The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1889-12-05
TOR WOMEN ONLY.
How the Sex Nay Acquire and PsTpstu-
ate Youth and Beauty.
Various Reliable ReeiDes-.-LOtious
That Are Coed and L0tlOns
That Are Injurious.

The following extracts are from ad-
vance sheets Of Drs. Campbell and
Browns book:
Tight lacing Is generally admitted TO
be irightful source Of injury 10 health
and detrimental to the complexion. We
hope that In the not far distant future
ID win be viewed In It's true light as
more barbarous than the custom Of the
Chinese in COMPRISING their children's
feet.
Pure olive or almond oil may be safely
used as q cosmetic. When tine face Is
dry and painful cold cream or other
suitable preparations should be spread
over Il thickly at bedtime and allowed
to remain all night. It dlminishes undue
redness by soothing. and when skillfully
applied In the daytime improves the look
Of dry skin by impartins an appearance
Of brightness.
Preparations sold under the name Of
milk" are usually harmful and should
be avoided. They contain large pro-
portion OF ALCOHOL, rs rule.
In olden times the milk baths were
held in great repute-as q cosmetic.
Asses milk was preferred, and one no
toriOus matron, Poppea, is said to have
kept 500 asses to supply milk for her
toilet. Even In her banishment she was
attended by fifty Of these animals for
this purpose.
She invented q cosmetic called Poppea-
mum which consisted Of wheat -four, honey
and asses milk boiled together.
Buttermilk, applied at bedtime and left
on all night, Is an effective remedy for
sunburn, and persistent use Of buttsrmilk
often removes freckles. Elder flower
water IL also an effective and more ele-'
CANT preparation for the removal Of
freckles.
Powders employed for the face are COM
posed Of either vegetables or mineral sub
stances. Vegetable face powders are usu-
ally composed Of fine wheat starch, with
or without oris root, variousIy scented and
sometimes tinted. Wheat starch alone is
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O.'en ., useu, VINE OA'neAl' DIAn ana O'ner
employed. OF mineral substances, chalk,
bismuth, oxide Of zinc and magnesia are
the ones most commonly used. Of these,
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Persistent and careless powdering per-
manently destroys possibility Of natural
beauty Of complexion by injury Of the skin
mainly through drying up It's sources Of
oil.
As scarcely any lady who has reached
the age Of twenty-five is unacquainted
With the powder puff, and hundreds Of
young girls upon the stage are Obliged to
use it nightly, I purpose in next weeks
beauty column 10 give the experiences Of
sevaral woman vho have retained haauti.
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powder, Dfs. Campbell and Brown 70 the
contrary notwithstanding.
While they are excellent authorities,
they are men, and therefore cannot know
from actual exparienee ouksideof hyoiene.
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