The age-herald., 1897-09-26
BEAUTY FROM HOT MILK One Girls Method of Obtaining
 Good Looks. DRANK AND BAPTIZED IN MILK And Drank Hot Eggnogs Between Times, and Now She Is Plump as Partridge and
 Has Peachy Complexion.
From the New York Sun.

said a girl in a stunning Russian blouse to one tn a duck suit that had seen hard service as they chanced to meet at a lunch counter.
 'Why, yes," answered the one address ed as Mam=. Didn't you know it? Got back three days ago. Walter, bring me a large schooner of hot milk, and mind you, want it red hot; but whatever you do don't let 1t come to a boil. Under stand?"
 ''TIot milkl'' exclaimed she of the Rus sian blouse. Bah! How can you drink the stuff? SaY Name, I nsver saw anybody improve as you have this sum- mer in all my life. What have you been doing to yourself? Your complexion is as clear and smooth and soft as ba- by's. and you know. dear, 1t used to be so sallow and shrivelled looking and rough. And then, too, my girl" seeing a chance for another dig, you have taken at least ten pounds of flesh on your bones. You could almost venture to turn out in low neck, couldn't your"
 My neck and arms were considered the prettiest at the hotel where stop pad this summer answered Name tri- umphantly, "and I owe it all to this" pointing to the glass of steaming milk that the waiter put down in front of her.
 Hot milk improved your looks like that?"- cried the girl in the Russian blouse. How did you ever come to know about it?"
 ''Yes; hot milk and planty of it d.d it." replied Name deliberately between sips. "A woman who has spent great many years in Paris told me about the hot milk cure for ugliness. tell you those Paris women beat all. They know everything that will improve a woman s books. Another glass, waiter. This on- was exactly the right temperature"
 By this time every woman at the counter had neglected the dishes in front of her and was giving the clos est attention to the g.rl in the duck suit. She went on.
 You remember how wrnkled and Sallow my face used to be, because you have just reminded me of 1t. And then, every now and then, graat red blotches would appear, that almost made me lose my hope of heaven. Then 1 was so thin more than that, positively bony-that every tims l wanted to wear a gown cut low and with elbow sleeves, as my brother says, I simply sat down and declined the verb to damn, softly to my self, of course, two or three times. My complexion grew worse all the tims, and my fis ~e became more and more angular. When I had about raached the depths of despair along came this woman and told me the secret of how to grow beautiful She said that hot milk was a sure cure for ugliness and Q remarkably good health and beauty giving tonic, and told me that if I was properly nouriShed my complexion would become clear and I would take on flesh. She advised me to begin by
 
 day, taking one with each meal and one just before going to bed, and also to wash my face In hot milk at bed time. In a week felt like another wo- man. My face felt wonderfully refrash- ed after washing 1t in hot milk every night and the skin began to grow very white and smooth. But I didn't gain any flesh sD my benefactress, as call her. advised me to take an eggnog made of hot milk, and favored w1th very fine rum, the first thing when got up in the morning, another at about II o'clock and another at about in the afternoon, as this drink was the best fattener In the world I did so, and this, with my four glassss of hot milk, put ten pounds on me in the first week. You say I've gained ten pounds. You missed it by just half, for I am twenty pounds heavier than I was the last day we met at this counter. and my flesh is as solid as an athletes
 'Do you keep up the treatment all the while?' asked woman with a skin like antique parchment, anxiously.
 "No indeed" answered the newly beautified girl, graIciously. After I gained twenty pounds stopped every thing except bathing my face in hot milk at night and drinking t1ot milk with my meals. I'm just treating myself to an extra glass now because I've grown so fond of it. Really, I Toathe the sight of tea and coffee now. When I saw the magical effect of the application of hot milk on my face knew what was good for the face must be good for the body; so began to give my neck and arms daily hot milk bath. The result more than justified my expectations, and then I began to pour a little milk into my morning tub. The effect in removing fatigue was most wonderful, and l got so that took a bath, dashed with milk whenever I was tired out"
 "I wish I could take that Urea tment, said a young girl with 0 complexion like an elderly chorus girls early in the morning, butt 1t Is out of the question Milk and cream both make me bilious and render my complexion even worse than 1t is naturally"
 "Hot milk won't make you bilious,' answered the authority, encouraglngly s"That's the beauty about 1t. Peop'e with whom cdld milk does not agree al all can take it hot and grow pretty and rat on IL. II you uOD lihe IL dt iliSl pinch of salt will make 1t more palatable and some say more digestible, but 6 person with any kind of ramshackle di. gestive apparatus. can take hot milk, claim.''
 Don't those eggnogs Between meals take away your appetite for substantial food, Mame?'' asked aler chum, ordering | two cream puffs and glass of hot milk | just for Starter
 "On the contrary. a hot eggnog taker | a while before each meal and just be
 fore retiring is an excellent appetizer l and a simple drink of hot milk woes z dreamless sleep that makes one get ul | feeling like bird. Really, could tall | for hours abouIt the virtues of hot mill for external and internal use. for I fee | that it has snatehed me from a living | death," peeping at herself in a miro, | opposite. .'It is living death to a wo | man to have scrawny figure and hor
 rid complexion. isn't ft?" she asket
 cheerfully, and seven women at tn,
 counter, in dismal voices, agreed that
 was more .than Tying death.
 Don't you all think my complexion | and figure do very we'll now?" sall | Name, getting off the stool and pullinl --ns