The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-07-06
BEAUTY BEWILDERED
In Her Mad Search for Recipes TO Enhance
Personal Charms.

In Her Mad Search for Recipes TO Enhance
Personal Charms.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Not so much what to do to be beautiful as
what to do to look beautiful is the question of
all others that seems to be agitating the mind of
the feminine public at this time, and as many
varied and diverse prescriptions are given as
there are so-called remedies for sea-sickness.
To follow the advice of these would-be physi-
clans to the outer woman would be to rush from
one extreme of folly to the other, and in some
instances one would be doing well to get off
alive.
To make review of the contradictory advice
given for the care of physical charms let US be-
gin with what Solomon in his wisdom denomi-
mated woman's crowning glory, the hair. To
brush or not to brush is the question. First we
read: To insure a luXuriant growth we must be-
stow at least one hundred brushes each night,
and brush vigorously and thoroughly through
the day as often as rearranging and keep 1t up
while time and patience holds out. The patient
must sleep in a cap, too, if she would have the
silzen tresses of our grandmothers; wash fire.
quently if she would promote the growth and
render the hair soft and lustrous.
THEN THE OTHER EXTREME.
OF course she makes up her mind at once to
do this and do it thoroughly, though nothing
else in life be accomplished, when about this
time she reads: "Neyer brush your hair nor
comb with fine comb, but use the very coarsest
comb available and arrange as loosely as posi-
Bile. Never sleep in cap, as that heats the head
and causes the hair to fall out. Too frequent
washing weakens and fades the hair, destroys
lustre and renders it altogether unmanageable
If our foremothers had observed these rules the
present generation would have better hair"
So much for treatment for the hair. For the
complexion, that corner stone OF woman S
beauty, who can remember the diverse and nu-
merous gratis remedies for its imperfections and
the care of its perfectons. To insure the clear
skin Of the Scotch or the near approach to ii one
must make oatmeal the staple article OF diet,
and the nearer she can come TO literally living
upon it the more nearly will she approach the
Scotch perfection Of clearness, etc. Just when
she has decided to live upon oatmeal pOrridge
or starye in the attempt she hears from another
especially authentic source the encouraging re-
mark keep up the porridgc diet If you want
putty-colored, pasty complexion"
If one is thin 10 the verge Of what Bessie
Bramble calls ''scragginess,n how gladly she
reads that cup of warm milk night and morn
ing, taken with regularity, and much as she
can drink in the interim, will certainly produce
the coveted degree of plumpness. That's easy.
Yes, she will take milk, take it often, and take
much internally, and bathe in it, and she leaves
an order for an extra supply of the lacteal fluid
to be left night and morning. and settles dowI
TO the first principle of diet, when 10 her eyi
genius again appears through the columns Of
newspaper, and she reads: "Milk is ruinous Il
the complexion. 1t is conducive TO biliousness
Persist in the use of it and you will grow yellow
as a kite"
The last prop seems knocked from under her
for, of course, she has not only just this mo
ment awakened TO the fact that nature has deal
stingiIy with her; she has been painfully con
scious Of her sallow ill-favOred leanness thes
many years, and has spent both time anC
money trying TO remedy the evil but she haC
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