The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-07-07
REMOVING FRECKLES
TREATMENT FOR sUsBURS. brown
ED AND FRECKLED FACES.
Information Which VIII Prove VAL
uabie and Advice which, IL Fol-
lowed, viii Bring satisfaction.
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sert themselves, The rose bugs eat the
rose bushes into ecru net and the moth
and freckles eat away the beauty OF fair
faces till this. too, is vanity. A few
freckles may be piquant on a klssable face.
out any one is better without them. y
stronger reason against them is that they
are a symptom Of disordered health. just
as moth patches and moles are. Really
sound vitality and good blood may show
tan and sunburn. but will live out Of doors
the year round without a freckle. Any one
with a thickly freckled face needs the
doctor. and course of medication and build
Ing up just as one does with a crop of
warts. Thin. ilI-nourished skins take this
sdppling easily and ~thickly-biscuit bred
boys and girls I'm the country who seldom
have fresh meat enough while growing.
and I'LL their cravings on green apples and
all manner Of trash. They tire easily. are
a trial as workers, and take whatever
current disorder is going, from grip to
diphtheria- Pie-eating families are sure
to have freckles going TO seed on their
faces. and those who dote on warm
raised biscuit likewise. Bile and freckIes
unquestionably bear some relation TO each
other. bile with a trace Of carbon 10 deepen
its pigment.
1t is as difficult to cure these sunspots as
(o11 "a alALs 4lAA IL
both will take a year or two of strict
medication and change Of habits. Three
generations of Incorrect living on white
bread. pork and Iardaceous compounds. salt
nsh and -four gravies, which are the staple
diet OF most American families, down 10
This enlightened day and hour, combined
with much nervous tension in making a
hVing or getting on in the world, show
their effects in a race more and more sus-
ceptible to unhealthy surroundings-the
close air OF homes and public buildings
the unclean air of badly kept cities and
country. places, for there is not much to-
CHOOSE between a market street foul with
homm ap' With re yai31t IN b1,, = city city. and a village
and a sour cesspool opening via the sink
ana bath tub directly into kitchen and
chambers. with a hennery and stable in the
BACK yard. whose odors oVerpOWer those
O.. orchard bloom and poisoning roses.
Ihere Is not the slightest need of any of
tnese nulsances; neither COW nor horse
should be kept on less than an acre lot.
ana then It's premises should be cared FOR
scrupuiousiy as the family quarters, while
dry earth. free circulation of air and sun
VIII oxidlze and disinfect all household
wastes. Now that electric roads bring out
iy1ng suburbs near, people WI 4 any re-
gard to health and happy lives gill shake
their heads at narrow building lots OF
thirty feet frontage which crowd neighbour
moods together for the propagation of eDf-
denies and low health. They prefer to 20
further afeld where the family can have
oil dCSt VI Dreaming space and sunshine
Nor its own. The day of land speculation
was over when electric roads began to run
and bicycles grew common. With the spread
or intelligence families demand more out
door space and plain houses which spread
more on the ground and do not wear out
women by the four-story flights OF cramped
Queen Anne cottages now happily passing
out OF vogue It is one of the most hope
ful signs OF the times that about our large
cities cheap land companies md their mar
row lots and jerry built, high nosed cot
tages refused by purchasers. L could name
one smart company who began a suburban
settlement on a picturesque marsh five miles
from a large city, ran up an $500 station
and several fancy cottages, christened the
place with a pretentious English name and
advertised with banners, drum and fife, 10
ind lot after lot and house after house
thrown back on their hands by men who
money TO risking the health OF their failii-
les IL Is no use going into the suburbs
to live where the sun cannot lie between
the houses. because they are built so close.
People with money are going back TO the
pleasant old colonial houses, broad and
sunny, with big gardens attached TO orchard
Those haven't 50 much money want Just
as much Of these good things
: OF the tide Of taste, setting itself against
the pretentious show and expensive trick
cry in homes and surroundings which calls
itself artistic and is as far from art as it
Is miles from comfort and use. There is
neither heas:h for their children nor beauty
for their women in such places, which il is
mockery to call homes.
TO CURE FRECKLES.
My dear young woman, if you want TO
krow the cause and cure of your freckIes
and moth, we must go far back into your
breeding and enter without hesitancy into
your family habits. IL you live as nine
tenths of American families live. and have
pork and beans every Saturday or Sunday
the year round. with salt fish. smoked beef
and ham in place Of fresh beefsteak three
parts OF the time. and doughnnts ito fill up
on" in July; If strawberry shortcake, straw
berries washed down with milk, and ice
cream soda are your substitutes for plenty
OF fine and wholesome fruit, you are not
likely to lose freckles or liver spots uptil
they change into something worse or You
change your living for the better. There
Is no cure for freckles and spots short of
enewing the blood and tissues, which is
more than a six weeks work on-hand.
Corrosive acid washes may eat through the
layers of the skin and pale the spots, only
TO be renewed as the cuticle grows again.
The only way 10 avoid freckleS is to pre-
vent them by amounting the skin with some
preparation that is not greasy. and pow
dering with mineral face powders, chalk,
bismuth. tale. magnesia. fuller's earth or
kid or zinc. Blsmuth Is not advisable,
except as a dress powder on occasion. and
then II should be well mixed with the
finest OF chalk or tale. Applied with the
ton or rubbed up in pomade, a very little
powder makes a better effect than thrice as
much busted on You dust on bath pow
0cis, WAlCa Il dipuCQ 1oI OFNluE anu CNOiinG
effect to whiten the complexion artificial
whites should be used in liquid form. II
looks much more natural this way and is
less injurious No woman of taste uses
or advises the use of face powder in this
enlightened day, when women are so much
better Informed as 10 the safety and util-
tty OF identifying arts The stage and pub
lie appearances may require Ii, and a
shrewd. ooServant eye has detected I'M
mistakable signs of making-up in femi-
nine platform speakers and eminent suf-
fragiStS. who are apt to be among the best
customers of cosmetic artists and French
milliners. Where powder must be used.
wear il without reproach or pretense. as
yachtswomen wear IL who have to chalk
their faces burned to a crisp from the glare
of the sun on the water. For this purpose
the face should be anointed with q little
cold cream. well wiped of, and be speedily
rubbed over with a bail Of chalk. This is
the crudeSt cosmetic practicei \ recipe in
vogue among Oriental and Mediterranean
women evidently is intended for a similar
which have a coarSer effect on sallow or
dark skin than on a blonde one.
FOR SUNBURN.
sam. 2 grains: spermaceti. 1 ounce: flowers
or zinc, y ounce; white wax. 1 ounce: rose
water. 9 ounces. Alas the Mecca balsam is
to-day u~nattainable. A fragment OF this
most famous cosmetic was exhibited in Lon
don some years since as a great curiosity.
but is unknown at present. Substituting
balsam of Peru. the recipe is a good one
for whitening the skin and destroying its
rofghnesS. Women OF the SeragiiOS are
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