The times., 1897-05-30
THE CARE OF THE SKIN
No Need to Get Wrinkles if You
Take Care of Yourself.
A NATTER OF PRESERVATION
The Careful Woman Should Rene
yate Herself Twice a Year, Once
in the Spring and Once Again in
the Aut1mn-The Great Value of
a Clear Complexion.


spiing and IAN as religiously as she ,eno-
Yates her house. said an authority on the
subject tc a distressed young woman the
other day.
..Renovate her skim" repeated the gnl
in a mystified way, rubbing one hand over
her rough, leathery cheeks
"Yes, renovate it, repeated the author
ity ..she should give her skin genuine
fan and spring cleaning, and she fails in
her duty to herself and her family when she
fails 10 do this y
.'Weil, my skin certainly needs some
thing" put in the girl mourninlly.
"And SO does mine,' added middle
aged woman who had dropped in.
1T needs Ienovating, l tell you, the
authority went on. Every woman's does
after being shutupin our hot, t,fuInace-heated
houses all winter. Don't you know how
plants come out and flourish III the spring
when we put them outon the window !edges
and give them new earth and notrishlnent
and care? Well, the complexion viii do the
saue if properly renovated"
"You must have just had a hoaseclea ing
on YOUR countenance," said the girl, look
ing at her enyiously You haven't got a
wrinkle, not even the tiniest line about
the eyes and mouth and you areas pink"nd
white as baby"
Yes, I've just given my skin very
thorough spring cleaning answered The
authority, land I've just passed my forty
eighth birthday. Let me tell you women
something As long as woman is free from
wrinkles she doesn't hesitate 70 tell her age
Funny, isn't it? But just let few lines Or
d sign OF crows feet appear, and th. best
and strongest characters Of our sex, If
they don't fiji outright when questioned
about their age. refuse 70 answer on the
ground OF Standardization, as the law
yers say
"oh, madam exclaimed woman fully
forty years old, bursting into the room;
what do you think? Mrs. Inquisitive had
the inapertiaence to ask me what did 70
keep my complexion SO smooth and soft
and youthful, and | wouldn't tell her. L
guess I'm not going to give a good tliag
away Why, juss thilki If we women VINO
know the secret of eternal youth gave Il
away every woman would ward off that
personal devil of womankind, old age.
Don't You think you Were a little sci
fish not TO tell your friend how you keep
your skin young?" the expert asked, with
great candor. But that's the way with
women Maybe some day we viii grow
broad-ninded enough to give up that petit
ness. More than half OF my patrons are
lust like you. When any one asks them
what they do To their skin they say: L?
Why, Cont Go one blessed thing only
today got a letter from a customer in
London sa wing she asked her own sister.
who had just heen over here, and had had
her skin renovated, who treated it and
what she was using on it now, and the
sister said: OIL went TO a nr. So AMI 80.
and his medicine did me so much good that
my ska took on the bloom of youth. L
don't use any hing on it | was the DR..
So and So, and the same steamer brought
me large order for preparations and skin
foods from the sister who said Dr. So and
SO was responsible for her good looks.
When sisters can treat each other that
way what can we expect of women who
aren't related? It's rare thing to run
across a woman who Will tell another OF
something that VIII improve her looks.
BY this time the room was filled with
women There were all sorts and condi-
tions of compilations visible. Some looked
like peaches and cream, Others like ancient
parchment; some reminded one OF wild
roses, and again Others called TO mind the
tanned hide of a monkey. The owners of
these cornplexions were young, old and
niddle-aged, and the siXty-yeaT-oids drank
in every word that the authority uttered
as eagerly as did the girls of sixteen. 1t
was great fun to listen TO the questions
they asked and the answers they got.
..Can the skin be restored to any degree
Of youthfnlness?'' asked grandmother.
Certainly answered the authority
.'There is NO skin SO tough, wrinkled and
leathery looking but can be restored. L
wish American women would learn that
they can preserve a good complexion until
their dying day, and if it is lost that they
can restore it,"
.'Should every woman S skin be cared for
in the same way?" asked a muddy-cOm-
plexioned, mddle-aged matron.
"Yes, when there is no disease of the
skin, all compilations yield to the same care
Perhaps very dry skin would require a
different food from one that is naturally
more oily, but the method of renovating
every face is the same. You who are both
cred with rash, pimples, acne or blackheads
should have special remedies prepared to
meet your in dividual cases. Itpays wom-
an to have good clean skin. 1t helps some
women to catch husbands and aids business
women in securing places. The other day
! read an advertisement for a number OF
girls which said that none with rough, ugly,
muddy complexions need apply. / was SD
Interested that went down to see what
fs.1 nf Of dp far
the employees TO have pretty complexions.
The man said they wanted several girls tn
do ordinary clerical work, and that they
just didn't intend TO employ girls with
greasy-looking, rough skins, because they
hadto look st them so much. / don't blame
them at all Nothing is SO attractive in a
woman's appearance as a clear, clean-
looking skin. A wellgroomed woman of
sixty can attract "a man where a bad com
pleNioned woman of thirty would utterly
fail. When wonan's complexion is in
ffrst-claSs condition she can wear any gar
inent OF any color and look well. want
90 tell YOU women one thing. If woman
neglects her skin her husband makes an
astonishing discovery some day He may
live with her twenty-five years before he
does SO, and then the blow is all the hard
er. He discovers that his wife doesn' t look
young, like his Deighbor's wife, who he
knows is really years older At first he is
hurt, then he begins to be a little dis
gustcd, aud the next thing the wife knows
she has no hold on her husband A woman
may be ugly as a hedge fence, but she can
hold a man until Judgment day If she keeps
herself young and smart
let me tell you all something very
funny interrupted one of the customers.