The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-02-18
NO.. 81.
THE BLOOM ON THE PEACH,
Some of the Good Things That Must Be
Sacrificed for the Complexion.


Sacrificed for the Complexion.
The complexion of young girls is very
often a source of trouble to them, and
continues to be so in spite of doctors
and dermatologists and medicaments of
all sorts. Perhaps when all things else
have failed they will find the whole
trouble done away with by judicious
diet and course of living. In many
places there are no doctors especially
skilled in relation to the skin, and moth
ers content themselves with thinking
it will all come right in time. But they
need not wait for time if they will fol-
low wise routine in matters of bath
and diet.
In the first place, they should abolish
the cold bath entirely, understanding
that it is only the very rugged who can
endure it, and that very few take it 10
advantage anyway; and they should use
only the warm and hot baths, and use
them frequently-the hot bath, quick
one taken at bed time, with proper pre-
cautions about taking cold afterward.
With this there should be not only eN-
ercise about the house in the way Of
familiar duties, although it is always in
| the same over-breathed air, but there
should be rapid walking ana hurrying
| out-of-doors, without any other fixed
| purpose than that of enjoyment, now
and then a short run, if it may be taken
| without discomfort, and sometimes.
properly protected, n tussle with rain
storm, but never exposure, when un-
yelled, to cold and sharp winds.
And for the rest, diet is to be called
| upon to work miracles. Pastry is to
| be abandoned; all sorts of rich cakes
and desserts as well; sweetmeats, cam
| dies, oily nuts, the whole delicious bon
bon tribe, together with the homely old
colonial doughnut, the rarebit and
cheese in any form. Fruit, too, will be
taken with hesitation, and more gen.
| orally cooked than uncooked; fritters
| will be forsaken, potatoes will be re-
placed by bread, and the bread will be
as far as possible, of coarse grain rather
than of fine -four.
| Neither tea nor coffee will be drunk
by our young aspirant for good co1u-
pleXion, nor chocolate, be it said; she
can have milk if it agrees with her.
preferably SKINNED milk and butter.
milk. She will be surprised to find how
soon she can dispense with much drink
ing at her meals, and how refreshing
water alone will become. If she drank
no water at all while eating, and rs
much as she wished couple of hours
or so later, it would be better yet; but
| =, Of hn
W ouId do well to try and limit herself
to no more than a dozen tablespoonfuls
| of LIQUID with each meal. OF course it
is unnecessary to say that she takes no
wine nor anything of that sort.
| With this she should allow herself
plenty of good and well-cooked meat,
and dish gravy when it is free from
fat; not always a great deal Of beef,
| but rather mutton and poultry and
game. Meat increases the muscular
| firmness and strength, and is supposed
to add more to the nervous force than
other diet; and often a low condition of
the nerves has more to do with the skin
trouble than anything else. Some OF
the most irritating, disfguring and
painful of skin troubles arise from de
preston of the nervous system, either
from worry or overstrain, or from NAL
nutrition.
1t must be understood, then, that the
diet is to be bountiful and generous, but
that it is to be thoroughly digestible,
and never greasy nor too rich, and that
all eating between meals and before 60
ing to bed is to be given up. Any girl
who brings her habits down to these
simple ways, and has regular and pro-
longed sleep, will soon have the peachy
skin that belongs to her years, unless
she has some more deep-seated and in
eradicable trouble than is common.
For those who have no trouble with
their skins, of course such strictness OF
regime is not requisite; but the bloom
will be kept great while longer which
has not been interfered with by indi-
gcstible dainties and lazy habits.-Har-
per's Bazar.