The Monticellonian., 1903-02-12
BEAUTY AND PURITY
Ancient and Modern Ideas on the Subject. Time and Disease the Effacing Agents of Beauty. What Has Science Done
 to Restore the Lily and the Rose?

Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny, Plato privilege of nature, Theocritus q delightful prejudice, Theophrastus a silent cheat, Carneades 4 solitary kingdom, Homer glorious gift of nature, Ovid favor of the gods. Aristotle affirmed that beauty was better than all the letters of recom- mendation in the world, and yet none of these distingui shed authorities has left us even hint of how beauty is to be perpetuated, or the ravages of age and disease defied. Time soon blends the lily and the rose into the pallor of age, disease dots the fair face with egtaneous disfgurations and crimsons the Roman nose with unsightly fiushes, moth. if 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 death? IL is vain to attempt to DOT tray such suffering. Death in many cases might be considered a blessing. The blood and fluids seem to be iin- pregnated with fiery element which, when discharged through the pores upon the surface of the body, infiames and burns until in 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. little wart on the nose or cheek grows to the all-devouring lupus, patch of letter on the palm of the hand or on the limbs suddenly enveiopS the body ia it's fiery embrace, a bruise on the leg expands into gnawing ulcer, which reaches out it's fangS to the sufferers heart in every paroxysn of pain, small kernel in the neck multipiies into a dozen, which eat away the vitality, great pearl-like scales grow from little raSh-lke infiam nations ln such abun- dance as to pass credulity; and so on may we depict the sutferings to which poor human nature is subject, all of which involve great mental distress because of pers onal distigurations.
 If there were not another external disease known, eczema alone would be sufficient infiiction on mankind. It pervades all classes, and desceEds inn partially through generations. While some are constantly enycloped in 1t. others have it confined to small patches in the ears, on the scalp, on the breast on the palms of the hands, ou the limbs, etc., but everywhere it's distinctive feature is small watery blister. which discharges an acrid fluid, causing heat, inflammation, and intense itching. Ring-worm, letter, scalled head, dandruff, belong to this scaly and itching order of diseases. Psoriasis. our modern leprosy, with ats mother -of-pearl scale, situated on a reddened base, which bleedS upon the removal of the scale, is to be dreaded and avoided, as of old. lm- pet:go, barber's itch, erySipelas, and score of minor disorders make up in part the catalogue of external diseases of the skin. Thus far we have made no allusiou to those atfiictions which are manifestly impurities of the blood, viz: swelling of the glands of the throat. ulcers on the neck and limbs, tumors, abscesses, and mercurial poisons, with loss of hair, because the whole list can be comprehended in the one word scrofua.
 It is !n the treatment of torturlng, disfguring humGrs and affections of the skin, scalp. and blood, with loss of hair, that the Cuticura remedies have achieved their greatest success. Orig inai in composition. scientifically com pounded, absolutely pure, ,unchangeable in any climate, always ready, and agree able to the most delicate and sensitive, they present to young and old the most successful curatives of modern times. This will be considered strong language by those acquainted with the character and obstinacy of blood and skin humors but 1t Is justified by innumerable sue casses where all the remedies and meth ods in vogue have failed to cure, and, in many cases. to relieve, even.
 The Cu,icura treatment Is at once agreeable, speedy. economical. and comprehensive. Bathe the affected parts freely with hot water and Cuti- cura soap, to cleanse the surface of crusts ard scales, and soften the th;,Lanad euticle Dry without hard