The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-08
BEAUTY AND PURITY
Ancient and Modern Ideas
on the Subject.
Time and Disease the Effacinu
Agents OF Beauty.
what Has Science Done to Restore the LHy and
the RISE?

Iheocritus delightful prejudice
Iheophrastus silent cheat, Carneades
solitary kingdom, Homer a glorious
gift of nature, Ovid a favor of the
gods. Aristotle affirmed that beauty
was better than all the letters of rec
ommendation in the world, and yet
none of these distinguished authori-
ties has left us even hint OF how
beauty is to be perpetuated, or the
ravages of age and disease dehed
Time soon blends the lily and the
rose into the pallor of age, disease
dots the fair face with cutaneous dis
hgurations and erimsons the Roman
nose with unsightly flushes, moth, il
not rust, corrupts the glory of eyes
teeth, and lips yet beautiful by defac-
ing the complexion, and fills the SEN
s1tlve soul with agony unspeakable.
If such be the unhappy condition
of one afflicted with slight skin blem-
ishes, what must be the feelings of
those IN whom torturing humors
have for years run riot, covering the
skin with scales and sores and charg,
ing the blood with poisonous ele-
ments to become a part of the sys-
tenn until death? 1t is vain to at,
tempt to portray such suffering. Death
IN many cases might be considered
blessing. The blood and fluids seem
to be impregnated with fiery ele-
ment which, when discharged through
the pores upon the surface of the
body, inhames 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 complexiona1 defects
merge into torturing disease, and
piqued vanity give place to real suf-
fering. A little wart on the nose OF
cheek grows to the a1l-devouring
lupus, a patch of letter on the palm
of the hand or on the limbs suddenly
envelops the body in its fiery en-
brace, 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 kerr
mel in the neck multiplies into a doz-
EN-, which eat away the vitality, great
pearl-like scales grow from little
rash-like infammations in such abun-
dance as to pass credulity; and so on
may we depict the sufferings to which
poor human nature is subject, all OF
which involve great mental distress
because Of personal designations.
Every school girl or boy knows
that if pore i'll the skin in his or her
face becomes elogged a little black
head appears, and surrounding it d
little pimple. If a dozen pores be-
come clogged there are a dozen black
heads and pimples. SO it is with
acne. In salt rheum, or, as it is tech
nically called, eczema, the cause toi
the disease seems to be in the blood
from the fact that the fluids which
pour out through the tubes are charg-
creates the most intense itching and
violent Inflammation and rapidly de-
stroys the outer or scarf skin. This
dreadful form of skin disease attacks
all ages, and may frequently be seen
fully developed in infants birth. In
such cases it is often called milk crust
scaled head, ETC., but there is no
dou BIT Of its real nature, and that it is
all inherited humor.
II there were not another external
disease known eczema would be a
sufficient inhiction on mankind. 1t
pervades' all classes, and descends i'm
partially through generations. While
some are constantly enveloped in it,
others = have it confined to small
patches in the ears, on the scalp, on
the breast, on the palms of the hands,
on the limbs, etc, but everywhere its
distinctive feature is a small watery
blister, which discharges an acrid
fluid, causing heat, inflammation and
intense itching. Ring-worm, letter,
SCALED head, dandruff, belong to this
scaly and itching order of diseases.
Psoriasis, our modern 1eprosy, with
its mother-of-pearl scale, situated on
REDEEMED base, which bleeds upon
the removal of the scale, is to be
dreaded and avoided, as of old. I'm
pet1go, BARRIERS itch, erysipe1as, and a
score of minor disorders make up in
part the catalogue of external diseases
of the skin. Thus far we have made
nc illusions to those Affections which
are manifeStly impurities of the
blood, viz: swelling of the glands Of
the throat, ulcers on the neck and
limbs, tumors, assesses, and mercu-
rial poisons, with loss of hair, be-
cause the whole list can be compre-
ANAANA III l4AN O4lO WO1 u S(lO1uId-
1t is in the treatment of torturing,
disfguring humors and affections of
the skin, scalp and blood with loss
Of hair, that Cuticura remedies have
achieved their greatest success. Orig
iial in composition, scientifically COM
pounded, absolutely pure, unchange-
able in any climate, always ready,
and agreeable to the most delicate
and sensitive, they present to young
and old the most successful curatives
of modern times. This will be con-
sidered strong language by those ac-
qualnted with the character and OBJ
stinacy of blood and skin humors but
it is justified by innumerabIe sue
cesses where all the remedies and
methods in vogue have failed to cure,
and, in many cases, to relieve, even.
The Cuticura treatment is at once
agreeable, speedy, economical, and
comprehensive. Battle the affected
parts freely with hot water and Cuti-
cura soap, to cleanse the surface of
crusts and scales, and soften the
thickened cuticle. Dry, without hard
rubbing, and apply Cuticura Ointment
to allay itching, irritation and m
hammation, and soothe and heal, and.
lastly, take Cuticura Resolvent, to
cool and cleanse the blood. This treat
ment affords instant relief, permits
rest and sleep in the severest forms
of eczema and other itching, burn
il g, and scaly humors, and points to
a speedy. permanent, and economical
cure of torturing, disfguring humors,
eczemas, rashes, and inhammations,
from infancy to age, when all other
remedies and the best physicians fail.
The remedies constituting the Cuti-
cura system will repay an individual
scrutiny of their remarkable prop
critics.