The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-20
WATER PROMOTES
BEAUTY IN WOMEN
Baths Are Beneficial, but Few
Know How to Take
Them.

and strengthens. Water beauties, in
vigorateS, transforms and makes young
again.
But the uses of water involves hard
work, and it is only the Industrious
woman who profits by them. In other
words, keeping clean is very hard
work, and the girl who is idle, easily
tired or devoted to a fad of any kind
| need not try to take the water cure.
But there is nothing that will bene-
fit her more, both outwardly in her
looks and physically in her we'll being.
TT is a horrid thought" continued
the beauty teacher, looking at her au-
dience significantly, ito entertain that
not one-half the persons whom you
meet daily are clean and not a tenth
of them as clean as they ought to be.
Yet such is the fact.
1.-THE reason is not that they do not
battle enough, for Americans are
nation of water lovers, but that they
do not battle in the right way. And
here are the faults of those who de
battle.
The water may be too hard and it
makes no impression upon the skin.
Neither the bath nor the one who
takes the bath is of proper tempera-
ture.
There is no sharp. quick toilet To-
ton in the water to open the pores and,
finally, the massage is insufficient.
THE attendants at a Turkish bath
will tell you that the people who come
there are highly respectable and of the
moneyed variety, but that they are rid
iculously clogged as to their pores.
Il know of one young woman who
was afflicted with a cloudy complexion
and took a Turkish bath weekly for
six months and came out of the course
with a complexion like peach.
Before bathing the flesh should be
~, III tow t11T~n Nhn fYnIl
is that the bather rushes into the wa
ter, no matter whether she be hot or
cold and the sudden change is too
much for her cuticle. 1t either closes
the pores or causes the blood to con-
gest. In either case the bath does no
good and the complexion gets worse.
"irO take a bath properly at home,
If you are going to take the water
cure, you must have the water hot,
but before entering it you must be
| in a nice perspiration. You must ex-
ercise by jumping up and down and
get into fine glow.
| IF you cannot get into perspira-
! ton in any other way you can do so by
| getting in between wooden blankets for
| ten minutes before taking the bath.
1.-The effect of this is in some re-
| spects- better than Turkish bathing,
/ for one breathes the fresh, pure, cool
! air Of ones room, and at the same
| time gets into nice warm glow in
| the blankets.
/ 1.-THE bathroom should be very hot
| and the windows should be closed
| while one is bathing, for the body can
| not stand extremes of temperature,
| and the bath should be fully fifteen
minutes long.
"a great many people lay peculiar
| stress upon the cooling of the water
| afterWard; and you will see them let
out the hot-water and let in the cold,
/ so that the body is chilled before they
come out of the tub.
"They think they avoid taking cold
in this manner. But it is not fact
| The body should cool off gradually,
but it should not be done by dashing
cold water over the skin.
1.-THE body will cool in the air, and
any normal person will cool sufficiently
while dressing. The cold bath is not
necessary.
= 'The way to take a bath is to get
| in glow and then into water as hot
as is comfortable. Skins differ in this
| respect. Ones own feelings should be
consulted, but there should be a dis
tinct feeling Of warmth, even of ting
ling heat.
"The water in the tub gradually
cools, and by the time the bather steps
out the water is cold. This cools the
body little and the rub will cool
| it more.
''Then by the slow process of dress
ing the body becomes just the temper
| allure of the room, which is the proper
temperature for the body in summer
| time.
/ 1.-THE only time of year for a quick,
| cold dash is in the winter. Then, If
| one is going to catch a train, one may
| dash on a little cold water.
/ But, even in winter, it is better to
| cool off slowly, and to take an hour be-
| fore going out. If one takes a bath in
| winter time at o'clock in the morn
| ing, she can go out safely at 8 o'clock
| into the zero air, for the body will have
cooled sufficiently by that time.
1.-THE young woman who takes bath
! and wonders why her skin is not clear
| must comfort herself with the thought
| that her cuticle is very sensitive and
| requires a special treatment.
THE girl whose complexion is poor
| and who bathes every day can begin
| her work of skin reformation by
| throwing handful of powdered borax
| in the water to soften it. Then she
must use a great deal of soap. She
| should keep on her washstand jar of
soap jelly, and when she bathes she
| should use it instead of soap.
"a great many world-renowned
| beauties use a lather of soap jelly,
| taking it out of the jar by the handful
| anu uSlIlS II DIS IL II WcIS a CANE VI
| soap. They are extravagant with it.,
| but their reward is exceeding.
! You can make your own soap jelly
by gathering together all the bits Of
! soap from the washstands and drying
| them. Put them in a piece of muslin
| and pound them to powder. Put on
the stove with enough water to cover
4 them, and add a teaspoonful of olive
! oil to a cup Of powdered soap. Let all
| heat together. Pour into a wide
| mouthed jar to cool into a jelly.
/ Some soaps make a jelly quicker
1 than others, and if the jelly be too
| stiff reheat it and add a little more
| olive oil.
"a very fine soap jelly is made by
taking a cup of powdered soap made
| up Of all kinds Of odds and ends Of
fancy toilet soap, and adding to it a
| tablespoon of glyeerine, a tablespoon
of olive oil, six drops of oil Of rose
! geranium, one tablespoon of powdered
oatmeal and half a teaspoon of pow
dered borax Pour into Wide-mouth-
ed Jar and use as If it were soft soap,
| by taking it out by the handful.
1.-The young woman who goes in for
the fresh-Water cure must follow this
| very generous libation of the pores Of
the skin by three or four rinsing wa
tiers and, in the last one, there must be
a dash of toilet vinegar to tone UP the
skin, which must be taught to close
| the pores.
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