The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-03
HOW TO Be BEAUTIFUL
WOMEN WHOSE BUSINESS 1T is
fsa~ 50 TO FOOL OTHERS
They Keep Putting Cold Cream on
Their Faces for Sixteen Years
Women Are Easily Taken in When
It's Question of Beauty.

How it is possible for any woman to
write more advice to their own sex
about their compilations, it is difficult
TO understand, and yet the Eastern pa
pers devote pages to telling how to be
beautiful, how to be young, how to
keep the hair brown, how to avoid
freckles, how to make your feet small
and your eyes large, etc, etc.
If any luckleSS woman should at
tempt to do one-half of the things she
is advised to do by complexion experts
she would have to work hard all day
and sit up all night as Well There is
at times, some good advice given by
these people, but it would not be natu-
raj for them to advise a woman to let
her skin alone, if there is any chance
of selling their particular nostrums.
I knew of a young woman who was
much worried about her complexion
and was told of some black stuff that
somebody else had told her friend of,
WhereupOn she purchased it and cover
ed her face with it for several nights
running. After few days the skin of
her face broke out with a most dis
gusting eruption, and she became
frightened. Finally she went to doc
tor, wearing thick veil, and told him
what she had done. He said some very
severe things to her and gave her such
a II III l1i1I she aASA0I bt1CO tAAAA5
like that again. 1t took her weeks TO
get well, and it was a good lesson
which she never forgot.
That is one case of hundreds.
Women are so easily taken in by
anything that is recommended, or even
by circulars they find on the doorSteps.
1t is simply incredible that a woman
will take medicine of which she knows
nothing; put evil looking-lotiOns on her
face and never inquire about them
from nearby druggist. But she will.
There are some women who would
stand all day on one foot and with both
hands up in the air, if man should in
form them that by SO doing their hair
would turn to a beautiful golden color.
Knowing that the world is full of guilt
BILE women, complexion parlors" flour
ish.
The thing is not hard to work. You
write a letter to one of the complex
ion editors" and ask her how you can
make the red spots come Off your face
and take the wrinkles from under your
eyes. She will reply that you must
cover your face with cold cream every
night and massage it as We'll. OF course
she does not mean that you must go
to the corner drug store and buy any
old cold cream; she sells particular
kind for 81 a bottle that is perfectly
pure, and is the only one she can con-
ScientiouSly commend. Then she also
has a little rubber hand glove that is
what you want to massage with, and
she can let you have it for three fifty,
but would advise your getting the So
kind. She doesn't care to recommend
the threefifty one, although a few
women do use it. SO you purchase the
cream and the other thing and start in.
At first your face becomes very red,
but you conclude that is a good sign,
so you persevere until you have been
doing the thing for two months and
the cold cream has given out. The red
spots on your face still being with
YOU, you write the complexion lady" a
letter in which you say that you fail to
see that you have been the least bit
benefited. Then the letter you get in
reply shows that the woman is an
artist. She calls you her dear child"
and says what in the world were you
thinking of to imagine that you could
do such wonderful things in two
months and one bottle of cream! 1t
takes ''time, dear, time" you must
have two more bottles of cream and
start again with the intention of per-
Seyering. You are advised never to
give up; there is no such word as die
in the complexion business.
Just the same in regard to hair. Buy
the particular kind of hair wash rec
commended by the woman who answers
your letter, and use it for sixteen
years, after which you will surely have
a magnificent growth of natural hair
But if you should use any other kind
OF hair wash it would be exceedingly
injurious to your scalp.
And so it goes. Other women just as
easy are constantly filling the ranks
and the complexion business goes mer-
rily on.