Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-01-19
BEAUTY d AND DIET.
LAWS WHICH ALL DAUGHTERS
OF EVE SHOULD OBEY.
Pickles, Strong Tea and Overdone
Beef the American Girls Diet
Padding and Cosmetics.

preserve and improve them demands the
strictest observance of sanitary laws.
A bad skin, lacking tint, plumpness and
elasticity, indicates want of goodness in
the vital or nutritive system. Diet, d.
gestion, temperature, open-air exercise,
sleep and tranquility of mind are abso-
lutte 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 potato and a
pickle, three or four cups of strong tea,
pies, cakes, sweets and fiery condiments.
If she includes beef in her menu, it is
only after roasting, frying and grilling
has reduced it to a state of complete in
digestibility. What is the result of such
a regime? By the time she is 90 Just at
the age nature intended her to be as fex-
ible as 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, destroyed,
dried out. What then? To repair these
unsightly damages she resorts to padding,
whitewashes, stains and belladonna and
kolb for her eyes.
These are CHASTITY substitute for the
FURNISHED glow Of health. Once to indulge
in artificial cosmetics is to be their slave
through all eternity.
The once famous beauty, Lola Montez,
was heard to say that the only real secret
of preserving beauty lay in three simple
things-temperance, exercise and cleanli-
ness.
Peppered soups and stews, game patties,
ragouts and spices, even moderately in
dulged in, will exercise deteriorating eff
fects upon delicate complexion. Women
who do not restrain their gastronomic pro-
pensities will acquire before 80 years the
heated, blotched face We are wont to asso-
ciate 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
yariegated experience, studying beauty and
the habits of its fair possessors, l have
known only one who for 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-treatment as l shudder to describe.
Physicians consider the case unique
Women of nervous and sanguine temper
ament should restrict themselves to diet
of eggs, milk, bread, salads, fruit, light
broths and the crustacea. They should
accustom themselves to drinking aerated
and natural mineral spring waters, avoid
ing spices and condiments, delicious and
tempting as these fiery delights may be.
In the matter of diet the blonde is, by force
of physiological tendencies, constrained to
stern self-denial at table. 1t is an old saw
among doctors that blue eyes, haxen hair
and the pink-and-white face mean struma.
Struma is a prettier word than scrofula,
but the condition is the same, and quite
as troublesome. These inhammable tenn
peraments are congestive, catarrhal, equity,
and tea, coffee, underdone beet, oily food,
spices, alcoholic beverages and opiates
concur to produce general unhealthy ac-
ton of the skin in dryness, pimples,
blotches and discoloratious.
Condiments, malt and spirituous drinks
and tincture of iron thicken the blood,
giving it color and constituency. The phi
losophy contained in the advice of the ex-
pert in skin-troubles to lady who con-
suited him in reference to red nose, upon
hearing her habit to be nightly tippler
of whisky and water, leave out the water
and your nose will soon be purple" is as
old as it is reliable.
A case which came under my immediate
observation was that of an ashen blonde
whose skin was as fair and opaque as
white lead, and whose hair was unrelieved
by one amber CLEAN. After an attack of
typhoid fever, which, by the way, is an
effective purifier of the system without
being more dangerous than many of the
complexion remedies, she was restored by
iron tonics and liquor, and the element
these introduced into the blood dyed her
cheeks crimson and her new suit of hair a
ruddy gold. There are temperaments
which are irritated by fish, buckwheat
and hot breads. Hives, sore eyes and an
moving skin disturbances are the outgrowth
of their use.
For the slender, bilious brunette, whose
| blood is thin and whose temperament is
watery, free diet of UNDERGONE beef and
port wine should replace the severe regi-
men of the blonde. Tints, rather than
colors, are beautiful, and blonde of the
ruddy type should exercise care in select
ing tonics. Those containing red wine
and iron color the skin to an ugly brick
dust, and can confidently assert natural
| aperient is more efficient in correcting all
disorders of congestion and circulation,
and the evil consequences of indiscretion
in diet, than its printed labels claim.
When it is necessary to renew the vital
energies two-grain pellet of quinine
taken every evening for month will fur.
| nish the blonde with strength without in
crease of pigment.
Not only diet, but climate and tempera-
| ture, exert powerful influence upon
| beauty. The white skins, unmingled with
chrome or bronze tints, are liable to disor-
| der from sudden changes of temperature
| and imperfect ventilation. Strong blazes
Of sunlight and rude winds are both dam
aging to this type of complexion. Winter
| is the season of discomfort for beauties
ranging in this schedule; the first touch OF
frost stagnates her already imperfectly cir.
culating blood. She is happiest during the
days of profuse perspiration, which is the
very queen of cosmetics. Sudden change
of atmosphere in room where the mer.
! curry has fallen ten degrees over night has
| been known to produce thick red rash on
delicate face A mild diet and a mild
climate are mrin factors of beauty.-Em'i L
in Philadelphia Times.
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