The true northerner., 1889-11-06
BEAUTY AND DIET.
LAWS WHICH ALL DAUGHTERS OF
EVE SHOULD ALWAYS OBEY.

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Suggestion ar So.
Flesh texture and tint perform most
important function in female beauty.
To preserve and improve them demands
the strictest observance of sanitary laws.
A bad skin. lacking tint. plumpness
and elasticity. indicates want Of good
ness I'm the vital or nutritive system.
Diet, digestion. temperature, open air
exercise, sleep and tranquility of mind
are absolute necessities To every woman
who wishes to keep her youth.
As to diet. il 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.
Ii she includes beef i'm her menu it is
only after roasting, frying and grilling
has reduced it to state of complete in
digestibility. What is the result of such
a regime: BY the time she Is go, just at
the age nature intended her TO be as tlex-
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, de-
stroyed, dried out What then? To re-
pair these unsightly damages she resorts
to padding. whitewashes. stains and bel
ladonna and kolb for her eyes.
These are ghastly substitute for the
FURNISHED glow of health. Once TO in
dulge in artificial cosmetics is TO be their
slave through all eternity.
THREE SIMPLE RULES.
The once famous beauty, Lola Montez,
was heard to say the only real secret OF
preserving beauty lay in three simple
things-temperance, exercise and cleanli-
ness.
Peppered soups and stews, game pat
ties, ragouts and spices even moderately
INDUCED in will exercise deterlorating
effects upon a delicate complexion.
Women who do not restrain their gas
tronomic propensiries will acquire before
30 the heated, blotched face we are wont
to associate 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 variegated experience studying
beauty and the habits of its fair pos
SCISSORS, have known only one who for
a series of years accustomed herself to
late hours, constant excitement, brain
work and censurable feasting without
erasing every trace of beauty. l saw her
looking as dainty as an ivory Isis after
eight years Of such perilous self treat
ment as | shudder to describe. Physi-
clans consider the case unique.
Women of nervous and sanguine tenn
perament should restrict themselves to
a diet of eggs, milk, bread, salads, fruit,
light broths and the crustacea. They
should accustom themselves to drinking
aerated and natural mineral spring wa
ters, avoiding spices and condiments,
delicious and tempting as these fiery de-
lights may be. In the matter of diet,
the blonde is, by force of physiological
tendencies, constrained TO stern self de-
NAL at table. 1t is an old saw among
doctors that blue eyes, flaxen hair and
the pink and white face mean struma.
Struma is prettier word than scrofula,
but the condition is the same and quite
as troublesome. These inflammable tenn
peraments are congestive, catarrhal,
gouty, and tea, coffee, underdone beef,
oily food, spices. alcoholic beverages and
opiates concur to produce a general un-
healthy action of the skin in dryness,
Condiments, malt and spirituous drinks
and tincture of iron thicken the blood,
giving it color and constituency. The
philosophy contained in the advice of
the expert in skin troubles TO lady who
consulted him i'm reference to a red nose,
upon hearing her habit to be nightly
tipple of whisky and water, leave out
the water and your nose will soon be
purple" is as old as it Is reliable.
EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE.
4 case which came under my imme-
diate observation was that of an ashen
blonde whose skin was as fair and Opaque
as white lead. and whose hair was unre-
lieved by one amber CLEAN. After an
attack of typhoid fever, which. by the
way, is an effective purifier of the sys-
tenn without being more dangerous than
many of the advertised complexion rem
edies, she was restored by iron tonics
and liquor, and the clement these intro
duced into the blood dyed her cheeks
crimson and her new suit of hair ruddy
gold. There are temperaments which
are irritated by fish, buckwheat and hot
breads Hives, sore eyes and annoying
skin disturbances are the outgrowth of
their use.
For the slender, bilious brunette, whose
blood is thin and whose temperament is
watery, a free diet OF underdone beef
and port wine should replace the severe
regimen of the blonde. Tints, rather
than colors, are beautiful, and a blonde
of the ruddy type should exercise care in
selecting tonics Those containing red
wine and iron color the skin to an ugly
brickdust, and can confidently assert a
natural aperient is more efficient in cor
recting all disorders of congestion and
circulation, and the evil consequences of
indiscretion in diet, than It's printed
labels claim. When it is necessary to
renew the vital energies two grain
pellet of quinine taken every evening for
month will furnish the blonde with
strength without increase of pigment.
Not only diet, but climate and temper
ature, exert n powerful influence upon
beauty. The white skins, unnlingled
with chrome or bronze tints, arc liable
to disorder from sudden changes of tenn
perature and imperfect ventilation.
Strong blazes of sunlight and rude winds
are both damaging 10 this type of COM
plexion. Winter is the season of discon-
tent for beauties ranging in this schedule;
: the first touch of frost stagnates her
already imperfectly circulating blood.
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