The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-03
Copyright. 1898

charming. At least it isn't put this way
Il believe there is some sort of a health
title given to it-but the general idea is
that you pay $40 for twenty lessons and
learn how to be lovely forever and a day
after.
The teacher is first of ALL woman OF
sense. She began by saying that the
average woman did not know how to wash
her face, and 1 covered myself with dis
honor by calling out: Hear HearF'
My dearest enemy said it sounded as If L
didn't understand the noble art of bath
ing my countenance, but that is another
story. The average woman, so said the
speaker in washing her face takes the END
of a towel. dips it in a little tepid water
smears around under her eyes ABOUT the
tip of her nose and the edge of her chm
and then she carefully goes over ner lace
with a damask towel to absorb any stray
drops of water that may incidentally cling
TO her. Then she fddles with the powder
dabbles on a little rouge and goes out I'M
der the impression that she has bathed
her face. Now, the woman who knows
1t all says that the right way TO WASH
your face is, in the very beginning to nave
the biggest kind of basin and NIL 1t al
most to the top with hot water. Then
take in one of those animated washcloths
YOUR hands-a cake of delicate soap, iath-
er well and go all over your face with
both hands. rubbing, scrubbing, rinsing ana
bathing until there is an exquisite sensa-
ton of cleanliness. Now it is time to emp
" that basin and to fill it with tepid wa
ter. going all over your face with this SO
that not a particle of soap clings to you,
and after throwing it away give your face
its third bath of water-water that is colo
enough to make your skin conscious OF
sensation of life. That is the sort OF
hath that keeps the skin fine and delicate,
clear firm and exquisiteiy beautiful. IL Is
not necessary to rub your face so hard
that your nose is red and your eyes are
full of soap. There is a right and wrong
way to wash the face. and the right way IS
the way that we are pelhS tausIt uii'
Lent.
BY the bye, If you are an American
YOU have what the doctors call sensi-
tive skin. and as soon as March WINDS
began to fan your cheeks and the March
sun began to smile upon you there was
an impression left-it is an impression
that YOU don't fancy, and you use every
remedy you can think of TO make the
golden spots go away Be wise in your
generation and, with the exception of
taking very good care of your skin, let
the freckles alone. You may be induced
to do this when you are told, as a grand
mother told a party of young girls, that
they ought to be proud of rather than
worried about their freckles because it
was a well known fact that girl that
was freckled was invariably lovahle. The
woman who is giving us points on being
charming says that lemon juice dabbled on
the skin will cause the freckles to disap-
pear remedy which was known before
the days of Cleopatra and which is called
"virginnal milk" is said to be destruction
to them You make il to-day just as did
the gentle Chairman when her mistress
thought she noticed one amber colored
spot high upon her cheek near her left
eye The recipe has not varied: "To a
quart of rosewater add, drop by drop, an
ounce of tincture of benzoin. stirring it
constantly" When you want to use Il,
throw enough in the hand basin to make
the water the color of skimmilk and then
battle your face thoroughly with it, dab
bling ii dry with a soft towel Just re-
member to remember that it is tincture
of benzoin you need and not benZipe,
face as kerosene oil.
The lady lecturer said that the average
woman treated her face as if it were made
of buckram and not as if At were of the
most tender material in the world and
she went on to tell that even men were
more careful of their faces than the ordi-
nary woman. She told lot about baths
and their virtue, and she said there never
was a more fool theory than the one
W nIp he nd clSi
ned English women jumped into a cod
bath. Every English woman who has a
handsome complexion from Mrs. Langtry
up and down, including the beautiful
Duchess of Leinster, reveed in tepid baths
and economical on everything else but
soap. There is something essentially
wrong about the woman who will use
common soap. A plain soap? Yes. But a
| cheap soap or coarse soap-why, the wo-
man who would select either would be
wrong not only physically, but morally
Away back in the days of Charles II
when to be a beauty meant to be sue
cess, there was a bath in vogue which was
supposed TO give special tone to the skin
and to keep it in proper condition 1t
was a very simple bath, consisting merely
of tepid water i'm which there was thrown
a pint of perfectly pure vinegar The la
dies of the olden days thought much of
their own books on cosmetics, and each
| generation of lovely woman wrote in the
family book that which tended to make
her most attractive. caused the curl to
stay in her hair, and made her ewes
brightest, so that the coming beauties
could see. learn and inwardy digest 1t
has been said Cleopatra herself wrote
a book on the art of the toilet and l have
sometimes been frivolous enough TO Won
der If the sphinx knew where that book
was hidden and wouldn't tell. The lady
who was lecturing has great respect for
the fifteen-minute nap. She says that If
YOU and / and the other woman would
throw ourselves down on a comfy lounge
and become lost to the world for about
fifteen minutes each day we would grow
younger with marvellous speed. She is
also a great believer in the advantages of
not worrying, and she thinks that women
grow more lovely by being told of their
charms. Here ] agree with her. few
words of praise have made many an ordi-
nary woman a delight and a daily dose
of praise from the right men has made
women absolutely beautiful.
Who is the right man? Poor Mrs Car
lyle thought she had got him, and yet a
friend who met the genius on the door
steps one day when he looked a little ex-
cited passed him by with a civil bow. only