The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-09
HEALTH AND BEAUTY.

Mercy!' said the younger of the
girls, eff one spent all the time the
beauty experts direct on ones neck,
hair, complexion and hands, there
would be no time left for anything else.
If one could manage to do everything
just as they say it should be done, the
hours for sleep would be awfully cut
down, and they all say that going with
out sleep is fatal to ones good looks.
How do you manager"
There wouldn't be time for anything
else If one did everything all the time
replied the older and prettier girl.
You're quite right there. But the way
| manage-and / think it a very good
way, tools to take turns with the diff
ferent kinds of beauty culture. I do
one thing one month; then take up
another next month, then exchange
that for third, and so 1 give every
thing share of interest, and still have
all the time 1 want for sleeping and
other things.
"This month 1 am devoting to my
hair. This does not mean that do not
clean my teeth conscientiouSly every
night, or that l fail to rub cold cream
into my face and neck before jumping
into bed. My Indian club, breathing
and chest weight exercises 1 do every
morning. But l am now taking special
pains with my hair, to massage the
scalp, ventilate it, rub in good slim
ulant and brush it, both for health and
to obtain that satiny polish / admire
SO much l suppose 1 spend twenty
minutes every night on my hair.
Last month devoted myself to Gull
tiyating my neck. 1 waved it back and
forth and from side to side in the ap-
proved athletic manner, and did all
the stunts 1 could think of, with a view
to warding off salt cellars and a
crumbling chin. 1 went without COL
lars or stocks of any kind as much as
possible, and 1 massaged myself with
cold cream and alcohol and Whitened
myself with zinc salve mixed with ben
zoin.
Il notice that the skin on my chin is
looking rough and red. as if it needed
attention. I shall have to give that a
turn next. The complexion Is more i'm
portant than all the rest put together.
You can buy new hair and nobody will
know the difference; you can buy false
teeth, with satisfactory results, but a
store complexion betrays itself ire
.trievably.
so, you see. when one thing gets in
pretty good condition, let it alone and
take another feature in hand, but the
whole time 1 spend in beauty culture
daily does not equal what the beauty
specialists insist on for one form of
beauty culture alone. What do you
think of the plan?"
. At the hospitals they have a way of
braiding the hair of the women pa
tients in two rather tight pigtails, one
on either side Of the head. The idea
is that the head is more comfortable if
the hair Is taken out of the nape of the
neck, and there is not such a big
bunch to repose on when the hair is di-
vided in two. The notion is one that
will commend itself to many women,
especially as 1t insures a good brush
ing of the hair from the front down
the center of the head, and keeps the
hair free from tangling. 1t is not how
ever, considered wise for the average
well woman to braid her hair tightly
for the night, as the night hours should
relax the strain upon the roots. rather
than continue or increase it. The hair
grows faster IL braided loosely. Some
women use little rubber bands to Sc
cure their pigtails at the end. AT the
hospital they will tell you that this
tends to break the hair.
I'm buying hair brushes put your
money into the bristles, not into the
back" is the advice of a woman who
sells hair brushes all day
Natural colored bristles are more
satisfactory than the bleached. They
do not look so pretty, perhaps, but they
have more life and vigor, and will re-
tain their stiffness far better than the
snow white. A brush which has the
bristles arranged in rows with spaces
between, grooms the hair more eff
GENTLY than one which has the bristles
scattered evenly over it's surface. The
longer the bristles the more work the
brush will do at each stroke"