Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-01-09
For the Woman Beautiful
Lola Montez's Recipes.

Nine. Lola Montez, a superbly hand |
some woman of picturesque career, !
was the first of her sex to publicly ad-
vocate the cultivation of physical
beauty. She was the first woman lee |
turer with beauty message to her
own sex. She established the beauty
cult and was the first woman who
dared to say what every woman in her
heart has acknowledged beauty
is power, and that there is no more
important mission than to be beautiful
in the strict sense of the word. Lola
Montez's lectures were printed in the
early fifties. The book had large
sale, though it's publication was con-
sidered as highly improper, and women
for the most part purchased it sub
rosa. 1t has long been out of print.
She declared that strong coffee and
hot bread and butter form diet when
Is most destructive to beauty. The
heated grease, long INDUCED in, is sure
to derange the stomach, and by caus-
ing or increasing bilious disorders
gradually overspreads the fair skin
with wan or yellow hue.
After this meal comes the long ia st
from in the morning till or in the
afternoon, when dinner is served and
the half-famished beauty sits down to
safe a keen appetite with pepper3d
soups, fish, roast, boiled, broiled and
fried meats; game, tarts, sWeetmeats,
ices, fruits, etc. How must the cOnsti-
tuition suffer in trying to digest this
melange! How does the heated con-
plexion bear witness to the combustion
within
Let the fashionable lady keep dp
this habit, and add the other one IF
late hours, and her own looking-gIa IS
will tell her that eve all do fe.de as the
leaf" The firm texture of the rounf
ed form gives way to a flabby softness
or yields to a scraggy Ieanness or
shapeless fat. The once fair skin as
Isumes a pallor or redness which the de
luded victim would still regard as the
roses of health and beauty. And when
at last she becomes aware of her condi-
ton, to repair the ravages she flies C
padding, to give shape where there is
none; to stays, to compress into form
the swelling chaos Of flesh, and 20
paints to restify the dingy complexion.
But, said Nine. Montez, vain are al
| these attempts. No; if dissipation
late hours and immOderati0n have
once wrecked the fair vessel of female
charms, it is not in the power of Escu-
| lapius himself to right the shattered
bark and make it ride the sea in gal
| liant trim again.
! Cleanliness is a subject of indiSpeu-
sable consideration in the pursuit of
| beautiful skin. The frequent use of
the tepid bath IS the best cosmetic
connection. By such additions, cor
poreal impurities are thrown off, Gu
taneOus distractions removed; and
| while the surface Of the body is pre-
| served in its original brightness, many
| threatening disorders are prevented.
The Complexion
There are many disorders of the
skim said Lola, which are induced by
CuipdUlC ISuOI duCt, WHICH, 1--WE tu6lI
origin entirely to circumstances con
nected with fashion or habit. The fire.
Quent and sudden changes in this
country from heat to cold, by abruptly
exciting or depressing the secretions
of the skin, roughen it's texture, injur~
its hue, and often deform it with I'M
seemly eruptiOns.
And many Of the fashions of dress
ing the head are still more inimical to
the complexion than the climate. The
habit the ladies have of going into tie
open without bonnet and often with.
out a veil is a ruinOus one for the skin.
Indeed, the fashion of the ladies' bon
nets, which only cover a few inches If
the back Of the head, is a great tax
upon the beauty of the complexion
In this climate especially the hea"
and face need protection from the At
mosphere. Not only a womans beau
ty. but her health requires that she
should never step into the open air.
particularly in autumnal evening"
without a sufficient covering to her
head And if she regards the beauty
of her complexion she must never so
out into the hot sun without her veil
The custom among ladies of drying
the perspiratiOn from their faces by
powdering, or of cooling them whrn
they are hot from exposure to the sun
or dancing by washing with cold water.
is most destructive to the complexion
and not infrequentIy spreads a humor
over the face, which renders it hideous
forever.
little common sense ought TO
teach a woman that when she is over
heated she ought to allow herself 20
cool gradually and by all means to
avoid going into the air or allowing
a draft through an open door or Win
dow to blow upon her while she is
thus heated. If she will not attend 10
these rules she will be fortunate, say
ing nothing about her beauty, if he,
life does not pay the penalty of her
thOughtlessness.
Ladies ought to know that excessive
heat is as bad as excessive cold for the
complexion, and often causes distenr
pers of the skin, which are difficult Of
cure. Look at the rough and dingy
face of the desert-wandering gypsy.
tnd you behold the effects of exposure
10 alternate heats and colds
To remedy the rigidity of the
muscles of the face, and to cure any