The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-01
THEIR SECRETS OF BEAUTY.
PATTI AND OTHERS TELL HOW
 THEY KEEP YOUNG.

Diet Questiom-FRcts for the Ordina-
 ry Woman,
 Self preservation is unpuestionably the first law of the modern woman s l life. Nature may have preserved the woman of an earlier day, but science is backing the twentieth century wiman and is doing wonders for her.
 Beauty culture isn't modern, but ra- tional beauty culture, brought within the reach of the great feminine majori- ty, is a thing of this day and hour Poppala may have abathed in asses milk and Ninon de lEnclos may have used bushels of rose leaves for her dai- ly tub, but never before was there time when Mary Smith, the green gro- cer's daughter, went in for scientific beauty culture.
 Undoubtedly, Q vast amount of harm is being done by interruptions beauty fakrs, and host of women are running l their skins and hair and health with unscientfc facial massage and face steaming, inferior creams and oint- mentS, unsuitable baths, disastrous shampoos and other treatments adver- tised as sure guides to the fountain of perpetual youth.
 On the other hand, large percentage of womankind is improving it's appear | ance and preserving it's youth by ra- tional and scientific treatment The great difficulty lies in discriminating be- tween true and false prophets, and | woman cannot be too careful as to the | reputation and ability of the beauty doctor to whom she trusts herself, or as to the quality of the creams, &c, which she uses at home.
 Taking into consideration the number of experiments women make upon their complexions and hair, it is wonder that parchment skins and badness are not rampant in feminine ranks.
 A second difficulty in the path of the average womans beauty search is the price of a personally conducted tour | The experts who are capable and sue cessful beauty doctors can obtain their own prices.
 There are plenty of wealthy women who will pay any money for the real thing, and the experts who have it for l Sdle, DtlIlS UullldIl, lttlNt III ft7 lii'tAlJ shekels as they can gather. The wo- man with a small income and the natu- ral feminine vanity falls back upon treatment which is within her reach, probably because it is not worth more than the price she can pay.
 This is not always the case. Unde- veloped or unexploited genius exists in the ranks of the beauty doctors as else where, but it is rare and the woman who cannot afford to go to a professon- al of established repute and frst-class references, will be wise if she limits her efforts toward beauty culture to the sensible diet bathing, exercise and sleep prescribed to her by a reputable | physician.
 She may use a simple cold cream whose ingredients she knows, but the less she experiments with her complex ion the better it will probably be- unless she has some serious blemsh which re- quires treatment by a good skin spe- | cialist.
 If she does attempt to find her way to the Fountain of Perpetual Youth, without a guide whose record proves ability, she will find herself in a hope l less quandary The road is lined with guide posts, no two of them pointing the same way, or giving the same infor- mation.
 The wanderer may read ten daily pa pers each day and get ten distinct and contradictory theories in regard to each | detail of facial and scalp treatment, Beauty books galore may be bought | and no two writers advance dentically | the same advice.
 l The fact is that each woman believes | that what has proved beneficial to her is a universal panacea and she strews 1 recommendation broadcast Her inten- tions may be good, but her logic is faulty.
 There never was a better illustra tion 1 of the old saying that What is one mans meat is another mans poison | than is afforded by complexion treat ment and general beauty culture. It all comes back to the original proposition. If you cannot afford treatment and 1 advice from experts who have proved | their skill let yourself alone, beyond attending strictly to the natural and simple laws of hygiene After all, beauty culture, as a fad would find poor browsing ground, if all womankind would religiously adhere to those same simple hygienic laws.
 It is to offset infringement of the laws and abuse of nature that facial treat ment and the other aids to appearance | have been evolved. The wear and tear of modern life, the nervous tension un- 1 der which the modern woman lives call | loudly for something to obliterate the marks they leave,
 ' Many of the women who lead most 1 helter-skelter and irregular lives, with nerve strain, meals at all hours hard work--women in the thick of the world l ly hubbub-retain their youth and beau- 1 ty better than placid matrons who live | rule, they understand how to counter act the injurious effects of their lives. and they use their knowledge religious ] ly.
 I Their systems vary astonshingly | There is Patti, who always went in for beauty culture with awesome fervor and whose perennial youth is a magni- ficent advertisement for her theories l She was always willing to tell how she cared for herself. Now. when she is ! tripping along the downward grade of middle age, she is still ready to give her sisters the benefit of her wisdom. T am very abstemious, she said in a recent interview, "and ] find courage to drink nothing bue water and milk. I