The evening times., 1895-08-12
For a Clear
Complexion
SIMPLE REMEDIES FOR EN-
HANGING FACIAL BEAUTY.
Exquisite Cleanliness the Most
Important Feature of
the Treatment.

| (By Diane dc Morny. Copyright, 1895, by
Diane de Morny.)
Beauty usually first inspires love, but it
| Is certain that cleanliness is a great factor
in its preservation, and also am bound to
| say once more, no woman suffering from
| any one OF the common forms OF skin disease
| ever looks really clean.
| For years it has been my habit to make a
| mental note of the skin disease and blemishes
| OF women and girls, and have found that
| about twenty only in hundred have really
healthy, finn-looking skins, frequently with
freckles which are not unclean ooking. The
other eighty are pimply and unsightly from
eczema, acne or biackheads. or both.
ALACK OF CLEANLINESS.
! At the risk Of being tiresome aud regarded
| by my readers as a persistent crank, 1 am
| bound to say that do honestly believe un-
| cleanliness is the chief cause Of the un-
slightly faces in every assetnblage, on the
streets and at home, in town and in country.
Perhaps 1 should qualify this statement
| by saying that a mistaken idea of cleanli-
| ness prevails, and that mere bath every
day is not sufficient to sntitle one to be
called absolutely clean.
Che skin ie constantly undergoing the pro-
cesses OF freproductionand ddecay-constantly
secreting and endeavoring to throw off the
decayed and uselessmatter. TheskiI OF ;he
face throws off its dead and useless scurf
in tiny, dust-like particles. If daily these
| little specks OF dead cuticle are removed by
friction and detergent, the channels are
kept open and disease cannot, unless in
herited or contagious, attack the face. I'm
fortunately, our American climate. with its
sudden changes, too frequently checks the
flow of perspiration which, unrestraiDed,
would of itself carry off the dead matter.
The consequences OF tie arrested effort to
free the pores is congestion, and the results a
skin positively loaded and obstructcd with
adhering refuse matter, which is not only
filthy, but actually poisonous in its effects
when forced back into the blood.
DIRT, DIRT, DIRT.
wish that 1 could see every individual
woman who reads these lines and ,eil
her by word of mouth of the quantities Of
fifth which will accumulate in the pores
of the skin of the face in n months time;
of the hidcous cases of skin diseases which
have been the despair Of women and girls,
and which have, in the course OF fe "
months of proper cleansing and friction
yielded and given away 10 beautiful. satiny
complexions, free from every blemsh
have not much confidence in my own
powers of eloquence, but il seems TO me
could not fail in relating the actual his
tories taken from my own daily observa-
Uons which are really the result OF years
of experience, that uncleanliness and a
misunderstanding of what that word means
are the chief causes of our disfigured skins.
Cleanliness must be SO active that all cor
poral impurities are thrown off through
its agencies, cutaneous eruptions removed,
and the entire surface of The body made
as pure and smooth and bright as in in
fancy No simple washing or bathing
will do this, though such ablution be per-
formed six times a day. There is no
no publication of the skin, and no cure for
diseases resulting from obstructcd pores,
In my opinion, except through water and
soap and friction
cite an actual instance which has come
under my observation during the past year.
A POWERFUL ILLUSTRATION.
A young Swedish girl , u housemaid in a
hotel where was staying was a repu.siye
object from skin disease which appeared
at first glance, to he erysipelas. Her face
was covered with groups of whitehead
pinIples, In various stages Of suppuration.
her cheeks, nose and skin were the color
of bright red cranberry, and the entire
skin appeared stretched and shiny, as it
will on a boil when gathering The girl
was an excellent servant, but several Of
the guests had complained to the house
keeper that she was personally offensive
10 them, and she was about to be djschar rgcd
when spoke gently to her Of her conf
plexion, mad Sue told me with q burst Of
tears how she had suffered for years from
the hideous disease. She said she had
tried many advertised remedies, but had
given up in despair, as they had made her
face worse than ever.
prescribed a course of treatment for
her, which Included washing her face daily
several times with soda and water and
i very pure healing soap. In n month sho
was able to use cameis hair brush with |
soap. The treatment was practically the |
one ! have recommended In my talks, |
consisting OF bathing cream used at |
night and cooling lotion during the day,
and now, eight months from the time |
first undertook the cure OF ''Helma," her
face is as smooth and as fair as a child's /
Every pimple and spot has disappeared, |
and she herself, referring to IL, says: For |
sure, when now look in the glass all |
the time smile, ami for sure, one year ago |
when 1 look In the glass 1 all tho time :
cry"
Helma's case was an unusually bad and |
disgusting one. but 1t was AMPLY . case |
of neglected eczema. A great many people /
do not discriminate bet ween acne and |
eczema.
A COMMON DISEASE.
Eczema is In its sioaplest form disease |
by the eruption OF great |
number of small blister headed looking
little pimples clustered together in patches
usually confined to one part of the body
at time. The ptmples are accompanied |
by Intense Itching, and the result of |
scratching fs to tear the thin, fnfiamed 4
caAkcle. snd - irFiaatc Is that Il suppar
ates and dries. leaving, afler the crust has |
fallen. . ttaie ssd marx upon the sltn, |
which = either dry, o.. n spus eases,