The sun., 1903-12-06
RECIPES FOR ROSY CHEEKS,
THE ENVIED COMPLEXION OF
THE ENGLISH WOMAN.
yegetarianism Accounts for 1t in Part
Then 1t Is Helped by walks in Snow
and Rain--Pr0cess OF Hardening the
skin--May Dew All the Year Round.

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Skin--May Dew All the Year Round
The complexion Of the English woman ia
the envy of her American cousin.
The English skin is perfectly smooth.
1t is ripe and rich cream color 1t is fair.
yet the cheeks are as red as roses.
And it is not the women alone who have
this skin, but the men as we'll So it would
seem as though some popularity Of climate
or diet, rather than Of care, accounted for
It.
The English woman in taking care Of
her skin tries not to soften, but to harden
it. While the American woman IL rubbing
creams into her face and steaming 1t, the
English woman is striving to toughen hers.
The English woman begins with her diet.
You can do nothing with your skin unless
you are willing to diet.
The English woman eats very little meat,
so that her skin is free from that curiouslv
mottled look of the meat eater, In her girl
hood she lives on bread and butter and tea
and lam She takes wheat in all its forms.
The Irish girl with her wonderful cheeks
gets them not from association with the
moor and the heather, but from her diet
of vegetables and oats. She eats oatmeal;
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way and that and she takes II hot as broth
and cold as a beverage.
The woman who wants to get this clear
skin should study the vegetarian methods
The complexio Of the one who abstains
from meat is always good True. she coul'
eat a little meat without injury to the com
plexion But no woman can take beef
steak for breakfast, brace OF birds 'o'
luncheon and a roast at night without IN
juring her skin.
The English woman rarely taxes meat
more than once q day, and then sparlngly
Her morning and her MONDAY diet embrace
variety of warm, well-cooked cakes,
mullins and hot breads all OF which are
excellent for the stomach
There is a great prejudice against the
eating of hot breads. And great many
women who would benefit by them and
who actually need them, are prevented
from eating them by the fear that they
will injure the stomach.
As a matter of fact, there could be no
greater mistake than this. Hot Bread
il made of good materials and properly
baked is one of the most highly valued
articles of food.
moods and lenses and will learn OF her
English sister how to choose foods that
agree with her.
But the English beauty does not stop
here. She goes on and completes the job
by the care of her skin outwardly. She
seeks to make it as fresh as that OF achild,
vet as tough as the skin Of an old salt And
she succeeds.
She uses great deal of soap. does the
English beauty. And, II she takes the ad-
vice of the latest London beauty doctors, she
applies it not with her hands. but with
shaving brush.
But the professional beauty and the
beauty seeker must not forget to remove
the lather. And it cannot be done in one
water nor in two. It takes dozen. and
in tho last water there must be deal OF
borax powder -
The English beauty, at this process OF
the beauty bath, begins her hardening
processes. She rubs little cream In her
skin to keep it from chapping, and over
this she dusts good face powder.
She then decides to remain In the house,
and nothing except fire would tempt
her out short Of an hour after the beauty
bath She knows that her skin is sensi-
tive and that, If exposed to the weather,
it will certainly chap. And she knows
that chapped skin takes days to heal
The English woman will remain in the
house by the fire full hour after she has
treated her face, and during that time
she will not get in draught nor approach
an open window. But at the end OF an
hour she Is ready to 60 out.
busting her face again with powder;
which sticks nicely if applied over. cold
cream she starts upon her constitutional.
No walk is too brisk for her; none too long
TO suit her. She will cover ten miles and
never know it. and she will come home
brisk for the s o'clock tea table.
The English woman during her walk
does not wear a veil and seldom does sic
carry an umbrella. 1t is part of the hard.
ening process that her skin shall be treated
to dash Of soft rain water and, if possible,
to furry of snow.
She knows that the smooth faces OF the
children are wet with the rain and the
snow and she knows that she cannot eX-
pect to have a hard pare, clear skin her
self unless II is also toughened.
April snow water was considered very
valuable acquisition to the toilet of the
belle of twenty years ago, While I'M May dew'
ern mammes gather it for their young
mistresses and take it to their bedsidcs,.
May dew can be supplied artificlallv
by the softening of rain water; and to get
an excellent imitation it is only necessary
in which just one drop of benzoin has
been placed. Shake and let stand over
night, so that it shall be just the temper
ature of the room
The English beauty hardens her skin
by cold water bathing, but she does not
20 to the extreme OF the American cir!
in this matter. She uses cold water, Il is
true, but it is not cold enough to chill her
skin.
When the American woman takes
cold bath she draws water fresh from the
faucet and plunges into it, with the goos'
flesh standing out upon her arms and her
teeth chattering. She comes out OF Y
with every nerve quivering, Frequently
her system is not strong enough to react,
and she shivers all day.
The victim of very cold bath suffers
from a poor compile xion, and instead OF
growing hardened by the process she be-
comes anemic. She actually Injuries her
health by taking the hardening process,
and her skin is soft and lifeless and her
heart feeble as though it had been too fire.
quently shocked.
The English woman, on the other hand,
hardens herself by walks in the cold, by
dips into tepid water, by fresh air and
by outdoor sports in winter time. Ere
sha tnkes long conSt itlltiOnalS in