The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-05

The letters that nave come ask me
many small items which ! did not go
into when ] treated of steaming IN gem
eral. These suggestions help very much,
for it is almost impossible not to forget
some things for the very reason hat one
knows them SO well.
You have experienced that yourself, |
am sure. It is the very small things
which, knowing we'll, you suppose others
know, too. But, guided by the letters of
correspondents, 1 shall endeavor to go
more fully into the question of steaming.
To begin with, I shall say for the pub
lie what / wrote to one correspondent,
that / do believe steaming the face twice
a week keeps it far cleaner than a Wig
orous. too frequent application OF soap
and water. Soar is not any too goou
for the skin. and it's make should pc Wen
investigated. For skins that are easily
irritated highly perfumed soaps are never
good. Most kin take a soft, oily soap
without serious result. but did you ever
realize how carelessly you use soap? one
out of 100 women never rinse their faces
in clear water after using the soapy
water.
You may think you do 1t, but watch
VOllISeiI Liz 3lG4L AAtA%
the cloth out and wipe it over your face
probably. but that isn't what it needs.
The soapy water should be poured out of
the basin and lukewarm. clear water
no,,red in. The face should be dipped
down into this and we'll rinsed until one
is quite sure every particle of soap Is re-
moved.
Careless. washing, which leaves parti-
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of bad results. The soap clogs the pores
catches all the grease and dust tnat
floats and causes the blood often to
break into little pimples.
You cannot see the soap on your lace,
but a magnifying glass viii show H.
These little things need time, admit
but look at the result
A woman meeting a friend at the door
of a masseuse, said to him:-"You see,
I am. going in to have my eomplexioh
treatment"
Madame he. CALAMITY said. you
surely need no treatment for your skin.
THAT'S why 1 come here" she said,
shat I may look as. If | never had to.
1T is often so that behind the loveilest
skins there is a vast deal of skillfui care.
There are some women, know, who
say that life is too short for so mueh
wasted time. I wonder il they ever
thought of it from the other point OF
view? That it is an unselhsh thing to
make yourself as pleasing as possible 10
the people?
Now about the steaming.
one correspondent asks why the basin
of hot water is not as good as a steamer.
For the reason that a basin of boiling
water Is too sudden a change of tenn
perature for a sensitive face to be held
over. 1 know a girl who gave herself the
most irritating eruption by this scalding
process.
The steamers work is more gradual. |
suggested a homemade steamer in one or
my articles, but several correspondents
write me that they lind the bought ones
selling at $3.50 are excellent and as cheap
as the can. sprinkler and tube in the END.
That is entirely true. but my information
was for women living out OF reach Of
these articles.
The $1.50. steamers are quite small, but
give al the steam necessary. They can
be easily packed and taken away for the
summer or any long trip. The very best
way to get a steaming is to buy a spirit
lamp; place the steamer over it, let the
water heat up to the steaming point, then
apply the sprinkler to the face.
The low light of the spirit lamp keeps
the water at sufficient temperature to
throw out good steam.
The reason. for gradual steaming is that
any sudden heat or cold closes the pores
and causes a rush of blood to the head.
That is not what is wanted; the pores of
the skin should be cajoled, not bullied.
Many questions concern the closing of
the pores after massage. Cold water is
satisfactory, but not as pleasant as
cologne, and not as excellent as diluted
fenzoin. I do not advise the dashing on
of highly perfumed c~olognes. Benzoin-
about a teaspooDful to a quart of water
may be used always on the face without
injury. Nothing closes the pores of the
skin so well. I think it should be added
to the ingredients on a woman toilet
table.
There are two extremes into one or the
other of which many mothers fall, saws
Youths Companion'-that of over-solici-
tudc for their children, a business and a
tendency to coddie them and to run with
them to the doctor for every ache or
pain; and hat of careless inattention to a
child's complaint of feeling poorly or to
injuries received in rough play.
In the first case the child is in danger
of developing into an irritable, sclnsn
valetudinarian, while the mother, by her
worry, destroys the happiness of what
ought to be the sweetest part of d wonr-
ans life, and is in danger also of driving
herself into a condition Of nervous in
validism.
On the other hand. a mother who hab-
itually dismisses without a second
thought every complaint by her child Of
discomfort or pain. or who thinks it viii
make her boy more manly if she schools
herself not to betray sympathy for aim
in his physical troubles, runs the serious
risk of ignoring some incipient Ill, which,
If taken in time, may be arrested, but if
neglected may develop into a lifelong
affliction.
OF these two extremes the former is at
tended with by far the more serious dam
ger to the child, but the latter is not with
out it's perils.
There is one symptom, especially, that
should never be passed over lightly IN a
child, and that is a limp-especially one
that is intermittent 1t may be nothing
more serious than a slight sprain or q
"stone bruise," or perhaps mere foot-sore-
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