The age-herald., 1901-07-11
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The Beauty" Editor.

people, who wondered if the inquiries alleged to have been received were ac- tually bona fide and if there really ex- isted a young man who di dnot know what to do with his overcoat when he went calling" or if there was a young woman who was as ignorant of the sim plest ideas of propriety as once discussed in MT. Boks journal. Still, there must have been a demand for just that sort of thing just as there must now be for the beauty" departments in many of of the complexion, the amount of bath ing necessary, the proper use of per fumes and other important subjects fill column or two in several of the great dailies. They are in answer, presumably to inquiries regarding the care of the baby, the best lotion for rough skin' or in some instances the inquirer fires more intricate problem at the editor and asks what should be applied to an in- QlIeTenI QuSDdHu HIS ldbtCi AAi4aAAJ plays direct into the beauty editors hand for indifference on the part of a husband indicates that the wife's charms require touching up. Make yourself charming and cut the other women out" advises the beauty editor, and forth with gives a complexion lotion use of which makes skin like a rose, and wash calculated to produce eye lashes as long and silky as those of Anna Held.
 Then after a month if ones complex ion does not improve and ones eye lashes continue to fall out the woman whose husband is flirting with a girl who pas tells" but no one knows 1t. applies again to the "beauty' editor and the latter calmly informs her in the public prints that a months treatment was not ex- pected to accomplish very wonderful re- sults but that if she perseveres six months she will be rewarded.
 It must be thankless position, that or being editor of beauty department In A newspaper To have all the complaints regarding complexions, infiamed eyes ana a thousand other ills to arrive by the mornings mall, to hunt up prescriptions and prescribe without seeing the patient, and to draw upon ones imagination as to pimply skins, bald scalps and other Ills that flesh Is heir to. The risk that is run in prescribing the same lotion for thousand women whose bad complexions come from various causes, is only one of the many responsibilities of the beauty editor.
 But her stock in trade, that of regular bathing, the use of pure, unscented soaps, is A prescription worth all the "lotions that fill the beauty" departments The philosophy of fresh air and rest, which is the sum total of her theories, can not ever fail to produce the required re- suits.
 Make yourself charming" is not bad | advice to any one, and Is after all the most harmless part another woman might take in the affairs that do not concern her 1 This suggestion would be readily adopted by the average woman who had domestic troubles She might drown them in the lotion she applied regularly to her af- nicted complexion.
 | No one means to reflect upon the | ''beauty" edition. Her suggestions are always practical and come more under the head of talks on health. But it does seem strange that there are women who would | confide their domestic troubles to a daily newspaper and except advice upon the solving of matrimonial difficulties. or the latest wrinkle for removing blackheads.
 That information, however. Is frequent. ly desired regarding such matters ant that the beauty" editor Is supposed tc be infallible may be judged by the follow. l ing ',querries and answers" that appeared yesterday in the Chicago Record-Herald
 It isn't how young you are, how pretty you are, or what kind of clothes you wear It's what sort of a heart you have and how sweet you can be.
 OLGA-You ask If it is evidence of bad taste to use perfumes. That depends. The best perfume is that of scrupulously fresf linen and extreme cleanliness but a sug gestion of delicate fragrant scent like sween flowers is always permissible Chemical odors and heavy musk scents are common and unpardonable.
 MISS BETSY ANN-The complexion re. fleets the condition of ones health, just as the expression of ones eyes mirror the state of ones spirits. It often happens that cosmetics that are helpful in most | cases will fail hopelessly in others. This for the reason that the beauty ailments to come from some physical disorder which requires hygienic living and tonic before you spend your money for toilet accessories. Take a good blood tonic, get out of doors, eat according to sensible | ideas, and rest
 l IMPATIENT-I should say you are. A faded, neglected and diseased skin may | have been coming on for years. Now you | imagine that ten days treatment witt creme marquise will right the troubles | and make the sun shine for you. KeeI l on with your daily baths with tepid sal water Look after the digestion, drinl | three pints of water a day Continu, | using creme marquise faithfully for sev eral months at least.
 MRS. A.-Soften the bathing water b, adding a teaspoonful of a lotion made o four ounces of alcohol, one ounce of am. monia and one dram of oil of lavender