Cleopatra buys
her complexion in bottle, 81 apiece or
six for $5-you wouldn't need to ask that
question"
"How can a woman have good. CON-
plexion 2"
easy enough. Let her get three
things and she will have the desiderata.
They are fresh air, water and good ven.
tilation. Sounds old fashioned, doesn't
it?"
| "A triAe jaded."
"But true, nevertheless. Before 1 go
any further I want to say this: No wo.
man whose health is bad need expect to
have pretty complexion. The two
things don't assimilate any more than
disease and pure blood do, and, in fact,
the complexion reflects to an experienced
eve that exact condition of the blood
pulsing beneath it. But if a woman's
health is good, so in the same way will
be her complexion-provided she treats
herself with little common sense and
shows s. slight knowledge of sanitation.
But she doesn't; not if she can help it.
You ar, not married? All right; am
going to give you some valuable hints.
You take the average young girl-the
girl who would give almost anything to
have complexion like Mrs. Langtry'e.
The dear little bundle of silks and laces
hates cold water, and keen, cold water
with a holy horror. She has vague
suspicion that colds and cold water are
closely associated, and to prevent the one
shuns the other. Now hate say it, but
it is fact that nine times out of ten your
dear Claribel, that you fingered 80 fond.
ly over in the conserva' ory at Mrs. Jones
last dance, is actually dirty. Don't look
shocked, because with dirt, like every
thing else, there are different degrees.
Claribel, when she leaves her couch of a
morning, puts on several garments before
she thinks of letting water touch her
skin; then she rubs rag over her face,
lightly touches her neck, and her ablu.
tions are finished. Now, if the dear
child would heed the advice of man
who has given the subject of hygiene
some consideration, she would wash in
this fashion: On getting out of bed let
her put on her stockings and slippers,
and divesting herself of her night-gown,
bathe hereelf-and by bathing | don't
mean looking at the water, but putting
it on without stint.
$50 much for water. Now for venti.
lation. She thinks little air would
prove fatal; hence she almost hermeti.
cally seals her room and sleeps in vita
ted air. The windows of every sleeping
chamber should be opened an inch or
two from the bottom, not the top; and it
is well established that nobody ever
caught cold from sleeping in a room with
the window open, provided there is no
direct draught.
"The last ingredient in this prescrip-
ton is exercise. American girls stay in
the house day in and day out. They
never walk unless obliged to. If they
were to take constitutional every day
their doctors bills would be less and
their bodily comforts much increased.
Exercise l hold to be as necessary rs
."-Detroit Times.