Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-12

nevertheless in sufficient quantity 10
harden and dry the skin. 1t il the
contact of the iron in the water with
the secretions Of the skin that is large
ly responsible for blacK-heads.
Face scrubbing brushes are also
harmful. They take out OF the pores
the oils which nature provides for the
sustenance of the skin. When the
pores are in a healthy condition they
will without assistance of hot water, a
brush and a lather of perhaps strong
and injurious soap cast OFF all the Inn
purities which nature intended. When
they are not strong and perfect enough
for their work, be sure that the cause
is one too deep for any Improvement
from serubbing.
A muddy complexion is always more
or less due to lack Of bathing. lacls.of
exercise and improper eating and neg
Letting the laws of nature.
Most people eat too much meat. Meat
is not a strengthened, but a stimulant.
There is more nutriment in one egg
than in pound of meat. Too much
meat is very bad for tho complexion.
Fish and fowl in their seasons are less
injurious, but plenty of fresh eggs,
plenty of pure, fresh milk and cream.
writ al ,Iar Nj fpttsf
diet.
One OF the best tonics will be found
TO be oranges or grape fruit, eaten half
an hour before breakfast. A good way
to eat them is to squeeze out the juice
into a cup as you would a lemon.
The best soap for the skin is a pure
olive oil soap. The natural color OF
soap Is white. Whatever coloring Isl
given is done artinclaIly. Many oil
these coloring matters - ighly injur-l
ious TO the delicate and s2dtiye cat
icle. There are in the n nMnnr
Der of so called medic s
vertised to cure all the
skin is heir to- As a
prepared according to SS.'cySV.s4
and when analysed by reliable chemiscs
are generally found TO be the common
est caustic soaps, but extravagantly
perfumed and done up In gorgeous
wrappers. Most soaps are perfumed
with fusel oil, the effects OF which on
the complexion are very disastrous.
II you would improve the condition.
Of your skin, go out daily during tho
sunny part OF the day. Oxygen 10 a
tonic for the general health, as well as
the complexion. II possible walk two
miles each dry. / go out every day,
even, If l can do no better, TO walk
around the block. The day l am COM,
PEELED to lose my walk very decidedly.
feel the lack OF it. have a headache
or my lungs are weak for want OF air.
Every one should sleep with windows
open. Sleep with the windows down
about four inches; on very cold nights
with them open about one-half an
inch.
II possible 1t Is better TO sleep with
out fire. New York people especially
keep their apartments too hot. They
cannot regulate the steam heat Until
they do. believe lung troubles win b
on the increase. The tendency OF liv-
ing in steam heated rooms or in any in
which the temperature is constantly at
a high figure is very dangerous to
beauty. New York women have dry
skins and age more rapidly for this
reason than would be the case II they
regulated the temperature OF their
houses better.
American women have more to con-
tend with than foreign women owing
to sudden changes in climate. Expos
ure to great extremes Of either heat or
cold destroys the complexion. and both
should be avoided. Sudden changes Ok
temperature shock the nerves. When
compelled TO face either, 1t Is probably
best to wear clean, plain veil AS q
rule, however, wells are bad for the
skin, as the dust they accumulate clogs
the pores, while the wells servo as
sleeves to retain the impurities cast 90
by the pores Of the skin.
MARY SCOTT ROWLAND.
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