Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-02-01
BEGINNINGS OF BEAUTY
HOW TO lMPROME THE HEALTH AND
APPEARANCE OF CHILDREN.
Beautiful Girls from to - Silken Hair
and Well Formed Limbs-How to Pre-
vent the Awkward Age English
and American Training.


With watchful care from TO j. almost
any hoy or girl will turn out worth looking
ut the rest of life, provided you can
make him obey directions. But if they have
imbibed the popular version that parents
have no right to interfere with the prefer
ences of children, if they refuse to see the
dentist in time and forget toothbrushes
if they will ovcreat at dessert and put them
selves to as little trouble in the way of
washing themselves as possible, they will
have irregular teeth, heavy faces and dull
skins Books can very well he let alone the
first eight years, which are none too much
to devote to drill in personal habits and re
| hnemcnt.
The hair is the first care from the time
the sunshiny down begins to glisten on the
baby's head. 1t seems altogether likely that
the old plan of having babies and thin haired
children wear caps of linen lawn, is Il good
one. Little bald pates must be sensitive,
and delicate children carry this sensitive
ness a good while. 1t denotes senSibility of
brain and disposition to cerebral disorder,
which need not disarm the parent, for in
these cases forewarned is torealmed The
beautiful and gifted Sarah Coleridge whites
some recollections of her childhood which
are significant to mothers. she was poorly
and moping in her first years of childhood
even in her Uncle Southey'3 big generous
house. One day, as she sat on her low stool
the picture OF woe, her kindly aunt asked
what was the matter, to which came the
wall, ''It's miserable - ''Wel, you will be
miserable says homely Aunt Thicker, -
IF your mother doesn' put you ON Il cap, -
and close cap of lawn accordingly Sara
wore the next years to her great content.
Probably she had earache and neuralgia in
the head to account for her low spirits 1t
is unaccoutable how much misery children
will bear without knowing enough to com
plain of it or ask for relief. Thin haired
children take comfort in wearing caps,
which protect the growth of hair, but they
would Cypress a child with thick locks. The
wearing caps at an early age is traditional
from the lace Golf of Louis XIV. at ten
months to the blue cloth hoods of German
babies. which seem born with them and in
scparable, while for the rest they are con
tent with very abbreviated shirts
Wash children's heads with the alkaline
yolll of raw egg beaten in rain water, rinsng
it off well, but do not dress the hair with
water every time it is brushed. Use thin
bandoline, which will keep the hair in pla e
all day, or else vaseline, which the hair
quickly absorbs all it will take when it
should be wiped Off with bit of flannel to
avoid greasness. Teach children to use the
pi"'h INc ~ tci minutes HhShI anu HlOl IL
liS' bllshig ustu lills Is all Ihe stimulus
me scalp VIII Dear nan an hour Is ADVISED
by way of variety, but if the head is smartly
brushed that length of time, the iniamma-
ton would make the hair fall instead of
growing, and life is too short to spend half
an hour doing what l0minutes is enough for.
English girls of rank are carefully trained
to expedition in dressing many min
uuea ior 'he p'tl' 50 many ior 1he mar ana
ior 'ne "reSS proper, WINE crown princes
anu pfiilcesSes nave 10 chahSe Uhelr oreSa al
lioSC WIN tne speed OF actresses al iheatres'
"irlS sno'l' loosen 'helr mar at hi8ut, OF
Wleh convenient, ana let 'ne ar DO"
'nrouSh IT, brushing ana coming IL III
current -. ar 10 carry OIL ousU ana eiiiana-
'lohS' lHls care ana Il cream sc'ip VIII SNe
slroiR'F rooted locks, hot elVeu 10 lallihg
al any nervous disorder. III lhe mar Is very
lihll' uoh cu' II 10 tnickeh IT, mere are
pfopahly as many dormant bulbs IN
'he scalp as thele are run grown mars,
waning only moderate IRRITATION OF the SKIN
anu NlSo' ol tl'e cill'' 10 st"rU the'l gro"
ing. 'lrIs VINO desire thlch mar ana boys
NHo WuhI huS'acheS ouEhl 10 take hJpo-
ph"Spul'es OF 'he NltaliHeh phosPhates IN
some shape remembering luaU Iltll" OF
tile0e tiihSs is Soou, pllu IL uoeS hoI loHoW
INA. more u petlei' foou mas more 10 IL"
with the color and thickness OF the mar than
Is generally suspected III Is propanle that
liie 'llceSSaht dleJ OF oatmeal ana mllK, eat
EN- 10y the loWland scotch causes the thln
White LOCKS so frequent among theih' Whlle
the back Hlghanders gained ther color
rom living lor generations on ueer mesh
he iree use OF grape ]ulce and sweet CIDER
uehdS 10 dafkeh the halr IN youth, ana the
old fashloned tonic OF rusty mans IN CIDER
SHOWS It's effects IN the darkenln9 or pale
EYEBROWS ana lashes, II tollet care Is NOT 1or-
Golteh' but one must be care1ul not 10
oNerdo trlals OF TINS KIND Han glass OF
sour cider ana IRON rust three times day,
malt an hour before meals, Just when the
1alntness OF hunger begins, Is enough Tor a
chlid or dellcate woman
AS TO eating Tor me complexion, the
brown bread ana syrup breakfasts ana sup
pers produce beautiful skins ana flesh That
looks as II 1t had the gram OF marble. But
the syrup must be rebolled and SKINNED
well, Tor most OF the modern sweets, Wheth-
er OF maple or cane, are so thlnly made as