Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-04-03
GOSSIP OF THE
LEATtN SEASON.
Bah Declares That the Proper
Study of Womankind is Man.
Downright. 1881


one where the teacher instructed her
scholars in the art of being charming.
A. least it isn't put this way-I believe
+bere is some sort Of health title
given to it-but the general idea is
that YOU pay so for twenty lessons
and learn how to be lovely forever and
day after.
The teacher is, first of all, woman
OF sense She began by saying that
fine average woman did not know how
10 wash her face, and l covered my
self with dishonor by calling out:
Hear. Hear" My dearest enemy
said it sounded as If l didn't know the
noble art of bathing my countenance,
but that is another story. The aver
age woman, so said the speaker, in
washing her face takes the end of a
towel, dips it in little tepid water,
swears around under her eyes, about
The tip of her nose and the edge of
her chin, and then she carefully goes
pyer her face 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 little rouge and goes out under
the Impression that she has bathed
her face Now, the woman who knows
II all says that the right way to battle
your face is, in the very beginning, to
have the biggest kind of a basin and
fill it almost to the top with hot
water Then take in one of those ami
mated wash clOthS-yOur hands-a
cake of delicate soap, lather well and
go all over your face with both hands,
rubbing, scrubbing, rinsing and bath
ing until there Is an exquisite sensa-
ton of cleanliness. Now it is time to
empty that basin and to fill it with
tepid water, going all over your face
With this so that not particle of
eoap clings to you, and after throwing
1t away give your face its third bath
OF water-water that is cold enough to
make your skin conscious Of a sensa-
ton Of life. That is the sort of bath
that keeps the skin fine and delicate.
clear, firm and exquisitely 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
and wrong way to wash the face, and
the right way Is the way that we are
being taught this Lent.
BY the bye, if you are an American
you have what the doctors call a sensi-
tive skin. and as soon as March winds
0egan to fan your cheeks and the
March sun began to smile upon Won
there was an impression left-it is an
lmpresslon-that you don't fancy. and
you use every remedy you can think
OF to make the golden spots go away.
me 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 grandmother told
party OF young girls, that they ought
10 be proud of rather than worried
ABOUT their freckles because it was
Wen known fact that a girl that was
1feckled was invariably lovable The
woman who is giving us points on be-
ing charming says that lemon Juice
oabbed on the skin will cause the
1reckles to disappear A remedy which
was known before the days of Cleo
patra and which is called virginia.
milk is said to be destruction to them
you make it to-day just as did the gen.
ne CHAIRMAN when her mistress
thought she noticed one amber colored
spot nigh upon her cheek near her left
eye The recipe has not varied: '"To
d quart OF rosewater add, drop by drop,
an ounce of tincture of benzoin, STIR
ring It constantly" When you want
70 use It, throw enough in the hand
basin to make the water the color of
skimmilk and then battle your face
thoroughly with it, dabbing it dry with
soft towel. Just remember to re-
member that it is tincture of benZoin
you need and not benzine, which would
Ne about as good for your face as kero-
sene oil.
ne lady lecturer said that the aver
age woman treated her face as II IT
were made Of buckram and not as If 1t
were OF the most tender material in the
world.
Away back in the days of Charles
H. when to be beauty meant to be
success, there was bath in vogue
Nnlch was supposed to give special
whe to the skin and to keep it in prop
q condition. 1t was a very simple
pain consisting merely of tepid water
III winch there was thrown a pint OF
per1ectly pure vinegar. The ladies OF
me olden days thought much of their
OWN books on cosmetics, and each gen.
grafton or lovely woman wrote in the
iamlly book that which tended to make
Her most attractive, caused the curl
20 stay in her hair and made her eyes
pfghtest, so that the coming beauties
you'd see, learn and inwardly digest.
y mas been said that Cleopatra herself
wrote book on the art of the toilet,
ana ! have sometimes been frivolous
enough to wonder if the sphinx knew
Wnere that book was hidden and
wouldn't tell The lady who was lee
SuIlng has great respect for the 10
minute nap. She says that if you and
ana the other woman would throw
ourselves down on an easy lounge
aId become lost to the world for about
40 minutes each day we would grow
!ouhger with marvellous speed. She
Is also a great believer in the advan-
ages of not worrying. and she thinks
mat women grow more lovely by be-
lus told of their charms. Here | agree
win her. A few words of praise have
made many an ordinary woman de-
iight, and daily dose of praise from
.Ae right men has made women alb
Solutely beautiful.
p VINO is the right man? Poor Mrs.
DdIIyle thought she he'd got him, and
set friend who met the genius on the
,nporsteps one day when he looked
,,Ie excited passed him by with a
N''A bow. only to be ushered into