The times., 1899-01-08
WIPING OUT WRINKLES.
Austrian Cure for Faded and
Scanned Complexion.

One of the most difficult problems a
woman must solve in her quest for beauty
is how TO retain a good complexion and
keep away wrinkles. Wrinkles in the face
come in obedience to certain commands of
nature, and they can 10 great extent be
banished by forcing matuTa, who gets q
little bit tired as the years go on, to take
a tonic, brace up and do her work.
The circulation of the blood in the face
is not so good as it was in childhood, The
skin is too large for the flesh beneath, the
fullness must go some place, so it lies over
in folds; lateral and horizontal wrinkles
come in the forehead, cfow-tracks branch
out from the corners OF the eyes, and the
dimple in the cheek, that pride and glory
of youth, becomes a long perpendicular
line down the face. The weight of the
skin prizes the muscular tissue apart, and
wrinkles deepen until the lone is reach
ed. Wrinkles so deep as these cannot be
removed except by facial electrical treat
ment or by surgical operation.
But certainly in all this an ounce of pre-
yentiCn is worth q pound II cure. In 9TH
er words. il is better not to allow time to
etch any lines at all.
study, and many discouraging failures,
suggests a treatment for self-facial mas
sage that would seem to be all that could
be asked. Prof Pick. dean OF the inic
for Skin Diseases in Prague. treated Cne
of his women patients in the way sug-
gested. and the result was so gratifying
that he employs the method altogether
In Austria matters of this kind have to
successfully pass the inspection of the
imperial Austrian state board OF health
before they can be put upon the market.
There are no exceptions to this rule. A
man cannot offer a "kill-corn" to the
public until his formula is known to the
board of health.
In speaking of America and American
women, the discoverer of this lf-facial
/ massage treatment. who is now in the
! United States, said: The American wo-
men wrinkle much younger than the
| women of Europe. This is due TO several
| causes; the climate has something to dc
| with il, but one great contribution ~ il
! is that American women talk too nd Ch
! with the entire face. They are so capti-
| vatingly earnest that they call all the
! muscles Of the face, and many in the
| hands and arms and body, to the aid OF
! their words"
The face self-massage apparatus con-
sists of three pieces. that might be cal Ell
| rubber rubbers. There ls also a small
| brick of a peculiar kind of pummice stone
| that is Iade in Germany. When fat
massage is desirable some kind OF ar
! emolient must also be used. These three
! little rubber rubbers. which are made o
| several composite parts-rubber. talkum
! and ground almond pits-are of sizes tc
enable them TO get into all the little
cracks and corners where massage treat
ment is desired
The first thing for a woman to do wher
she wants to apply this self massage tc
| her face and neck is TO study the cOnsti-
| tuition and conditions of her skin. She
must know whether she has fatty Skin
| or dry skin. If the skin is too dry, theT
| elasticity and power of tension are lacking
sc that the skin cannot follow the move
ments of the facial muscles and nerves
and the consequence is that skin relaxeS
| and wrinkles some. In this case your Skin
must be fed with the lacking fact. To this
end vegetable fat is preferable to ANNA
| fat.
| If the skin is too fat il seems to exud,
paraffine, the pores become enlarged by tho
| tallow, pimples and blackheads come Il
you as natures friendly warning that YOU
| skin is abnormally secreting fatty sub
stances. This superfiuous fat must be re
moved by dry facial massage. Even If you
skin is good, your face without blemish
| you should still give II a massage treat
| ment occasionally; IL is as necessary al
gymnastics and exercise for the body.
BY skillful treatment of yourself you car
remove the fatty secretions, thereby pro
ducing a natural. transparent, white colo
of the face. The circulation will be accel
Grated and wrinkles, II not too deep. viii
in a short time dematerialize.
The average healthy person, when dis
rObed, cannot fail to nnotice how mucl
smoother and whittier the skin Is under tn