Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-09-05
The Preservatien Of Beauty.

The preservation of beauty and ap
parent youth, says the New York Led
qer. is q subject that interests every
body, and I cannot deny that when
saw in certain journal that Patti, the
prima donna, had told q reporter hel
way of doing it, was eager 20 read
what she had said.
Though the beautiful singer is still
in the prime of her life, she has passed
those years which generally spoil q
voice and complexion without losing
hers; and, really" I thought. @she
must speak as an expert"
So looked up her prescription. II
was this: "Ten hours sleep every night,
unlimited lemons, and no emotions"
It sounded very simple at first, but
when I considered it carefully it oc-
CURED to me that one must use any
prescription with caution. In almost
any locality lemons may be procured
and eaten, or converted into lemonade;
but recall conversation / once heard
on the porch of country hotel, which
suggested that something more simple
even than lemons may be used too
freely.
"How is your husband?' asked the
wife of one local magnate of another
How is your husband, Mrs. Brown"
well, Mrs. Smith, he don't seem ia
feel real good"
why, do tell! What seems to be
the matter with him?"
Il think, Mrs. Smith, he's been
drinking too much milk"
You don't say! Well, I suppose a
body may drink too much of anything,
Mrs. Brown"
This remark applies to lemons no less
than to milk.
Unlimited lemons may preserve
PATHS beauty, but, usually. most of the
benefits would accrue to the nearest
druggist in his profits on cholera drops.
Then, ten hours sleep! I really be-
ieve that ten hours repose now and
then would be good for any one, though
eight is liberal allowance for ordinary
people; but it would take a good deal
Of leisure and peculiar location to get
ten hours of sleep out of an ordinary
twenty-four.
NY conscience is Is good as that OF
most people, but am sure it would not
last me out for ten hours of untroubled
slumber. should consider it presump
ton to expect more than seven.
am afraid we cannot all of us adopt
that portion of the recipe; but when it
comes to no emotions-ah, l doubt il
Patti has given her wonderful secret to
the world, after all.
Fancy a woman with no emotions.
She would not be a woman at all; her
life would not be worth living. Adelina
Patti could not make me believe that she
has feasted on fattered vanity. been
loved by men, envied by women,
reigned queen of song for so many
years, had all that the world offers to
success and beauty, without feeling a
multitude of delightful emotions.
Has God so blessed her that she has
had no sorrows in all her forty years:
Has she not loved or been moved by
friendship, or felt pity for the woes OF
others, or contemplated lies great and
thrilling mysteries? Have none of the
thousand things that awaken women's
emotions befallen her?
doubt if cold heart. loveless one,
blank life not worth living, would
preserve beauty. These are what
would come of no emotions. For my
part, 1 prefer the ordinary crows feet
and spider tracks written on the face OF
middle-aged women of feeling. Adelina
Patti, you evidently kept. your secret
and humbugged that reporter beauti.
fully.