Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-04-01

epin$ the Isreath--To What Mrs. Lang
try owed Her Loveliness.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Gazette ana Journal
New York. March 26. --During the 40
days of Lent the average woman de-
votes much time to improving her ner-
sonal appearance. She may write to
you, or to me, or whoever she fancies
Is confidante, and she is certain.
after telling of other woes, to wind up
i with the plant about her COMP lexion.
Seven times out of ten she says: I'm
the color of lead pipe. I" One time out
of ten she says: I'm covered with
queer little spots, y and two times out
of ten she says: lin abominably yell
low. Then. being woman, she wants
to know what she must put on the out
side OF this undesirable skin to make it
appear like peach! She never stops
to think that the fruit-raiser who
wishes his peaches to DO perfect goes tn
the root of the thing and looks after its
health; that he doesn't slather first
some white and then some pink stuff
on the peach itself, but that he looks
out for the cause of tne unpeachlike
appearance aud makes it disappear.
There are always fads in complexion
Treatments. And the various quacks,
men and women-mostiy women, I'm
sorry 10 eay--who cater 30 broken down
compilations are in unison--singular
unison-as TO what is desirable season
after season.
One year = that is on Lent - the
woman whose complexion was her
skeleton, had her face steamed. how
often heaven only knows; and the con.
sequence was that the pores of the skin
distendsd and her face least the
skin that covered her face hung like
fiabby. perforated rag. while Der eyes
seemed 10 swim in water. That was
good thing done to death. The next
Lent, that most undesirable of Ere
parations-the face bleach-made its
appearance. never knew before what
brave, creatures women were. | had
always thought that they dreaded pain,
but when heard Of different woman
having different blesGhes, but every
one almost entirely formed OF strong
acids, laid over their face and allowed
to burn off the skin, simply did not
know what 70 think. 1t seemed such
silly argument to claim that burning
off the skin would cause a new skin to
grow, fine infant-lik skin Did you
ever have your hand burned? Or worse
budu budtt tild Juu bftT uHV6 your Jhc6
burned? What followed? A scar, as
matter Of course. Nowadays, when you
bee woman walking around whose
skin looks drawn and shiny and super
sensitive. you can make up your mind
that she's one of the victims of much
advertised bleach. OF course, there
were some that were not injurious /;
that simply did nothing; and they were
the only ones that deserved praise.
But now, the most foolish-fortu-
DRtely not the most injurious of fads--
is to the fore. This is, the skin food.
1t usually consists of some vile smell
ing grease, for which your complexion
is supposed to yearn, and covered wi th
which you are expected to sleep the
sleep of the just and the dream Of
beauty that will eventually be yours.
It's too funny for one to actually hear a
common looking, anything but beauti-
full woman, get up before a class of
women who ought to know better than
TO waste their money on such nonsence,
and tell in language too bad from a
grammatical outlook to print of the
great need that the skin has for food ;
of her discovery of the proper food. and
of the certainty that this special food
will cause woman's omplexion TO
become and remain beautiful forever.
OF all the women-that is the we'll
known onss-who have manufactured
notorious. they say famous, toilet pre-
parations-and / have had the doubt.
full felicity OF seeing great many of
them-there was only one who was
good looking. And I was always
morally convinced that she was toe
smart to use her own preparations.
Why, these women give the lie to their
stories by their own appearance. II
Madame Lilly's Face Bleach keeps q
woman's skin liks the heart of a rose,
why is Madame Lilly herself red
faced, rough skinned, featureesi
woman: II Madame Coral's Skin FooG
will cause the skin TO be smooth, with
out blemish, frecke or pimple, why il
Madame Coral withered old lady
whose skin is like parchment, and o,
whose upper lip there is strong sus
picion of an appendags usually dedi
Gated to the stronger sex?
Why don't some OF the women thinl
these things out? Why do they g,
putting white washes and pink washe
on their faces when there's one mag
nifcent treatment that would max
them and keep them lovely forever
What is 1t? III give it to you or moth
ing. this prescription. You needn
even send stamp for it, here it is
practice perfect cleanliness, and loo
after your health as jewel of grea
price. The perfectly clean woman is
beautiful woman. OF course, there ar
a hundred dainty little things tia
mako mere cleanliness exquisite.
don't call it clean 10 jump from YOU
warm led, rush to cold bathroom,
jump into. a cold bath, got dreadfu
shock, and then complain that bein
careful about a bath every day ism
any good after all. There are reopl
who take bath every day in tn
year, and who have never been clean i
their lives. The mere getting in
bathtuo, getting out OF it, and goir
over your body with towel, ism
bathing: it's having dip. a wona
who knows how can wash better in
nd-baain. And knowing how to kee
onp's self -axquisltely clean
means knowing how 10 battle eac
part OF your body in the way that
demands, is the real art of heaut,
Some women treat their faces as
they we're made of cast-iron. They u
stiff brushes. common soans, and hal
water on the sensitive face, and tbs
they wonder that the skin is coarse
tnytnra and farv n,In, M. e.,