Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-02-19
BEAUTY and p(lDFlI7IT1Y
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

Socrates called beauty short-lived
tyranny, Plato q privilege OF nature,
Theocritus delightful prejudice,
Theophrastus silent cheat, Carneadcs
q solitary kingdom, Homer a glorious
gift of nature, Ovid a favor of TIE
gods. Aristotle affirmed that beauty
was better than all the letters Of recom-
mendation in the world, and vet none
of these distinguished authorities has
left US even hint of how beauty is to
be perpetuatcd, or the rayagcs of age
and disease dctled. Time soon blends
the lily and the rose into the rallor of
age, disease dots the fair face with
cutancous designations and crimsons
the Roman nose with unsightly flashes,
moth, If not rust, corrIpts 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
ono afflicted with slight skin blemishcs,
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 clements to
become q part OF the system until
death? 1t is vain to attempt to por-
cases might he considered n blessing.
The blood an,l hnids scnn, 10 he inn
pregnated with fiery element which,
when discharged through the pores
mon tho snrf,c,. of ina Lodv infi,mcs
md hurns un+;l in his efforts for relief
IN. natient tears tho skim with his
naila and not ,ntil tha blood an,ys
does snfJicicnt. relief come ia causn him
to desist
TINS do comnlcx;ona, defects meroe
into tortnri,,y disn,sr and niourI van
itv rive nlscn to yn,l su,t,.rin@ 4
iift,s wart an tina nos,. or cheel, sro,y.
to the all-dnyonriny INNS nnrrh of
letter on the nalm of the hand or on
The limbs suddenly enyeons the body
in ito fiery embrace a hruise an Tho lcs,
eynan,1a into rna vino nlccr Which
reaches ont lin fnnos to the suttcre,,s
hc,it I'm every nnrnyys,n of min
smalj karnol in tho mock ,nultjnlics into
a dnzen which cat awov lie vitotity.
GREAT Like sra,rs crow from l1ttIe
rash-like inflamuntions in such alum
d.nce . To mass creduli,y. aud so on
nav we denict the sut,nrinps to which
moor human nature Ia subject. mi of
w,ich involve rreat mental distress
h,rauso Of nors an,l ,,;stIrrro,ions
M There were rot another external
disease l,nown eczema niorr wo,,ld he
a sufficient intllct;on on mankind. II
nerv,',es .ll classes. and d,scends i'm
nar,i,ltv thronrt, generations While
acme are constantly cnvcloped In fl.
others have IL confined TO small
matches i'm thc cars ON The scalp on
the breast. on the palms of the hands.
ON the limbs. etc. but everywhere Its
distinctive feature is a small watcry
blister. which disc harues an acrid
Amid con.inu bn.t ineammotion and
intense itching. Rjnr-wo,.n. letter
scaled head. dandrutf belong to this
scalv and itchinr order of diseases
Psoriasis our modern lcprosy. with
its mother-or-pear scale. situated on
q Redeemed base. which blccds upon
the removal of tbe scale. is to be
dreaded and avoided. n. of old. I'M
netiyo. BARRIERS itch. erysipelas. and a
score of minor disorders make up in
mart the catalogue of external diseases
If tho skin Tins far we have made
no allusion to those Affections which
are manifestly Impurities of the blood.
viz. swelling of the glands of the
throat. ulcers on the neck aud limbs,
tunors, assesses, and nercurial