Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29
SECRETS OF THE SKIN.
HOW A YOUNG LADY MAY KEEP
A FINE COMPLEXION.
Exercise Freely, Eat Properly, Keep
Clean, and Don't Kalsomine Dis
ease Over.

i1Nciti'o "bNa hSulil oACloioO'
Alpha aud Omega, the beginning and
end of exhortation.
EXerc Sc SO shall your eyes be
bright and your skin clear, soft, satin
smooth and healthy.
1t is as easy to have fine complexion
as q good education, and the means are
lust as certain, if you will but discipline
the body with half the care bestowed
on the mind. What does the average
girl of your acquaintance do if she finds
pimply b!otch on her forehead? ? She
smears her face with chalk and carmine,
covers the dirty paste with dotted veil
and saunters toward the confectioner's
to buy bon bons to secure II new growth
of black heads i'll full bloom to morrow
morning What is the line of action of
the girl who freckles She lies on sofa
in dark rarlor and ne cer ventures out
OF doors before sunset without powder
ing he, self quarter of an inch thick
and voting the summer months one long
speckled horror.
If your skin is faded in color, sallow,
and Will not catch the delicious pink
glow of the last novel you read, exercise.
II it is losing the eacticity it had when
you were younger, if it looks tlabby and
pallid and old exercise. If it has be-
come coarse in texture and full of min
ute holes, if it is sickly, blotchy and ir
ritable, exercise till it smiles and era @,
freshness and fairness make it dimple
and beam once more.
Wash it first. 1t is shocking to think
how many an exquisite skin is ruined
for the lack of frequent and thorough
bathing The damage done by such
neglect can never be remedied by all
the uneuents, lotions and cosmetics ever
invented. The hue and cry raised
against the use of soap and water on the
face is the veriest stuff and nonsense.
Nothing is better for the skin OF any
part of the body than warm water and
imported CASTLE soap, unperfumed,
made of clear olive o and acknowledged
by chemists to be absolutely pure. Let
Patti wash her face with cold cream and
actresses innumerab'e wipe away dust
and stage make up and rerspiration with
vaseline only between you and me, to
clog the skin indefinitely with sour milk
or grease is Il filthy trick unworthy of
common intelligence.
Did it ever occur to you that the skin
wants exercise and gets very little
Nothing is q better tonic for the COM
plexion than brisk cold sponge bath
ON ris .ng, followed by vigorous rubbing
with n dry towel not too coarse, the
face and neck receiving their full share
of the friction unless the skin be very
sensitive. in which case the bare hands
may be the instrument instead of linen.
This sets the blood to moving briskly
and e.e tlifies the system. AT beltime
II warm bath may be taken and the face
should be washed slowly, carefully and
thoroughly with warm water and CASTLE
soap. The oily matter eXuding from
the skin catches minute particles of dust
which cannot be removed i'll any other
way, and many eruptions on the face
are caused by nothing else than neglect
of this simple precaution. After this
wholesome cleansing dip the face into n
basin of clear, cold water, orening and
shutting the eyes under the surface, and
the flesh will be left finn and healthy.
This entire process will take barely ten
minutes in the morning and twenty at
night, and can if needful be taken from
the regular sleep, the bath being quite
as restful and refreshing.
After such cleaning the skin is
ready to be taken out of doors, but it
must be fed before going. A simple
nutritious diet is just MS necessary to n
line complexion rs rain and sunshine
are to flowers. A taste for wholesome
food often seems to need rs much care
full Gu tivation rs taste for good read
ing instead of trashy novels. Will the
woman who makes herself bilious with
strong coffee be sallow! She will. Will
the gill who prefers pickles and pink
ice cream to roast beefo or juicy beefsteak
have blackheads. Most assuredly she
will. Let the woman whose skin is
dull, thick, yellowe with moth patches
and sluggish, eschew chocolate, gravy
and grease, salads end sweetmeats, or
eat them in small quantities and under
tho most favorable conditions. Let her
eat good beefsteak, the soft part of fresh
clans scalded in their Juice broiled
fresh fish, fresh apples or peaches with
cream, and to give the face n color un-
anl brown bread. If the digestion is
bad, and poor skin is traceable to this
cause, let her eat toasted crackers with
fruit juice, becfsteali chopped raw and
Drowned, clam broth, grape juice, soft
boiled eggs and whole wheat bread. Ii
she is thin and wishes to gain Mt once
flesh and color let her eat only what
satisfies hunger and eat very slowly, but
eat vegetables and fruits of all kinds,
coarse bread and simply cooked meats
five or six times day if she Graves
them, and drink n pint of milk just be-
fore going to sleep. If she is heshy and
yet anaemic let her reduce her weight
and make blood by eating good beef
steak, lettuce, tomatoes, string beans,
cabbage and caulifiower. Let her eat
whole wheat bread and abjure cake and
pastry.
And what to do with n skin which
after bathing and after dieting still
looks languid and unhealthy like n
plant grown in n cellar2 Why, excr-
else. We women stitch our trials and
our losses and crosses into scarfs, cur
tr;ns aud doyleys when we should take
our woes out into sunshine; they need
mir and light. We should found down
our pains, walk our quick. firm foot
steps, and rs the tired heart all uncon-
scious beats an accompaniment to the
flying feet, and tho soft air gently
touches the flushed check in sympathy
and the ad warm sunshine rests on
the face in loving benedction, the pain
will be hushed and the new strength
and the new vigor will add new graces.
There is one glory of the sun and an
other of the moon, and one star differs
from another star in beauty. Women
are not born elual in personal attrac
tiveness, but any girl, not positively de-
formed, can be bred to be lovely as our