San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-26

tered by the lady's maId. Inc turkish c.
the Russian bath (the latter is with the use
Of steam is not taken oftener than once a
| week. Often once in two weeks is better,
but very thorough bathing and rubbing
is administered, of course, every day.
Everybody can't have Pompeian bath
room nor an accomplished maid nor per
fumed bag containing tns most exquisite
| preparation of soap to use as a wash rag
| this is the latest fashionable trick-but
| everybody can have Turkish bath brush,
| and that is more important than either.
MASSAGE AS A BEAUTIFIER.
The face itself is generally greatly helped
| by very gentle brushing, using at the
same time some of the French soaps at
| tested to by the Academy of Medicine.
| There are some strong and trying soaps
popular now which it needs the epider-
| mis- of a coal HEAVIER to use with impunity.
1t is marvellous how people believe in ad-
vertisements. Don't trust them when it
| comes to the soap you use on your face
and don't let your face go without soap
either. 1t ought to be washed with it at
least several times week. There are
skins so thin-not necessarily good-that
| they cannot stand brushing but don't pre-
sumo yours is one of that kind till you
know it. The chances are that it will help
| it so per cent. All those ugly roughnesses
| you sometimes see on girls arms and
shoulders, when they are indiscreet enough
| to show them under such circumstances,
will almost invariably disappear by brush
ing. The amount and force of it should be
regulated by each person according to her
own experience.
| The fashionable woman appreciates more
and more the value of massage in renew
ing and resting her youth. A woman in
the full swim taxes herself very severely.
Such women are always massaged after
coming home from any festivity.
One thing in the massaging way you can
| do for yourself, and it is extremely valua-
BILE. You can massage your face. Some
knowledge of the usual massage move
ment is help The point is to very gently
move all the flesh on the bones, and gently
knead every particle of it. When you are
through you feel as If you had new face,
and the effort in keeping the lines and fall
ings in from being settled and fixed is
| great. You should rub your face outward
from the nose and upward from the chin
| in washing, in oiling, in touching it at all,
because the tendency of the flesh is to fall
| in and downward. Two minutes a day
| will suffice Chicago Herald.
| - ....,u noise mace, DOyS," ne salu.
| Folks respect each other in Virginia.
| Well the boys did as he said. They car
| ried away the roof and the old posts, and
the window sashes, and they were lifting
| off the boards when they all stopped.
saw them from my porch. Their master
| saw them; everybody saw them.
| They stopped and stood still. There was
not a sound. And then they turned and
| came marching softly up to their masters
house, hats of.
| We call all black men boys down there
Some of these men had gray heads; not
one of them but could remember ten years
back-the night of the great storm I've
told you of-when the senior disappeared.
One or two of them used to belong tC
Col. Garden in slavery times, and the old
est OF these-it was old Pete-stepped fer
ward with his hat in his hand and sale:
MARS Brown, what we gwine to do!
We've found Miss Abbies husband out
| dar"
| What do you mean, Peter" cries Brown
| turning white.
He's dar, sure huff, lynn dead, and as
nat raj as il he died yesterday" said Pete.
cts dredful strange, Mars Brown, but
dar ne is"
And there he was. Nobody who was in
those parts that day ever forgot it.
| The boards had burned and moldered
away until they had turned to charcoal
and he was packed in it.
| The professors said that was why it was
he had not changed any to speak of.
1t was plain to everybody now that he
had got to the smoke house just as the ra!%
began to pour, and had gone i'll for sheitGC
He was there when the building was
| struck. And about his waist was the belt
with all the money safe in it, and over his
| heart locket with his wife's hair in it.
Ny mother went up to tell her, and what
| she said when she heard it was:
| Thank God! We can lie together now
my true love and !, and thank God, too
that everybody knows, as well as l have
| known all along, that what has been
| thought and said of him-Ch! l have known
1t very well-did him injustice"
| think she was happier after that, ard
| yonder, near the church there, we laid heI
beside him only a year ago.-Mary Kyle
Dallas in Freside Companion.
Plot for "a Novel.
| Novelists are laughed at for imperiling
their heroines through runaway horses,
but fifteen years agothe following incident