The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-06-21
THE FIRST WRINKLE.

Often her friends will see it first; ant
ii is by some chance remark, even al
idle Jest, that her attention is called t
it.
When the wrinkle has reached thi
pronounced stage you may be sure tina
ii is deep. and that a great deal of dam
age has been. done. The skin is disfig-
ured, the expression is hardened, age is
apparent and the deep line is response.
bic for it all.
Wrinkles can be traced to various
causes. There are laughing wrinkles
that bring the crows feet at each side
Of the nose, and the parentheses around
the mouth.
There are the discontinued wrinkles
which crease the. forehead in straight
up and down lines between the eyes.
Frequently this little wrinkle is
caused by defective eyesight. Near
sighted persons who will not use eye
glasses soon have the wrinkle which is
made by squirting the eyes in the
endeavor to see.
Melancholy wrinkles are caused by
the lifting of the eyebrows. And there
are wrinkles of habit, accustomed
wrinkles. which come because one is
in the habit of wrinkling the face.
The great beauties have been noted
roomful of people you will notice
more than one who makes grimaces,
draws down one corner of the mouth,
wrinkles the brows and otherwise dis
forts the countenance.
Grimacing with the face is absolutely
destructive to beauty and none of the
famous society women, remarkable for
their belledom, has ever done it. Lang
try would as soon make face" when
talking as she would allow herself to
get fat
1t is said that this lady's attendant
has constant orders to report to her
mistress any sign of an approaching
wrinkle; and never does that lady re-
tire until each little line has been
smoothed and each crease rubbed
away
The skin is like soft paper 1t may
be wrinkled, but you can smooth it out
unless the creases are too deep. This
calamity might happen and your pretty
surface would be destroyed. Just as it
is possible to tear holes in the paper,
even so is ii possible so to deeply in
dent the skin that the outer surface is !
actually torn. Smooth it with the fin
gers, rub out the deep furrow, and
there is still a crease where the texture
of the skin is destroyed by the habit of
frowning.
Wrinkles can be treated at all times:
and there is no skin so wrinkled that
it cannot be restored or partially So
But the time to treat the skin is in the
beginning, when the first winrkle ap-
pears.
Let each woman look at her face
closely tonight in the hope of discov-
ering her own blemishes. Better still, |
let her examine her face by the bright |
light; and, with the toilet glass held /
close to the skin, let her study it and |
its peculiarities.
The enemy to all prettiness is the |
blackhead. This is the first defect YOU |
notice in a critical study of the skin. |
If you examine the face we'll you viii |
see how speckled it is, often being en- /
tirelyi peppered with the little dots.
This appearance of pepper is only the
blackhead. But it is a great |
affection, and often destroys an other I
wise pretty face. 1t is the most COM
mon complaint in the world, and the
only one Of all the face blemishes that
IS entirely unnecessary.
There never was and never will be
1 case of blackhead which could not be
-reated, and in all coses does the black
lead yield.
The trouble is due to dirt in the skin
only this and nothing more. The
dea that it might be a parasite is
erroneous, and the woman who realizes
hat it is all case of dirt is the one
Who viii rid herslf of the trouble soon
st.
The pores of the skin are more or less
pen, and into these open pores the
ust settles. This is the case in a !
utshell
To rid the skin of these tiny imper-
ections there is but one remedy. And
hat is cleanliness. Soap and water
rill not do the work, nor will that ,
eroic remedy green soap, nor any
hemical. /,
Heat the face well with hot water. !
~ it with a bit of soft cloth; then. /.
lille it is hot, rub in plenty of good /,
old cream. Now leave on for a few
linutes. Then anoint the face thickly :
18th 1t and rub off with a bit of linen :
soft rag. Look at the cloth and :
on will find that you have taken away
attn the cream a great deal of the !
irt that as on the face
Now wash the face well with soap .
nd hot water and finally with clear
OF water, and the work Of removing :
he blackheads viii have begun. !.
OFTEN, for simple cases, nothing more Il
necessary, and this treatment. re- :
eated day after day, will entirely q
ear the skin. Il
But what has the blackhead to do .
18th the wrinkle, which is the subject Fl
our talk? 4
Why, everything in the world! Y
That which seems to be a wrinkle %
the forehead is often only little V
ne in which dust has settled Look at
in the glass and you viii find it
,rinkled all along its length as though b
IN pepper. If you treat this wrinkle g
18th cold cream. carefully removed Il
it'll a bit of soft old linen. and after a.
ARDS wash it with soap and hot wa a.
r, you viii find that the wrinkle or d.
lat which appeared to be the wrinkle. OF
IS disappeared.
1t is astonishing how much YOU can Il
} in this way, and how wrinkles win a,
cit away before your astonished and al
lighted eyes. III
But there are wrinkles that will not m
with washing. These are the fur I'll
VS. of thought, of study, of frown- al
g. and of age.
These wrinkles need massage. and W
enty of it; they need care. and plenty A
IL; they need attention and constant in
tention at that; and they need in n
ligent treatment.
IF I were a woman with \ wrinkle :. az
id a beauty doctor, Il would get rid OF
it. That goes without elaboration. pi
And 1 would get rid of it quickly al
d wisely Or
] would cleanse the path Of the Ia
'inkle with cold cream and with
ciai oils. and then ] would anoint il 50
ain with cold cream and would mas 20 20
&c it well IN
1 would be extremely careful about ol
e kind of cream ] used in the mas ~
ge. and would see that it was skin
that would feed those "a
rived tissues and make them plump ~ ~
8 pretty again. 81
u would never rest until 1 had hon ~