The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-11-21
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A face is rarely clean unless teamed
once a week., says the 'Philadeiph'a
Press
But the abuse of steaming is as serious
as the lack of it. a woman gets the
steanning fad and goes into it as she I'M
fortunately goes into so many tnlngs-so
excess. She steams with water that is too
hot: she steams too long; she negleets 70
use ointments; she forgets the cold wa
ter afterward and then, when after a
month of it has wriniSled her and brought
cut the little red bumps under the skin,
she asserts that steaming is injurious and
points to her own face as proof.
such carelessness is one feature a face
masseuse has to fight.
Others point to the hands Of a laundress
as proof positive that steaming produces
fine wrinkles. They never take into coz
sideration the fact that a ~laundress mas
her hands in exceedingly hot water,
changes the temperature constantly, goes
into the wind with the hot water OIL hef
skin; she uses strong soap and she steams
them hours a day, instead of a quarter OF
an hour a week.
Steaming is like a good many other
things-a little of it aceomplishes an excel
lent result; too much of it is an evil.
The face should never be steamed unless
one has rubbed cream into the pores first
The amateur does this once, maybe twice,
then forgets it for a month.
If she would go surely, she must go at
ter the following Instructions
Examine her face well in the mirror and
see whether it needs vigorous or gentle
treatment. If the nose shows blackheads
and the chin and forehead little shadows
on the skin, then vigorous treatment IS
needed.
Vigorous treatment means careful
Dreaming and steaming twice a week. a
good, reliable cream should be used; %
not attempt to use one that isn't guar
anteed by a person who has authority. A
cream with certain acids in it may whit
en-. but will otherwise ruin the complexion.
One wants a thin cream that cleanses me
skin while it is being softened.
First, this cream should be massaged
a bit into all of the face, then wiped
away with a soft towel; another dose put
on again, rubbed well into the pores, a
towel passed over it, and not until then
is it time for the steaming.
This slight massage brings the dust
as much out of the pores as possible
and the cream makes the entire cuticie
more pliable, therefore more responsive
to the hot vapor.
Don't fill a basin with hot water and
place the head over it. If you do you will
rue it. The best thing to do is to buy
a steamer, which costs 50, but everyone
has not SO to put into it. Here is the
next best thing-a homemade invention
tina will serve the purpose just as we'll
get a watering pot or any tin can with
a spout, but be sure that the spout Is
straight and round. The watering pot is
better, because you can use the sprink-
Ter. If the sprinkler is loose from the
spout, fit it INTO a rubber tubing nine
inches long. Fit this tube into the spout,
and it may be sheld in the hand and
moved over the face at will.
These sprinklers can be bought separ-
ately, for they are like those used in
the small shower tubes attached to fau-
Gets for bath room use.
This steamer should be placed over a
little gas arrangement. by which one
heats water In the bedroom. Some little
gas stoves heat it easily. If the woman
lives out of the range of gas, then she
wants to boil the water, but place it
off the fire when she is using it, for the
steam from boiling water is too hot.
A little tincture of benzoin added TO
the water makes the steam more bene-
fetal.
Precipitation should be used for a guide
for the time needed. When it is flowing
freely stop the steam. Wipe the face
gently with an unstarched towel and be-
gin the massage. That will be treated
at length in this column in the near fu-
ture.
The latest count in the Indictment of
tight corsets and sleeves comes from a
physician who declares that indulgence
in the two fashionable follies named is
responsible for many misshapen female
forms.
Indeed. he declares that few women
are well formed, adding that practically
all of them have either crooked arms or
crooked Representatives. both.
Inquiry among teachers of physical
culture elicits pretty much the same
opinion, and all lay the deformity to
causes specified above. The physician
referred TO has this to say
AtI ~ hlOSh-hiicSu, DON-3tSSeu.
too lean, too fat, or only partially de-
veloped, and a straight arm is very rare.
Tight sleeves tight waists and tight
corsets are to be blamed.
"A man rarely has deformed arms,
because his clothing is made to allow
him an opportunity to reach anywhere,
and fashion does not forbid him to swing
his arms when he takes his daily walk.
Besides being tight, a woman's sleeves
are put into a waist In such a manner
as to prevent her from lifting her arms
to any height.
The fashionable sleeve of the past
twenty years has been crooked, and wo-
mems arms have ROW as crooked as the
sleeve
"Bow-legs and knock-knees often begin
in childhood. but they are finished by
the high heels and narrow pointed toes
which distinguish the everyday footwear
of womankind.
These deformities may be remedied
by a thorough course of physical exer-
cises with ~dnfnbbells and Indian clubs
or any one Of the excellent exereisers
now on the market, and children can be
saved from defofnity by care and atten-
ton.
The American mother is careless often
allows her baby to stand upon tender
little legs whose cartileges are roo saf+