Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-01-17
Beauty Needs a Retreat.
BY Harriet Hubbard Aver.

If I were not such a busy woman I
would start a Beauty Retreat" There
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 number.
A man broken down mentally. a wo-
man with wrecked nerves knows
where to go.
But women who require the services
of a wel-equipped repair shop for good
looks content themselves with a more
Or less haphazard 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
9eged miracle worker for a few weeks.
My "retreat"t~would be a place Of
temporary seclusion, where a woman
would go with no object in view ex-
cepting the ~rea Of her freshness
and loneliness.
It would not be in the city, but
somewhere within easy distance, where
the air is soft and pure, with nothing
harsh or drying in the atmosphere and
where dust and smoke and noise are
unknown.
L SuOu1Q require IOr my rGLreaC' a
large, sunshiny, simple but bright n
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 or worry, no
strain of body or mind would be per-
mitted to enter in.
Each one of my patients should have
@ room by herself, fresh and dainty
and above all things comfortable and
~restfu1, with windows calculated to ad-
init much sunshine and fresh air, but
not to let in unwelcome draughts.
Meals should be served daily in pri-
Vate or at a common table, as desired,
= and guests undergoing certain lines of
treatment could remain in strict Sc
clusion, others mix with their compan-
ions according to taste.
There would be different courses and
different specialists for the various
treatments. For example, I would
have an obesity class, hose members
would spend much of the time out of
doors, walking and cycling or solfng
Or doing exercises in a w~ell-eQufpped
gymnasium. These patients as well as
ali others would be upon a diet espec-
m lllX prepared and carefully carried
for them.
be patients for developing curves
ID, on the other hand. receive the
careful attention, and I would
hat such women were gently 1ulled
me rest they require by massage,
ious baths, rubbing-even by sooth-
music, which will quiet nervous
GIents sometimes when nothing else
hoes, and that no nerve irritation
Bhould reach them.
In my beauty retreat there should
Asst, last and all the time be an atmos-
IRE Of peace, happiness and hopeful
SIS, even gayety. My patients should
urged to lay all their burdens down
the gates. I should exact that nc
hnoyanceS were to intrude, either by
post or otherwise. The beauty pa
u tents should have such diversions as
the practical beauty culture and good
ty of charming women could
not fail to offer.
With such a retreat" I woAd guar
antee to work absolute wonders.
woman who simply is intent on
mailing money would never do as the
head of a beauty retreat, but the right
woman exists somewhere for such q
~sanitalfum, and when she comes to
h front, as she is bound to, I shall be
Y first to wish her well and to con.
g~ratulate the sex IN a much-needed in.
btitution for physical repair.