The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-10-18
Boudoir Chat

| IS'S Pd4hteu on the ends. PeriSha BILE
but lovely are the effective white
maline sashes.
Boudoir Chat.
Warts.-Castor oil will cure warts if
appned to them daily for several weeks.
Or II you are superstitious you can try
the old-fashioned plan of stealing a
piece of beef, rubbing the warts with
TINS, and then burning it. The idea is
! That as the beef decays the warts will
! gradually decrease in size, and at last
disappear altogether
A Tonic Bath.-Have you ever tried
an ammonia bath after you come in
tired from a bicycle ride? 1t is most
lnV1gorating. Have the water nice and
warm and add a teaspoonful of liquid
ammonia for every gallon. Don't stay
IN more than ten minutes. and then rub
nrlskly with rough towel till your
oooy is all in glow. A little olive oil
rubbed into the joints takes away that
SUN teellng one sometimes experiences
the day after long ride. If YOU can
lie down for half an hour after the
oath SO much the better.
To Be Healthy..The majority of
people do not sufficiently realize the
daily diet. If you want to be really
healthy, eat fruit for breakfast; eat
fruit for luncheon: avoid pastry: shun
mutflns and crumpets and buttered
toast; eat brown bread; decline pota-
toes II they are served more than once
a DAY: do not drink tea or coffee; walk
toLN miles every day; take a bath ev-
cry day; wash the face every night in
warm water, and sleep eight hours.
You Will never need nerve medicine if
you adhere to these rules.
The True Treatment of the Skin
There is no panacea or specific. there
fore, for insuring beautiful skin
That is, nothing you can purchase
across the chemists counter. Every
thing that tends to promote the general
health of the body-fresh air. exercise
pure food, temperance and plenty of |
lght-these things make for health, |
and they favor the beauty of the skin. |
incidentally, may add that indiges- |
ZION and constipation are fatal to the |
SKIN welfare, but 1 include such con- |
oltlons when / say that we desire per- |
feet health for the skins best deyelop- !
ment.
A pure soap is also a necessity, and |
the bath is an institution of great value
IN the work of skin preservation.
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The Health of the Skin.-A general
rule which should be borne in mind bv
everybody is that a good skin-I mean
mere natural skin-can be the prod
uct and result of good health alone.
In other words, it must be a healthy
skin to start with, otherwise all our eff
forts to preserve its freshness will he
utterly vain. We can never sufficiently
clearly realize the great truths-frst.
mat the health of the skin depends on
the health of the body at large: and
that the health of the BODY in
turn is largely affected by the condition
Of the skin. Consider for a moment
what the skin is and does.
1t is body covering, no doubt but
Z is also an organ of excretion-that
S. IL gets rid of part of the waste of
our frames, that waste which is the in
result of our bodily work The
respiration represents the waste. and
consists of water. minerals. fatty mat
ers and other things. The skin. in
act, is kind of lung, spread over the
surface Of the body, and discharging
much the same duties as the lung. For |
IKE the lung, 1T excretes waste, and like
he lung, it can absorb oxygen gas
rom the air, which is part of our food, |
md a necessity for the continuance of
ife
Here we see the high Importance of
nsuring that our skin shall act prop
rly, and that this channel of excretion
ball be perpetually kept open. You
ould suffocate man by covering his
ody with gold leaf, so that the skin Il
lands could not discharge the perspir- {
ton on the body's surface A case of S
his kind, indeed, actually occurred at {
rome in the person of child, whose
ody was so covered that he might take
art in procession Of figure of the ]
iolden Age.