The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-31
KEEPING THE SKIN YOUNG.
WHY MANY AMERICAN WOMEN
LOSE THEIR BEAUTY EARLY.

Their Neglect TO Treat Their Faces
with the Care Customary Among
European Notwithstanding the
skin, WIpIng Out wrinkles aad
Curing Dryness.
From the New York sun.
There is absolutely no defensible rea-
son why woman Of 20 should snow her
age as does the average American woman
Of %"
This is what Mary Scott Rowland, who
gives her time to fighting off that per-
sonal devil OF all women. Old Age, said 10
a number Of old and young women who
met al her apartment the other morning.
Dead silence followed this statement ana
every woman prlcked up her ears.
And it's her own fault, her own care
| lessness, iaziness, and indifference when
she does" continued the authority IT'S
high time that the women Of this coun-
/ try should arouse themselves to the i'm
portance Of keeping from growing old
American husbands have the reputation
Of being the best In the world. Now, II
American wives want them to sustain
this reputation they had better begin to
be more particular about their own physl.
/ cal appearance, and pay less attention
| 70 such accessories as bOnnets and gowns
The husband is the very first person to
| notice that his wife is fading. He may
not mention It al first. but after a while
| he comes into breakfast some fine morn
/ ing and says: Why, my dear you don't
/ look well this morning. What's the mat,
! tcr2 Not III, l hope
on, no.. she answers; I'm quite WELL
BY CAD, I guess you are getting DID,
! he answers IN half-resentful tone, and,
/ looking at her more closely. he adds Yes,
/ that's 1t. / see the wrinkles and crows
/ feet in your face. that used to be so pink
| and white and smooth and soft The
/ wife probably doesn't answer, but he
couldn't hurt her more If he struck her.
/ and yet my sympathy Is all with the hus-
| band. The wife has no right to get old.
! Why, an expenditure of $50 a year will keep
| any woman looking fresh and rosy and
/ pretty a girl. and that is less than il
| costs a man to keep shaved"
/ "Oh, madame. aren't you very hard on
/ he women" interrupted young woman
/ with a dry, colorless complexion.
| Indeed you are" chimed in a middle
| aged matron with a complexion even less
/ attractive.
why. of course. old age is the bane of
| every right-minded woman" burst in an
/
| her rough face.
and the woman doesn't live" protest
| ed "a pale. sallow- looking young woman,
| who wouldn't gladly make any sacrifice
to retain the bloom of youth il she only
| knew how"
That's certainly so" murmured every
other woman.
Il know it," laughngly replied madame
! IL suppose it would be kinder to say that
It is ignorance on your part that makes
| you grow old. Now look al her skin" TAX
| ing hold of the pale woman. She isn't 30
| I'm sure. and yet every Vestge of color
| has gone You all, of course, know that
| woman's complexion begins to fail her at
| 3D."
Mercy nor walled the young one
! ITS true" corroborated the old ones,
! with resignation.
| 'How does madame know all this?" ask
! ed one of the young ones with incredulty
Experience, my dear" madame answer
/ ed. How did 1 come to make a study of
| lighting off old age? 1t was just this way:
! Almost from the time ! was born 1 long
| cd to know just how ! was made and
when I got big enough 20 have my first
sweetheart / became very much interested
/ IN medicine. Perhaps this was because
! that first sweetheart was a physician, the
one who extracted the bullet from Jim
/ Fiske; perhaps II was an inherited taste
! from my grandfather who was phys-
for medical books than / did for novels,
and 1 had an instinct for Analysing and
| experimenting and was a born chemist.
after a while / married and went TO
Hot Springs, Ark, for a course of baths.
one day while bathing in what was called
the mud hole, / saw a woman of about
seventy whose body was as smooth as
that Of girl of twenty and whose face
| was the most wrinkled face Ia ever seen
| Her complexion looked more like shriv-
! cllcd russell apple than anything else /
can think of. That made the strongest
| impression on me, ana determined TO find
out why that funny old woman should
! have such "A hideous face and such lovely
neck and arms. There was absolutely no
! necessity for my working at that time
] but the knowledge gained then served me
a good turn when my husbands health
! failed and ] had TO become the bread
! winner. Immediately ] began the study
! of medicine under Dr. X. o. Blaydes Of
! Hot Springs, paying particular attention
! To skin diseases. Soon | learned that il
! was want of nourshmcnt that made the
/ old lady's skin on her face 50 leathery
/ and that's just what ails every one Of
your complexions II is hungry-starvng
! for food. II your stomachs were as hun
Cry as your complcNons you wouldn't be
| here.
This ever-changing climate robs the
skin Of rs natural oil and makes II harsh
and brittle. l told you gospel ruth
when l said that a woman's complexion
/ begins TO fail her at IS, provided up TO that
time she has not given II proper and con-
slant care. From young girlhood the
| pores of woman's skin begin 20 clog with
dried perspiration ana dust. which impede
! their proper function and cause the glands
| 10 thicken. The skin at once thlckens.
| gets dry. and begins slowly hmE surely TO
! discolor. II she would only usNlhe proper