The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-19
SPRING COMPETITIONS.
SENSIBLE TREATMENT FOR MAX
ING THE SKIN FAIR.
How to Work Of the III Effects of
Too Much Winter Tea Drinking,
Rich Food, and Late Hours
Proper Baths and Helpful Diets

Take your complexion in hand in the
spring O. the year and you will never re-
pent the precaution. A woman's delicate
facial cuticle, like her wardrobe and her
drawing room curtains, always needs
renovation after a hard winter. This is
usually because the prolonged cold
Weather is apt to leave the little sur
face blood vessels rather exhausted and,
when the relaxing April weather ar
ri5es all the effects OF late hours, rich
dinners, furnace heated rooms and lib
eral tea potations, at many afternoon re-
ceptons, come to the surface. Now, much
may be done to exercise the ugly mani
festations, in the form of white cheeks,
clogged pores, little incpient wrinkles
arld dark shadows, if the proper precau-
tions, a good diet and the milk cure, are
systematically put in train. The processes
are easy enough and the cure need not
last longer than ten days or three weeks.
for by that time the skin will, inside and
out, be washed quite clean.
WHAT TO EAT.
In the spring, of course, every sensible
woman voluntarily goes a-dieting, and
those who don't know how should first
cut down their allowance OF tea, to not
more than one cup in twenty-four hours.
Tea, as we drink it, strong and Favored
with cream and sugar, is the most potent
sort of factor in wrinkle making. 1t
dries and warpS the cutlcle and II a
woman has sufficient determination she
will deny herself all tea for couple OF
weeks and drink instead, three times a
day, goblet of milk, with little lime
water in it In the morning a big plate
OF cracked wheat, boiled for a full hour
ard served only with butter. will make
up the best of her breakfast. oranges and
boston brown bread she can indulge in
freely, but during the three weeks or
dieting no pastry, sweets, chocolate, rich
salads or 1ried dishes must she touch.
If at odd times genuine hunger drives her
10 the pantry, bowl OF mix and Whole
wheat crackers VIII stitle the cravings
and only rare meat, boiled fVegeta bleS and
green salads are allowable on the list OF
earnest aSceticS.
A HELPFUL BATH.
In the morning, while she makes her
toilet, she should sip a cup of cold or
very hot water and then, after cold
water, enriched with the suds of good
old CASTLE soap After this the basin
must be hall nlied with the m!lkmans
best quality OF rich and SKINNED milk
and the soothing liquid, dashed with her
bare hand, over every feature from chin
to brow. The juice from one-fourth OF a
lemon, squeezed into couple OF plnts
OF milk, serves the double purpose, OF
stimulating and bleaching the complex
ion in this face bath.
II it is not easy to secure the milk
Something of its effects are secured py
putting double handful OF oat meal lnto
q
ing this over the cheeks and brows. But
whatever sort of bath is used the face
must be dried very thoroughly on soIt
old towel and in a short tune, under the
soothing effects of milk and lemon Julce,
the tired wrinkles around ones eyes VIII
smooth out and the surface of the SKIN
feel delightfully."- satiny to the touch.
USING A FACE BRUSH.
At night different sort of bath must
be followed for after a, day in the open
air an amazing amount of dust and
CRIME works into the finest pores and
that only hot water and brush will alb
sclutely take out. The brush in ques-
ton is a rubber affair, buttoning by
straps, onto ones right hand, and 1t IS
so soft that the skin of the smallest
baby is not irritated by its touch. New
eltheless ii gets down into the tlniest
hooks, where any dust has been depos-
tied, and, for women troubled with black
heads, 1t comes as near as 1t is possible
to a positive cure.
After dashing over the face clear hot
water the brush must be gently applied
back and forth, up and down. until every
inch of the skin CLOVIS and tingles. IL is
the brush that quickenS the surface
blood vessels into action again, reviVeS
circulation and more than all aids in
relaxing the nerves and muscles winch
lie about the nose, mouth and eyes. Ihese
unconsciously one keeps all day on
steady tension, those between the eye
bl.ows almost involuntarily -wrinkle into
a frown and even in sleep these are held
Oh a hard unnatural strain unless re-
leased by little massage, or pressing out
with the rubber brush.
There is really very little, by the way
THAT such a brush wilfsnot do, to keep
the cuticle clean. to soften hardening
lines and iron out the deep wrinkles OF
ones forehead. After the heartiest show
Ell of tears, an application of the rubber,
with warm water, will in trice erase
all signs of the gust of feeling, and used
OH the neck and arms it keeps the SKIN
remarkably white and firm.
PINK CHEEKS.
After a faithful brushing at night the
face ought, before it is carefully dried,
to have rubbed into it couple of drops
from a perfectly fresh lemon and an
equal amount of glycerine. This, when
mixed in a teaspoon and applied with
the tips of the fingers, nourishes pale
cheeks into rosy pinkness and after
the small prescription has been rubbed
in all the moisture remaining must needs
be wiped gently off. AT least three times
a week lemon and glycerine should be
used at night, particularly If the skin
is very much inclined to dryness. In place
OF it, perfectly fresh cream, that is thin
and sweet, will be equally beneficial. In
in ones complexion, put the least bit
of the purest cologne in the hot water.
OF few drops of toilet ammonia will
serve to correct the trouble, or the lemon
juice can be applied diluted with a little
water After a fortnight or three weeks
of truly conscientious dieting and a sys-
tematic course of baths, the faithful
vigilance cam be relaxed and when the
early roses come in May there is not the
least reason why anyones cheeks should
not bloom as pink and white, and almost
as fine of texture as nature s fatrer flow
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