The Washington times., 1895-05-12
B6aUfu ReGepes
For My Lady
:
PRACTICAL PRACTICES WHICH
WILL DEFEAT TINES WORK.
The Bath Is Important, and
! You Should Know Just
! How to Take 1t.
BY DIANE DE MoRNEY.

for an ugly woman except the most grind
ing poverty. i do rot dispute the French
proverb, I'll faut souffrir pour etre belle,"
but what woman cares a lush for little
physical self-denial if beauty may be pur-
chased at that price. Here in this great
city, with its countless suffering poor, 1
will guarantee there are not more than
twenty women in thousand who do not
annually spend more on cosmetics and
various aids to the preservation of beauty
than in charity. / know one woman, fash
ionable to be sure, and moving in the best
set, but by no means rich as riches are
accounted these days, who gives me the
ollowing items of toilet expenses, which
she calls her regular expenses. "Of
COURSE" she adds naively, there are in
cidentals, because one is constantly try
ing some new article, don't you know"
A TIDY LIST OF EXPENSES.
Bath and massage daily,
90 per day, say. $50 per month
Manicure. .. :. :. 10 per month
fedlcure.. 10 per month
Ha1rdresser.. 80 per month
Perfumes, toilet creams, To-
uons, powders, etc, say. 20 per month
Madame is inclined TO be too stout, so
she rides horseback-not, as she frankly
says, because she likes it, but TO keep her
flesh down; and also she is an attend
ant at one of the fashionable gymnasiums
500 more month is not an extrava-,
CANT sum to set aside for this branch of
the beauty preserving process. and for
sum total we will consider $265 q
month the cost of a perfectly well-groomed
woman of the distinctly fashionable world
In New York CitV the nf
1895.
1t is only just to say that the lady am
writing of is nearer fifty than forty and
looks certainly not Cay older than thirty
1--WE in the strongest glare Of sunlight.
What else does she do, you ask. What
time can she have for anything else!
answer as she replied when i put the
same questions to her: she pays visits,
entert aims and is entertained" What else
should she do? This type of woman has,
in her own estimation and according TO the
decree of fashion, served her highest pur-
pose OF maintaining her beauty. Thirty
two hundred dollars year she considers
in this case at least (and there are hundreds
of othersl wisely expended for that pur-
pose. How many women in New York
whose incomes are about ten thousand dol
liars year, expend three thousand in
charity? / wait for an answer.
FOR MUCH LESS MONEY.
Z But cannot a woman keep her good looks
and manage to defeat time at something
like a sum within the reach OF the average
luittle sisters of the rich? Yes, indeed, and
i propose in these letters to tell you how.
Any woman, l don't care who she is. how
modest her circumstances, nor, to put it
| broadly, what her age, to-day can, by
| little care and the practice OF necessary
rules which are the price of perfect physi-
cal beauty, practically defy the years to
come, and moreover she can collect the in
| terest due her on the years that have been
Ifdefrauding her up to date; she can get back
| the youth she has lost.
First of all we must recollect that clean
| liness is next to godllness-so far as good
/ looks go, I will not say it discounts in its
/ results physically the praticce OF all the
| virtues-but to my thinking you have got
10 be clean before you can be good. Dirt
and religion do not blend; as our cook says
| when the sauces fail TO mix smoothly, they
kind of cruddle." Now to be clean means
| blessed day of ones life. Slavery! you may
| say; so it is, but we all are slaves to one
| habit or another and the bondage OF soap
| and " ater Isl blessing disguised.
l will guarantee the transformation of a
| plain, sallow-face bad-compleXioned wo-
| man into a wholesome, rosy, bright-eyed
| daughter of the gods within the period of
| six months if she viii follow my advice
! and the rules take the liberty of prescrib-
4 ing; for be ii understood / know a lot about
| this subject, having studied and read and
! personally worked in the laboratories with
| the leading opponents OF the art of beauty,
| not only in America, but at the fountain
| head of science in France.
| A BEAUTY BATH
| First of all then the daily bath-taken in
| a tub and with good scrub from head to
| feet, including the face. A large brush is
now especially manufactured for face scrub
| bing-it costs at retail $1.25. 1t measures
| about six inches in length and five across.
The wood back kisunvarnished and the bristles
called camels hair bristles. 1t is easy
| obtainable.
| Use pure soap.
Bran and almond meal bags are excellent
| things for a luxurious bath. They are not
necessary for the purpose we have in view
but inasmucb as they are delicious and
easily obtained by those who wish to buy
| them and not difficult to make at home by
those who prefer to do SO, will add they
may be found at the usual shops devoted to
toilet articles and cost about 20 cents
each. ] will also add a recipe for making
them at home to this paper The bran ano
almond meal bag will make your bath soft
and fragrant, but it will not do away with
the necessity for soap and the scrubbing
I y
may also use in your bath two tablespoons
full of bath liquid which is very delicate
and fragrant. l give the recipe for max
ing this also; it is easily prepared at home
The bran and almond meal bags and lai1
| virginia. are luXuries-not necessities in the
| beauty process. You make take your batf
either in the morning or at night just be
fore retiring, with preference for tht
night hour.
HOW TO BATTLE.
Fill your tub as full as it is comfortable
for you to sit in, with warm water; begir
by scubbing the face thoroughly with the
| brush and pure soap; next take care to riIs'
it well, first in warm water, gradually de
1creasng the temperature until you finally
s get good cold dash of water all over the
q face. Your face is now washed, and if vol
have been in the most reprehensible custom
of using little soft cloth dipped in water
Or a sponge, or any make-sbift for soap nc
kcrubbing pray pardon me when say YOU
face is now washed, but it will not be clean
!, by which mean rid OF the accumulation o1
~ dead skin and clogged pores, for montf
4lSet with daily repetition OF the SCRUB
hbing-and just here let me ask how long
tJgYou think you could keep your hands cleal
fNff you used a little rag dipped in water 10
1.-The purpose.
III Now the texture of the skin of the race
particularly if oily, possesses peculiar at
Traction for DUST and the loatnsome black
heads, or as they are still more Yulgarf
i 5gealled, flesh worms, are nothing but an ac
s FORMULATION or dirt-pardon the terseness
+ ttmy English-each black point marking al
ebstructed follcle You may count on ban
/ ishing bla ckheads forever if you will follow
my instructions, for later l will give ful
directions as to the treatment for thes
truly disgusting robbers OF good looks
| "a. Zoo &c Sprubhpd an;