The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-31
THE SECRET OF YOUTH.
SOME SIMPLE MANIPULATTONs OF
THE GbrPLExroN.

First Principles, as Taught by the
Rosy Old Foreigner, Are Facial
Cleanliness and Protection of the
Skin From Exposure-onIy One
Woman I'm Fifty Really Keeps Her
Face Clean, According to the Mag
nifying Glass-The Correct Atti-
tude Toward Wrinkles.
New York, March 2s.-"Let me tell you
the secret of youth" said the little Ger
man dermatologist. Keep your complex
ion; keep the grain fine and the color high,
and though the wrinkles come, and your
hair turns white, and your figure loses all
symmetry and slenderness, you will still
pass among your friends and before your
mirror as a wonderfully enviabe youthful
looking woman. That is what 1 keep tell
ing my patrons" smiled the plump little
person. whose own cheeks were as deli
cate of texture and true in color as the
petals of a wild rose, land some of them
believe me when L ask them to guess my
age. They always give me ten years less
than the registry in the old church in Ger
many. and that compliment is due to my
complexion"
How do manage to keep it? Well,
have just taken the best care of it since
/ was a bit of a girl. My mother was
sort of a complexion specialist in her day,
and am trying to educate the American
ladies to follow in a measure her teach
ing OF course, by the light of some mod
ern scientific discoveries, have improved
on hal httf he
which she worked remains the same, and
all 1 preach and teach is simple facial
cleanliness and protection from over-ex-
posture.
A ThimberfuI of Dirt.
Yes, indeed my dear, cleanliness is
the most important step in the preserva-
ton of a complexion and the precaution
most often neglected. 1 suppose it will
shock you when 1 say that only one wo-
man in fifty has clean face. That is
the truth, however, for the magnifying
glass does not lie and many and many
Is the pretty countenance out of which,
in single treatment, I have washed as
much as half thimbleful of the most
Injurious, irritating, sticky dirt
"Of course those patients have always
washed their faces, as often as least
as twice a day. Plain cold water and
clean colth they use, they tell me, and
Furthermore they always assure me that
in their girlhood they had pretty, fine
skins, with a sweet color in the cheeks
When they tell me that / beg to have
look at the skin of the arms and Shout
ders. If my magnifying glass shows
surface soft and closed pored and white
l know then that the patient has simply
been neglecting her face and l put stop
at once to the morning and afternoon IA
cial bath. My cure course is simple
enough, the afflicted one lies back in a
chair under a strong light, and i go over
the cheeks and chin and nose and fore
head with the finest, softest, whiteset
sponge that money can buy. and deli
cately apply a mix warm latherd. There
l let it stay for a while, and then, with
spray that feels as light as a powder
puff l wash the lather off. over and
over, and over the whole surface I go.
First with lukewarm water that grows
gradually up to temperature of a hun
bred and four, and then with an equally
gradual lowering of temperature down
to fifty-eight degrees.
when this hydraulic process is COM
plete take piece of old, soft, and very
pure linen and tenderly, as If it were an
infants face, let the linen absorb the
moisture from the surface. Finally, when
the face is perfectly dry, / make the pa
tient recline, her eyes closed and every
muscle of her countenance relapsed for
at least fifteen minutes or until the nat
ural evaporation has further dried the
skin. Finally go over it all with one of
those nice soft little rubber facial brushes,
touching ever so delicately. This L do to
bring up the circulation, but never do 1
handle the skin with rough, familiar
touch, for the face is harmed not helped
by any other friction than a slow and
very gentle smoothing with the soft
palm of my hand. If 1 find a skin that
shows the whole system to be lacking IN