Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-01-05


women, who come here, are frequently more
wrinkled than women of 70 ought to be.
The human face is intended to be, indeed, the
mirror of the mind, the canvas wherein is painted
every passion and emotion. 1t has muscles and
nerves for this end But muscles in constant and
frequent exercise increase in volume; strength and
readiness of action. Hence habits of thought
mark the face for all to read
Worry burrows more faces than age. Americans
are nervous race and the climate is productive
of nervousness Every year the pressure of life
becomes greater on them the demands of living
more and the difficulties and burdens multiplied.
1t is not surprising that we see women every day
more wrinkled and wthered at 80 than they ought
to be at the end of their lives They all have cares
enough to sink the British navy, doubtless; but
they needessly yield to the tendency to express
them in their faces. One of the first things neces-
sary to learn in the code of good manners is the
habit of facial control. Nobodys cares grow any
lighter from wrinklng the face. The habit is
ridiculous, vulgar, and entirely inexcusable
Another clownish habit is that of twisting the
face out of shape when in the sunshine Many
well-dressed woman makes herself appear like a
vulgarian by distorting her face hideousy in vain
and ugly effort to keep the sun out of her eyes.
This does no good whatever in the way of protec-
ton; and has the effect of making her appear
ridiculous and prematurely aging her. Doubtless
she is unconscious of the habit having acquired it
when a child
One of the best ways of preventing wrinkles is
not to make them. Most of them are made I'M
necessarily. Even after they come, if they have
not been cut too deep, they can be eradicated.
How? Well, there are various methods. An En-
gsh lady, over fifty, asserts that she has not
wrinkle, and the fact owing to having washed her
face all her life in hot very hot water. The water
shrinks and tghtens the skin, thus preventing it
from wrinking.
And here is the opinion of an American woman
who has studied the subject. She says that FORE
heads are sometimes prematurely wrinkled from
nervous habit of raising the eyebrows and from
too great and too constant pressure of the pillow
on one or both sides of the head while sleeping.
Crows feet are the certain results of sleeping on
the right and left sides. The pressure upon the
temple and cheeks leaves wrinkles at the corners
and underneath the eyes which disappear in few
hours, but finally become so fixed that neither
hours nor additions will abate them. If grl-chil-
dren were compelled to sleep on their backs and
continued the habit when they reached womanhood
and afterward, they would arrive at middle life
without crows feet gathering in the neghborhood
of the eyes, and in most cases their foreheads
would be free from even shallow burrows.
celebrated old beauty on whom the years have
scarcely left trace says she never used wash
cloth or towel on her face, but washed it with her
hands, rinsng ii off with a soft sponge. She used
clear water in the morning, and white CASTLE soap
and very warm water at night, and after drying it
on a soft towel, she would take a flesh brush and
rub her cheeks, chin and forehead. Second, if she
was going to be up late at night she always slept
as many hours in the day as she expected to be
awake beyond her usual time. She finished her
little sermon on beauty preservation by saying,
'Soft water aud sound sleep keep off wrinkles and
spots and girls should give more attention to this