Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-12
WOMAN AND HOME.
WHAT LADIES SAY ABoUT PRE-.
SERVING THE COMPLEXION.

The Problem Of Household Comfort
bands - Punctuality - Marriage Not
FaiIure-Items.
Here is the sprightly manner in which
Marie Jansen treats the mask of beauty;
''You ask the to say what know about the
complexion and its preservation, and by that,
take it, you want to know something of the
struggle have had with my own with or
without, to my mind. is the all important |
point of complexion, and of course allude to !
pimples. No complexion can be truly said to |
be of the satisfactory kind that keeps up a |
humorous Irritation with pimples. They will |
appear even on the best regulated skin, and
how to treat them when they do put in their
unwelcome appearance has been a matter of
burning anxiety to all us poor weak things
ever since Eve caught the reflection of her
countenance in tue bra2en face of time For
myself, have tried everything from sand
paper to collodion, hut am now convinced
thac nothing so discourages pimple with
life as to let it severely alone | have heard
of your ladies who gouged them out with
nut crackers, hut cannot conceive that such
a mode of procedure would add to either the
appearance or the temper of the gouged
The remedy hes deeper, and believe it to
be exercise am bathing. So few women
who have leisure to devote to their COM
plexion ever take enough exercise to put them
into perspiration, and if yon will show me
woman who has a god complexion | will
. SHOW you one who takes enough bodily exer-
cise-w walking, horseback riding, swimming
vi teunis-to put her into profuse perspira-
uoh at least once day, and so gives her skin
opportunity TO throw or the impurities that
would otherwise clog up the pores. Edwin
'urrest said that man who had never taken
turkish bath could not claim to have risen
70 the dignity of being personally clean-and
oeheve it; and l believe, too, that we
women are allowed to sneak in under the
mead OF the general term man. and whether
OF not We Some in under the term we ought
70 1ysrysge to get into Turkish bath oc-
easfonally, for it is the greatest friend of the
complexion, certainly the most kindly of all,
with which have ha6 anything to do"
Here is Emma Abbott's facial scheme:
Buy the best soapin the market and use it on
the face once a week. Buy pure glycerine
by the quart, dilute it with q pint of rose
water, and use the solution every time you
want a nice face, My plan is to battle my
face, neck, shoulders, arms and hands in it
every time make my toilet for public Or
private audience | couldn't live without
glycerine, for it keeps my skin In perfect
condition. l never have chapped hands or
rough lips, and there is not a blemish on my
face When 1 make up for the stage pow
der on the wet glycerine, and il the air is
cold, no matter whether it is day or night,
saturate my face with the sweet JUNCTION mix
tlre the last thing before leaving the house.
1t is my opinion that soap and hard, cold
water combine to ravage the compilations Of
American women. 1t isa marvel to me how
the ladies in Chicago manage to be as pretty
as they are, for the prevailing winds are de
structive. not only to the voice, but to the
youth and beauty of the face. In New York
and Brooklyn. Boston and Philadelphia
where the mild influence of old ocean is pre-
dominant it is every woman's own fault il
her face is not pleasing
Intelligence and goodness will atone for
ugly features, but an ugly complexion is not
to be condoned in these days of advanced
science. All woman wants is knowledge t.
be beautiful If glycerine is tire price of &
nice skin let her turn her last dime into TIT
fatty distillation; if cold cream gives better
results, then by hook or by crook get colo
cream in bulk; if baptism of warm watel
will make the cheeks glow and the face clea1
and kissable, don't stint yourself. Only try
this or that recipe that you know to be con
ducive to beauty, and swear by that which
enhances your looks" 1t might be ststet
parenthetically that Emma Abbott's com
plexion is as lovely now as it was when sh'
was child, and her arms and neck are a
white as the satin i'll which she dreSse
''Traviata" for the ball room scene.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox declares there
nothing to compare with almond meal
is her practice to wash her face once in tn
morning, and after drying it she goes to a
open jar in which quantity of the powderet
almond is kept and gives her face IA goo
securing with the oily meal. After a doze
handfuls have been rubbed in and the ski
has smooth, moist feeling, the fair poetes
Is as fragrant as an almond blossom au
proof to chaps or rouGhness.-New Yor
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