Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-12-18
FACTS AND FICTION FOR FAIR
FEMALES.
II You Want y Good Complexion Obey
the Rules Hero Given-How to Paint on
yelvct-Tan Girls Are All the Rage.
A Good Complexion

devices to conceal
or correct the
hlemiShes of the
complexion. Just how many millions
they were ! do not exactly remember,
but l know rough calculation told
me that the sum was enough to pro-
vide comfortable home for 10000
friendless children! But even such a
thought as that, or all the sermons
that could he preached in six months
would not affect the demand for and
the sale of such articles in the slight
est. AS a heart pantcth after water
brooks. so panteth every woman after
d good complexion, and delusion ever
whispers that this gift is to be hers
with just a little more expenditure. a
little more faith in this wash or that.
Therefore, accepting this phase of
the feminine character as a perfectly
natural and not to be altered one. |
have not a word to say against it,
but would urge my sisters to excr-
else a little common sense upon the
subject and to try and obtain her de-
sire in a rational manner. A good
complexion depends principally upon
three rules being obeyed. OF course
disease will affect the skin. when the
only thing to be done is to consult a
physician and have the cause re-
moved, if possible: but in nine cases
out of ten it is the violation of the
three rules spoken of that lies at the
root of the pimples, rcdness, salow-
ness, or the thousand other ills wo-
mans face is heir to. These rules are
healthy diet, judicious bathing, and
exercise, to which might be added a
fourth, peace of mind. And in the
beginning let me say what every wo-
man desiring, not only a good com
pleXion, but sound body. would do
we'll to mcmoriZc.
The overloaded or outraged stomach
invariably avenges itself through the
skin. Undigested food, food eaten at
all hours, seasonable and unscason-
able, keeping the organs tired and
overweight, unwholesome food. will
of a certainty proclaim itself in the
sallow tint so hateful and so uncon-
cealable, though powder and carmine
do their best. But | like midnight
feasts in my own room.'' IL can't
live without caramels and chocolate
drops: III must havemy cup Of coffee
three times a day. My five or six
cups OF tea are absolutely necessary
to me-" 1t think hear the plaintivc
chorus, but | close my eyes to the
pleading. half-indignant looks
aroused, and answer, ompromisingly,
''Keep your candy, your midnight
gormandizing, your coffee, and your
tea without moderation, but you
can't have good complexion, too.
Choose" And / won't be called
hard-hearted, or old fogy. either for
it was Nine. Nature who made the
law. not her humble Aaron.
Now for the bath. am taking 4
for granted that you all revel in soap
and water, for cleanliness and beauty
are co-existcnt always, but do you un.
derstand the art of judicious bathing:
Cold water is an excellent thing, but
for weak or nervous woman the
shock of plunging into tub of icy
water is unQuestionably too much
Leave such to your more robust OF
less sensitive sisters, whose superior
vitality will recover in an instant tho
shock which leaves you gasping anC
trembling for minutes, and have YOU
water tepid, while couple of hand
fuls of coarse salt will give such {
bath all the qualities of plunge ir
the sea. For the face I would recon-
mend cold water flung with the hands
without rubbing, or water with tn,
chill removed, but still pleasant,
cool. A little borax added to it give.
a pleasant smoothn'css to the skin
After bath avoid as you would deatl
itself any chill, for thousands di,
yearly from the common imprudence
which, should it leave no other per
ceptlble i'll effects, will certainly dull
and coarsen the complexion. A tlesl
brush used vigorously for five minute
on emerging from the bath will rem
der any cold impossible, and add 81
per cent. to your chance for a goo(
complexion.
AS for exercise, / am almost tempt
ed to pronounce this the most impor
tant of the rules. However that ma,
be though, exercise is indisL ensabl,
to the health and beauty of The body
1t is now an exploded idea that earl,
rising and vigorous exercise before
breakfast are desirable habits, and il
is the writer's experience that an,
work done on an empty stomach. OF
with insufficient sleep, is a drain or
the vitality, and so, of course, harm
full in the extreme. If your socia
duties demand you to keep late hours
make it up next morning if you car
without injustice to your domestic
duties, and if you cannot let the
social ones go to the wall. Ithas be-
come the thing in these days fol
women to belong to gymnastic or ath.
letic clubs, to row, swim and box, all
which are excellent beyond denial,
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