The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-12
BEAUTY AND PURITY
Ancient and |odern Ideas
on the Subject.
Time and Disease the Effacinq
Agents Of Beauty.
What Has Science Done to Re-
store the Lily and the Rose?


Theocritus a delightful prejudice, Theo-
phrastus silent cheat. Carneades a soli-
tary kingdom, Homer a glorious gift Of
nature, Ovid favor of the gods. Ars- |
totle affirmed that beauty was better than !
all the letters Of recommendation in the
world. and yet none of these distinguished
authorities has left us even hint of how
beauty is to be perpetuated, or the raw
ages Of age and disease detied. Time soon
blends the lily and the rose into the pal
Tor of age. disease dots the fair face with
cutaneous designations and crimsons the
Roman nose with unsightly Pushes 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 tor
turing 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? 1t is vain to attempt to por-
tray such suffering. Death in many cases
might be considered blessing. The blood.
and fluids seem to be impregnate ted with
a fiery element which, when discharged
through the pores upon the surface OF the
body, infiames and burns until, in his ef-
forts 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.
IofA ofo 5i,,fN
torturing disease, and piqued vanity give
place to real suffering. A little Wart on
the nose or cheek grows to the all-deVour-
ing lupus, a patch Of letter on the palm
of the hand or the limbs suddenly en-
veIops the body in its fiery embrace a
bruise on the leg expands into a gnaWlng
nicer. which reaches out its fangs to the
sufferers heart in every paroxysm OF pain;
q small kernel in the neck multiplies into
a dozen, which eat away the vitality; great
nearl-like scales grow from little rash"
like inflamma TORS in such abundance as
to pass credulity; and so on may we de-
pict the sufferings to which poor human
nature Is subject, all of which involves
great mental distress because of personal
designations.
Every school girl or boy knows that If
g. pore in the skin in his or. her face pc
comes clogged a little black heaG appears,
and surrounding it little pimple. If a
dozen pores become clogged there are
a dozen black heads and pimples. so II
is with acne In salt rheum. or, as 1T IS
technically called, eczema, the cause OF
the disease seems to be in the blood, from
The fact that the fluids which pour out
through the tubes are charged with q
poisonous element that creates the mos'
intense itching and violent Inflammation
and rapidly destroys the outer scarf SKIN
This dreadful form of skin disease attacks
nr ages, and may frequently be seen full.
deve1oped in infants at birth. In sucl
cases it: is often called milk crust, SCALED
head, etc, but there is no doubt OF IL
real nature, and that it is an inherited
humor.
IF there were not another external dis
a,se known. eczema would be sufficien
infliction on mankind 1t pervades al
classes, and descends impartially through
generations. While some are contsantl'
enveloped in 1t, others have in conhned L
small patches in the ears, on the scalp
on the breast, on the palms OF the hands
on the limbs etc, but everywhere its dis
+inctive; feature is a small watery blister
which discharges an acrid fluid, causin
heat. inflammation and intense itching
Ring worm letter. scaled head, dandruf1
belong to this scaly and itching order Q
diseases. Psoriasis, our modern lepros1
with it's mother of pearl scale, situated o
a. redeemed base, which bleeds upon tn
removal of the scale, is to be dreaded an
avoided, as Of old. Impetigo, barber
itch, erysipelas, and score Of minor dis
orders make up in part the catalogue
external diseases of the skin. Thus ia
we have made no -allusfon to those at
fictions which are manifestly impuritie
of the blood, viz: swelling of the gland
Of the throat. ulcers on the neck an
limbs, tumors, assesses, and mercuri$
poisons, with loss of hair. because tn
whole list can be comprehended In tn
one word scrofula.
1t is in the treatment Of torturing, dis
figuring humors and affections of the ski
scalp and blood, with loss of hair. the
the Cuticura remedies have achieved the
scientifically compounded, absolutely pur
Interchangeable in any climate, always read
and agreeable to the most delicate al
sensitive, they present to young and O
the most successful curatives of medel
times This will be considered stror
language by those acquainted with I'll
character and obstinacy of blood and SIX
hu1nors. but it is justified by innumerab
successes where all the remedies az
methods in vogue have failed to cure. an
in many cases, to relieve, even.
The Cuticura treatment is at once agre
able, speedy. economical and comprehel
sive Battle the affected parts freely wi
hot water and Cuticura soap, to clean
the surface of crusts and scales, al
soften the thickened cuticle. Dry. witho
hard rubbing. and apply CuticuTa ointme
to allay itching, irrita ton and infararn
ton and soothe and heal, and, last
take Cuticura Resolvent. to cool a.
cleanse the blood. This treatment affor
instant relief, permits rest ard sleep