Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-03-28
LENT and FENININ|IY.
How the Average Woman Spends the
Fast Days.

GETTING AT THE BOTTOM OF A
BAD CONFERENCE.-THE SPRING
SEASON AND ITS WORRIES
FACE BLEACH AS APPLIED BY
SOME OF THE GENTLER SEX
PERFECT CLEANLINESS AS A
PRICELESS JEWELCTHE LIBER-
AL USE OF SOAP-SHARING THE
USE OF TOILET ARTICLES
SWEETENING THE BREATH-TO
WHAT MRS. LANGTRY OWED
HER LONELINESS.
From Our Regular Correspondent
New York, March 20, 1897.
During the forty days of Lent the av-
erage woman devotes much time TO i'm
proving her personal appearance. She
may write to you, or to me, or whoever
she faEcies as a confdante, and she is
certain, after telling of other woes, to
wind up with the plant about her COM
pleXicn. Seven times out Of ten she
says: I'm the color of a Lead pipe"
One time out of ten she says: I'm
covered with queer little spots" and,
two times out of ten she says: I'm
abominably yellow" Then, being q
woman, she wants to know what she
must put on the outside of this unde-
sirable skin to make it appear like q
peach. she never stops TO think that
the fruit raiser, who wishes his peaches
To 1,n 70 hn nf
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
the unpeach-like appearance and makes
it disappear. There are always fads in
complexion treatments. And the var
ious quacks, men and women-mostly
women, I'm sorry to say-who cater TO
broken-down compilations are in unison
singular unison-as to what is desir-
able season after season.
One year-that is on Lent-the wo-
man whose complexion was her skele-
ton. had her faced steamed how often
heaven only knows; and the conse-
quence was that the pores Of the skin
6istended and her face-at least the
skin that covered her face-hung like
a tlabby. perforated rag, while her eyes
seemed to swim in water That was
A GOOD THING DONE TO DEATH.
The next Lent, that most undesirable
of preparations-the face bleach-made
its appearance. | never knew before
what brave creatures women were.
had always thought that they dreaded
paint. but when l heard OF different wo-
men having different bleaches, but
every one almost entirely formed of
strong acids, laid over their faces and al
lowed to burn of the skin, | simply
did not know what to think. II seer
ed such a silly argument to claim that
burning off the skin would cause new
skin 70 grow, fine infant-like skin,
Did you ever have your hand burned?
Or worse than that, did you ever have
your face burned? What followed? \
scar, as a matter of course. Nowadays,
when you see woman walking around
whose skin looks drawn and shiny and
super-sensative, you can make up your
mind that she's one of the victims
of a much advertised bleach. OF course
there were some that were not injur-
ious: that simply did nothing; and they
were the only ones that deserved
praise.
But now, the most foolish-fortunate-
ly not the most injurious Of fads-is to
the fore. This is, the skin food. It
usually consists of some vile-smelling
grease, for which your complexion is
supposed 70 yearl, and covered with
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 communicating
anything but beautiful woman, get up
before class of women, who ought To
know better than TO waste their money
ON such nonsense, and tell in language
too bad from a grammatical outlook to
print of the great need that the skin
has for food; of her recovery OF the
proper food, and Of the certainty that