Morning journal and courier., 1892-03-28
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ABOUT WRINKLES.
French and American specialties
Differ as TO Treatment by Hot
Steam.

~ W moi
Steam.
From the New York Sun.
Wrinkles are the index of nervous con-
dition. Upright lines between The eyes
indicate mental trouble, thought, care or
temper more than any physical Hines.
Fine netted lines about the eyes denote
nervous exhaustion and the depression
which follows over-stimulus. Women are
likely to get them from living and sleep
ing in close, hot rooms.
The latest scientific writer on the sub
iect says the air in our rooms should be
changed three times every hour. The
skin owes it's beauty to the nerves which
control the fine invisible blood vessels of
the surface, whose work lends glow and
transparency TO the face. The nerves in
turn owe their sensitiveness to the air,
which, noxious or pure, is our chief nu-
triment, inhaled by gallons hourly. When
the nerves are desdened by close air the
fine muscles lose their tone. the tissue of
the face shrinks, and these shrinkages be-
come wrinkles. At first they are fugitive;
weeks watching may write the face over
with cross-hstching of fine lines, and an
other week of rest will restore lost tissue,
fat aud fluids to fill the spaces and smooth
the face again.
To avert wrinkles the nervous and over
taxed must rest and eat nourishing food.
The neuralgia should eat roast fat and
make food tempting with condiments, add
ing TO their fare the sound, coarse bread
which contains phosphate to feed their
starved nerves and is The great regulator
of nutritive function. Too often the
trouble is not so much what people eat.
ont what they don't eat, and do not get
provided for them at table. Leanness and
wrinkles 60 together. We seldom see
forid plethoric woman with them, as the
supply of blood keeps the skin in repair.
Steaming the face is the fashionable
treatment to remove wrinkles, but ii is an
idea of American adoption, If not original.
French specialists deprecate steaming.
They say that it makes wrinkles worse
when the practice Is suspended, and assert
that it causes falling of eyelashes and eye
brows. The intensely hot steaming may
have that effect in certain states of the
blood, and it must cause deterioration 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 yapor,
however, is more time than most women
can spend. The most convenient spplica-
tion is a firm waxen paste which takes
time for rubbing out and gives Just the
right amount of massage for face in the
process. The soft, oily sslves and creams
in request ale not such good wrinkle eras-
ers as firm, protective cosmetic which
will not rub off easily, but allows the
moisture OF the skin TO remain and freshen
the tissues.
1t is easier TO disperse wrinkles than to
eradicate any other defect of the face.
Sleep, much more than people suppose
necessary, rather hearty food. and moister
air in houses, are indispensable to keeping
"a smooth face, whatever cosmetic is used,
and toilet paste, or cream, has twice the
effect in less time If the hygiene of the
complexion be observed.
Massage of the face should be by firm,
leisurely stroke, inst soft enough not to ir-
ritate. The best usage makes the move
ment in circular sweeps over the wrinkles,
not lifting The fingers much till one has
finished on that particular line. Massage
of the face should be soothing, not lear-
ing it flushed and burning. To avert the
wretched outwork of lines about the eyes
and bsggy eyelids, observe the precsution
never to sleep after dance or late hours
without bathing the face plentifully in
very warm water and taking a few spoon
fuls of something light, balf a cup of
and syrupy. or a lemonade, with or with
out a fresh beaten egg. Three spoonfuls
of such refreshment will take of the hUr-
rible exhaustion which presents its &C.
counts on waking. A cup of hot water
with one drop of oil of cinnamon is a IA
nous restorative, especially in heart weak
ness after late hours