Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-23
HEALTHY COSMETICS.
A Revival Based on the Fact That
Good Blood Means Beauty.
MODERN COMMON SENSE METHODS.
Curing an Oily Face and Making the
Shoulders Like Marble.
KEEPING HAIR FROM FALLING OUT
WRITTEN FOR TIE p1sPArcH.l

WRITTEN FOR THE pIsPArcHI
"WiH benzoin at once remove the oily
look from the skin7" asks Kentucky cor
respondent.
1t is so nice to be asked something new in
the way ofquestions that this takes the place
of a text for this week.
You shall have liberal advice from one Of
the cleverest of French artists versed in the
science of naaquilldge-that is, making up
the face and complexion. Imagine your
self in the cabinet of an excellent establish
ment which carries only modest sign OF
hairdressing at the street level, but where
all the arts that pertain to the bienctre OF
women are carried out in a finished manner,
as its habitues know.
To settle ones self in the clean, little
bright room, we'll aired and scrupulously
kept, with ruffied linen of immaculate
freshness thrown about ones shoulders,
ones own brush and comb, sponge, etc.,
taken from their box, with deft Fl ngers hov-
ering skillfully about ones locks, while a
trained voice discourses knowingly concern
| ing details of the toilet, is a holiday In an
| hour. 1t rests one more than some holi-
days.
ONLY vARNISHEs THE FACE.
The question of the benzoin is put to NJ.
Felix, who says no." with fine scorn.
What do women with oily skins want
benzoin for? Benzoin only makes a varnish
on the face, being itself neither more nor
less than a resin dissolved in alcohol, very
suitable to the fine, dull cheek of Pro-
veDcal or a Circsssian, when she wants
something to contract the relaxed tissue.
| Women need to study the nature OF their
compilations before they try to improve
them. Such and such a thing is said to be
| good for the complexion, and all the women
rush to its use, pale skins and rosy ones,
brunette, dry withered iaces and coarse ones,
| perspiring oil at every pore, and then they
say to me, oh, such a thing is no good, L
tried it and it wasn't the least particle of
good"
NJ. Felix is bit of mimic, and he is
| funny with his English at times. "Cos-
| metics are as various as medicines, and one
should know how to use them with precis-
ion. There are the cold creams, the po-
| mades, the pastes, the cremes, the astrin-
gents, the alcoolats and the powders-all
good IN their places but one wants to know
what the place is. Oily, lat skins must
have the astringents, the acids, the spiritu-
matters like lanoline or wool lat, or the po-
mades and oily pastes.
THE TREATMENT FOR DRY SKINS.
''Dry skins, on the contrary, find the po-
mades, the oils and creams essential, and
the same preparation will never answer for
both. If the lady wishes to take off the oily
look she should wash her face with eau de
cologne, sponging with teaspoonful five or
six times DAY, brushing nose, brow and
chin especially, where the oil glands are the
largest. Very likely it will after time
| bring on une peau farineuse-what do you
call it?-a mealy skin. Then she wants to
wash it with benzoin water a few times to
bind the surface, and only apply cologne
! when it is necessary. Always madam,
| wash the face with sponge" saws NJ.
Felix, mpressivelv. at stretches and pulls
the skin less than cloth, and it wrinkles
less. Ali these little things count in the
suit against time
To obtain the luster of polished marble
which one admires on the shoulders of GER
tain women at balls, our adviser tells us not
to use powder, as that is sure to show on the
black of dress coats, but to rub the skin
with clear cologne water just before going
out. The cologne must be of first quality,
however, be it said; not necessarily true
Jean Maria Farina, but made with cologne
spirit, and the essences well blended by
months Of age. This spirit contracts the
pores of the skin. With the skin freshened,
moist and perspiring by the bath, the
cologne enters the pores, blends with the oil
and waxv imperceptible moisture, and
makes a fine polish, on the principle of the
wax and turpentine mixture applied to
furniture.
ONLY FOR THE PLUMP.
Look you, a sallow, dried skin will not
take this adorable polish, bathe and massage
as you will. The only amelioration it takes
is powder or the cosmetic dressing of cerate
and something else which will not rub off
inside of II hours. But how sad to see the
yellow face look back at one daily from the
mirror after really washing ones face.
Women as a sex have cause to bless the
cosmetic revival evident in the last two or
three years. as it has led to a thorough hy-
gienic system of Treatment. The methods of
the modern cosmetic artist excel the routine
of the best water cures in attention to baths
diet. rest, fresh air and exercise. 1t is much
| more agreeable to take delicious warm
baths, electricity and massage, with fragrant
oils and lotions, than to swallow medicine,
take cold plunges or half cold spongings in
dismal, dripping, dark bath closets, or
wrestle with health lifts and Indian clubs.
n Dlucu VI euSdTy po"ueI dTOmaLlc, Win
teaberry and fresh, indescribable scents, cor
rects faults of digestion and turns the breath
to balm and quiets the nerves withal. You
treat yourself we'll and consequently feel
like treating every one else so. The nasty,
ill disposition of most well-to-do people can
only be accounted for by inherent depravity
or bad state Of the alimentary canal.
WATER, COLD OR HOT?
About the cold water or the hot, as was
asked me last week, every lady must decide
for herself. For young ladies, I should say
the cold water, unless they are very delicate,
when the cold water will give them red
noses and hands from the reaction. 1 should
never advise anyone with red hands or a red
nose to use cold water. Always in such a
case use it hot as can be borne, and lave the
nose and soak the hands five Or six minutes,
keeping the water hot all the while.
think ladies should have a kettle of hot
water for their toilet at all times-one of
those pretty bronze kettles to boil over the
| gas or lamp.
For women who do not call themselves
young, warm or hot water is indispensable
to cleanse the skin, to stimulate it and keep
off wrinkles. If they like, they may dash
terid water over 1t after the hot bath, then
the warm, dry towel, always the warm towel,
madam. Women wash their faces in such
hurry, with water and soap, anyhow, and
wipe on a damp, soiled towel, that roughens
the skin. Only beauty in her first prime
can endure it, when one endures anything.
REMEDY FOR COLD FEET.
A. S. desires remedy for cold feet, which