The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-07
HEALTH AND CLEANLINESS.
Words OF Comfort for Nice Girls With
ROUGH Com pIexions


Words OF Comfort for Nice Girls With
Rough Com pIexions.
Shirley Dare in Philadelphia Press
The freckle season recedes far in the dis
tant as last summers fir ations, but the
comedone season is on its fullneSs
Boys and girls with rough compilations
always find them worse toward the close of
the winter. with rich pids and puddings, fat
meats and sausage to account for it together.
Add TO these causes the solitary week Y bat tn
and the underhannels worn from Sunday
morning round without pulling off and you
can see how the skin takes a coatsng
Of its secretions, a glaze of wax and
sweat which renders the skin vessels
torpid. The face, which gets washed twice
day, serve as an outlet for the humors of
the six square feet of cutie q belonging to
the body. Is it any wonder the cells are en-
larged and distended with matter seeking
escaped Dust settles in these oily cells and
and remains, o. they become centers of in
Examination. swelling and pimples.
hardly anything is more hideously morti-
Tying to a nice girl than one of these black
specked faces. conveying they idea of per-
sonaI uncleanllnesS not always deserved.
Bad compilations are not always the result
of Individual neglect, but tell Of the trans
gresslons of ancestors three and four gener-
atloLs back. Not bad people, only unwhole-
some ones-old grandmothers who shut
themselves up in rooms that never were
aired save at house cleaning, and astrin ged
their insides with strong tea and salt fish,
and rather prided themselves that their
bodily functions never were active like
those Of common people; grandfather5 who
never took baths all winter, regarding them
as therapeutic measures only to Q resorted
to in case Of fever or something of the kind,
and did not believe in changing underwear
too often for fear Of catching cold.
1t takes strong nerves to read the accounts
in medical books of the old practice. You
come across old ladies and gentlemen in New
England now who live after the same FASH
ion and crawl out sunny winter days clad
in brocade and astonishing cid velvets and
laces, but one must be careful to get the
windward side of them. No wonder they
carried pomander boxes and cloves and
scented snuff in the old time when many
such bodies were abroad
Blood Of such descent is pretty apt to
show itself for 100 years in bad complexion
or tub,rculouS diseaseF.
The chemist, who has studied medicine
further than many doctors, had something
to say the other day about comedone faces.
1t seems he has more inquiries for remedies
for this Disagreement than any other, aud
they are mainly from women who have
swallowed quarts of medicine in hopes to
cure it.
''Tell them. - he said. his mind running on
the subieC5, Ito quit taking such loads of
blood purifiers. The blood may not be out
of order, but only needing a chance TO WORK
off its daily impurities the natural way, and
blood purifiers make the matter worse.
Their diet ought to be right and tend to
free elimination, plenty of hot drinks to
cause : Q SEPARATION, coarse bread, soups ricn
with vegetable juices, but no piecrust, cake
or pudding, nor sauces with starch or -four
in them, till the state of things which causes
rough face is broken up. 1t won't be
easily done.
doctors say few disorders are SO slow to
cure as this sluggish state of the skin,
mainly because people cannot be persuaded
to give proper pains and attention to them
selves. They WON'T battle, or IL they do the
water isn't hot and alkaline, and the rub-
bling aflerward is not enough to stir up the
whole system, as it ought to be Of the least
use
do you notice that excitable people
never have pimply faces or bleckheads in
the sklE? 1t is your dull, depressed, slug
gish natures who suffer with them. A quick
set Of nerves is good as an electric battery
to keep the body in working order if only it
isn't overcharged and torn to wreck. That
is why people with spinal diseases seldom
suffer with other ailments, for the acute
nerves throw everything off. What force
there is in the system is at the finge ends
and on the surface of the skin, not con-
gested or half dead at the roots.
"What these girls with bad faces want to
do is to use cleal, pure soap freely in hot
baths and pay more at ention to their skins
than TO their faces. Soft soap and alcohol
beaten together and laid on the face nightly
five or six minutes and washed off with
hot wator-hOt, mind you; just as near
scaldlng as you can bear it-dried
and coating of powdered, pure French
chalk or Fuller's earth laid on is a
very good practice. The soap softens the
skin and the Accommodations, which can be
pressed out easily. Tell them never to
force out blackheads unless they are ripe to
come easily. The soft soap must he pure,
or it is horrid stuff to put on the skin.
o with a groan), it is such bard work
making people. even ladies, understand
what purity is in anything, soaps, lotions or
creams. Clean fats and clear potash are
necessary. and clean keeping after
''The best alternative, if you can't be sure
CT the soft soap, is the alkaline oerate,
which dissolves the oily matter out Of the
pores. Either laid on the comedones with
a hair pencil softens them SO they can be
taken out easily, but it does not insure that
they will not come back. | believe that
electricity on the skin Is the very specific
for the trouble, and the next best and most
available are very hot alkaline washes and
chalking the face at night. They have stuff
nowadays that dries In mask over the face
and leaves it very soft and smooth, but it
isn't in the market yet Only one or two
women of celebrity have the secret as vet
from the inv entor, and they are really able
to keep smooth faces as il they were hand
some Is instead ONO matter what age. l
do love the warm velvet of cheek that
seems made to invite"
A dry look from the women listeners
changed the subject just about then.
At present girls with miserable complex
ions must remember several things they are
not to do for them. They don't want to take
sarsaparila by the quart. They don't want
charcoal and small doses of cascara. five
drops twice a day, morning and night.
They don't want sticky creams for their
faces. They are not the least use in such
cases. They don't want face IS. either.
They don't want to rub their faces raw. but
they do want thorough massage of the body
every day, with wool or silk towels.