The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-19

such material belongings that the spirit
ual soul of he who looks is reiOiced by it.
Every woman who starts in life not absO-
lutely ugly, can make herself charming.
And even if she be absolutely ugly, by vir-
tue of the first of all virtues, cleanliness,
and then by the cultivation of her wit,
she can make herself so fascinating that
people think her beautiful, just as they
do old bits of china, or curious bronzes.
The trouble is that most women don't be-
gin to take care of themselves until they
find their beauty going. OF course. what
they do then may help a little, but q
woman's care of herself, her effort to be
charming in person, should begin when
she is so young that, while she feels it a
duty, she yet takes it as a matter of fact
COMMON SENSE AND BEAUTY.
People write TO me and ask me what l
consider the best cosmetic. I know moth
ing about them, as never used one But
if you are moderately well, the liquid
that will keep your skin in order, that
will make it healthy, that will brighten
your eyes and make you feel ten years
younger than you are, is that one on
which no one has taken out a patent,
which you need not get in fancy bottles
or jars, but which you can have by the
gallon when you turn on the faucet in
your bath tub-water | regret to say
that the average woman is not fond of
the bath and yet, it is her best friend.
She need not do as her English cousin,
take a cold one every morning, for very
few American women can stand this
shock. But she can take tepid one,
/ and if she rubs herself well afterwards
and only remain in ten minutes, there is
no reason in the world why she should
take cold The very hot bath is suited
to few women, and these women have
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When Mrs. Lantry was in this coun-
try, very ridiculous story went the
( rounds, that the beauty of her skin was
due to the fact that she took a cold bath
every morning. This is absolutely untrue
At 9 o'clock Mrs. Langtry had a cup Of
tea brought to her; after that she got up
and took bath SO hot that it turned her
as red as a lobster, and when she came
out Of this she went back to bed and
slept for two hours, after which she had
her breakfast. OF course it is not always
possible for women to stay IN the house.
Then, too, with many women the hot bath
is euerYating, but the tepid one may be
cited as that which suits all sorts and
conditions, and from which no evil result
will come. In almost any other country
except this, the getting of bath is diff
cult. That is, the rubber or tin bath has
to be brought to ones room, but here,
where at least one bathroom is in every
/ house, there is no reason why woman
should not be perfumed with cleanliness
/ unless she is lazy-and this is quite often
the case of her losing her good looks.
| Once in a while
A WOMAN WHO REALLY LOVES LUXURY
! gives herself the milk bath which the
beauties of the court Of the great Louis
used to take, and which, by-the-bye, does
not have drop of milk in it. Instead,
from one of the glass-stOppered little bot
ties that stands on ones dressing case,
enough tincture of benzoin is thrown into
/ the water to give it a milky look-by-tho-
I bye. this is benzoin, not benzine-and,
] after one has bathed in this, one comes
out feeling, not only as fresh as possible,
but with ones skin having perfume like
! that of myrrh. In the days gone by,
| when the cultivation of beauty was a re
/ ligion. all sorts of odd baths were used,
/ and the reigning beauty sat in her bath
/ tub with a liquid up to her neck, and
/ reached out her bare arm for an admirer
to kiss. In an old hotel in Paris, in a
/ room where to-day there work fifty busy
/ needle women, is the bath of Ninon
/ de I5Enclos, which is so beautifully
painted that even trade hasn't
/ driven it away lsabeau OF Ba-
/ garia had her bath made of the juice Of
| strawberries but advise the beauty Of
] to-day to reserve a single strawberry to