The morning times., 1896-08-23
SECRET OF BEAUTY.
How Some Women Can Stand Tan and Sunshine
The Secret Explained.

.'You domestic women" said a chatty
little soubrcttc. stretching her small feet
before her in a shady corner "f tine piazza
RI ling. ''have no idea hoT- to be beautiful
TO you, exposure to the sun means ueIiness
means chap and rrcckIes. You are not
beautiful, and you knowit. YoI are dowdy
and ugly. We are stylish and pretty.
You can tell an actress-even IL she doesn',
paint-from n domestic woman any day.
because the stage woman is so inviting To
the eyes and your home women so pIssa-
bic.
Il have to SMILE" said she. settling back
cOnifortab bly, and lifting her little feet 10 Il
excuses you make for your pl3inness.
Excuse me for being personal IN my re-
marks. But take that pretty little blonde
woman who sits next tp yoI at the table.
Yesterday she bcycled all the morning.
Toda she is red as a blaze ana her hands
are rreckled Tomorrow she viii peel
and then she will be spotted for Il week.
Her hair is all faded out, too, and she walks
tired.
NOW look at mel No. don't take sn
humble a person as myself. But take
th1t famous beauty, my friend, Lillian
Russell. She is stopping at little
quiet seashore spo. not very far away.
She has her gold bicycle with her and
she rides every day. You should see
her. She never makes up a drop ptf
and cream. and her hands like milk
The women all around are III the dining
room are frights after day in the sun.
But Lillian is fair as ever
Il VIII tell you the first reason. 1t Is 10
cause home women are tos In'ioleni I" make
themselves pretty Now. VIII take that
back and say thhat some are TOO Gllfident-
I know some women who have the features
and h hIir To beprolessioni! beauties, hu; who
would ,onsiderIt a waste OF time anh even
a sin to cultivate those natural gifts. Ye,
they would Ike to. If they knew now, and
they could do it easily
since | have taken my friend Lillian
foranexamp:e let metell you how she man
ages her ercompiex!oD. after she CO rns IN f1.-'n
ride in the broiiing sun.
she has,ens To her room at once and
takes off her clothes slo wly- Sudden throw
ing off means exposure tn fraughts and
u T1ss,v, in
4 c,ol white frock she annin,s that re'i.
pe-sp.ring face with nice. homemade
cold cream. She spreads il Oh well and lets
il stay on. Meanwhile she busies herself
round the room. for she is all Industrious
body. ---.
while the face S getting its cleansing.
for that is what the cream does FOR the
face the hands are dipped in little
bran water and held there ten or fifteen
minutes, one at a time. This sofens
them and takes out the burn. They. too.
are row creamed and slipped into gloves.
after the face cream has heCn rubbed
off. more is applied and taken off care
fully The face is rot touched with
water. and not until time to retire. seve-
raj hours later. is there II" water Zip
which freshens the skin and clears the
pores.
Now, | know that domestic women
think this uncIeanly. They rush TO tn.
faucet twenty times q day and dssh water
over their long suffering complexion
But at night they go to bed without the
full figure dip And that any woman who
holds her beauty will tell you is more
necessary than the continual Raging Or
the skin Of the face.
There is another beautiful wonan
also a friend Of mine whose conple xion
is always referred to with enthusiastic
words This is Calve. the Carmen of
undyinc fame That woman isn't pretty.
or she wouldn't be il she Were living
home life Her complexion would r..t
thick. and she would have the waist Of
an apple woman.
..Catve keeps her complexion by thu
process that every olive-h hucd woman should
follow-that Of scrubbing the face. l have
seen Calvc do il hundred times and can
describe it,
AT nj ght she rubS into her face the small
est pinch OF a cream.-She massa ges it into
the skin and when through, there is no tell
tale grease left. In the morning she leans
over basin OF hot water and, with plc .
OF the finest soap, she lathers her face as
though under q barhers hand The lather
she lets stand for a minute to reach The in
nermost pores.
with basin after basin of hot water
she takes off the soap, and when the face
is clear again she picks up a SMALL soft
'scrubbing brush kept for the face and
briskly scours the skin until it is ruddy
and clear \ dash of cold water harticns