Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-03-27
BEAUTY AND DIET.
LAWS WHICH ALL DAUGHTERS OF
EVE SHOULD ALWAYS OBEY.


metics Used to Patch Up darred Beauty.
Suggestion So.
Flesh texture and tint perform most
important function in female beauty.
To preserve and improve them demands
the strictest observance of sanitary laws.
A bad skin, lacking tint, plumpness
and elasticity, indicates want of good
ness in the vital or nutritive system.
Diet, digestion, temperature, open air
exercise, sleep and tranquility of mind
are absolute necessities to every woman
who wishes to keep her youth.
AS to diet, it is only necessary to ask
what does the average American girl
eat? She sits down to potato and q
pickle, three or four cups of strong tea,
pies, cakes, sweets and fiery condiments.
If she includes beef in her menu it is
only after roasting, frying and grilling
has reduced it to state of complete in
digestibility. What is the result of such
regime? By the time she is 90, just at
the age nature intended her to be as fiex-
ible as a sapling willow, her eyes are
dull, her teeth yellow, her gums pale,
her lips wan and pallid, her flesh placid,
the swell and sap of her womanhood is
either undeveloped or else quenched, de-
stroyed, dried out. What then? To re-
pair these unsightiy damages she resorts
to padding, whitewashes, stains and bel
| ladonna and kolb for her eyes.
These are a CHASTITY substitute for the
FURNISHED glow of health. Once to in
dulge in artificial cosmetics is to be their
slave through all eternity.
THREE SIMPLE RULES.
The once famous beauty, Lola Montez,
was heard to say the only real secret of
preserving beauty lay in three simple
things-temperance, exercise and cleani-
ness.
Peppered soups and stews, game pat
ties, ragoUts and spices even moderately
INDUCED in will exercise deteriorating
effects upon a delicate complexion.
Women who do not restrain their gas
tronomic propensities will acquire before
30 the heated, blotched face we are wont
to associate with thigh living" while
the firm texture of the flesh and the
supple shape will soon be replaced by
fiabby softness and scraggy leanness.
During my few years of rather broad
and variegated experience studying
beauty and the habits of its fair pos
{
a series of years accustomed herself to
late hours, constant excitement, brain
work and censurable feasting without
erasing every trace of beauty. l saw hel
looking as dainty as an ivory Isis aftel
eight years Of such perilous self treat
ment as | shudder to describe. Physi
clans consider the case unique.
Women of nervous and sanguine tenn
perament should restrict themselves tC
diet of eggs, milk, bread, salads, fruit
light brOthS and the crustacea. They
should accustom themselves to drinking
aerated and natural mineral spring wa
tiers, avoiding spices and condiments
delicious and tempting as these fiery de
! lights may be. In the matter of diet
the blonde is, by force of physiological
tendencies, constrained to stern self de
NAL at table. 1t is an old saw among
doctors that blue eyes, tiaxen hair an'
the pink and white face mean struma
Struma is a prettier word than scrofula
but the condition is the same and quit
as troublesome. These intiammable tenn
peraments are congestlve, catarrhal
equity, and tea, coffee, underdone beef
g oily food, spices, alcoholic beverages an
2 opiates concur TO produce a general III
! healthy action of the skin in dryness
y Condiments, malt and spirituous drink
+. and tincture of iron thicken the blood
e giving it color and constituency. Tn
1 philosophy contained in the advice c
= the expert in skin troubles to a lady VIII
: consulted him in reference to a red nost
= upon hearing her habit to be a night
, tipple of whisky and water, leave OF
i the water and Your nose will soon b
nurDle" is rs old as it is reliable.
EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE.
A case which came under my immt
Il diate observation was that of an ashe
a blonde whose skin was as fair and opaqu
e as white lead, and whose hair was unrt
lieved by one amber CLEAN. After a
attack of typhoid fever, which, by ii
way, is an effective purifier of the sy
tenn without being more dangerous tina
q many of the advertised complexion ren
eT edies. she was restored by iron tomb
lie and LIQUOR, and the clement these intr
I duced into the blood dyed her cheel
/ crimson and her new suit of hair rudd
II gold. There are temperaments whiC
! are irritated by fish, buckwheat and h
" breads Hives, sore eyes and annoylI
"a skin disturbances are the outgrowth
~ their use.
For the slender, bilious brunette, who
lg watery, a free diet of uuGerdone be
er and port wine should replace the seve
"a regimen of the blonde. Tints, rath
than colors. are beautiful, and blon,
of the ruddy type should exercise care
~ selecting tonics. Those containing n
r wine and iron color the skin to an ug
brickdust, and can confidently assert
natural aperient is more efficient in &C
recting all disorders OF congestion al
ie circulation, and the evil consequences
indiscretion in diet, than its print
n labels claim. When it is necessary
renew the vital energies two gra
~ pellet of quinine taken every evening
a month will furnish the blonde wi
strength without increase OF pigment.
Not only diet, but climate and tempo
allure, exert a powerful influence up
as beauty. The white skins, unmingl
-, with chrome or bronze tints, are Hal
-, to disorder from sudden changes of tel
is perature and imperfect ventilatic
Strong blazes of sunlight and rude win
are both damaging to this type of co
pleXion. Winter IS the season OF disco
of tent for beauties ranging in this schedu
he the first touch of frost stagnates |
~. already imperfectly circulating bloc
- She is happiest during the days of p
III fuse perspiration, which Is the We
CHI queen of cosmetics Sudden change
III atmosphere in room where the IN
he curry has fallen ten degrees over nie
has been known to produce thick /
rash ON a delicate face y mild diet a
q mild climate are main factors of beau
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