The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-17
+ IDEAS for 1Mo1nen.


How to be beautiful IS a topic that
viii win any woman's attention. and it
Is a pity that slso is SO often deluded by
false teachers who pay little or no re-
gard to the national laws. The sooner
women learn TO assist and not to fight
nature the better, and such is the secret
of the science of.face massage.
1t is not necessary to go to a profess
sional masseuse. Every woman can
Danish her own wrinkles and Restore her
owl plumpness of cheek If she viii be
%uided by a few simple directions and
patiently await the result.
Wrinkles are not always the effect of
bad habits, such as frowning and the
tricks of expression which distort the
j face, laughing, lying on the cheeks while
asleep in such a way as to crease them,
but are also due to insufficient nourish-
ment and relaxation of the muscles. The
lines are not merely superficial, but pene-
trate the tissues beneath, which contain
numerous nerves and blood vessels.
Recently, scientists have discovered q
substance obtained from the wool of
sheep. which has the property of a skin
food, being absorbed directly by the pores
of the skin. and supplying the lost It's
sue beneath. This has been used in
various preparations under different
names. but can be far more cneaply
{. prepared at home by purchasing the
l~anoline, itself and making the cream as
follows.L
Obtain half a pound Of lanoiine and
half a pint of pure OIL of sweet almonds.
Then, putting a tablespoonful on a china
plate. add an equal quantity of almond
oil: mix thoroughly, and add from half a
<ar c,a11f,, r , fnocnoonfu1 IF tinatura
of benzoin, until the paste drips from the
knife-a steel case knife is best for the
mixing proeess-in about the consistency
OF very thick cream. All three of these
ingredients are absolutely harmless.
The cream should be applied, prefer
ably at night. and well rubbed in with
the hand.
To efface wrinkles as weu as to nour-
ish the skin, when the lines run hori-
{zonta1y across the forehead, rub up
and down in putting or the cream; when
they are perpendicularly rub with both
/ hands from the centre of the forehead
to the temples. Indeed, 1t may be given
as an almost invariab,e rule in the prac-
tice Of face massage. to rub in the OPP
pcsite direction to that in which the
wrinkles are forming.
Ladies' who wish to give the face a
thorough treatment begin, before apply
ing the skin food. by making perhaps a
dozen strokes with the palms of the
hands frc11 the. center of the forehead
towards the temples, pressing firmly but
gently. This is to efface the perpendicular
lines.
For the horizontal ones. place the tips
of the fingers and thumb of the right
hard, s.igaIly apart, on the forehead just
above ehe eyebrows, drawing the skin
downward. and. with the fingers and
thumb Of the left hand. commencing just
above the ether fingers, rub the skin up
ward a dozen times.
For the dreaded crows feet at the
corners of The eyes press the balls of the
second and 1hird fingers lightly but firmly
just above rhe eyebrows, bringing the
second finger down the side of the eye
brow till it nleets tne cheek; then trans
fer the / ght movement to the third finger
and continue it around the edge of the
l5wer eyelid 20 the nose.
For strengthening the muscles of the
eyelfds, go over the entire surface of the
Z upper eysiids taking up a srnalls portion
t5aa between the thumb and fore
finger ard pinching very gently.
To preserve and restore the roundness
ana. nr7nness of the cheeks, place the
numb of the right hand in the mouth,
Supporting the under surface of the left
cheek and with the four fingers of the
right haad make a dozen rotary move
ments from the outer corner of the left
eye ever the cheek to tine chin, moving
the thumb at the same time inside the
creek in the opposite direction. Then put
the thumb of the left hand inside the
right cheek, and repeat the same move
ments. This may require a little prac-
tice, but VIII soon be easy.
For the chin, place the right thumb
under 1t and, with the right foreinger
slightly curved, rub the left side of the
ca n. Repeat the same operation with the
left hand.
Fer the lines which form from the cor
.ners Of the nose to those of the mouth,
make lightly and firmly with the balls of
taa fingers a dozen strokes from the cor
ners Of Inc lips outward and upward to
the ears.
Hasdng thus done battle with wrinkles
formed ana forming 60 over the entire
face, taking up between the thurnb and
finger as much flesh as can be grasped
between them, pressing firmly, but not
enough to bruise the flesh.
Lastly, with the fiat of the hand, deal
the entire face and forehead a series of
slaps given snlartly enough to make the
face uIngle slightly, but not severely. No
face treatment should ever be so violent
as to leave the slightest bruise. The glow
which, for some time, will be felt all over
the face will prove the stimulus which
the blood has received through the whole
tiszue of flesh, the best assurance that
the nabby. relaxed muscles, being exer-
osed, will retain their tension. The whole
process need not take more than twenty
minutes each night, and in a single month
the result will be very perceptible.
The exercises for restoring the plump
ness of threats are as follows: Shut the
teeth firmly and thrust the head for
warz. then, still keeping the jaws
clencned, move the head backward as
raough against some force pressing upon
ii. Next, turn the head to the left and
placing the right hand, with outspread
finger tips, partly on the neck and partly
behind the ear, turn the head slowly to
the right against the steady pressure of
the hand, which must be as strong as
possible without actually preventing the
movement of the head. Repeat the pro-
cess alternately, six times to the right