San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-26
FOR BEAUTY'S SAKE.
HOW WOMAN SHOULD PRACTICE
THE ART OF PRESERVATION.

Cosmetics Not Nearly as Beneficial for
the Complexion as Hot Baths-Valuable
Suggestions About Water and Its Use
in Bathing-Use of Powder.
The subject of compilations is of peren-
liCl interest to the feminine heat, though
most advice about compilations is very
theoretical and seems chiefly based on the
notion that the more disagreeable thing
is the better it is. A well known society
girl once lived year on graham mush, and
practically nothing else, except when she
went to dinner parties. She had poor
complexion when she began, and she had a
poor one when she quit. OF course, how
ever, that did not break her faith in mush,
anG because she was so careful of her skin
nc still went on refusing to dust her face
With the little touch of powder that would
l;,ye relieved its greasiness. It is always
,;Omcn with skins like sacking that are the
most particular about preserving them
from powder. Makeup is much worse
than iujurious-it is vulgar; it is low form.
But here, as in good many cases, the sin
is in being found out If woman can
help herself artificially so that you can't
see that she is made up, why you should
be grateful for her good looks, that is all.
HOW TO USE POWDER.
There is only one way to put on powder
and that is to put on cold cream first, wipe
that off with a dry cloth and then put on
the powder. it will do all powder can
safely be expected to dot will give a
soft, youthful bloom to the skin and shade
defects. The most touchingly naive thing
in the world is the way numbers of women
paint themselves with liquids that turn a
delicate violet tint and then come forth
into the light of day with full confidence
that people will believe that God made
them that color. Violet is fashionable, but
not on the nose. Two sovereign laws can
be laid down about make up; it should be
deceptive land that means that there must
be but little of it) and it must all be washed
off at night. Theoretically, of course, it
is very bad to clog up the pores of the skin
with anything, but, as a matter of fact,
scores of women who make up keep their
nice skins much longer than farmers wives.
Look at actresses! There is not another
class in the world that can furnish such
number of such young looking women be-
tween 40 and so as Patti, Bernhardt, Lolita,
Kate Claxton, Ellen Terry and Sara
Jewett.
How do they do it? 1t is not stage make
up that has kept all these women good
looking No, indeed. They neutralize
the makeup and the late hours and the
bad air of lhe stage chiefly by one thing
that is keeping clean. Undoubtedly they
owe great deal, too, to the introduction
of French cosmetics as well as to Turkish
baths. If YOU want to be safe on cosmetics
either get things from somebody who
makes them or one whom you can per-
sonally trust. There may be some trick
ing and wirepulling about them some
times, but they still offer thousand
times better chancs Of purity and whole
someness than things made in this too, too
utterly free country.
THE TURKISH BATH RECOMMENDED.
But the great source of good compilations
is the Turkish bath. Look at the class of
club men who indulge in such Injuries.
You can pick them out anywhere in
crowd by the freshness of their skins.
After the club men come the actresses and
then the society women. Within the last
half dozen years there has been a change
again and a marked falling off in the at
tendance of fashionable women at the well
known bathing establishments. What does
IudG mean! EAdCIly JsllS, JlSJ luAuIlOuS
establishments are now so luxurious no
where as in their bathing arrangements,
and the fashionable woman takes her Turk
ish-or more frequently her Russian-bath
at home. There has been great awaken
ing on the whole subject of physical cul-
ture, and the effect is apparent. Girls no
longer lose their compilations before they
pass out of their teens. Despite the disad.
vantageS Of Our climate there are a number
of women in Chicago of mature years who
would compare well in point of freshness
with English women of the same age.
The things necessary to cleanliness are,
first, heat sufficient to induce perspiration,
hot water, soap and plenty of rubbing
with brush. All properly fitted up mod
ern lighthouses have steam attachment.
In the finer houses they have hot room
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