The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-03-23
FACTS ABOUT WRINKLES.
How to Remove or Prevent These On
welcome Indicators of Age.

welcome Indicators of Age.
There is nothing SO destroying to the
peace of a pretty woman's soul as the
discovery of the first wrinkle in her
fair face. Gray hairs may be tolerated,
for often their framing softens the tints
of the complexion and adds new depth
and brightness to the eyes that flash
beneath them. and many pretty women
are Lever really beautiful until they
are crowned with the sheen of silver
tresses. The fading tints OF a we'll
kept and smooth skin may be concealed
by articles that every wise woman
knows, but wrinkle is an obstinate,
disagreeable, aggressive witness that
leaves evidence of age in most ua-
picturesque language as convincing as
the records of the family Bible or the
testimony of some old friend of your
mothers who is always telling every
one that you are Just two years older
than her Johnny" when. perhaps, you
look ten years younger. There is no
such thing as conciliating a wrinkle or
SOohidS IL OuO VI olS H1 vi OCSdolOuo, HO
dressing it up in pretty DISCUSSES of
gauze and frills; no one ever really ad-
mired it's curves or wrote sonnets to its
beauty; no one ever really longed for
its coming or succeeded in banishing it
by cool reception; it comes unlimited
and tarries unbidden, and settles more
contentedly into it's place as you fume
and fret over it.
Many remedies for the eradication
of wrinkles have been suggested by We
rious writer's on the subject of per-
sonal beauty, but the best and surest
cure for wrinkles is not to get them,
FOR they may be avoided more easily
than removed. Wrinkles are not always
the signs OF age, but often the induces
of poorly caredAfor skin, the nerv-
Gus temperament of their possessor,
the habit of excessive worrying or con-
tinuous study, and sometimes of the
degeneracy of the race. Italian chill
dren of five and six years often have
more wrinkles in their little faces than
q woman of thirty-five ought to possess.
A skin that is carefully and frequently
bathed in warm water and pure soap,
and rubbed toa glow all over once each
day with soft flannel, or the hands,
preserves its elasticity and is less sus-
cGptible to wrinkle. The modern Amer
lean woman has more cares and per-
plexities and worries than Caesar ever
dreamed of. If Alexander had had one
of the average nineteenth century serv-
ants to manage he would never have
sighed for new worlds to cong uer, since
fresh developments would have awaited
him every morning, but these cares
and worries are in no way ameliorated
by expressing them in the face with
countless grimaces and contortions OF
features that invariably produce lines.
The vivacity and swift changing play
of feature in bright, sparkling Ameri-
can girls makes prematurely wrinkled
and misunderstanding women. Much
of this vivacity and pretty by-play of
elevated brows is forced and unnatural,
and all the more conducive to wrinkles.
Another habit women have is of con-
torting their faces into most ludicrous
and ugly positions when exposed to
the strong sunlight, all of which can
be by a little thought and effort con-
trolled to a degree.
A very beautiful and youthful
appearing society woman of New York,
the preservation of whose skin is
remarked upon by her acquaintance,
says that whenever she is going out in
the evening she prepares her toilet
with the exception of her dress, wrings
q wash cloth out of rs hot water as she
can bear, smooths it out over her face
so it will touch every part of it. and
lies with it on her face for half an
hour. When she removes it every
wrinkle and line has disappeared.
An English lady over fifty asserts
that her lack of wrinkles is due to the
fact of her having used very hot water
all her life, which tightens the skin
and smooths out the lines.
Another celebrated beauty attributes
her preservation to having never used
a wash cloth or towel on her face, but
having always washed it gently with
her hand, rinsing it off with soft
sponge, drying it with soft cloth, and
then rubbing it briskly with flesh
brush. She used CASTLE soap and very
warm water every night with cold
water in the morning, and if she were
awake late at night she always slept as
many hours in the day as she expected
to be awake at night.
Another student Of the toilet asserts
that she prevents and obliterates
wrinkles by rubbing the face toward
the nose when bathing it, and Ella
Wheeler Wilcox asserts that she can
eradicate permanent wrinkle by the
use of almond paste and friction.-N.
Y. Sun.
A Reporters Estimate.