The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-02-20
BEAUTY AND PuR|T1
Ancient and Modern Ideas on the Subiau
Time and Disease the Effacing Agents
of Beauty. What Has Science Done
to Restore the Lily and the Rose2

Socrates called beauty a short-Iived
tyranny, Plato q privilege Of nature,
Theocritus . delightful prejudice,
Theophrastus q sile ut cheat, Carneades
. solitary kingdom, Homer a glorious
gift of nature, Ovid a favor OF the
gods. Aristotle affirmed that beauty
was better than all the letters Of recon-
incubation in the world, and yet none
Of these distinguished authorities has
left US even . hint of how beauty is to
be perpetuated, or the ravages Of age
and disease defed. Time soon blends
the lily and the rose into the pallor Of
age, disease dots the fair face with
cutaneous designations and crimsons
the Roman nose with unsightly fiushes,
moth, II not rust, corrupts the glory
of eyes, teeth, and lips yet beautiful by
defacing the complexion, and fills the
sensitive soul with agony unspeakable.
II such be the unhappy cOndition Of
one afflicted with slight skin blemishes,
what must be the feelings OF those in
whom torturing humors have for
years run riot, covering the skin with
scales and sores and charging the
blood with poisonous elements to
become . part of the system until
death3 It IL vain to attempt to por-
tray such suffering. Death in many
cases might be considered . blessing.
The blood and fluids seem to be i'm
pregnated with a fiery element which,
when discharged through the pores
upon the surface of the body, infames
and burns until, In his efforts for relief,
tho patient tears the skin with his
nails, and not until the blood flows
does sufficient relief come to cause him
to desist.
Thus do complexional defects merge
into %torturing disease, and piqued van
ity give place to real suffering. A
little wart on the nose or cheek grows
to the all-devouring lupus, a patch OF
letter on the palm Of the hand or on
the limbs suddenly envelopes the body
In its fiery embrace, a bruise on the leg
expands into q & awning ulcer, which
reaches out its fangs o the sufferers
heart In every paroxvsm of pain, a
small kernel In the neck multiplies into
a dozen, which eat away the vitality,
great pearl-like scales grow from little
raSh-like infamma,ions In such album
dance as to pass credulity; and so on
may we depict the sutierlncs to which
poor human nature is subject, all of
which involve great mental distress
because Of pers oual Designations.
If there were not ano her external
disease known, eczema alone would be
a sufficient infiiction on mankind. 1t
pervadeS all classes, and deSCendS I'M
partially through generations 8. While
some are constantly enveloped in it..
others have it confined TO sm III
patches in the ears, on the scalp, On
the breast, on the palms OF the hands,
on the limbs, etc, but everywhere us
distinctive feature is a small! watery
blister, which DISCHARGES an acrd
fluid, causing heat, Inflammation, and
intense itching. Ring-worm, letter,
SCALED head, dandruff. belong to This
scaly and itching order of diseases.
Psoriasis, our modern leprosy, with
its mother-of-pearl scale, situated on
a Redeemed base, which blceds upon
the removal of the scale, il to he
dreaded and avoidedy as of Old. I'm
petigo, BARRIERS itch, erysipela>, and a
% of minor disorders make up in
part the catalogue of external diseases
of the skin. Thus far we have made
no allusion to those Affections winch
are manifestly impu tiles of the blood.
viz: swelling of the glands of the
throat, ulcers on he neck and limos,
tumorS, assesses $, and mercurIal
polsons, with loss of hair. because
the whole list can be comprehended in
the one word scrofula.
1t Is in the ire atment Of torturing,
disfgur,ng humOrs and affections Of
the skin, scalp. and blood, with loss of
hair, that the C%uticura remedies have
achieved their greatest success. Orig
inal in composition, scientifically com
pounded, absolutely pure, interchangeable
In any climate, alwav s rea ly, aud agree
able to the most delicate and sensitive,
they present to young and old the most
successful curative of modern tim. s.
This will be conside ell strong language
BY those acquainted with the character
and obstinacy OF blood aid skin humors
but 1t Is justified by innumerabie sue
cesSes where all the remedies andmeth-
DDS In vogue have failed t. cure, and,
In many cases, to relieve. even.
The C%uticura treatment Is at once
agreeable, speedy, economical. and
comprehensive. Battle the affected
parts freely with hot water and Cuti-
cnra soap, to cleanse the sur ace Of
crusts and scales, and soft en- the
thickened cuticle. Dry. withou t hard
rubbing, and apply Cuticura DIN tment
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