Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-14
THE MASK OF BEAUTY.
ANCIENT AND MODERN Articles
or The TOILET AND BATH
The Neyer-Ending Stnggle to Preserve
and Beauty the Skin.

The frightful extent TO which the arts
OF the toilet are now being carried leads
one to question if many Of the prevail
ing diseases of the skin, especially OF the
akin of the face and throat, are not due
TO the action of cosmetics upon 50 deli
cato and complex q surface. The pro-
duction of rouge alone has reached
shocking proportions; while that OF
chalk and bismuth, arsenic, anthony,
and other aids to srtifce do net fall be-
hind. No expense has been spared,
both in the present and in the past. In
bringing these articles to the last point
of perfection and Sir Humphrey Dayy
has related an instance OF an English
manufacturer Of rouge Offering thou
sand pounds for the secret of French
mans superior preparation, the sole
secret being, however-to such a nicely
had tho manufacture been brought
that in France rouge could be made
under the bright sun that nature had de-
0lfQ 10 Itlt IIlAlHu q ANAN
beam turning the scale
In the time of Louis XIV. Of France
there was issued a decree announcing
that whosoever by means Of red or white
paint, perfumes, or essences, or other
arts of the toilet, should seek to entice
into marriage any OF his Majesty's male
subjects, should he prosecuted for witch
craft and declared unfit for matrlmony +;
and the same runs as an unwutten de-
cree in all mems minds to-day. Why
should one fill up the wondrously intri-
cate pores of the skin with poison TO be
absorbed into the system. when exactly
the opposite course is all that Is needed,
the opening and cleansing Of tho pores
with properly medicated soap and water,
in order that existing poison may be
cast ont, thus acquiring the pure rose
and white natural to every healthy skin
Othello. himself. in his hour of madness
would not mar the skin of Desdemona.
"That winter skin of hers than snow,
And smooth as monumental alaoastor.
it would be cruel in us to excite the
interest Of the gentler sex in the matter
/ of complexion if we could not offer a
| possible panacea without fear Of undue
/ preference II is a fact well known to
/ dermatologists that for several years the
/ Cuticura Medicated Toilet Soap has been
unriyalled as a skin beautfier. Not only
does it contain the delicate odor and
emollient and cleansing properties OF
the finest toilet soaps, but 1t goes a step
further than any soap yetprepared and.
by reason OF its delicate, yet effective,
medical properties derived from Cutl'
cura. is enabled to remove skin-blemishes
by restoring to activity those diseased OF
inhamed vessels Of the si.in which cause
complexion disfgurationA 1t 50 puri-
fies the pores and enliyenH and strength
ems the glands that tho skin comes into
that normal condition of positive whole
someness in which it calls for the richest
blood and fTeest action, so that the
damask flush comes and goes upon the
cheek with the shifting beauty OF the
northern lights in the SKY. No woman
is insensible 10 the advantages given by
the boundless fulness OF the vein under
the transparency OF perfect skin; but
no woman can have either the bound
ing vein or the transparent skin who
does not maintain the health Of the cir
culation and excretion by the pleasant
friction OF tho bath with delicately
medicated soap.
Wherever the Cuticura Soap is daily
used with soft water, directly upon the
face, there will be no sallowness, no
| pimples no blackheads, no new warts
| and moles, and no eruptions or rashes,
while roughness and assures will speedi-
| " disappear. chaps will be impossible,
and that general redness, which gives TO
every face suffering from it an ar OF
blowsy yulgarity, will yield TO q soft
fairness with the blush only upon the
cheek and chin. The chemist who
originally sought and found the
constituents Of Cuticura from which
this soap derives its purifying and
identifying properties did it for the re-
| lief of one dear TO him and felt rewarded
in his success. But the sufferings Of
how many others unknown to him has
he aIlayed and what gratitude has be re-
ceived? Nothing Is known in science
10 equal the Cuticura Soap for its pecu-
liar property OF cleansing clogged pores,
freshening the accustomed lubricators,
and rendering the skin flexible, smooth,
and fair. That disfguring and NOR
tifying condition OF the chin and
mouth which with scuri and scales
aflicts so many women in middle
life is destroyed by it. which now
and then an amounting Of Cuticura, or
an occasional dose of Cuticura Resell
vent, and tho young girl tortured by
humiiiating acne will find her forehead
smooth and fair as an infants if she per
severes in its use. II is guaranteed by
the State assayers and chemists of Mas
sachusetts to be free from any mineral,
metallic, or vegetable poison, and to
contain not one particle OF anything
noxious, and neither art nor medicine
is able to Go anything for the skin that
shall render it more healthy, fresh, and
radiant with beauty than has now been
done by the discovery OF the Cutlcura
Medicated Toilet Soap.