The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-05
ARTS AID TO NATURE.
The Devices Used by Famous Beau
ties to Enhance Their In
herited Charms.
Oface Of Baths in the Preserva-
ton OF tho Bloom OF
Youth.
A Precious Secret From Palestlnc--Lazy
Lady Londondcrry-Diva Patti
Never Washes Her Face.

Ladies' who ere interested in keeping or
gaining a fine complexion-and what lady
is not?-night do worse than try an OLD
recipo supposed to date from the time of
the erusndes, whom an English warrior.
who had been loved by an oriental beauty,
brought back the precious secret from Pal
sstine:
Take six h~ard-boiled eggs and halve
them, Take out the yellow part and re-
place il with t~inoture Of nayrrh and can
tiisd sugar in powder. equal parts. Then
mt together again tho Two halves and e1-
", go the six eggs on n plate before the lite.
Nh sre will oo1o from them gradually a
c,es,- LIQUID which, mixed with thirty-two
cram, ues of white vaseline, forms the
magic pomads. This should be rubbed
nnon TIL . face night and morning. allowed
20 drv. and then wiped off with a soft
cloth. $685.: 49,.
Anotl,sr noraple1ion mixture, said to BIO
rsad bv the x~rincsss OF Wsles, consists OF
q mart of rnilk mixed VITA the juice OF
tba mandarin The face should be washed
NTH this mixture at night. and then again
in tho morning with fresh, but not cold,
water.
The only red cosmetic whieh is not harm-
fnl TO tho skin is q simple one-discovered
Nv ths Chipese-.ths juice Of the beet root.
Tho duke Of Edinburgh, who. although
ths san az tbs queen OF England, has been
t.oabled all his life with an ansetlon OF me
s,ip. eats onions with considerable Euccsss
AZ a remedy.
Lady Londonderry, the famous Engllsh
beauty, has a peculiar system for keeping
her youth, which seems to hare sucoeeaea
maryelously thus far. says tho New YORK
Herald. One day in every ten she l.es n
he'd. although her health is excellent. On
this day Of literal rest she sleeps
in the morning until she wakes
naturally, then takes a hot bath.
and then goes back to bed, whore 3 light
hras kfast il served. After that she tries to
90 to sleep again, and if she doeS not sue
caea lies quietly without even thinking IN
tina darkened room. At six O'Clock she
rises. slips on a peienoir, dimes in her cab
met de toilet, and then sits by the fire. idly
until 10 o'clock, when she goes TO bea TOR
the night. Unds. NO circumstances does
her ladyship depart from this rule OF max
ING periodical disappearances from tho so
oial whirlpool every ton days.
"M @I12i8 III ADk1lA& nv NS0~
ION a to eat oranges and plenty OF them.
n II said that u famous beauty in the court
81 TOMS PHILIPPE ofton ate rs many as TWO
dozen oranges in q single day. ~ the age
of 80 her eyes wsre still bright ana Nor
complexion ~ve!vety, like that of q young
girl.
. A diet which includes many vegetables 70
aIao excellent for the complexion.
The best cosmetic for ths skin is pure
water, both hot and cold, Il plenty OF
rubbing with q soft towel.
Ii YOU will put something on your eye
brows to make them darker-a most fool
ish practice it is, howaver-use . solution OF
Chinese ink and rose water, which will do
YOU no harm. This is q secret OF the
harem. -,
which should be brushed carsfully-not
with pastes and powders, but with fms cas-
tile soap-and used equally on both sides in
eating.
Those terrible neuralgia pains which
make MANY women SO wretched may ba
rauch relieved by external application OF a
strong ISOLATION of peppermint.
An excellent way to avoid taking cold in
bad weather is to remove the shoes as soon
as YOU come in and rub the soles of the feat
briskly with dry salt, or, still better, with
alcohol.
In the matter Of dress every woman should
remember that there is not only the gen
efal fashion which she has to follow but her
own particular fashion, which Is Olsen the
more important of the two and deserving
of her more careful study.
Finally, as 3 woman grows Older, SO far
from csasing to pay attention to tho little
niceties of dress and toilet, she should, in
order not to displease, take even creator
caro- Of herself than when she was young
she took to please.
"A thousand years without baths!' writes
a historian OF the middle ages, and then
goes on to state that in the reign of Henry
". the uao OF the bath was SO uncommon
that u nobleuaan of the time who CHANGED
to DO of a wandering turn of mind asked Z
friend why it WAC that people in ariStocratic
society were accustomed to wash their
hnnds and not rheir feel.
still it would seem tn ~ It fact that while
our ancestors on the 1.ale side were more
careless in the matter ~ hoGily cleanliness,
the women Of olden times fully appreciated
the important role which water plays in as
surfing US sana mems in corpore Bano. Some
of the famous beauties of by-gons genera
tions enjoyed baths of auch luxury rs would
be scarcely known by the wives and duugh-
Gers OF modern mlllionaires.
Isabeau de Bavler, wishing to initiate tha
wife Of Nero. used to have her porphyry
bathtub filed with asses' milk, or with tbs
juice of crushed Strawberries.
Anna B0lsyn was not only accugtomed tc
take baths. but used rs & special mark OF
her favor to allow some favorite noblcmar
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taken from the tub.
Diane de Poitisrs used to plunge into Z
bath of rainwater eyery morning.
Marie L~etwertynoska, tho friend of Alag
ander l., IF Russia. 1lsver bathed except il
a tub filled with Malaga wine, which was
nftarwarl rebottled and RoId at Il much
higher price to people who knew perfectly
we'll the uso to which it had been put.
Marie Antoinette, in addition to the deni,
blins which she took in tins demi-pslguoi
named After. used TO take what she called
her great baths in q decoction of wild thyme
laurel leaves, sweet msrjorarn, andsa little
salt.
Other ladies of the eighteenth centur,
used to battle in water distilled from ros,
leaves or favored with almonds, melor
juice, or barley.
Nine. 1aillien used to have prepared
every morning n bath of strawberries ant
raspberries according to the following REQ
ipe: Twenty pounds Of strawberries AM
two pounds of respberries, crushed an,
thrown into the bathtub. Oua energies from
such Il bsth, 30 thig lady writes to a friend
with the skin az soft az velvet and tinted /,
a delicate pale rose.
People suffering from rheumatism mich
try with profit Il bath which comes down t,
US with the prestige of generations: Pre-
pare a concentrated emulsion of u
granmes of turpentine and 200 eramme
eeap sottened in water. After lying for fy
minutes in a hot bath perfumed with Thu
emulsion one feels a warm and pricklin
sensation all through the body and tn
rhopmatie paipa n d. "A mncb rsIieva3