St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-07-14
PRETTY GIRLS.

| girls from ten to fourteen, feeding them
on plumpness, bathing their faces with
lotions and pastes, which leaving the
| skin like velvet, and funigating their
persons over braziers of burning aro-
mates till the scent is absorbed by the
perfumed for days. The doctors at
| the city hospitals treat malformed in
| fants almost at birth. Irecall one hos
pital physician saying he was about to
| operate on baby whose eyes were not
wide enough for vision, by cutting the
| lids at the outer corner, harmless per
| Torrance, which some Older babies
would willingly undergo for the sake OF
| "large almond eyes, Well-seasoned
broth Of beef, mutton, or fowl, thick
ened with fine oat meal or cracked
wheat, cerelne or farina, or finely cut
vegetables, is an ideal food for chill
dren and girls who are also the better
for lean fresh meats boiled or broiled
once day. Give young people pleas
ing variety, the freshest that can be
had, of meats and vegetables or fruits,
with bread from the whole wheat flour
no other kind being allowed-and
| teach them how to eat as well. There
| their food. Neither dissipation, nor
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| any kind is toieIable for girls under
eighteen if they are to know health or
/ good looks after they are twenty.
Keep girl flom fretting by all means.
| Whether the girl will have the gifts
i of confines, whether she will have a
fine. smooth complexion, straight limbs,
! sbapely fingers and good carriage, de-
| pends on her mothers care from infan-
cy. Whether she is to be a gypsy or a
] creamy brunette, a freckled, thin faced
| chit or well-touched blonde is also
measurably under control. Her "for-
bears must be taken into cunsidera-
ton in training. 1t her family are
stocky, not over tall, and she follows
/ the tyne, train her for height and long
ger contours by sending her to a dry
| mountain region, it possible, and ac-
custom her to to exercise early for suit
pleness, letting her live out of doors bu-
not setting her down to close work or
to bard tramps She should dance,
| ride horseback or tricycle., or drive, eat
| venizon, kid, game and dry meats, with
watery vegetables like radisbes, tur-
| nips cabbage, salad, cucumbeIs and
melons, hard graham crackers and VIA
| ter or grape juice. She should sleep
! alone, in very dry room, keeping the
| limbs straight, not going to sleep curled
! up with knees half way to her chin.
Pulley exercise, swinging by the hands,
long, smooth stockings and gentle, firm
pulling Of the limbs daily tend to
length of limb and increase stature, if
kept up year after year. The strokiug
with long, smooth sweeps and gentle
pressure from the neck down the length
of the spine, and from hip to heel,
| nightly by the hand of the mother or
l ic Of &Ra
cOuragements to growth and symmetry
young thing can know. A sheet or
shawl thrown around the body, open
behind, with a clasp pin or two, allows
| the stroking with ease aud entire mod
esty, Always rub downward, never ND,
to lengthen limb.
When girl grows plump, entering
her teens, it is best not to NEEDLE with
| nature rashly, as reduction of fat in
| such case has left epilectic seizures in.
stead. The girl should leave school
and take to quiet study work. 1t is a
| pity spinning is out OF date. As Sc
datiye exercise, and for developing
| fine hand and arm, there is nothing to
| take its place. The beautiful Pru-
dence, whose father held his manor by
kings favor, when asked in a silly
way if she was not proud of her family
DOSSGESlDuS plOtupt dtHSWCi, III lUI
Greek girl mo, am not proud of
our house or furniture or carriages or
| silverware or china, but am proud of
| one thing-I know how to spin y Sweet
Mistress Prudence, send your taste and
spirit again among our girls, till they,
| like Helen of Troy and the wife of
Odyssues are seen by their own door in
the sunshine, spinning their purple
| thread.
To keep down flesh, the salt water
bath mornings, a handful of rock salt to
basin of water, is safe and strengthen
ing to the system. Sassafras tea, with
out milk, may be taken, and cream of
tartar, making drink by pouring
pint Of boiling water on a teaspoonful
of tartar, letting it cool and favoring
with lemon and a little sugar. A
draught of this half an hour before
meals is nOtible purifier of the blood,
and an occasional dose of epson salts,
jalep, settler aperient or Congress wa
ter may be taken, always with advice
craving for food DIR. Napheys recon-
mends chewing grain or to OF roast
coffee. Jellies OF Iceland moss without
milk are excellent to supply appetite
without making flesh, sos are water
crosses and tender radishes, and all
these are among the best PURIFIERS of
the blood and representatives. of con-
sumption. Scrofulous and delecate
girls should be brought up on these
simple but potent relishes, together
with carrots and parsnips, which last
are the best food for quick and healthy
plumuness. The richness of the milk
OF Alderny cows is due to long feeding
on parsnips in. the channel islands, and
the finest and fairest children in some
parts of Scotland use it as a daily food,
A carrot poultice is admirable for soft
ening the face, acting as a purifier by
absorption, and mechanically asa moist
application. Thin, dyspeptic girls, or
those with poor appetite, should be
given twelve drops Of acid phosphate in
q small glass of water three times a
Say. half an hour before meals, till they
Eeel hungry, and then feed them on
trusty brown bread and mullins, 1with
change Of the sweet, succulent Eoots
daily, beside fruit and meats, and you
will be surprised how they will tone up.
The pse of phosphate is not to be ex-
ceeded, as a very little is better borne
than large doses, which are apt to pro-
duce rush OF blood to the head, IN
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