The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-11-23

from beneaths the face cloths. There WAS
one little thing l omitted putting 2 my
last letter, says a contributor to the faii-
adelpbia press" which two or three
readers have called my attention to since.
asking whether the head was covered or
not while the steaming was going OF.
The head is covered. / use a large bon
net made Of crash toweling. II you want
to make this bonnet it is quite a simple
affair. Wire a muslin lining so that 1t
may come quite far over the face, and
make a full cape to hang around it, exacf-
" the way you make an old fashioned
sun-bonnet, only instead of using stats OF
wood or p~asteboard, you simply TWIST a
wire frame into shape.
This bonnet put snugly over the head
keeps the air out from every direction
That is a very necessary precaution.
saw a woman once sitting with her
back to the open window, with her neg
lige sack cut low in the neck. and her
head over a boiling basin of water. tn
towel she used only fell down at the sides
and front.
Here was a sensible woman. with tie
warm air opening every pore and bringing
out the perspiration, and a cold breeze
was striking her in the nape pf the neck.
II was a foolhardy thing. as one would
imagine. When I exclaimed at it, she
said, 1T is silly, isn't it?' The next DAY
when she had caught a terrible cold she
would have blamed it on the steaming.
Therefore, the little precaution of the
cape around the bonnet to protect the
shoulders from the draught is a necessary
one. This, you see, belongs to the other
part Of the lesson, but l think it is better
late than never.
This fifteen minutes of steaming the face
brings out the perspfration, the face is
then wiped with a soft towel. Remember
to use unstarched towels always on the
face.
Now comes the massage The face is
open at every pore, the skin soft n inn
questionable, the nerves sensitive to the
touch.
Before telling you how to cream the
face, a word should be said about the
creams. The skin for which the cream
is used for massage is not of the same
quality that the cleansing cream is. 1t
must be made up of ingredients that fat
ten the face the other must be made up
of ingredients that cleanse. In both ex-
ceeding care should be given, but of the
latter an especial warning should be
given. It is this cream hat remains in
the face, and the other is washed off by
the steaming.
1t is not wise to give recipes for creams,
because what is flesh to one face is
poison to another. One want a fatten-
ning cream for the skin that does not
cause hair TO grow nor make the skin
too oily nor darken the texture
So. be sure you nave an excellent cream
for the skin, then go ahead. Dip the
fingers deep in the cream, using the first
and second fingers OF each hand. Put
the cream into the pores by gently rub
bling, and when it is spread owe the sur
face begin the stipulated movements of
massage. They may be put briefly in so
1rsany sentences
Always rub the skin up, never down
Rub in ascending circles.
Use the greatest amount of movement
over the muscular part of the face and
the least movement on the bony part of
the face.
Be very careful about four spots-the
sides of the lips. in front of the ears,
the lines under the eyes, AND the space
between the eyebrows.
You will find these spots always re-
quire the most attention and the most
treatment.
1t is always wise to begin rubbing at
the hin and go carefully upward to the
roots of the hair. To do this well will
take twenty minutes.
In rubbing a wrinkle, put one finger on
each side of it. and spread it out, taking
across tho line.
In front of the ears these lines come
quickly to some people, and they should
be paid especial attention to. However. /
am not going into this question at any
length here, for | intend TO have a seoar-
ate article on this subject treating entirely
of wrinkles.
One of the astonishing things is the
quantity of cream the skin takes in.
nave heard women exelaim with horror.
why, I cannot possibly work all that
amount of cream into my FACET is more
than enough for my whole bodyi' But in
twenty minutes there will not be a yes
tige Of it left, and only the face has been
massaged.
than others, but where there is a DISPOSE
ton towards weakness in the skin, especi-
ally lacking in color, one may easily dis
cover how much that skin needs oil by the
way itdrinks it UP.
The cream should be compounded so
that after use it would not produce an
oily surface over the skin. The massage
should continue until the skin can be
wiped dry with a cloth.
Twenty minutes of this rubbing softly,
never violently, in circle running around
and around the face. paying particular
attention to the spots 7 have mentioned