The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-17


authorities long ago led to the despair
ing exclamation. WHO shall decide
when doctors disa oree9,' The woman in
search of beauty or anxious to learn the
best way to retain it finds a bewilder-
ing variety of advice. Many specialists
in treatment of the complexion adyO-
cate face steaming. Others condemn it
with unhesitating severity. That the
latter are probably correct is to be in
ferred from the experience of a New
York woman who went to consult one
not long ago. Almost the first words
uttered by the specialist We're: You
have been steaming your face" Her
patient asked: How did you know ?''
The answer was: Because the skin is
dry, withered and fabby. I can tell at.
d glance when a woman uses hot water
or steaming.'
Hot water should be used once day
merely for cleanliness. Sponge the face
softly with a pure soap and hot water
either at night or in the morning, to
remove dust and open the pores. Then
battle thoroughly with clear, cold water
until the skin is in a glow, and finish
by applying a good cold cream of
glycerine, rosewater and benzion To-
ton
An experienced dentist says that the
carelessness of parents frequently sac
rifices the personal charm of their chill
dren to an extent wholly unnecessary.
| The first teeth should be preserved
until actually pushed out by the second
as the jaw contracts when they are re-
moved any considerable length of time
| before the second. The first set should
be brushed with the softest possible
| brush and a good paste, and when signs
| of decay appear the child should be ia
ken to a competent dentist for advice
and treatment.
In this way the child is almost assur-
ed of sound, evenly growing teeth when
womanhood or manhood is reached.
The young woman who looks mourn
| fully in the mirror upon the reflection
of bony neck and thin arms may do
much to remedy the trouble with little
expense or effort. Olive oil is one of the
most nutritious of food products, and a
| persistent and liberal use of salads aids
materially in the acquisition of flesh. A
/ salad of oranges and bananas, cut in
small pieces and drenched freely in a
French dressing, may be taken before
| going to bed without injury to the di-
! geStive organs Vegetable salads should
/ be included in the luncheon and dinner
menu every day. Fish salads made of
| the more delicate, white fieshed fish
are excellent, and sardnes form a val
liable addition to the beauty bill of
fare
1t is surprising that so few people,
/ eithel men or women, have well shaped
feet. Most children have normal feet
| when born, and it is improper treatment
! a known BOS-
! ton lawyer with advanced ideas, shared
by his wife, allows his children to wear
| only moccaslns until old enough to go
| to school. Then the shoes are made of
the softest kid, with soles the width of
| the foot, and broad. round toes. In
| summer the children go to their seaside
cottage, and, for the season, return 10
| moccasins. There are five children in
the family, and the eldest, a girl of Is,
| IS said to have feet as perfect in con-
tour as those of the baby of years.
A frequent cause OF trouble with the
/ feet is the wearing of black stockings
Care should be taken to select those
| with white soles, as the dye is extracted
by the heat induced by confinement in
| the shoe and acts as an irritant poison.
| Itching, burning and swelling often are
| due solely to this cause To mitigate
| the evil in some degree the stockings
| should be changed daily in summer and
| at least three times during the week
| in winter. The feet should be bathed
| every night in warm water and bicar-
| Donate of Soda tablespoonful of the
soda to a basin of water-letting them
| remain in the solution until it becomes
cool. They must be rubbed vigorously
in drying and then bathed with alco-
| hol.
Sapient writers on beauty often try
to impress upon their readers that
neither joy nor grief, neither laughter
nor tears, should be permitted to mar
the SInOOInn6SS OF the SKIN nor the SOFT
ness of the mouths curve. They advise.
in short, a total extinction of emotion,
lest emotion should carve lines on what
they would have a waxen mask.
There is a happy medium, however,
between the expressionless face, whose
freedom from wrinkles in middle life is
due to lack of character and the power
to feel, and the brow and cheek whose
disfiguring lines speak of uncontroll-
able tempers and ungoverned moods
Every woman can, if she WILL culti-
vate the self-control that subdues the
manifestation of feeling in frOWnS or
excessive laughter Poise of manner
may be made merely the outward ex-
preston of poise of mind, and the many
little worries of life can be relegated
to their proper place as triieS. True re-
posefulness is not the absence of
strength, but its assured possession
Mothers should be observant of any
tendency in their growing children to
undue facial distortion in speaking and
gently remind them of it until the habit
is cured. 1t is difficult for the adult
to dismiss a habit once formed, but it
would be wise for every young woman
and man to establish a close surveil-
lance over their manner of using the
muscles of the face in speaking. Many
of them would be surprised to find that
every sentence is a fresh grimace.
An American girl in Paris has in
vented the newest thing in luncheon en-
tertainments. 1t is called talent
AuHNHSOu anu the novelty lies III the
programme making.
Every guest is told in her invitation
what the features are to be. Miss Gay
is to sing, Miss Demure to recite, and
so on. Then each guest is expected tc
prepare a fancy programme. A clever
embroiderer may do hers in hasty
sillxen stitches. the girl who paints can
make decorative letters, and the girl
who has no talent may make hotch-
potch of newspaper letters and pictures
The girl who rhymes may utilize that
faculty. But something every one must
make.
After the luncheon the nrnsrra 1onr,ne s