The age-herald., 1901-04-19
yain a Great Beautifier.

....e April showers that yesterday re- minded one of continuous performance will make the following article rather timely to the woman who donned her golf skirt and went for walk along one of Birminghams fine roadways:
 The English woman in the Jersey sub urbs kicked off her rubbers, threw aside her rain cloak and felt walking hat and entered, with her face bright and glow ing.
 "Graciousr' gasped her friend. Aren't you drowned? Why didn't you have an umbrella?'
 More mist than rain," responded the English woman, mopping her face with a mans handkerchief. Besides. I don t carry an umbrella on this sort of trip. I've been taking the complexion cure; I always do every spring."
 Complexion cure?" echoed the friend. "Is it new one? Come right in and tell me all about it. If that color you have is permanent I want to take that cure my self. You're a. walking testimonial
 Its the oldest cure in the world, my dear," remarked the English woman, ses-
 
 simplest. It's also free. Anybody can take 1t for nothing, but I'll guarantee that it's just as good as those you pay dollars and dollars for in New York.
 'The materials are one nice, drizzly or misty day, which nature will provide, one good country road, of which there are plenty around here, one pair of easy | shoes, light rubbers, a golf skirt and a l comfortable rain cloak, and hat that l won't wilt.
 Take one hour for 1t anyway, two If you have good legs, and walk-just walk. It's simplicity itself. You may knead your face and rub it with towel before and afterward if you like, but the chief things are the rain and the walking. I present you the recipe and if you'll try it and keep it up will guarantee its suc- cess"
 ..It sounds we'll" said the friend, "but how about taking cold?'
 "Boshv' responded the Englishman. Follow my directions and don't stand around and you won't take cold. On the contrary you'll be all the better for the exercise you've taken. That's part of the cure.
 You see it's plain as the nose on your face. You American women envy the poor Irish and Scotch servant girls who come over here their red cheeks and clear com plexions, and you'll spend most of every twenty-four hours for six months in the year in rooms heated by hot air and won- der why you don't have a complexion like Brdget's.
 "when you go out you ride in heat ed car. You have hot biscuits and ice wa ter for breakfast, drink more ice water throughout the day. yet when you go out you are ever so careful that little good wholesome rain water doesn't touch your face.
 ..In summer it's little better, but tht air Is dried for you then. Now look al the difference in the life of Kate ant Mary and Bridget in their native heath In the first place the air nearly always moist and cool, and it rains or Is misty foggy, you might call 1.-two days out of three for nine months in the year. "Kate and Bridget probably worked out | doors in the fields Whether they did ol | not they. weren't slaves to umbrellas, and while you take car to go three blocks they would walk three miles and think | nothing about 1t. In winter in the house they have an open fire in the kitchen, and | the living room, if they have two, and | cold bedrooms. so there is no warm, dry air to dry their skin and fade the color | in their cheeks.
 "Of course, you can't alter climatic con- ditions. but that isn't necessary. If you'll shut off the heat from your bedrooms | except when 1t is really very cold, and | walk out when it's good and damp and healthful and let the rain beat on youl | face and the moisture soak into yonl skin you'n be all the healthier and lool l all the better for it.
 "Aprirs a good month to begin in. ant you can begin at once. You'll find | pleasant enough after a while, and you'll learn to like wet weather-that Is. wher | 1t isn't too wet. Try 1t, my dear. ant | if you don't find the experiment a success: | I'll never preach again."