San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-04-04
BEAUTY AND DIET.
LAWS WHICH ALL DAUGHTERS OF
EVE SHOULD ALWAYS OBEY.

N suggestion OF DO.
Flesh texture and tint perform most
important function In female beauty.
To preserve and improve them demands
the strictest observance OF sanitary laws.
A bad skin, lacking tint, plumpncss
and elasticity, indicates want Of good.
ness In the vital or nutritive system.
Diet, digestion, temperature, open air
exercise, sleep and tranquility Of mind
are absolute necessities TO every woman
who wishes to keep her youth.
AS to diet, 1t is only necessary to ask
what does the average American girl
eat? She sits down to potato and
pickle, three or four cups Of strong tea,
pies, cakes, sweets and fiery condiments.
II she includes beef In her menu 1t Is
only after roasting, frying and grilling
has reduced 1t to state OF complete in
digestibility. What Is the result of such
o regime? BY the time sho Is 20, just at
tho age nature intended her 10 be as aex-
ible rs q sapling willow, her eyes are
dull, her teeth yellow, her gums pale,
her lips wan and pallid, her flesh placid,
her skin horny and sallow; in fact, oil
the swell and sap Of her womanhood Is
either undeveloped or else quenched, de-
stroyed, dried out. What then2 To re-
pair these unsightly damages she resorts
to padding, whitewaslies, stains and bel
ladonna and kolb for her eyes.
These are CHASTITY substitute for tho
FURNISHED glow Of health. Once TO In
dulgo in artificial cosmetics Is to be their
slave through all eternity.
THREE SIMPLE RULES.
The once famous beauty, Lola Montez,
was heard to say the only real secret of
preserving beauty lay in three simple
things-temperance,e exercise and cleanli-
ness.
Pcppered soups and stews, game pat
tics, ragouts and spices oven moderately
indulged in will exercise doteriorating
effects upon delicate complexion.
Women who do not restrain their gas
tronomic propensities will acquire before
80 the heated, blotched face we are wont
to associate with "high living" while
the firm texture Of the flesh and the
supple shape will soon be replaced by
flabby softness and scraggy leanness. :,
During my few years of rather broad
and variegated experience studying
beauty and tho habits of its fair pos
SCISSORS, have known only one who for
q series Of years accustomed herself 70
late hours, constant excitement, brain
work and censurable feasting without
erasing every trace Of beauty. saw her
looking as dainty as an ivory Isis after
eight years of such perilous self treat
ment as shuddcr to describe. Physi-
clans consider the case unique.
Women Of nervous and sanguinc tenn
perament should restrict themselves to
a diet Of eggs, milk, bread, salads, fruit,
light broths and the crustacea. They
should accustom themselves to drinking
aerated and natural mineral spring wa
ters, avoiding spices and condiments,
delicious and tempting as these fiery de-
lights may be. In the matter OF diet,
the blonde Is, by force Of physiological
tendencies, constrained to stern self de-
nial at table. 1t Is an old saw among
doctors that blue eyes, ilaxen hair and
the pink and white face mean struma.
Struma Is prcttier word than scrofula,
but the condition Is tho same and quite
as troublesome. These in1lammable tenn
pernmcnts ore congestive, catarrhal,
equity, and tea, coffee, underdone beef,
oily food, spices, alcoholic beverages and
opiates concur to produce general un-
healthy action Of the skin in dryness,
pinples, blotches and discoloratioDs..
Condiments, malt and spirituous drinks
and tincture of iron thicken the blood,
giving it color and constituency. The
philosophy contained IN tho advice OF
the expert In skin troubles to o lady who
consulted him In reference to red nose,
upon hearing her habit to be q nightly
tipple OF whisky and water, .leave out
the water and your noso will soon be
purple" is as old Us it is reliable.
EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE.
A case which came under my imme-
diate observation was that Of an ashen
blonde whose skin was as fair and opaque
as white lead, and whose hair was unre-
lieved by one amber CLEAN. After ON
attack Of typhoid fever, which, by the
way, Is an effective purifier Of the sys-
TEN without being more dangerous than
many of the advertised complexion rem
edies, she was restored by iron tonics
and liquor, and the clement these intro
duced into the blood dyed her cheeks
crimson and her now suit Of hair ruddy
gold. There are temperaments which
arc irritated by fish, buckwheat and hot
breads. Hives, sore eyes and annoying
skin disturbances are the outgrowth Of
their use.
For the slender, bilious brunette, whose
blood IL thin and whose temperament Is
watery, free diet Of underdone beef
and port wine should replace the severe
regimen Of the blonde. Tints, rather
than colors, are beautiful, and o blonde
Of the ruddy typo should exercise care In
selecting tonics. Those containing rcd
wine and iron color tho skin to an ugly
brickdust, and can confidently assert O
natural apcrient Is more efficient In cor
recting an disorders Of congestion and
circulation, and the evil consequences Of
indiscretion in dict, than its printed
labels claim. When it Is necessary TO
renew tho vital energies two grain
pellet of Quinine taken every evening for
a month will furnish the blonde with
strength without increase Of pigment.
Not only diet, but climate and temper
ature. exert powerful influence upon
beauty. Tho white skins, unIningled
with Chrome or bronze tints, are iablo
10 disorder from sudden changes Of tenn
perat1re and imperfect ventilation.
strong blazes OF sunlight and rude winds
are 10th damaging 10 this type Of com
plexioa. Winter l. the scason Of discon-
tent for beauties ranging In this schedule;
the first touch q frost stagnates her
already inperfectly circulating blood.
She l. lIappfest during tho days Of pro-
fuse persfiration, which Is the very
or5eer a crr--uetics. Sudden change Of
strsosrlere in a room where the fne-
c1rv Eas faIlan ten degrees over night
ha6 ben kuorrn % produce thick red
- a a S,1iczte face. A mid dict and
mia cliuste arc main factorsof beauty.
-Emly ia Flliisdslphi7 TImes.