The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-23
BEAUTY GAINED FROM WATER
THE BATH AND HOW THE BEST
RESULTS ARE SECURED.
Hard work Involved I'm the Water Cure,
hut II Gives Good L0Oks--A Warning
Against Gold Baths-Remetiles for
ClOgged POres-The Deauty Bath.


Against Gold Baths-Remetiles for
Cl0sged POres-The Deaaty Bath.
Water h the greatest cosmetic in the
world said professional beauty maker.
But it Is not the lazy woman who benefits
by it.
Water cleanses, puri6es. renews and
strengthens. Water beauties. invigor-
ates, tranforms and makes young again.
But the uses OK water involve hard work,
and it is only the industrious woman who
profits by them. In other words, keeping
clean Is very hard work, aud the girl
who il idle, easily tired or devoted to fad
Of any kind need not try to take the water
cure.
But there Is nothing that will benefit
her more. both outwardly in her looks
and physically In her well being.
1T Is a horrid thought, continued the
beauty teacher, looking at her audience
Significantly, ito entertain that not one
half the persons whom you meet daily are
clean and not tenth of them as clean as
they ought to be. Yet such is the fact.
The reason IL 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 do 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 Ia of proper temperature
There is no sharp, quick toilet lotion
in the water to open the pores and, finally,
the massage Is insufficient
"The attendants at Turkish bath will
tell you that the people who come there
are highly respectable and Of the moneyed
variety. but that they are ridiculously
clogged as to their pores.
Il know Of one young woman who was
affl icted with cloudy complexion and
took Turkish bath weekly for six months
and came out Of the course with u COIN
plexion like peach.
Before bathing. the flesh should be at
the right temperature. The trouble liz
that the bather PUSHES into the water, no
matter whether she be- hot or cold, and
the sudden change il too much for her
cuticle. 1t either closes the pores OF causes
the blood to congest. In either case the
bath does no good and the complexion
gets worse.
TO take bath properly at home, if
you are going to take the water cure. you
must have the water hot, but before en-
tering 1t you must be in a nice perspira-
ton. You must exercise by jumping up
and down and get into fine glow.
IF you cannot get into Precipitation In
any other way you can do 50 by getting in
between woolen blankets for ten minutes
before taking che bath.
the effect OF this is In some respects
better than Turkish bathing. for one
breathes the fresh, pure, cool air Of ones
ROOM and at the same time gets into u nice
warm glow in the blankets.
THE bathroom should DO very hot and
the windows should be closed while one
il bathing. for the body cannot stand ex-
tremes 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 il is not the fact The
body should cool of gradually but it should
not be done by dashing cold water over
the skin.
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 bath is to get In a
glow and then into water as hot as is COM
Portable. Skins differ in this respect
Ones own feelings should be consulted ,
but there should he distinct feeling Of
warmth, even Of tingling 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-of will cool II more.
Then by the slow process OF dressing
the body becomes just the temperature
Of the room which is the proper temper
allure for the body In summer time.
The only time Of year for quick. cold
dash il in the winter. Then, il one is going
to catch train, one may dash on little
cold water.
But. even in winter, 1t is better to cool
of slowly, and 10 take an hour before going
out. II one takes bath in winter time
at 3 o'clock in the morning, she can 90 out
safely at 0 o'clock into the zero air, for the
body will have cooled sufficiently by that
time.
The young woman who takes bath
and wonders why her skin Is not clear
must comfort herself with the thought
that ller Cutlcle ID very sensitive anu re-
quires 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
1t. Then she must use great deal Of
soap. She should keep on her washstand
a jar OF soap jelly, and when she bathes
she should USE il instead OF soap.
"A great many world-renowned beauties
use lather OF soap jelly taking it out of
the jar by the handful and using 1t as If IL
were a cake of 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 piece Of muslin and pound
them TO powder. Put on the stove with
enough water to cover them, and add
tablespoon of olive oil to cup Of powdered
soap. Let all heat together. Pour into
a. wide -mouthed jar 10 cool into a jelly
Some soaps make a Jelly quicker than
others, and if the jelly be too stiff reheat
1t and add little more olive oil.
a cup Of powdered soup made up of all kinds
OF odds and ends Of fancy toilet soap, and
adding TO il tablespoon OF glycerine, a
tablespoon Of olive oil, six drops Of oil of
rose geraninm, one tablespoon OF powdered
oatmeal and half Il teaspoon Of powdered
borax. Pour into wide-mouihed jar and
use as II it we're soft soap, by taking II out
by the handful.
"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 waters and, in the
last one, there must be dash Of toilet