Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-11
DANES BEAUTY TALKS.
SKIN DISEASES AND THEIR MANY CURES
Women, to Excite Love and Affection of 9th CTS, Must Have Clean Com
 plexions
BY DIANE DE MoRNY.

BY DIANE DE MoRNY.
 (Copyrighted, 1895, by Diane de Morny)
 Beauty usually first inspires love, put 1t is certain that cleanliness is great factor in it's preservation, and also am bound to say once more, no woman suf- fering from any one of the common forms of skin disease ever looks really ciean-
 For years it has been my habit to make mental note of the skin disease and blemishes of women and girls and have found that about twenty only in nun dred have really healthy, firm-lookihg skins, frequently with freckles which are not unclean looking. The other eighty are pimply aNd unsightly from eczema acne or blackheads, or both.
 A Lack of Cleanliness.
 At the risk of being tiresome and re- garded by my readers as persistent crank, lam bound to say that 1 do non estly believe uncleanllness is the chlel cause of the unsightly faces in every as serblage, on the streets and at nome, ln town and in country Perhaps shouid qualify this statement by saying that mistaken idea of cleanliness prevails, anu that a mere bath every day is not sutll- cfent to entitle one to be called apsoiute- ly clean. ,,,.,. .ho nrocesses of reproduction and decay constantly secreting and endeaNorinS to throw off the decayed and useless mat ter. The skin of our face throws OH US dead and useless scurf Tn tlny' ous.-lihe se particles. If daily these little specks oi dead cuticle are removed by friction ana o detergent the channels are kept open and disease cannot, unless 1nneriteu oi contagious, attack the face. Untortunate- ly. our American climate, with It's suaaen changes. too frequently checks the now of nerspiration which. unrestrained' uo,,id of itself carry off the dead matter. The conseouence of the arrested efloft 10 free the pores is congestion, ana the re sults a skin positively loaded ana oo- structed with adhering a,.s relust est actnally ,cisonous in it's effects when forced pack nto the blood.
 Dirt, Dirt, Dirt.
 wish that could see every inoiVioud, ,, uoman who reads these lines, anu ter. ,er by word of mouth of the quantlties ol ilth which will accumulate in the pores ,f tha ri,in of the face in months time; if the hideous cases of diseases when ,ave heen the despair of women ana girls. and which have, in the course or 'ew months of proper cleansing ana lrlc- ion, yielded and given away to peautl- i,,l satiny complexions free from every olemish. I have not much confidence in my own bowers of eloquence, but 1t seems to me sould not fail in relating the actual hls- ,ories taken from my own daily opserVa- ion oS each case, to impart my conVlc- .ions which are really the result of years If experience, that uncleanliness ana Misunderstanding of what that word means are the chief causes or our dlsiis- Ired skins. Clea nlness must be so actlFe hat all corporal impurities are thrown If through it's agencies, cutaneous erup- ions removed, and the entire surface Of he body made as pure and smooth and bright as in infancy. No simple washing ,r bathing will do this, though such ablu- ion be performed SIX times day. There no purification of the skin, and no cure Or diseases resulting from obstructed pores. in my opinion, except through wa CT and soap and friction.
 I cite an actual instance which has come under my observation during the past year.
 A Powerful Illustration.
 A young Swedish girl, housemaid in hotel where I was living, was a repul- i've object from skin disease which ap- )eared, at first glance, to be erysipelas. Her face was covered with groups of white head pimples in various stages of uuppuration, her cheeks, nose and chin were the color of a bright red cranberry. md the entire skin appeared stretched md shiny as 1t will on boil when gath .ring The girl was an excellent sar- rant but several of the guests had com ,lained to the housekeeper that she was
 
 vas about to be discharged when I spoke gently to her of her complexion, and she old me with burst of tears how she aad suffered for years from the hdeous disease She said she had tried many advertised remedies but had given up in iespalr as they had made her face worse than ever. I prescribed a course of treatment for her which included wash sng her face daily several times with soda md water and very pure healing soap. n a month she was able to use camel's nair brush with soap. The treatme mt was practically the one I have reconl- nended in my Talks. consisting of a heal ng cream used at night and 8 cooling To- ion during the day, and now eight months from the time I first undertook he cure of "Helma" her face is as imooth and as fair as a child's, every ,nlple and spot has disappeared, and ihe herself in referring to it says: For ,,lre when I now look in the glass I all he time smile. and for sure one year lgo when I look in the glass all the time ny"
 HeIma's case was an unusually bad and disgusting one but it was simply case If neglected eczema great many peo- ,le not discriminate between acne and eczema.
 A Common Disease.
 Eczema is in it's simn'er' fo~"' dis