The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-09-13
THE TIRED WOMAN
AND HER WRINKLES.

A little poem keeps humming through
my mind. 1t is about an old woman
who always was tired, and who lived
in a house where help wasn't hired. Her
s;st words on earth were: Dear
friends, am going where washing
amt done, neither cooking nor sew
ing"
There is a deal of pathos in this
verse, which winds up by saying that
the old woman hoped some time to lie
still a couple Of hundred of years and
rest.
The tired woman of today cannot lie
still and rest; she must be up and do
ing. If she be a Newport society leader
she must plan her next tea pouring and
must select the musical numbers for
her coming ball
If the tired woman is home woman
she does not hope to rest, for rest with
her would mean the stopping of the
household machinery, a thing of which
she would not think for a moment un-
less compelled to do so. Nor, of all
women in the world, can the profess
sional woman rest. 1t is she who must
work not only from dawn until night
but often from night until morning,
and, no matter how weary she may be,
she IDuSL keep IlSHI OIL
Now for all tired women there comes
a punishment, and this is in the shape
of wrinkles. You can tell the faded
out body by the creases between the
eyes. There will come deep lines that
tell of long hours, anxious care, dark
WOrTiSOme thoughts, and trials galore.
Wrinkles tell the story of woman's
life quickly to an observant eye. The
woman who has worried twenty hours
out of the twenty-four-and women
can worry in their sleep as well as wax
ing-will have lines to tell to the world
the tale of ceaseless care.
WORRY WRINKLES.
This is not a sermon on worrying,
because the woman who worries will
keep on worrying. She cannot stop just
because you tell her to do so. Worry
is q habit. and one that cannot be
broken up The worrying woman will
be a worrying woman all her days
But there are ways of preventing the
worry from showing on your face
means by which the lines which worry
brings can be obliterated.
I know a woman who worries all the
time; she is also the victim of a bad
temper. She freely says that she can
not control either tendency, and that
she is the unhappiest woman alive.
Often she declares that she does not
want to live.
Now, this woman has not a line upon
her face, strange to say. And she takes
out the lines herself by working upon
them day by day.
She is a woman of exquisite neatness.
and in spite of the fact that she frets
a great deal she finds time for the daily
complexion bath. Each day she goes
over her skin with complexion cream,
bathing it freely. After she has re-
moved the cream she dusts her COM
plexion with a good powder. When she
has finished the skin is as clear and
smooth as that of an 1S-year- old girl
Sometimes she delicately traces her
eyebrows with oil and a brush, and
thus makes a most attractive picture
of herself She has studied the art of
making UP to a limited extent, suffi-
GENTLY to improve her appearance and
to heighten her natural beauty In spite
Of worry she has found time to do this
The outlining Of the eyebrows is done
with q camel's hair brush just touched
to the oil bottle, and the change it
makes is instant. The eyebrows are
glossy, smooth and dark, and apparent
" much heavier.
1t is a question, Of course, how long
this woman can keep up the worrying
process and retain her satiny skin. but
she is doing it with much success just
now, and she is considerably over 80.
At night she messages her forehead
with skin food and pays much atten-
ton to the little wrinkles that come
between her eyes. She rubs them out
by pressing them gently with the finger
tips as though she were smoothing out
q crumpled rose leaf
FOR THE ANXIUOS FACE.
The anxious face is different from
the worrying face, for\ the lines are
more numerous and deeper. If the
mouth is pursed up anxiously for hours
at a time there viii come lines shaped
like semi-circles, and these will ex-
tend around the mouth and half way
across the cheeks.
The remedy for this is not only a
skin cream, but a skin treatment You
must actually steam your face to get
1t soft and pliable before you go to
work upon it.
Steaming the face is a delicate oper-
alton and must be left to professionals.
The skin can be injured quickly, as it
takes steam no time at all to scald
end the steam breathed into the lungs
is also bad.
the face? Wet long strips of
linen in boiling water. Drag them out
of the water, run them through a
wringer as quickly as you can and ap-
ply the strips of hot cloth to the face
You can, with the aid of an assistant,
wind the strips around the head in
such a manner as to cover the fore
head, the cheeks, the mouth, and the
crows feet and rabbit claws that come
around the ears and nose. Cover all
well and let steam. Repeat the opera
ton. The cloths will cool in the wiring
ing sufficiently to heat the face with
out scalding. When the face has been
well steamed the first part of your
work is done.
A correspondent who signed herself
Grandma, wrote that she had taken
out deep burrows by following the
treatment. If a woman of so did this
there is no reason why woman of
half her age should not succeed in
making her skin clear and smooth.
While the face is hot rub in the skin
food, using the formula given in the
face steaming directions some time
ago, and letting it remain on over
night. If this is impossible, leave it
on all day, wiping off the superiuous
cream with a bit of cotton and busting
the face with powder.
There is no need of trying to use |
powder without having first used cold |
cream. The powder viii surely show !
upon the face. Take a pot of ordinary |
cold cream and wet the face with it. |
Take off with a piece of soft cotton /
and then apply your powder
At night, before you go to bed, battle !
the face again with cold cream. Re |
member that powder is drying and will |
make the skin rough unless it is pre-
viously prepared. Powder does the |
skin no harm and is really better for |
the face than street dust.
Women who have never used cold |
cream and powder and who go into the |
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