Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-02-19

Socrates called beauty a short-lived
tyranny, Plato privilege of nature,
Theocritus a delightful prejudice,
Theophrastus a silent cheat, Carneades
solitary kingdom, Homer glorious
gift of nature, Ovid n favor Of the
gods. Aristotle affirmed that beauty
was better than all the letters of recon-
mendation in the world, and yet none
OF these distinguished authorities has
left us even hint Of how beauty is TO
be perpetuated, or tie raYages 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 Pushes,
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.
If 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 a part of the system until
death2 1t is 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
ppegDated with fiery element which,
when discharged through the pores
upon the surface of the body, inflames
and burns until, ia his efforts for relief,
the 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
fly give place TO real suffering. A
little wart on the nose or cheek grows
to the all-deyourlng lupus, a patch of
letter on the palm Of the hand or on
the limbs suddenly envelopes the body
in its fiery embrace, bruise on the leg
expands into gnawing ulcer, which
reaches out its fangs 20 the sufferer'G
heart in every paroXysm OF pain, q
small kernel in the neck multiplies into
Q dozen, which eat away the vitality,
great pearl-llke scales grow from little
rash-llke infammations In such album
dance as TO pass credullty; and so on
may we depict the sufferings to which
poor human nature is subject, all of
which involve great mental distress
because of person designations.
If there were not another external
disease known, eczema alone would be
q sufficient infiction on mankind. 1t
pervades all classes, and descends i'm
partially through generations. While
some are constantly developed in it,
others have It confined to small
T.. ~ H. 1,n Il,
the breast, on the palms of the hands,
on the limbs, etc, but everywhere its
distinctive feature is small wateTy
blister, which discharges an acrld
fiuid, causing heat, inflammation, and
intense itching. Ring-worm, letter,
scaled head, dandruff, belong to this
scaly aud itching order Of diseases.
Psoriasis, our modern leprosy, with
its mother-of-pearl scale, situated on
a Redeemed base, which bleeds upon
the removal OF the scale, is TO be
dreaded and avoided, as of old. I'm
petigo, BARRIERS Itch, erysipelas, and q
score Of minor disorders make up in
part the catalogue OF external diseases
OF the skin. Thus far we have made
no allusion TO those afillctlons which
are manifestly impu rifles OF the blood,
viz. swelling of the glands OF the
throat. ulcers on the neck and limbs,
tumors, abscesseB, and mercurlal
poisons, with loss Of hair, because
the whole list can be comprehended in
the one word scro fula.
II is Ia the ire atnent of torturing,
dlsdguring humors and affections of
tho skin, scalp, and blood, with loss Of
hair, that the Cuticura remedies have
achieved their greatest success Orig
inal ia composition, scientifically COM
pounded absolutely pure, Interchangeable
in any climate, Away ready and agree
able to the most delicate and sensitive,
they present TO young and old the most
gucc6ssfui curative Of modern times.
This Willb conside ed strong language
By those acquainted with the character
and 0tstinacy Of blood aud skin humofH
but Il 81 fustilcd BY innpmerable sue
cesses where an the remedies and meth-
DDS "a vogue have failed 30 cure, and,
"a many cases 20 relieve, even
The Cullcura treatment Is at once
agreeable. speedy. economical. and
comprehensive Battle the Rnecled
parts freely With hot water and Cnti-
ezra soeg, O. cleanse tho aEr ace Of
etnsts and scales ana Seton the
thlokened cutlcle Dry Without hard
rahhing, ard apply cnticnra 0in inent