The times., 1897-07-11
TRAGEDY OF A COMPLEXION.
Experience of One who Lost Beauty
while Seeking 10 Enhance 1t.

while Seeking TO Enhance 1t.
New York, July 10-My pretty neigh
Tor is in despair. She has naturally one of
the finest compleXions, clear as wax, and
the softly shaded color of a Gontier rose
bud. 1t is color lhat glOws and goes
with feeling, freshness and fatigue. Civ
ing one an Irresistible sympathy with her
seusitiveness. But she is-past twenty
five, we VII say, and her pretty color
is gone for days together: faint lines
gather about the eyes and corners of the
lips, only to be seen in a strong light,
to be sure, and vanishing after a good
rest aud fresh air. But the way things
are put up in modern life, rest and fresh
air are cxSCtly the things most difficult
To secure 80 the lines i'll her lace deepen,
aud a unre Ike old ivory Creeps under
the skin, with faint yellow shades about
the temples, worse than freckies.
NV neighlsor attacked these evils with
spirit. There is hardly a complexion recipe
in the Papers she mas not tried, hardly
specialist whose advice she has not asked.
/ do not say She has taken all the advice
or followed all the recipes; if she had
size pu,-ht have no skin left to improve
AS it IS, with bichloride lotions and va
rious p8stes, her face is losing its fresh
ness. and ii the truth is insisted upon,
her skin is not SO much velycty as pIushy
in a see light. She has taken t. wearing
bonnet and veil every hour possible, even
receiving visitors in the parlor with thei!H
on, and that tight little mask veil is
hardly lifted from 10 O'Clock ia the morn
caa fp
she burics her face TO the ears in a deep
chiffon rnf-chiffon kind property of the
passee. Passee, did / say? Let us use
kinder phIaSe-''des bellies annees," for,
shadowy moth patches and delicate down
c:u the petal Notwithstanding, my Eeighbor
is more charming with every season. Her
stories are told with a better selection
and more poirt, she grows more sympa
thetic and lets others talk more of them
selves than she used; her taste In books
and plays improves, not TO mention her
gowns, her note paper and her rooms.
What shall | do aboutit?" she demands
ira gicalIy And inthe same breath, What
haven't / done?" She took stearl baths
for the face and caught cold n the eyes
afterward. She tried a famous cream,
and went to sleep with her face sticky
q
and silver drips sirup nightly for three
weeks. The oil and glycerne soaked into
| the skin, the pores enlarged and the
! sticky paste made her SO nervous she
| gave the rest away to her maid, whose
married sister thought it was bloom of
| youth end rubbed it on her face when
| she went out sundays, instead of face
| powder.
| bonnet and wrap, tied on thick dotted
veil and went to the Naughteenth street
specialists, coming home with lot of
boxes and so cents change out of $40
bill. One box neld a pot which contained
four ounces apparently OF potash soap,
| which she reverently applied. In weeks
tiine border of fine new pimples ap-
| peared around the edge of cheeks and
| throat, where the secretions escaped OH
! the edge of the grease which sealed them.
| The pug dog was caught trying to eat
some of the pomade off the toilet sau-
GERS, and the Swede chambermaid car
ried the rest down to the cook, who uses
| everything she can get for her hands
cracked with being much In hot water
| BenZoinated lard at 81 an ounce or kid
ney mutton fat is all the same tn her
| 'ollt uOtS not hIsOW lndt 0lliHT the hands
before she puts them in water, wearing
gloves about work and washing the vege-
tables with a wire whisk would keep
her hands soft better than all the vaunted
The massage artists had their turn next,
at So, So and 81 a sitting, for my
neighbor was impartial enough to try them
all. She took them in SERIES Ny friend
! declares that she found one treatment
did her just as much good as another.
The lady reporters say it is worth the
| cost TO take high-prced treatment any
| day for the fashionable information you
| get. It's pity that so much of the So
oial informal ton gained this way is much
too personal 10 print by managing edi-
tors having a just regard for the laws
! OF libel.
Tragic enough was the experience of
| London lady with specialist, told IN
british medical journal a few years
| since.
Imagine a elegant little woman, mod
cled after the Duchess airy heroines, a
widow under thirty, well left in fortune,