Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-21

Words OF Comfort for Mic. Glris with Rsux q
Computations

Words OF Comfort for Nice Girls with Rough
Complications
Shirley DARE In PhIlAls,P6iA Pre<s
Tne treckls season recedes far in the distant
as last summers firtatioas bu, the comedoae
season il on in its fullness
BOYS and girls with rough compilations al
ways find them worse toward the close Of the
winter with rich pies and puddings. Eat meats
and sausage 10 account for IL together. Add 20
these causes the solitary weekly bath ana the
UNDERTAKINGS worn from Sunday morning round
without pulling OF and you can see how the
skin takes a coating Of its secretions. n glaze
Of wax and sweat which renders the skin vessels
to.pid. The face. which gets washed twice a
day. serves as an outlet for the humors Of the
six square feet o; cuticle belonging 90 the bodv
l. IL amy wonder the cells are enlarged aud dis
tended with matter seeking escapeg Dust settles
in these DIV cells and remains or they become
centers of Inflammation. swelling aud pimples
Hardly anything is more hideously mortifv-
ing to a nice girl than one % these black
specked faces, conveying the idea OF personal
uncleanliness not always deserved.
Bad compile xions are not always the result of
individual neglect but tell of the transgres-
sions OF ancestors three and four generations
back. Not lad people. only unwholesoIne
ones-old grandmothers who shut themselves
up in rooms that never were aired save NJ house
cleaning, and astringed their insides with
strong tea aud salt hsl. and rather prided
themselves that their bodily functions never
were active like those Of common people;
grandfathers who never took baths all winter.
regarding them as therapeutic measures only
20 be resorted 30 in Of fever something
of the kind, and did not believe IN changing
underwear too often for fear Of catching cold.
II takes strong nerves TO read the accounts
in medical books Of the old practice. You
come across old ladies aud gentlemen in New
England now who live after the sans fashion
ana crawl out sunny winter days clad IN
brocade and astonishing old yelvets and laces,
but one must be careful 10 get the uindxard
side OF them. Nc wonder they carried
pomandor boxes and cloves and scented snuff
IN the old time when many such bodies we're
abroad
Blood OF such descent is pretty ant 10 show
itself for hundred years in bad compile rion or
tuberculous diseases.
The chemist, who has studied medicine
further than many doctors. had something 90
say the other day about comedone faces. IL
seems he has more inquiries for remedies for
this Disagreement than any other. and they are
mainly from women who have swallowed quarts
Of medicine in hopes 10 cure IL.
Tell them" he said. his mind running on
the subject. ITO quit taking such loads OF blood
purifiers. The blood NAV not be out Of order,
but only needing chance TO work OF its daily
impurities the natural way. and blood purifiers
make the matter worse. Their diet Ought Go he
right and tend tofr elimination, plenty Of hot
drinks TO cause Precipitation. coarse bread.
soups rich with vegetable juices. but no PIE
crust, cake or pudding, nor sauces with starch
or -four in them. tall the state of things which
causes a rough face is broken up. 1t won't he
easily done.
doctors say few disorders are 90 SLOW 10 cure
as this sluggish state of the skin. mainly be-
cause people cannot be persuaded 90 give
proper pains and attention TO themselves.
They won't battle, or II they do the water ism g
hot and alkaline, and the rubbing afterward is
not enough TO stir up the whole system ID
ought TO be OF the least Use.
''Do you notice that excitable people never
have pimpiy faces or blaokheads in the skin?
II is your dull depressed, sluggish natures Who
suffer with them. A quick set of nerves H. good
as an electric battery TO keep the body m work
| ing order IL only ii Ism { oyercharged and torn
| 10 wreck. That is why people with spinal dis
eases seldom suffer with other ailments. for the
| AGATE nerves throw every thing Of. What force
there is in the system il at the fingers ends and
on the surface of the skin, not congested
| half dead at the roots
| ''what these girls with bad faces want 20 do
| In TO use can. pure soap freely in hot baths
and pay more attention to their skin than TO
their faces. Soft soap and alcohol beaten
| together and laid on the face nightly i've six
minutes and washed on with hot water-hot,
mind you; just scalding ne you can
bear it-drled and a coating Of powdered pure
4 French chalk or Fuller's earth laid on 10 .
very good practice. The soap softons the skin
and the account lations, which can be pressed
out easily. Tell them never 20 force out black
heads unless they are ripe 90 come easily. The
soft soap must he pure, or il is borrid stud TO
put on the skin. oh with a groan), is IL
such hard work making people, even LADIES',
understand what purity Is in anything. SOAPS,
lotions OF creams. Clean fats and clear potash
are necessary and clean keeping after.
The best alternative, If you can { be sure of
the soft soap, 10 the alkaline cerate. which dis
solves the oily matter out of the pores. Either
| laid the comedones with a hair pencil softens
them they be taken out easily, but is
DOGS rot insure that they will not come back.
l belle &c that electricity the skin is tie very
sgecihc for the trouble, and the next b:st and
most available very hot alkaline wash 20 and
chalking the face at night. They have staff
nowadays that dries in mask over the face
in the market yet Only one or two women Il
celebrity have the secret yet from the in
ventor. and they are really able 20 keep smooth
faces as If they we're handsome twenty-five in
stead ONO matter what age. do love tic
warm velvet vi a cheek that seems made 10
| invite"
A dry look from the women listeners changed
the subject just about then.
At present girls with miserable compleKiens
must remember several things they are not TO
do for them. They don't want 90 take sarsapa-
rilla by the quart. They don't want charcoal
and small doses Of cascara, i've drops twice .
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
masks, either They don't want to rub their
faces raw, but they do want thorough massage
, of the body every day, with wool OF sllk towels