, 1889-01-04
BEAUTY AND DIET.
Avs WHICH ALL DAUGHTERS OF
EVE SHOULD ALWAYS OBEY.


meties Used to Patch Up Mrarred Beauty.
A Suggestion or So.
Flesh texture and tint perform a most
important function in female beauty.
To preserve and improve them demands
the strictest observance of sanitary laws.
A bad skin, lacking tint, plumpness
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, it is only necessary to ask
what does the average American girl
eat? She sits down to a potato and q
pickle, three or fou cups of strong tea,
pies, cakes, sweets and fiery condiments.
If she includes beef in her menu 1t Is
only after roasting, frying and grilling
has reduced it to a state of complete in
digestibility. What is tho result of such
a regime? By the time she is 20, Just at
the age nature intended her to beas hex-
ible as a 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, all
the swell and sap of her womanhood Is
either undeveloped or else quenched, de-
stroyed, dried out. What then? To re-
pair these unsightly damagesshe resorts
TO padding, whitewashes, stains and bel
ladonna and kolb for her eyes.
These are q CHASTITY substitute for the
FURNISHED glow of health. Once to IN
dulge 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, exercise and cleanli-
ness.
Peppered soups and slows, game pat
ties, ragouts and spices oven moderately
INDUCED in will exercise d~eteriorating
effects upon a delicate complexion.
Women who do not restrain til gas
tronomic propensities will acquire before
30 b 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
fabby softness and scraggy leanness.
During my few years of rather broad
and variegated experience studying
beauty and the habits of its fair pos
SCISSORS, / have known only one who for
a series of years accustomed herself to
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 l shudder to describe. Physi-
clans consider the case unique.
Women of nervous and sanguine tenn
permanent should restrict themselves to
o 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-
NAL at table. 1t Is an old saw among
doctors that blue oyes, flaxen hair and
tho pink and white face mean struma.
Struma Is a prettier word than scrofula,
but h condition Is the same and quite
as troublesome These inflammable tenn
peraments are congestive, catarrhal,
equity, and tea, coffee, underdone beef,
oily food, spices, alcoholic beverages and
opiates concur to produce a general un-
healthy action of the skin In dryness,
pimples, blotches and discolorations.
Condiments, malt and spirituous drinks
and tinoture of iron thicken the blood,
giving 1t color and constituency. The
philosophy contained in the advice of
the expert In skin troubles to a lady who
consulted him in reference to a red nose,
upon hearing her habit to be n nightly
tfpple Of whisky and water, ''leave ont
the water and your nose will soon be
purple" is as old as 1t is reliable.
Fleet OF TEMPERATURE.
A case which came under my imme-
dtate observation was that of an ashen
blonde whose skin was as fair and opaque
rs white lead, and whose hair was unre-
v by one amber CLEAN. After an
attack of typhoid fever, which, by the
way, is an effective purifier of the sys-
tenn without being more dangerous than
many of the advertised complexion rem
edies, she was restored by iron tonics
and liquor, and the element these intro
duced into the blood dyed her checks
crimson n her new suit of hair q ruddy
gold. There are temperaments which
are irritated by fish, buckwheat and hot
breads. Hives, sore eye n annoying
skin disturbances are the outgrowth Of
their use.
For the slender, bilious brunette, whose
blood is thin and whose temperament Is
watery, a free diet of underdone beef
and port wine should replace the severe
regimen of the blonde. Tints, rather
than colors, are beautiful, and q blonde
of the ruddy type should exercise care in
selecting tonics. Those containing red
wine and iron color the skin to an ugly
NNo S1h SoLAAS~LNAJ hScNAb a
natural aperient Is more efficient In cor
roofing all disorders Of congestion and
circulation, and the evil consequences of
tndiscretion in diet, than It's printed
labels claim. When it is necessary 10
renew the vital energies q two grain
pellet of q~uinine taken every evening for
O month will furnish the blonde with
strength without increase of pigment.
Not only diet, but climate and temper
allure, exert q powerful influence upon
beauty. The white skins, unminGled
with chrome or bronze tints, are liable
to disorder from sudden changes of tenn
p%erature and imperfect ventilation.
Strong blazes of sunlight and rude winds
are both damaging to this type of COM
plexion. Winter is the season of discon-
tent for beauties ranging In this schedule;
the first touch Of frost stagnates her
already imperfectly circulating blood.
She is happiest during the days of pro-
fuse perspiration, which is the very
queen of cosmetics. Sudden change of
atmosphere in a room where the mer-
curry has fallen ten degrees over night
has been know to produce a thick red