Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-14
FOR OUR FAIR ONES.
How They May Rid Themselves Of Tan
and Freckles

! HOW Auey May RlQ themselves OF L an
and Freckles-
Although tan and freckles are the
trademark of the summer girl, the win
ter girl prefers to be known by some
other sign. When the summer girl re-
turns from camp or seashore, mountain
or Lake and begins to make her pre-
parations for her winter campaign;
when visions of germans, receptions,
and of decollete gowns loom up before
her mental vision, then does she turn
her mind to soft-soothing lotions, to
sunburn and freckle-removing appli-
cations.
To most physicians the bronze skin
is the sign of healthy outdoor life, and
they have very little patience with the
attempt that wearers Of decollete
gowns make to match the shades of
their foreheads and their shoulders
some color in the cheeks is always al
lowable
Il don't blame anybody in the least
for using cold cream, Or any other
soothing lotion that will allay the in
tense discomfort that follows exposure
to the SUM- specialist said yesterday.
But | can't see why anybody should
want to remove the healthy looking
tan. 1t will wear away soon enough.
''Freckles and tan are both due to a
deposit of pigment in the epidermis.
To remove either of them you must re-
move the epidermis. 1t can be done
by the application of certain acids, but
it is extremely painful
To this ideal of nut-brown beauty
the devotee of society dissents.
It's all very we'll to talk of sunburn
being becoming to most women she
says. Maybe it is, when they wear
high-necked dresses, but when they
wear low-necked and sleeveless
dresses, brown hands and arms and a
face as brown as an Indians don't go
very we'll with pretty white shoulders. "
A well-known hair dresser and facial
masseuse said
Il don't believe that some girls DELHI
erately sit in the sun for the sake of
getting tanned. There's too great a de-
mand for lotions and other applica-
tons that will cover up the tan tenn
p0rarily, for me to believe that"
Compilations have changed from
what they were once. You don't see
many pink and white beauties nowa--
days. The golf girl has changed that.
But even the girl who goes in for ath-
letics is sensitive about her complex
ion. I don't care how Independent
women are in other things, there are
two things that no woman cares to
have No woman is willing to have it
said of her that she has hard hands
and rough skin. Even in winter, ath-
letic girls and other girls whose faces
are tanned or rOughened by the sun
and wind come here for treatment"
Face steaming, followed by the
plication of an emulsion of almonds,
or of cucumber juice, or tomato juice,
or the juice Of whatever fruit happens
to be in season-just SO it is acids
the best way to remove the tan. The
steaming softens the skin and prepares
it for the action of the acid. The
steam itself should be medicated with
benzoin or something of that sort
'tFreckles are removed in the same
way Only in the case Of the freckles
| the applications must be used more
| frequently, and must be of such a ma
ture that they will gradually take off
the skin"
! persons who return from the sea-
shore and those who have been on sea
voyages generally complain that the
sea air makes the hair come out.
There's probably some truth in it, be-
cause the salt air makes the skin ex-
pand, and the expansion of the skin Of
the scalp would make the hair drop
out 1t frequently happens that per-
sons who spend the summer at the sea-
shore and who neglect to wash the salt
water out Of the hair after bathing,
lose so much hair that they have to use
hair tonics, and to have treatment on
their return.
ct seems rather strange that the
salt water should have this effect upon
the hair. Every hair tonic has a
pluCH vi salt III II, Dul Cuc Salt STD
water seems to rot the hair, if it is al
lowed to dry on it. The hair can be
expected to fall out a little bit in the
autumn. 1t always does at that sea-
son.
There used to be scalp specialist |
who wouldn't allow even a bang to be |
trimmed in her establishment, except |
during the increase of the moon. Peo- |
pie used to be superstitious about hair |
cutting as they are still about cutting
their nails. You know the old saying |
about nail cutting is:
Cut on Monday you cut for health:
Cut on Tuesday, you cut for wealth.
Cut on Wednesday, you cut for a letter, |
Cut on Thursday, you cut for some
thing better.
Cut on Friday, you cut for crosses.
81 don't care when my hair is cut"
she said interrupting her recitation OF |
the superstition, but wouldn't for the !
world cut my nails On Friday-and her
assistants all joined in a chorus of !
neither would II
''The rest Of the rhyme" she con-
tinued is
Cut on Saturday, you cut for losses.
Cut on Sunday you cut for evil,
And all the veal, vouI'11 he followed nv