The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-11-07
COMING GIRL WILL BE
AS RUDDY AS A POPPY

NMar1on Martln6au in Chicago Tribune.
The brilliant girl is coming in vogue
and the fair skinned type is going out
This means that the new girl will bt
rudy as a poppy and that her face vii
shine with color as well as with health
Color is not always the sign OF health
A lily is quite as healthy as rose, yel
1t is much paler. And so with the Whlle
skinned girl who may be just exactly
as healthy as her redder sister, bur
whose color is much fairer by nature.
But the fair skinned girl will not be
as popular: and she who has a fair,
white skin must go into training to
make it red. She must pink her ears
and her chin, tint the delicate white Of
her temples. and must bring. out the
brilliant lights of her cheeks.
Fancy going into training to make
your face bloom. Yet such is what you
must do. You must bring out its high
lights and its own natural tones until
your face is as rosy ard as smiling, as
dimpled and as natural as it was when
you were a child.
The Old-fashioned way. so our grand
mothers will tell you. was to rub the
cheeks with a crash towel; and many
girl Of the 1880 days was compelled to
90 over her face vigorously with the
towel at least twice a day, rubbing the
skin until it was a bright glossy red.
The result was good enough for the
time being. But, o, so bad in the long
run. The vigorous rubbing coarsened
the skin and brought the blood vessels
to the surface, and at the age of 80,
and sometimes even younger, the skin
was hopelessly gone.
Hard Rubbing Is Harmful.
Hard rubbing will cause those blue
lines to come to the surface of the skin,
those little blood vessels which are
sometimes made of red blood and some
times Of blue. They are not pretty, and
when they cover the cuticle, as with a
heavy network Of veins, they are posi-
lively dishguring.
Strange to say, the nose is the first to
become coarsened by this heavy, rough
treatment. The blood vessels seem TO
enlarge quickly and the nose has a
heavy. blowsy look that is unspeakably
awful
A great many womer coarsen the
nose unconsciously. They wash the
face with a rough cloth and dry it on
q rough towel, scrubbing the face with
the hands buried in the towel. The
part of the face which receives the Sc
yerest treatment is the nose and the
top of the cheek bones. These are
scrubbed until the surface of the skin
is injured and the cuticle irritated The
result is a congestion of the little blood
vessels and a network of tiny red lines
Just below the surface. Noses are hope
iessly injured in this manner.
Another cause of a fiorid. rough and
notified face is the habit Of going out
into the cold air directly after washing
the face A woman whose skin was so
rough that she could not use powder
upon it and go notified that she looked
as il about TO go into a stroke Of apo
pleXy found that the entire condition
was caused by her habit of throwing
open her window shutters in the morn
ing. 1t was her custom to rise. battle
and then go to the window, throw open
the blinds, and look out a minute. The
cold air striking the sensitive skin.
still warm from the morning additions.
acted as a decided irritant and rough
ener
The face must be made TO glow in
quite another way. Ii requires physi-
cal culture Of the skin. a certain treat
ment which, while it makes the face
pink and even red. does not injure it.
Face bleaching and face sknning
often have this result but there are
other ways Of obtaining the same eff
feet without recourse to such violent
means.
Pure Fruit Juices a Great Aid.
And one of these is the face treat
ment which includes the application OF
fruit juices and the care of the euticle.
in face skinning you remove the outer
surface, but in face treatment you SO
care for the skin that you make it
delicate and pretty without destroying
or removing it.
Tf there are cucumbers in yo1r vicin-
ity You cannot do better than TO pro-
cure one. even at this time Of year.
and apply it to the face. There ig a
certain bleaching property about a rr-
cumber which is only equaied by the |
fresh strawberry.
Those who can procure fresh straw
berries have at their disposal the best
cosmetic that is known. The berries. I
with their acids and their bleaching
properties. will make the skin near
perfection: and if the cuticle be salloW /
and dry the strawberry juice will make /
il plump and pink and pretty
Cucumber juiceNis best applied in the
perfectly natural state. The cucum-
hers. which should not be peeled, are /
split lengthwise and the strips applied !
to the face. They are bound on and |
the juice is allowed TO dry there.
But the complexion must be prepared /
for this cucumber treatment. IA /
nous Partisan beauty applies hot, /
soapy lather to her skin. She puts it /
on with mans shaving brush, and she 7
uses a pure soap and plenty of it. il
must be as hot as possible, and it is a
good thing to let it remain on the face
few minutes, just as though one were
about to shave.
A good soap is in itself full Of curat-
i've properties. It acts not only as
softener. but as bleach, and if it
were analysed it would be found to
contain many ingredients that are GU
tually good for the skin. good soap,
literally applied as a hot lather. viii
help any skin, and certainly will do
no harm to any.
1t is important, however, to take the I
soap off thoroughly, and this almost
requires another and a clean brush.
Men have facilities at the BARRIERS
shops for cleansing the face which wo-
men homo In r1u We