The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-02
SUGGESTIONS FOR WOMEN.
How to Obtain Beauty Without Sacri
f1cing Health.

SUGGESTIONS FOR WOMEN.
How to Obtain Beauty Without Sacri-
f1cing Health.
BROOKLYN, March IA woman of ordi-
nary intelligence ought to know without
being told that arssnical toilet preparations
are dangerous to the health, and yet not a
week passes that l am not in receipt of let
tiers, most them showing thought and ability,
asking me to recommend some cosmetic for
the elimination Of pimples, and requesting
TO be told If arsenic is as safe for an internal
medicine as it is for a complexion wash.
These correspondents know that arsenic is a
deadly poison, and yet they talk about its
use as if it were the simplest
and safest drug in the world.
Arsenical doses will put an end to
plmples and what is more, an end to the
life of the person using them. | am not
now speaking from congratulations or from
what have heard, but from absolute per-
sonal knowledge One friead of mine, a
beautiful young woman, was afflicted with
an eruption upon the hands This was not
only exceedingly painful, but very mortify-
ing. Her own family physician, man of
common sense as well as scientific attain
ment, prescribed certain blood remedies,
but refused to give her anything to act upon
the condiEon--in other words declined to
doctor symptoms. The patient became ir-
| anu ulSShblSI0u, anu uudlly CONSUMED
| a newly f1edged M. D., who through
some advertising dodge had been brought
prominently before the public. She re-
turned to her home with pellets of arsenic
to be taken during the day, and an arsenical
lotion to be used morning and night, and
piece Of advice. This was not to notice any
criticism of the treatment and to say to
those who con demned arsenic that such
an objection was only an old woman's
whim, which medical science had satisfac
torily disposed of. A permanent cure was
guaranteed in six weeks; at the end of that
time my friends hands were as
white and as smooth as an infants, but
my friend was in the agonies of
death The eruption had been driven in
ward instead of out of the system, and
quick consumption was the result. Another
victim, young man, was also a friend of
mine His life was embittered by pimples
which literally covered his face. ga bad
tenant is better cut than in" his own good
doctor sententiously told him. But he
conld not wait for slow methods, and so fell
into the hands of another murderer. The
last time saw this promising youth before
he died, he called my attention, with
good deal of pride, to the improved condi-
ton Of his face. Eyes" ] replied, "but you
are very pale, and how about that coughs"
30, the doctor says that is only bronchial,
and he is giving me medicine for it. but l
don't care a cent for the cough"
Such cases could be indefinitely multi
piled, but | have dwelt upon these because
l watched them from start to finish, and
am as sure as [ am Of my own existence
that my friends were killed by the use of
arsenic That arsenic in the hands of a
skillful physician Is sometimes help in GER
tain acute diseases | am ready to admit, as
/ admit the value of strychnine and stomach
pumps, but for steady or even occasional use
in eruptive diseases, chronic or otherwise, it
is simply a deadly cure. I do not know
that all the complexion lotions contain
arsenic but ] do that every woman who
has an intellect above that of a Jelly fish
should know the ingredients of the stuff
she uses as q medicinal wash or beautifier.
In late interview with one OF our most
distinguished physicians was told that the
folly Of women with their poisonous face
washes, their compressed and in many
cases Tapped ribs, their heavy petticoats and
elaborate dress skirts pulling down and
infiaming the most delicate OF vital organs,
was quite equal to the folly of men in
drinking and carousing, and for his part he
thought that the effect of woman's folly
upon her health was greater than the DISH
patton Of men upon theirs. "Why do not
women do more for each otherm this gen
tlernan asked "Why do not those who
have found out the way show it to those
who have lost it or who never had itl
Look at the immense temperance societies
organized and controlled by women all
over this country" be went on. 'Look
at some of the leaders Of these enterprises
as they addressed their meetings in excel
lent English, but no breath to speak Of
Look at their girted-in waists, their swell
dresses dragging upon their hips. Because
these women do not drink intoxicating
LIQUORS they imagine they are temperate
The fact is that many of them are quite as
far off the track of health and common
sense and decency as men, and need mis-
sionaries quite as much as men. Then look
at the candy that women eat. 1t seems
fully as respectable for one to ruin diges-
ton bv wine as by bonbons So you see
after all, that bad as we are, it IS six OF one
and half dozsn of the other"
There was so much truth in this little
lecture that, nettled as l certainly was,
had no argument to combat it with. could
| have urged the old plea that woman's folly
had it's origin and development in her wish
to please man, but this was such an an
| tiuuated chestnut, aud besides made a
woman seem 50 much more fool, that l
forbore.
NV intention in this paper was to warn
my friends not only against the use Of
arsencal preparations, Que against tne use
of ANYTHING for the complexion that they
did not know TO be perfectly harmless
A lotion that is powerful enough to remove
pimples viii usually move them inward in
stead of outward.
Out-of-door exercise, the exercise that
starts the blood to tingling and the pres
piration from every pore, careful bathing.
well ventilated rooms day and night, care
about diet, aud lightweight clothes which
hang from the shoulders will 50 oxygenate
the blood and work upon the general health
as to euro eruptive diseases. Ii such obedi-
ence to the rules of health do not have this
elfec. then nothing will.
An excellent cold cream. both for chapped
liDs and rough skin, and decided com
plexion softensr. Is made cf the following
Ingredients: 2 or. oil OF almonds, one-half
OF. spermaceti, one DR.. white wax, and a
little rose water.
This cream Is very inexpensive as well as
effective, and a pint Of II put up by ones
druggist viii cost bat. little and last a
long tlsne. ELEANOR XIX.