Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-26
WOMAN AND HOME.
SOME HINTS CONCERNING THE
CARE OF THE COMPLEXION. .

for the Sick-The Wife a. q Financier.
The Secret of Matrimonial Happiness.
Items of Interest.
Miss Helen Russell has complexion like a
rose petal, and this is her recipe for keeping
it so: In the first place believe in plenty
OF fresh air and exercise, and unless pre-
vented by some very important engagement
take long walk every day. 1t is my opin-
ion. based on extensive and careful obserya-
ton, that ladies starve their complexions to
death. The skin is famished, the pores clog
ged and capillary action supended from too
much indoor life. think every woman who
values a good complexion should perform
some manual labor or take some such exercise
as is certain to stimulate perspiration. Just
now l find it an excellent practice 70 go out
doors, with no car fare and no wrap, to fill
an engagement or deliver a message. In
order to keep from taking cold l am obliged
to quicken my walk and in going a distance
Of three blocks only can get up healthy
perspiration and glowing color. My IA
vorite tramp is twenty block stretch,
which makes me rosy but not tired. When
l get home l have rub down with coarse
towel, and after / eat something | feel like a
top. If l can follow long walk with my
dinner and then tumble into hammock for
q thirty minute nap look my very best, but
unfortunately for my looks this plan is not
always practicable.
''To remove the make up after the play
use cold cream, and on reaching home
battle my face in hot water, dry with q
coarse towel and then battle again in cold
water. This plan seems to suit me, for
have no trouble IN keeping healthy look
ing complexion; but would not advise you
to advocate it. As rule hot and cold water
ruin the skin. think complexion is like
satin-not to be lanndered. AS everybody
must grow the plant experience for herself,
so every lady must study her glass and find
by trial what soaps and creams and what
temperatures of water are most likely to en-
nance her beauty"
Fanny Rice believes that "a nice complex
ion is the outward sign Of inward health 1t
depends on good food, good hours, fresh air,
exercise and moderate contentment | don't
think ever knew a shrew with nice COM
ple1ion, and believe the medical profession
will bear me out when assert that outdoor
exercise and fresh air are absolutely necessary
for beauty and health. You know indoor
can have good face you must have a good
digestion. Get the system in regular trim,
battle freely and frequently, eat plenty of
fruit with simple meats, eat in thoroughly
ventilated room, exercise in the open air, and
the chances are your health will be mtrrored
i'll your face. Don't wash your face in ex-
trcmely hot or icy water, and never wash
moro than once day, and then before break
fast. 1t is ruinous to go out in the cold air
Immediately after making the toilet. Keep
a pot of cold cream at hand to Use whenever
it seems necessary to clean the face. Powder
is harmless if used with cold cream and, ike
a veil, serves to protect the face from dust,
sun and wind. The skin has q grain and
should be rubbed whichever way that runs.
l am told by well known beautifier that
wrinkles can be retarded by rubbing or dry
ing the eyes towards the nose and the cheeks
up, instead Of down"
THE best thing in the world for the COM
plexion," says Amelie Rives- Chanler, is rain.
Il have a passion for getting on long coat,
a cap and pair of top boots, not rubber,
and roaming of by myself in rain storm.
don't carry an umbrella. l just let the
soft warm rain spatter my face and hair and
pit-a-pat about my neck and ears. II / can't
go out in the storm hang out the window
face up and catch all the drops l can in my
open eyes and mouth. l am not a mono
maniac on the subject of soap ind water. If
l have my bath in the morning, don't wash
my face any more the rest of the day. All
my old handkerchiefs are saved for face
cloths, with which l dry-ciean or cream my
face. never use a Uowel--it is too rough
and l am not partial to soaps. 1 like in
stead to battle in glyceriue diluted with ross
water and perfumed with altar of roses
never powder if l can have the shine rained
or. n-New York World.