The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-01-02
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There is a new fad, or rather an old one,
revived to enhance the beauty Of the skin
OF lovely women. Costly drugs have been
employed, and various washes concocted
TO beautify a poor complexion or enhance
an already fine one, but nothing that has
been employed as yet possesses such merit
as the simple milk bath.
Complexion specialists 1t and
no doubt rake in many shekels for admin
astering it to women anxious to improve
their beauty, but any milk woman, out of
the kindness Of her good heart, would tell
of the good qualities Of milk as a beauty
bath.
I have heard from the lips Of one of
these good old souls how the girls of Ros-
common, famous for their dazzling white
skins. pearly teeth and wealth of hair. use
the milk bath. MIX is plentiful and it is
used for SINE as well as the principal
article of diet. Barefooted, bareheaded.
they milk the cows, and with the milk
still warm from the cow the face and neck
are bathed at least once daily by the bux-
ON lasses. who appreciate the power of
their rustic beauty and wish to preserve
1t.
The milk diet cannot fail to enhance
whatever charm of complexion and texture
of skin the user may possess. Used gem
erously, new milk is a wonderful fattener
and blood maker. consequently an inn
proven of pale, bioodless, sallow women.
TO such a milk treatment cannot be too
highly recommended as a strengthened and
condensed nourirher.
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But to those VINO are not in need of a
condensed nourfsher and yet desire to Inn
prove the complexion, milk as an outward
application cannot be excelled, especially
In raw, cold climates. Where the face is
exposed to all sorts of weathers, nothing
viii be found so soothing. healing and
whitening and so filling out, If one may
use the expression, the fabbiness of a ne
elected skin.
If a whole bath cannot be afforded or
conveniently taken, a face bath must sat
isfy, and a half pint of milk will answer
the purpose very well.
A tin basin is best to use, so that the
milk may be heated, and the real benefit
comes from the use of the fluid hot. If
a spirit lamp is at hand place the basin
over a low fame and with the bare hand
process to wash the face with the hot
milk. Wash and rub thoroughly, knead-
ing the skin well, then with a soft old
towel dry off all the milk. Wash and
knead again, applying the milk a little
hotter, and again wipe, repeating the per-
formance many times, until the skin looks
clean and white and each pore has been
thoroughly cieansed.
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Lastly apply a good bath of the milk
and let it dry before retiring. In the
morning wash off with slightly warmed
water. and If you are going out of doors
apply a fresh bath of milk warmed and
allowed to dry, only gently sopping the
superfiuous quantities.
When overtired or worn out; a glass
of hot milk slipped slowly cannot be sur
passed as an invigorator. its sustaining
powers when used in illness where no
solid food is allowed being something re-
markable.
Beauty doctors nave occasionally intro
duced a good thing to their followers, but
be it placed to their credit that none so
genuinely wholesome, sensible and eff
cient as the milkebath for the skin and
a milk die for the inner woman has
been introduced in many months.
The glory of Vienna Is the govern
ment art school of embroidery, the classes
of which are under the direction of Mime.
st. George, perhaps the most accomplish
ed designer and needlewoman in the
world. Says a writer in the .Contem-
porary Review: Lady Monsoon, the wife
of the British Ambassador, kindly pro-
cured me an introduction to her. The
entire course of instruction, which is
quite free, lasts five years, but many
pupils leave after two or three years, es-
pecially ladies who do not intend to
make art work a profession and are sat
isf1ed with knowing the rudiments of
eithe lace work or art embroidery, for
every year has its special course. l was
particularly struck with the happy look
on the girls faces; they seemed to have
their whole heart and soul in their work
and were much interested In a discussion
between Mime. St George and myself
about the non-oriental appearance of a
hat intended for the figure Of Abraham
in a beautiful altarpiece they were work.
ing. Every years course has its special
room and instructress, and the pupils
cannot go from one to the other until
the year expires. The pupils of the last
years course were busfly mending a
magnificent canopy, the work or the
Empress Marie Theresa.
An idea may be formed of the magni-
tude of the task when it Is said that ten
girls. under Nine. St. Georges super
intendence. had been working at it for
four years already, and she expected it
would take two years mere to complete
it. Every kind of embroidery, including
Persian, Indian, apanese, Turkish, etc.,
Is done here, and l was astonished to see
some beautiful samples of the nam
duty, or spiders web, made by the
GuarAni women of Paraguay, and rarely
seen in Europe. This lace is made of
the fibre of the aloe, and is so fine that
it is made inside the huts. with the doors
shut, so that not the least breath OF
wind can touch it. I was still more sur
prised when Nine. st. George assured me
that the sample before me was not really
Paraguayan, but copied by her principal
assistant. whose name I unfortunately
forget. This lady has been equally sue
cessful in copying old Venetian. Irish.
Brussels. Honiton. etc.-in fact every
kind of lace in all countries.
In evening gowns there is very little
novelty as yet. The bodice Is pointed in
front and round in the back, and is laced
or h,ooked in the back. It Is cut straight