The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-05-21
OUTDOOR LIFE Is
BETTER THAN COSMETICS.

Marian Martineau in Chicago Tribune
For winter it may be the Englisl
girl or the girl of America. But wher
the summer days come it is the Irisl
girl whose type is the envied one
The Irish girl has six remarka bic
traits or characteristics which are bred
in the bone and brought out in the
flesh
She is full of that quality which, foi
lack of a better designation, can be
called spirits.
She has a marvellous bounding walk,
q walk which never tires.
she has an appetite of which she is
not ashamed.
Her cosmetics are dew and sun and
flowers.
I'm spite of exposure she never burns
or tans or gets yellow.
Her freckles are of the pale, pretty
sort not the disagreeable deep yellow
ones.
Her voice is fresh and she talks all
day long in a tone which has been
called a thrill.
And she has another trait, that of
wit. which comes from a superabund-
ance of animal spirits. These are the
things which make the Irish girl not
like other girls, the typical girl of the
summer. She is the girl of the trees
aud flowers and the girl whom you as
sociate with the hay and the rake.
A city girl once went into the coun-
try to become strong. She weeded
the garden, she raked the hay and she
picked berries and gathered flowers.
But. i'm spite of this, she did not grow
stronger She lost flesh and lost spirits.
When You Go to Rake the Hay.
Another girl who went into the coun-
try on similar thoughts intent came
back with splendid store of health
store sufficient to last her for many
months to come, probably all the year.
There is moral to be drawn from
tins. Or there are several morals all
of which must adorn this tale. The
first IS in going to the country be sure
10 select your spot well. or you will
come back worse than you went
Don't, if you are going to be a Maud
Muller, rake your hay upon farm
which lies low and is full of damp
spots. There is malaria here and at
night you will breathe it into your
lungs. Be sure that your farm lands
are high and dry and that the we'll is
situated in a proper place for a well.
not in the barnyard nor alongside any
Of the buildings.
Irish Diet Good For Summer.
farm cook in the kitchen. The proper
diet for summer is the diet upon which
the Irish girl lives. This is the diet of
cereals or grains. cooked together; a
diet of vegetables including the Irish
potato: and a diet of fresh fruits and
hot bread. The pretty society girls of |
Dublin, with. their glowing cheeks and |
pretty compilations, live upon hot |
breads, upon grains and upon fruits |
q ~
Yet in all the world. if you ask the |
tourist he will tell you that there are !
no girls as glowing as those of Dublin.
But when you go into the country |
YOU are given a diet Of eggs. and there /
are many who cannot eat eggs. You
are given plenty of milk, and this may
not agree with you. If you do not eat-l
these you must eat heavy bread and
worse pies or You must take into your
system pounds and pounds of pork.
The Irish girls, not those of the
farms. but those of Dublin and Belfast, |
Of Limerick and Cork, live well. The
finest salads of the world are tossed to-
spther by these young women. who
pile the leaves in a deep bowl at the
piazza teas for which they are noted.
il was Sidney Smith who eXtolled the
Irish salad, and those who have visit
ed Limerick with letters of introduction
dreaming of the wonderful dishes of
green's dressed out with marvellous
of salad oil and vinegar
and the rest.
Diet is not everything in the world.
but il is a great deal. 1t will help you
out amazingly in your beauty scheme.
But next after the diet comes the care
OF the complexion. In America. where
the winds blow hot one day and cold
the next. the skin burns one afternoon
and the next day is beaten by the cli-
mate.
There IS nothing even about the I
winds Of the season; and the girl who |
wants 10 have the skin of the Irish girl
must take care of her complexion every S
lay of her life. !
Oatmeal Best For Complexion. T
There are those who hold that the .
girl who is caring for her beauty :
hould place little pinchers upon her
ose daily to keep it in shape. The =
ose reddens in the wind and spreads.
'he should do this while she is cream
1S her skin
The matter of keeping the skin nice
S one which causes the spring girl +
reat concern.
81 have a patient said beauty spe-
talist who takes oatmeal inside and C
sestion at bay And at night she L
athes her face in oatmeal water and
SEES the same upon her hands.
Nor does this woman's oatmeal stop d
small measures. She cooks a table S
loouful Of oatmeal in a quart of wa 4
Up until it is milky. This she strains
nd makes soft with boraX. To this she
dds just a little benzoin, and with fl
Ills she washes her face after coming II
from a dusty walk. AT night she 81
eeps with her hands in gloves lined
18th oatmeal paste, and she has "
Tile tray of powdered oatmeal, mixed II
18th fine pumice. which she uses upon a
nr hands once a day to take off the u
1ots. c
She also makes soap jelly which a
excellent for the hands and which
ass oatmeal as a basis. And by per-
yering with her cure she manages to m
Yep on hand a collection of fine cos OF
etics for use on all occasions when 10
e spring tears the skin and the sun
orches it, al
ice Powder Needed by May Bellies. AZ ~
The woman whose face chaps ter ia
bly, can cover her face with cold W.
cam and can then give it a liberal de
atlng of powder. This will protect
from the wind. OF course such a
)eral dose of powder is not in the w;
ST Of good form, and untess a woman
airs veil it is apparent to the pass- ch
by. But she can apply little cold ou
cam and can add d little powder to US
with the best Of results to her skin. bu
u Is almost necessary TO use a little
re powder these days, and there are
w women and fewer bellies who do tel
II indulge in it more or less. If the up
&c is inclined to pit, or TO show black dix
ads, there is nothing that will pro- m,
ct it like liberal coating of good pin
Wder, and as for the skin that is Z
erelN rough and channel. the coat of | in