The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-15
W Rim KLES.
Can These Tell-Tales
Be Cured?
PRACTICAL AID.
Massage and Diet Powerful
Allies Of Woman.

From time immemorial, wrinkles
have been woman's mortal foe, her di-
rest enemy. Before her hair has begun
to turn gray or her chin to crumble or
her waist to lose itself, the tiny lines
that tell of age, ill health, trouble. dis
appointment have begun to etch them
selves over the delicate surface of her
face, radiating from the corners of the
eyes in a fine network, growing under
the eyes and tracing a double bow
from the nose to each corner of the
mouth. AT the same time the COM
plexion begins to lose its youthful
tint and texture, the cheeks fiatten or
sink in, and the forehead gets fur
rowed.
These are signs of the passing of
youth which the wise woman will not
overlook. They tell her, as plainly as
they can, that whether from loss of
vitality exhaustion, maI-nutrition or
some such cause, her flesh is getting
fiabby and needs course of athletics.
There is no cause for alarm, but there
is reason for vigilance and care, unless
she wishes to sink into aNlllow, bloom
less middle age.
Massage and gymnastics are the
antldote. The one provides exterior
manipulation, the other furnishes the
muscles with the exercise for lack of
which partly they have lost their tone.
Food has much to do with the ban
ishment of wrinkles for which my lady,
II she be possessed of u proper amount
of independence and scff-respect must
long. "Independence"-be when
one is the busy mother of a little
brood, or an oVerworked bookkeeper or
the member of a big family, it is not
easy to take the cup of weak tea and
biscuit Immediately upon rising, and
the cold sponge bath followed by a
hearty, leisurely breakfast, which the
complexion specialist insists upon as
the proper introduction to the day.
Comparatively few women are so Sit
uated that they can pause before dress
ing for a ten minutes exercise with the
dumbbells or can diet on the cream
and fruits, the cereals, soups, steaks
and other dishes which are needed to
pad the cushions of her face and round
out the scrawny neck.
The only thing to do is to do rs we'll
as you can. One reason why men Suf-
fer so little from nerves and keep their
good looks and health so long is be-
cause they consider their meals one of
the most important questions of their
lives. The remark of a former Worces-
ter editor that he was willing to go
around in over-alls if necessary, but he
would have good things to eat, is illus
trative of the attitude of most men. 4
woman would live on tea and toast for
a month to get herself a new muff, or
to buy little luxury for her boy away
at college or her sick husband. So there
you are.
But the woman who has wrinkles
and wishes to have them not, must
make believe she is a man temporarily.
She must eat a lot of good, nutritious
food and eat regularly. She must
sleep ten hours every night, or lie in bed
that length of time if sleep is impos
sible. She must exercise with her arms
as much as possible, including dumb
bell practice. She must massage her
face and neck once a day.
Massage is a technical sounding word
so suppose we. just say kneading, for
the professional masseur really does
little else than to knead the flesh with
the balls of her fingers, on which is
smeared some skin food. The move
ment is round and round, sometimes
back and forth, sometimes gently
pinching.
Can any woman massage her own
face? Yes. Not so well as a profess
sional masseuse, of course, not SO ham
Oily or quickly, but well enough The
thing is to bring back the skin to the
state of youth and to exercise the MIS-
cles under the skin. This woman can
do for herself, if she will.
Next week diagram will he given
showing the proper way in which to
massage oneself When the skin is