Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-28
THE FOE OF BEAUTY.
Shirley Dare Writes to the Women
Who Worry About Wrinkles.
THE TREATMENT BY HOT STEAM.
Its Moderate Use Advised but Careful Inv.
ing Is Much Better.
WHAT 10 DO AFTER A BIG DANCE
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With my mail from readers of THE DIS
PATCH come many energetic protests
against 'the chief foe of women's beauty,
wrinkles" They are from young women,
not much over 30, ''but care has broughs
them there" One has ''too many lines be-
tween her eyes," forgetting the old saying
that women's brows must have a separate
wrinkle for each child she brings up.
Another lives, by her account, most orderly
and healthfully, with "early rising, early
sleeping, no fat, greasy or canned food,
wine or condiments, her health excellent,
save from the torture of headache every
week or two, which keeps her two or three
days in bed As if that could be called
healthl No wonder her eyes on awakening
'1ooked lined about the lids, and neuralgia
pains have begun to turn her dark hair
gray"
Wrinkles are the index of nervous condi-
ton, Upright lines between the eyes indi-
cate mental trouble, thought, care or temper
more than physical ill Fine netted lines
about the eyes denote nervous exhaustion,
and the depression which follows over
stimulus Women are apt to get them from
living and sleeping in close hot rooms
"Oh, but my rooms are not close" they saw
with wonder ST air them regularly every
dayP The last scientific writer on the mat
ter savs the air in our rooms should be
changed three times every hour.
The Physiology of Wrinkles
The skin owes its beauty to the nerves
which control the fine invisible blood ves-
sells of the surface, whose work lends glow
and transparency to the face. The nerves
in turn owe their sanity to the air which,
noxious or pure, is our chief nutrient, in
hailed by gallons hourly. When the nerves
are deadened with close air, the fine muscles
lose their tone, the tissue of the face shrinks
and these shrinkages become wrinkles Al
first they are fugitive; weeks watching
may write the face over with crosshatching
of fine lines, and another week of rest will
restore lost tissue, fat and fluids to fill tho
spaces and smooth the face again. have
seen this miracle wrought in well-known
faces so often L am convinced stationary
wrinkles are only due to habitual neglect Of
good living.
Steaming the face is the fashionable treat
ment to remove wrinkles, but it is an idea
of American adoption, if not original.
French specialists depreSate steaming; they
say that it makes wrinkles worse when the
practice is suspended, and claim it causes
falling of eyelashes and eyebrows The in
tensely hot steaming may doubtless have
this effect in certain states of the blood, and
it must cause determination of blood to the
face which is far from healthy. The remedy
is to use vapor at milder heat, keeping up
the process longer at time. Half an hour
over the vapor, however, is more time than
most women can spend.
What Co Do After = Dance.
Massage of the face Is best self given, q
firm, leisurely stroke just soft enough NOT
to irritate. The best usage makes the
movement In circular sweeps over the
wrinkles, not lifting the fingers much
till one has finished on that particular liue
Massage of the face should be smoothing,
not leaving it flushed and burning To
avert the wretched outwork of lines about
the eyes, and baggy eyelids, observe the
precaution, never TO sleep after dance, or
late hours without bathing the face plsnti-
fully in very warm water, and taking q few
spoonfuls of something light, half a cup OF
chocolate, or hot bouillion, eau sucre, rich
and syrupy, or q lemonade, with or without
Q fresh beaten egg. Three spoonfuls of suoh
refreshments will take off the horrible ex-
haustion which presents It's accounts on
waking. A cup of hot water with one drop
oil of cinnamon, no MORE Is famous restor.
ative, especially In heart weakness, after
late hours SHIRLEY DARE