The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-16
A DAZZLING COMPLEXION.
Like Unto the Exquisite SOftness and
YelYety Bloom of Fruit.
The 0dorous 0intments of Aeschines, Am
brosia and Sacred Oils.

What complexion is she ofg'-Comedy Of Errors
Dsraeli telling the story of Ixion In
heaven. pictures the god of love in his en-
! counter with the King of Thessaly, as very
| fair. with cheeks tinged with rich but
delicate glow like the rose of twilight, and
| lighted by dimples that twinkled like
stars. What better description of the skin
of a beautiful woman, and ''the purple
pride which on her soft cheek for complex
ion dwellsg"
How to maintain this roseate blush of
the cheek, this spotless ivory of the brow,
should be the study OF every woman. For
it is not only TO be maintained, it may
positively be created by proper treatment
Of the skin-treatment worthy of the finest
most subtle and elastic organ of the sys-
tenn, an organ which reSents artificial ap-
plications, but yields all its charm TO the
clarifying power of water and choice soap.
No strict perfection of classic feature
compensates for the want of brilliant color
in the face, and the noblest statue of an
tiquity would not long attract the gaze
from the pearly glow of a Madame Re
camier's skin, or from the clear red and
white of that of the Empress of France,
the creole JOsephine's, the Scotch and
Spanish blending of Eugenie's. Long ago,
aware of this the Athenians colored their
statues; for the Greek, fhe. pure lover OF
beauty, everywhere valued color, and the
Greek woman, that type of beauty in all
art, resorted TO every secret OF the
bath to enrich the color of
her skin. and employed immense quanti-
ties of those odOrous ointments of which
Kschines, the great orator and statesman,
was a manufacturer, ard which in her use
took the place of our Cuticura Medicated
Toilet Soap, soap where the fine forces of
the old unguents are mingled with odors
drawn from the inmost hectares of
flowers. Venus, rising from the foam of
the sea, was once all that the highest ideal
of the painter could reach: but il is boubt
full if the sea-foam Were more than
fgurative of the beautifying effect of the
bath, where the creamy lather of the soap,
cleaving to the oily impurities ready TO be
cast OFF. leaves the body fair and smooth
as a healthy child's.
1t becomes, then, of the first importance.
in view Of the power of so simple and easy
an appliance as soap and water, to make
sure that the soap used is the best for Its
purpose that science has been able 10 pro-
cure, and one that will even lend its aid
towards softening the water, if tnat be not
all that is desired, a properly medicated
soap, not only agreeable to the senses of
touch and smell, but having also the de-
tergent quality which invigorates the skin,
urging the outlet of every gland 10 activ-
ity, and calling upon each vessel TO bring
its best and freshest blood TO the surface.
From the use of such a soap moth
ing can result but that swift circula-
tion of pure blood which makes rich
stain of color upon check and chin, and
leaves and leaves everybody else milky
purity. This peerless complexion is to be
secured in no other way; and a medicated
soap, intoswhich no unwholesome iqgredi-
ends enters, is nowhere TO be had in such
perfection as that offered by the CuUicura
Medicated Toilet soap, in which the heal
ing power of Cuticura itself combines with
the emolient and lubricating action of "A
perfect soap. so invigoratIng the glands of
the skin that they cast out through the
pores and ducts all the refuse which
il retained produces disease, and which if
assures the beauty of health and
purity. No corrosive or caustic substance,
no metallic, mineral or vegetable poison
is contained in the Cuticura Soap; but
science has wrought its wondre
here by thoroughly innocent methods.
Blotches or pimples, eruptions, scurf, or
rashes are hardly possible where the Cuti-
cura Soap is in daily use; no tan. sUnburn
or discolOration can long withstand it; il
eradicates gently and permanently nearly
every complexional defect, removes
the source of many disfiguring
humors, leaves the skin without
and purifies and beauties the
whole exterior. Every woman who en-
ploys it may do so with advantage, find
ing it's Use a worthy rival of that bloom of
youth which, in the old myth, Medea gave
her patients by plunging them in her
boiling caldron with strange herbs and in
a myth doubtless TO be inter
preted as a series of baths where the witch
used the best cleansing and purifying
agents of her time.