Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
GUIDES TO BEAUTY
Found in the Cosmetic Pamphlets
Are Very Often Dangerous
AND NEARLY ALWAYS AMUSING.
German Prescription for Those That Must
Stand Most of the Day.
THE FORM THAT is MOST ADMIRED
WRITTEN FOR THE DrsPArcH.I

Some Of the funniest reading of the day,
next to nationalist deliverances and women's
reforms, is in cosmetic circulars and an.
nouncements. Waiting in a fashionable
druggists, picked up treatise on "a Per-
feet Complexion" kindly distributed in the
interest of a well-known toilet company, and
if what it says is true medicine is mistake
from Galen down. and the medical colleges,
including Harvard and the Philadelphia
concerns, had better try for new beginning.
They hardly hold that "the lymphaties ara.
to remove the waste and worn out tissues Of
the body" Histology teaches that they
have good deal to do in celebrating and
supplying nutrition which Is changed into
the white corpuscles of the blood. No mat
ter. There are cases where a little science Is
better than q good deal. Read on. We don't
always get as much original and striking
matter lying on a counter for nothing:
''The cause of flesh worms is this: It is
natures provision that every particle OF
waste should be eliminated from the body"
connection not Quite clear, but If nature
removes every last particle of waste by these
blackheads it must be good deal con-
densed. "When proper care is not taken OF
the skin and free circulation sustained, it
becomes torpid, red and dry; thus closing
the pores, unduly retaining materials that
have become harmful and useless to the
complexion, innumerable flesh worms are
the result, or extravasation of the blood is
caused, which develops into pimples and
eruptions OF various sorts.
A torpid skin is usually pale one, and
in rod faan
but no matter.
An Entirely New Discovery.
Elm the case of flesh worms or black
heads the blessed paste is so effective as to
remove in few minutes the blackheads
that appear through the scarf or external
skin. Some are deeply imbedded in the
flesh, Tn consequence of their formation
originating internally"
1t is no wonder that this original view is
in italics in the treatise. 1t ought to be
copyrighted as an entirely independent dis
covery. Never mind how they originate,
the blessed paste is equal to the emergency,
for we are told on the next page that sin the
case OF feshworms the paste is so effective
that, the pores Of the skin having first been
softened and opened by the use of the
blessed plant, it requires but little tina
until they are entirely dissolved, thus re-
unlng the skln anu leaving II Iree Hom
these disfgurements."
A paste that dissolves the pores of the
skin will properly treat bodies whose
lymphatics are all waste carriers and scav-
engers, but ordinary human beings are not
made that way. How nice it must be to
have a skin with the pores all dissolved.
Two dollars a jar is cheap for this wonder
working paste. If the lymphatics carry off
the waste, we can do without pores proba-
bly,, and sit on the grass all we choose with
out risk of taking cold. Have your pores
obliterated at once and save pneumonia.
Fleshworm Paste also cures red noses.
What" asks our little book, sis more
suggestive to the general masses of man
kind than a red nose?"' A white one is
sometimes very strongly suggestive of freez-
ing, still that is another matter.
The Nose Becomes Chronic.
'Many a noble man and woman have been
compelled to carry the signs of conviyiality
while they are most abstaneous (sc) in their
habits. The nose becomes red from the least
exposure to heat and cold. Drinking hot
soups, a hot meal or the use of alcoholic
liquors causes this organ to flush red, and in
time it becomes chronic"
Most noses are chronic, still they don't
offer to dissolve them, though it would seem
as if preparation electric enough to dissolve
chronic nose. Pass if you please, the descrD-
ton of a rouge put up in book form SO that its
leaves may be torn apart. making it more con-
venient for shopping and travelling purposes,
and read:
.sThe ventilating mask also does great things
for the pores; worn thirty minutes it gives the
pores from the sallow or red color produced by
inactive liver, &C."
Now, if the coloring matter. sallOw or red, is
contained in the pores, why not dissolve it all
need for the fifteenth amendment altogether
1t ought to be enough. L am anxious to lay
before you the theory Of liver spots.
THE bile and impurities Of the liver lmpreg-
nate the skin blood, and in natures efforts TO
eject its Impurities through the pores"-more
work for them again-"(whlch occurs every "A
hours), portion Is retained under the skin.
The constant accumulation produces what is
commonly known as moth or liver spots. The
Freckle Paste prepared especially for liver
spots. moth, ETC., penetrates through the outer
spots most effectually."
Great as Purifier.
Dssolves them out, probably when the pores
dissolve why should not the pigment go2 But
what is nature to do without these pores in its
efforts to eject the impurities every "a hours.
How is it that women can Patronize prepara-
tions put up and heralded by such ignorancef
One would hardly want to trust such fan
tastic pretenders with the complexion of kid
glove. II requires little Iortltuoe TO remain
Totally Habstaneous" from cosmetics of such
notancv that they dissolve the very holes in the
skin. Poor bi-chloride of mercury is innocence
itseIf besides such corrosives. 1t is amusing to
see neopIe's feelings rise like the hair a
% t,s hack az the mention of bi-chloride, when
thew will use vegetable poisons flt for the very
Boreia without hesitation. 1t is part of the gem
eral charlatanry of this most neglected art.
a German prescription useful for teachers,
bonsekeepers mail carriers and others who
stand all day: Three parts salicylic acid. 10
narts starch, and 81 parts powdered soapstone,
mixed and little suited into the shoes and
stockings 1t keeps the feet dry and prevents
chafng. The last humbug out Is liquid
charged with electricity for removing super
huous hair. It is impossible, with any present
knowledge, TO charge water with electricity to
be of the slightest use in any such way. 1t Is
also claiming too much for almond meal thattt
will cure moth and freckles. 1t softens the
skin and keeps it from chapping in some de-
gree. That is enough for any one cosmetic
The Human Form Divine.
Girls. you not only want to wear modest
gowns but you want to let development OF the
form alone for the sake of nervous and moral
health. If your figure is not developed It Is
sure sign of lack of balance physically, and you
regain it perfectly only by utterly and stead
fasty ignoring all that lies outside the pleasant
ample domain Of the anee!lons ana unsei1sn @
Interests There is something unnatural, hy-
steric and repelant in the persistence OF wa-
man on certain questions of physical develop
ment In older, more poetic times itwas adj
mirad in a woman that her figure was small,
and the old books have more than one recipe
for keeping the form small
The method recommended frequently of
bathing the upper portion Of the body In cold
war.r and rubbing It every night is as risky for
the health as anything well can be. and never
should be allowed, especially with nervous
women or girls SHIRLEY DARE.