Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-10-11
Beauty Needs a Retreat
By Harriet Hubbard Aver.

If I were not such a busy won1an I
would start a Beauty Retreat" Fhere
are hospitals, to be sure, for every all
ment under the sun.
There are rest cures, sanitariums and
homes for invalids of both sexes with
out nunber
"A man broken down mentally. a wo-
man with wrecked nerves knows
where to go.
But women who require the services
Of a well-equipped repair shop for good
looks content themselves with a more
Or less h~aphazard attempt to mend
matters by such physical culture les
sons as are to be had three or four
times a week, liable always to inter- |
ruption, or a thousand times worse,
put themselves into the care Of an al
legged miracle worker for a few weeks.
MY ''retreat'' would be a place of
temporary seclusion, where a woman
would go with no object in view ex-
cepting the recreation Of her freshness
and loneliness.
It would not be in the city. but
| somewhere within easy distance. AN4ere
the air is soft and pure, with nothing
harsh or drying in the atmosphere and
! where dust and smoke and noise are
I should require for my retreat" a
| large, SunSnlny, simple DuI DTlSnL anu
cheerful home, with big grounds and
garden.
When my clients came to me it
would be for a resting place where the
culture Of the body would be consid-
cred for the time all important and
where no mental exertion er NaaaEy, no
strain Of body or mind would be per-
mitted to enter in.
Each one of my patients should have
a room by herself, fresh and dainty
and above all things comfortable and
r~estful, with windows calculated to ad-
nit much sunshine and fresh air, but
not to let in unwelconle draughts.
Meals should be served daily in rri-
vate or at a common table, as desired,
and guests undergoing certain Iinea OF
treatment could remain in strict Sc
c%lusion, others mix with their compa
ions according to taste.
There would be different courses an6
, different specialists for the various
, treatments. For example, I would
have an obesity class, whose member
i would spend much of the time out O.
doors, walking and cycling or golfins
or doing exercises in a w~e7l=aRAnpe
gymnasium. These patients as well a
= all others would be upon a daat sspse
- tally prepared and carefully cafrie'
= out for them.
Inc paC1enIS EOr developing curve
would, on the other hand, receive tn
most careful attention, and I woul
6 see that such women were gently lulle
to the rest they require by massage
r various baths, rubbing-even by SCOTT
\ ing music, which will quiet nervou
patients sometimes when nothing els
does, and that no nerve irritatio
w should reach them.
> In my beauty retreat" there shoul
first, last and all the time be an atmos
,e phere of peace, happiness and hopeful
SO ness, even gayety, My patients shoul
be urged to lay all their burdens dow
N at the gates. I should exact that +
I'd were to intrude, either
post or otherwise. The beauty p;
tents should have such diversions
the practical beauty culture and goo
~ 4 of charming women cou
not fail to offer.
~ With such a retreat" I would qua
antee to work absolute wonders.
IT. A woman who simply is intent
it making money would lever de as t
Sc. head of q beauty retreat, but the rig
tie woman exists for such
is sanita4ium, and when she comes
te. TIA front. 81 she ia bound to, I shall
he ts2e f3Yst to wish hsr well and to co
he A.9.ta3ate the sex on q much-needed
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