Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-14
HYGIENE OF BEAUTY.
PRESCRIPTIONS FOR MAKING FEM.
NINE LONELINESS PERENNIAL.

Keeping the Skin in Good Condition-vir.
taos Of the Bath-Black PimpIes on
the Nose-The Causes of Bad Skin.
Food. ...T
Next to regularity of features, human
beauty largely consists in a fine complexion,
to have which it is necessary that the skin
Should be kept in good condition According
to Ovid, paleness was essential to female
!. beauty in old Rome. Modern theorists of
beauty prefer color in the face, which is Ger
tainly suggestive Of health. To keep the skin
in good order, cleanliness is the first requisite
Between the Russian peasant, who never
bathes, and the neat American, who battles
every day, there are many gradations, such
as the Englishman who bathes often, the
Frenchman, not of the highest classes, who
bathes occasionally, and the people of other
European nations with whom the practice is
intermittent. In this connection it may not
seem impairment to quote from a work on
the hygiene of beauty, published quite re-
Gently in Paris. Therein We read. after vari-
GUS directions for washing the face at least
twice day, the following remarkable adj
vice, which is translated literally:
Every week, or at least every fifteen days,
hygiene presents a general bath for cleansing
the persona bath of tepid water from % to
SO degs. centigrade The bath universally
recognized by legislators is indispensable as
a means to health II would abandon medi-
cine" wrote Percy very justly, "if I were in
terdicted in use of the bath"
A bath once in fifteen days would hardly
satisfy the conscience Of q neat American nor
prove perfectly agreeable to his associates.
No American ever thinks of bathing without
SOAP The French often Go so, because only
a small minority of the people are able to
have q bath tub at home, and at the public
baths soap is an extra charge. The soap used
in bathing should not be too alkaline,
though, since the skin of the body is soon
after supplied with an oily fluid by means Of
the pores, this is a question Of less import
ance If something should be added to the
bath to make it more efficient the question
is, what shall it be! In this matter the ex-
perience of the French will be found valu-
able. If the skin is inclined to eruptions an
addition of sulphur or the use of sulphur
soap will be found eficacious Baths of bran,
starch and gelatine soften and cleanse the
skin. Cold water baths are not generally to
free use Of soap and lively friction
Bran or starch added to warm baths in
creases the righteousness of the skin, which
delays the formation of wrinkles. Gelatipe
has similar effect Baths with aromatic
plants, cologne water, benzoin, essences Of
thyme or winterGreen, or borate of soda, all
have the effect Of checking excessive or oRen-
sive secretions of the skin. Friction with oil
after the bath was the custom among Greeks
and Romans, and is still throughout the civil
lied world greatly in favor. The Empress Pop
paea used baths Of milk. Blanche d'Antigny,
a noted contemporary demimondane Of
Paris, baths of champagne. In regard to the
celebrated baths Of Nine. TalEen. we are left
In uncertainty as TO how often she INDUCED
in the luxury. II was probably only on social
occasions of Importance. Its cost could not
have been great when straw berries and raSp-
berries cost 10 more than three or four cents
& pound at Paris Baths like these though
luxurious have only a secondary hygiene
Importance, and are not likely often to be
initiated
The black pimples of the nose are not al
ways due, as Is supposed, to a small snd very
curious worm to which scientists have given
the name of demodex foiliculorum. though
this is found frequently in the skin OF man
and OF animals There are IN the skin little
glands the Office of some Of which is to Sc
crete perspirasion, and of Others the fatty
sehaceous fluid which is intended BY nature
TO keep the outer coating soft aud pliable.
These communicate with the surface by mi
mute pores invisible to the naked eye. These
openings sometimes become Distracted when
there follow several forms of skin disease.
The most simple form Of nalsdy. which Is
caused By AZ excessive secretion OF the seba-
ceous fluid, which becomes hard and black. is
called by the ph vsicians acne sGnpiex. When
he complaint is more serious II Is caused bv
the congestion or Inflammation of the afro
ply or hypertropay Of the sebaceok glands
Then the black points increase in SAFE, espe-
ciallv if the skin is not kept clean, and there
are larger pimples on the skin winch suppur>
ate. Pressing one of these pimpies. there
efnarss . lonG.-black. cylindrical ohiecs