The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-07-08
CONCERNING
COMPLEXIONS.

|, COMPILATIONS. !
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And us remarkable tia. they
Talk most that have the least TO sAy.
Ncur daily speaker have the curse
To Plead their down 70 worse:
And DANES who native beauty want
sian usher look the Inore they pain,.
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~ UHICH IS quite true
~ Tell me, is there anything
more truly pitifu than the pic
w. ture of a deluded middie-aged
y" lady. with a fiddle-string neck,
checks fiabby with age. hair
grizEled and gray and complexion roughed
tin Il beams like Ben Davis appief
There is only one other woman whose
| appearance Is more heart-wrinsiug. and
she is the elderly person In a giddy. giriy-
girly hat tipped over her furrowsd. age
yellowed brow.
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One genius among q thousand women
can touch up" her complexion so skill
fully that even the shrewdest OF critics
will not suspect that the rouge pot has
been called upon to contribute its rosy
imitation of healthrul animation. But
alasi-nearly every woman who paints
thinks that she Is that one genius among
the thousand For that reason a stroll
down State street among the busy.
swarming shoppers leads one straight into
| the reasonable conclusion that more than
one estimable lady 81 the Windy City 10
addicted to the Uniting habit.
n ~
Like certain styles OF gowns and GER
| tain stunning hats rouge does not be-
| come every woman Take the thin. white
NN.ef N-N
woman of fragile health, caused perhaps
| by insufficienu clothing In winter. too
much ice cream soda in summer and
| general all-around lack OF horse sense all
| the time. She rouges and-posi,ivey---the
| effect Is CHASTITY. From whence comes
| that ruddy hue Of heai,li--the bushing
token OF vitality vivaeity. strength and
everything else that Is nne and splendid
| and wholesome7 From a little white far
! for which she paid 20 cents-~or maybe ~
| cents on bargain day. Why. the deccp-
| tion Is apparent To even a baby Of tender
years or a man with failing eyesight and
| hopeless ignorance concerning matters
feminine, The only mortal who II fooled
| by that young woman "a the girl she sees
| In the looking-glass.
n ~ ~
| To a woman with a fading complexion
| rouge will add ten long miserable years
| every time. Each individual line 10
| little crowfoot win look like a great big
| ugly wrinkle; wrinkle will look like ono
| OF those lines that plows and burrows dig.
| Instead of Imitation roses. learn tho art
| OF acquiring real ones. The result 10
| slow, but IT Is sure, and It's not n lie when
| you get II.
See how quickly the babies show tho
| results OF hygientc care, The child who
| has hts baths regularly whose diet IL
correct wholesome and nutritious--whose
| daily exercise in the open air keeps HIS
| lungs strong and his digestion good,
| whose sleep IL healthfui whose life IL al
| ways the snrne-does he not show the
| effect of all this in his face7 His eyes
| are bright, hts temper IL not torn to bits
| by infantile cussedness. hts cheeks are
rosy, his skin clear and fine. his limbs
| rounded ard firm. Thcn take the other
| kind OF baby--the child that grpws up
| without care or attention, and 70 whom
fresh air and cleanliness are unknown
| comforts. The eyes are dull and heavy,
| the skin n siekiy white. the body giving
general evidence Of innutrition and neg
| iect
! what r. good for babies isn't SO had
| for grown folk. Fresh air, peaceful,
| regular life, invigoratine baths. a diet
| that viii repair the waste OF thu body
| and supply new muscles. blood, tissues
and nerve rnaterial--these are OF vital Inn
| portance.
hut tho difficulty in acquiring iIfe-eiv-
ing viEor seems 10 lie Ia the fact that
50 many of Us are lazy. Exercise and
baths take time. and the matter of cor
rect food might cause "a little annoy
snce. or at least consideration. Worse
.tlii some ~ us fancy that In the rouge
pot we find "a good imitation OF the naiu-
raj glow. and the task OF touching UP tho
face takes only moment or two.
Now aren't the deluded ones STILES,
think So and so do you. Rouge not only
Injuries ones complexion. making tho
texture coarse and acting as a stimulus
TO ernptions and other complexion Ills.
but u Ia blazing. hideous piacard of
ynlgarity. II II even worse While know
that many nice girls use rouEe-~giris
who are not geniiewomen In every sense
OF the word-~YGt | also know that n girl
With touched-up checks Is frequently an
object Of unpleasant criticism. And to
! anyone who has learned little OF the
worlds brntally painful philosophy II 10
distreEsingly plain that the critics are
numerous-apd their wsya not always
friendly
How 20 set the real rouwe7 have
already told you Don't cit around the
house like bamboo table or sewing
machine. Keep the mind and the body
active. for hard work and plenty Of rest
together with a certain amount Of sxer~
cise. r. she nnest 'ouxe formula in the
world. The Eifi who eats cake and salad
and cheese AtrawS ct midnight won't have
rosy cheeks she VIII have complexion
that looks like tan shoe not q nins. new
tan shoe but sn old. harFid. w0rn.out
wreck that has PASSED IT, period Of aHe-
fuinesH and polish The siri who fnspss
won't hnd u an easy matter 20 acquire
rose biooms. because the condition ~
ores digestion IL easily Influenced BY ~.
state ~ oue's ruind This body must re-
c0ige nuttftiNuF f80d. the proper percent
age must be aesmilafsd and made into
materials for building no the body. Ths
waste matter mist b. 'hrcWn on through
The various ehanueis ~ elimination, 9th.