Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-15
SILK NEXT THE SKIN.
The Waste Product That Makes Ideal
Sanitary Underwear.
.WORNlBY CAR MEN AND ATHLETES
But Good for Fine Ladies, Especially in
P~ittsburg's Climate.
A SHORT TALK ABOUT ROUGH FACES
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH;

WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH;
The freckle season reeedes far in the dis
lance as last summers hIrtations, but the
comedone season is on in its iulness. Boys
and girls with rough compilations always
find then worse toward the close of winter,
with rich pies and buildings, fat meats and
sausage to account for it together. Add to
these causes the solitary weekly bath, and
the underfannels worn from Sunday morn
ing round without pulling of, and you can
see how the skin takes a coating of its secre-
tions, a glaze of wax and sweat Shich rem
ders the skin vessels torpid.
The face, which gets washed twice a day,
serves as an outlet for the humors OF the six
square feet OF cuticle belonging to the body.
Is it any wonder that the cells are enlarged
and distended with matter seeking to es-
cape? Dust settles in these oily cells and re-
mains, or they become centers of in1amma-
ton, swelling and pimples. Hardly any
thing is more hideously notifying to a nice
girl than one of those black specked faces,
conveying the idea of personal uncleanliness
not always deserved.
Compilations Sometimes Inherited.
But compilations are not always the result
of individual neglect, but tell of the trans
gressions of ancestors three and four genera
lions 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 a%stringed
their insIdes with strong tea and salt fish,
and rather prided themselves that their
bodily functions never were active like
those of common people; grandfatbers who
never took baths all winter, regarding them
as therapeutic measures only to be 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
fashion and crawl out sunny winter days
clad in brocade and astonishing old 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 of decay were abroad. Blood
of such descent is pretty apt to show itself
for 100 years in bad compilations or tuber-
culous diseases, anG it is q great comfort to
know that it is better in than out, after the
old saying.
Curing the Comedone Faces.
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, and
they are mainly from women who nave
swallowed quarts of medicine in hopes to
cure it.
"Tell them" he said, his mind running
on the subject, 'to 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
perspiration, coarse bread, soup rich with
vegetable Juices, but no pie crust. cake OF
pudding nor sauces with starch or flour in
them till the state of things which causes a
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, MAIN
ly because people cannot be persuaded to
give proper pains and attention to them
selves. They won't battle, or if they do the
water isn't hot and alkaline, and the rub
bling afterward is hot enough to stir up the
whole system as it ought to be of the least
use.
Inc Nerves anu ldCknedOS
"Do you notice that excitable people never
have pimply faces or blackheads in the
skin? 1t is your dull, depressed, sluggish
natures who suffer with them. A quick sci
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 of. What force
there is in the system is at the fingers ends
and on the surface of the skin, not congested
or half dead at the roots.
what these girls with bad faces want to
do is to use clean. pure soap freely in hot
baths and pay more attention to the rest of
their skin thar to their faces. Soft soap
and alcohol beaten together and laid on the
face nightly five or six minutes and washed
off with hot water-hot, mind you; just as
near scalding as you can bear it-dried, and
a coating of powdered pdre French chalk OF
Fuller's earth laid on is a very good prac,
tice. The soap softens the skin and the ac-
eumulatiens, which can be pressed out
easily. Tell them never to force out black
heads unless they are ripe to come easily.
The soft soap must be pure or it is horrId
stuff to put on the skin. Oh" with n groan),
cit is such hard work making people, even
ladies'. understand what purity is in any
thing, soaps, lotions or creams. Clean fats
and clear potash are necessary and clean
keeping after"
about That Waste Silk.
To the several hundred inquiries about
waste silk it may be said the fabric orig.
mated about five years ago as the invention
of an AmericanIzed Englishman in Provi-
deuce. L. L. 1t is not raw silk, which is the
thread as reeled from the cocoon. but