The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-05-13
FOODS THAT MAKE BEAUTY.
What Woman Should Ent to be
Pretty and Plump.


Washington, May 9, 19O3.- Do
you wish to be beautiful? Or, if you
possess beauty already, ARE you anxious
to retain it?
The chances are in either case that
the answer is, yes. Well, then, it all
depends TO great extent upon what
you eat. Certain kinds Of food en-
courage pulchritude, while others
have an opposite tendency. 1t is
worth while to know how to regulate
your diet with a view to acquiring
beauty, or, if you have it not, to
retain it, if you are its fortunate pos
SCISSOR.
AT ihe present time Uncle Saul is
cnltivating on his experimental farm
near Washington beauty making
plant. 1t is called the "fcnugrek, :"
and the seeds Of it are eaten by the
women Of Algeria to make them beau.
tiful. Their belief is that it makes
them plump and improves their com
plexions. But the Government ex.
pcrts as yet have not reached satis-
factory conclusion as to whether this
faith is justified or ,ot. 1t may be
correct, but judgment on the point is
suspended.
However, there are foods which un-
deniably arc beauty makers. 1t is
worth any womans while to know
what they arc and to try thcm-un-
less, perchance, she is SO perfect ply
sically as not to need thcm--in iicr
own case, and for her own advantage.
After all, when one comes to think of
it, it is doubtful whether any woman,
no matter how well content with her
own charms, was ever satisfied that
they were not susceptible Of improve.
ment. Did Cleopatra, VINO in her day
was voted the most beautiful person
in the world, az we'll as the most
seductive and cnticing. use no cosme.
tics?
One thing to be set down as gospel,
TO begin with, is that oil of the adver-
tised beauty foods" skin foods" ct
i'd genus omne-are humbugs. TIE
best of them of them are useless and
not few are harmful. The only real
foods for beauty are Of the every day
kind, but to be properly and Judi.
ciously selected.
"The best Of oil beauty making
foods are fruits and fresh vegetables"
said Prof. H. W. Wiley, the famous
Government chemist, who is incident
ally skilled physician yesterday.
"They contain relatively little nour-
ishment-a woman could hardly live
on them exclusively for any length OF
time-but, for reasons which as vet
are imperfectly understood, they pos
sess extraordinary value as health.
gtvers. II yaa want bright eyes and
oleae compleaiQa sat plenty Of
them" '
The fact is that most fresh vege.
tables and fruits are nearly all water. |
Spinach is 293 PEI cent water; cabbage
is " per cent water; beets are aS per
cent water; carrots are 81 per cent
water; oapliaoweE is 81 per cent water;
ouodmbers are s6 per cent water; egg.
plant is 93 per cent water; tomatoes
are % per cent water, onions are 7sa
per cent water; green oorn tcut from
the cob) is 81a per cent water, and
celery is D4d per cent water. Fruits
are pretty nearly all water, though
the banana is relatively rich in starch.
Fruits and vegetables, then, arc of
no great use for supporting the human
body. Their value is mainly mcdi-
oinal and as beauty makers they are
chief among foods. 1t is almost i'm
possible to eat too much Of them in a
fresh state, though, Of course, the
diet must include reasonable proper
tion Of those substances such as neat,
which furnishes blood and muscle
tissue. Peas and beans, fresh from
tho garden, are an all-purposes diet,
inssmuch as they, unlike other vege-
tables, contain large proportion of
the stuff that makes muscle aud
blood, while possessing at the same
time high usefulness as green "pro-
vender.'