Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-04-07
Don't Rub It Until Your Eyes
Are Full of Soap.
UNNECESSARY TO MAKE NOSE RED
Follow the instructions Given
During Lent.



art Of being charming. At least is isn't
nut this wa2---I beieya there Ia some
sort of hsalth title given to it---hut
the general ides is that you pay $40 for
20 lessons and learn how 10 be lovely
forever and day after.
The teacher ie, first Of all, a woman
Of sensa. She began by saying that the
average woman did not know how to
wBsh her face. aud / covered myself
with iishonor by calling out: Hear!
Hear - My dearest enemy said it
sounded az il | didn't understand tho
noble art OF bathing my countenance.
but that is another story. The average
woman, SO said tina speaker, IN washing |
her face takes the end Of a towel. dips |
it in little tepid water, smears around |
under her eyes, about the tip of her
nose and tine edge Of her chin, and then |
she carefully goes over her face with a |
damask towel to absorb any stray drops
Of water that may incidentally cling to
her. Thsn she fidiles with the powder,
dabbles on little rouge and goes out
under the impression that she has
bathed her face. Now, the woman who
knows it all says that the right way to
wash your face is. in the very be-
ginning, to have the biggest kind OF a
bnsin and fill ii almost to tbs top with
hot water. Then take in one of those
animated wanhclolhs your hands-a
cake OF delicate soap, lhther we'll and
90 all urer your face With both hands,
rubbing. scrubbing, rinsng ana bath
ing until there is an exquisite sensation
Of cleanliness. Now it is time to empty
| that basin anil to fill it with tepid
| water, going all over your face with
| this so that not particle Of soap clinga
| to YOU, and after throwing it away give
| your facs its third hath Of water-water
| that is auld enough 10 make your skin
| conscious of a sensation Of life. That
| 10 the sort OF bath that keeps the skin
| fine and delicate, clear, firm and ex-
| quiHitely beautiful. 1t is not necessary
| to rub your face so hard that your nose
is red and your eyes are full of soap.
There is right ana wrong way to wash
the face, and tho right way is the way
that wo are being taught this Lent.
By the-by, il you are an American
you have what the doctors call q sansi-
tive skin, and as soon as March winds
began to fan your cheeks and the March
sun began to smile unon you there was
an impression lsft-it is an impression
that you don't fancy, and you use
every remedy you can think OF to make
the golden spots go way. BE Wise in
your generation and, with the exception
Of taking very good care of your skin,
let the freckles alone. You may he in
duced TO do this when you are told, as
a grandmother told party Of young
girls, that they ought to be proud OF
rather than worried about their freckles
because it WAS well-known fact that
a girl that was freckled was invariably
lovable. This woman who is giving ut
points on being charming Gays that
, lemon juice dahbled on the skin will
cause the frecElea to disappear. A
remedy which was known before thu
days OF Cleopatra and which is called
"virginal milk ia said to be destruc
tion TO them. You make il to day jus
aa did the gentle CHAIRMAN when be
mistress thought she noticed one amhe
colored spot high upon her check nea
y her left eye. The recipe has not varied
!. ITO quart of rosewater add, drop b.
:. drop, an ounce OF tincturs OF benzoin
stirring it constantly. When you wan
to uss 1t, throw enough in the ham
I basin to make tho water the color q
% skim milk and then hattie your fac
= thoroughly with it.dabbing il dry wit
l Is
W that it is tincture of benzoin you nee
and not benzine, which would be abou
40 good for your face as kerosene oil.
The lady lecturer said that th
- average woman treated her face as IL
y we're made Of buckram and not as II !
Y we're Of the most tender material in th
Is world, and abe went on to tell that eve
a. men we're more careful OF their fact
= than the ordinary woman. She told
y lot about baths and their virtue. an
x she said there never was a more 70,
~ theory than the one which claimed this
~ the handsome skinned English w0us
jumped into cold bath. Every Ems
liah woman who has a handsome coh
plexion from Mrs. Langtry up an
:. down, including the beautiful Duche
70 OF Leinster, reveled in tepid baths an
20 economical on everything else bi
y soap. There is something essential
., wrong about the woman who will u
~ common soap. A plain soap? Yes Bt
~ Il cheap soap or a coarse SOAP why, u
W woman who would select either won
be wrong not only physically, b.
morally.
=, Away back in the days of Charles
~ when to be a beauty meant to be a su
10 cess, there was bath 10 vogue viii,
- was supposed to give special tone TO d
~, skin and to keep it in proper conditio
- 1t was very simple bath, consisti
~, merely of tepid water in which the
~ was thrown pint of perfectly pu
vinegar. The ladies of the olden da
thought much of their own looks
-, cosmetics, and each generation
.te lovely woman wrote in the family BIO
" that which tended to make her mt
"a attractive, caused the curl to stay
~, w, her hair and made her eyes brighte
"a "a so that tho coming beauties could 81
~, learn and inwardly digest, IL has be
- said that Cleopatra herself wrote bo
on the art of the toilet, and ! ht
sometimes been frivolous enough
:. wonder ii the sphinx knew where
~, book was hidden aud wouldn't tt
~, ~. The lady who was lecturing has gr
ter that 10 80, nd - tha char won
il. ,.,5 * -, a,,...I. 49, IN n %,
IL lounge and become lost to the world
about 10 minutes each day we wo
grow younger with marvellous bpe
Inv She is also great believer in the
~, vgntages Of not worrying, aud
ton thinks that women grow more loy
NC by being told of their charms. Hei
No. agree with her, few words OF pri
have made many an ordinary woma
delight, and u daily dose of praise 4
in the right men has made women III
ned lutely beautiful.
d II Who is the right man? Tnor \
yaro Carlyle thought she had got him,
yet friend who met the genius on
doorateps ono day when he locke
little excited passed him by wit
tho civil bow, only TO be ushered IN