Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-02-13
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 Rose2

Socrates called beauty a short-lived
tyranny, Plato . privilege OF nature,
Theocritus delightful prejudice,
Theophrastus SIT, ut cheat, Carneades
q solitary kingdom. Homer a glorious
gift OF nature, Ovid 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 distingui shed authorities has
left us even hint of how beauty is to
be perpctuated, or the 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
cutnncous designations and crimsons
the Roman nose with unsightly fiushes,
moth, if not rust, corrupts the glory
of eyes. teeth. aud lips yet beautiful by
defacing the complexion, and fills the
sensitive soul with agony unspeakable.
II 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 sorec and charging the
blood with poisonous elements to
become a part OF the system until
death2 IL 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
pregnated with fiery element which,
when discharged through the pores
upon the surface OF the body, in1ames
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
ity give place to real suffering. A
little wart on the nose or cheek grows
to the all-devourlng lupus, patch of
letter on the palm of the hand or on
the limbs suddenly envelops the body
In its fiery embrace, a bruise on the leg
expands into a gnawing ulcer, which
reaches out its fangs TO the sufferers
heart In every paroxysm of pain, a
small kernel In the neck multiplies into
q dozen, which eat away the vitality,
great pearl-like scales grow from little
rash-like infam nations In such album
dance as to pass credulity; and so on
may we depict the suffcrings to which
poor human nature is subject, all of
which involve great mental distress
because of personal designations.
II there were not another external
disease known, eczema alone would be
. sufficient infiiction on mankind. 1t
pervades all classes, and descends Inn
partially through generations. While
some are constantly enveloped in it,
others have it confined to small
patches in the ears, on the scalp, on
he breast, on the palms of the hands,
IN the limbs, ETC., but everywhere its
distinctive feature Is a small watery
blister, which disc harges an acrid
iuid, causing heat, Inflammation, and
intense itching. Rlng-worm, letter,
called head, dandruff, belong to this
caly and itching order of diseases.
Psoriasis, our modern leprosy, with
is mother-of-pearl scale, situated on
Redeemed base, which bleeds upon
he removal of the scale, is to be
readed and avoided, as of old. I'm
etigo, BARRIERS itch, erysipelas, and a
core OF minor disorders make up in
art the catalogue of external diseases
( the skin. Thus far we have made
o allusion to those Affections which
re manifestly impu rites of the blood,
H.: swelling of the glands of the
lroat. ulcers on the neck and limbs,
imors, assesses s, and mercurial
oisons, with loss of hair, because
le whole list can be comprehended In
he one word scro fula.
1t Is in the tire atment of torturing,
humors and affections of
,e skin, scalp, and blood, with loss of
air, that the Cuticura remedies have
,hievcd their greatest success. Orig
lal in composition, scientifically COM
bundled, absolutely pure, Interchangeable
any climate, Away ready, and agree
de to the most delicate and sensitive,
icy present to young and old the most
lccessful curative of modern times.
his will be conside ed strong language
those acquainted with the character
I'd obstlnacy of blood aud skin humors
1t 1t Is justified by innumerable sue
sses where all the remedies and meth
Is In vogue have failed to cure, and,
many cases. to relieve, even.
The Cuticura treatment Is at once
,reeable, speedy. economical. and
mprehensive. Battle the affected
rts freely with hot water and Cuti-
ra soap, 10 cleanse the sur ace of
usts and scales. and soft en- the
ickered cuticlc. Dry, withou hard
bling, and apply Cuticura DIN tment