The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-31

my age in this city, then she can have
the blue ribbon for downright homeli-
ness"
You've doctored your complexion al
most to DEATH" answered madame quiet
~ MANY women do. They use prepa-
rauons, excellent in themselves often, but
not suited to their requirements. Tine
ture of benzoin is very detrimental to oily
skins. The familiar rose water and glyce-
rine in the majority of instances makes
the complexion dry, yellow, and leathery.
Face masks are dreadful in their effects
on not only the skin but the general
health, particularly those made Of rubber
They make the face perspire and the i'm
purities which eXude from the pores cling
10 the rubber for a while, and are reab-
sorbed. Steaming the face robs the skin
of its natural oil, causes wrinkles to ap-
pear, and makes one sensitive to neural
gia. Under the delusive pretence of facial
massage many hundreds of women have
had the delicate tissues of their faces
pinched and slapped and rubbed and twist
ed without any regard whatever for the
natural condition of the skin. Disap-
pointment generally follows the use of all
the things / have mentioned, and also
of the methods employed. AL of these
remedies are enough to ruin woman's
face.
lone should be as careful about soaps
used on the skin as about diet. The best
soap in the world for the complexion is
a pure olive oil soap made in the south
of Spain from the fruit of trees that grow
near the creeks. 1t takes six months to
make this soap, and it is expensive, but
! it. is economy to pay a good price for any
/ thing that goes on the complexion. A
woman cries out against paying 81 for a
box Of powder. She doesn't know that it
viii last twice as long as 81 worth of
cheap powder.
zone of the most beautiful women of
this city has been coming to me off and
on for eight years She was about 20 when
she looked in her mirror one day and dis
covered something that other people had
found out sometime before. That was
that her skn-was failing her. i recon-
mended certain preparations. She said
she would use them, and pretty soon she
went abroad. Two years later she came
in one day in tears and exclaimed: DO
look at my skin. Won't you take me in
hand? ] tried the treatment you suggest
ed. and my face was coming round beau
tifully, but | got out Of the preparation
and so bought lot of fancy things in
Paris. and / guess they've about done
for my pink and white skin.
"'Highiy scented soaps and skin beau
tlhers often bring on skin Diseases / an
swered drily, but you can restore your
complexion at small cost and trouble If
you viii persist I'm nourishing it, She
got more advice and packed off 20 Europe
again, remaining this time four years.
She came back the other days and came
az once TO me- saying: It's worse than
ever. what am / 10 do2' It's your own
fault 1 answered; and now you skin
has got beyond the stage where you can
restore IL yourself. Nothing but the work
Of an expert can help you and it viii
cost you a round sum, but It can be re-
juvenated. That is an example of the
way the typical American woman treats
her complexion"
But the great mass of women don't
have the money to spend on keeping off
wrinkles.
"Boshl Every woman with good sense
can go 10 a facial specialist whose meth
DDS and preparations can be subjected 10
the test OF reason and analysis and learn
how TO acquire or retain lovely skin. II
women would only pay a little more at
tcntlon TO their compilations and little
less TO their hats and gowns they would
be more than delighted with the result,
and 80 would their husbands and chill
drcn."
why Is % that actresses and singers
have such beautiful compleXions and re-
tain their youthful looks?' asked a fiabby-
faced woman
Because they appreciate the value Of