The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1904-06-08
ACHIEVING BEAUTY.
Mary Annable Fanton Gives a Few Point
ers on this Subject.

some dcnleVe beauty. Ine art VI
achieving beauty is called good
grooming and much of the modern
American beauty, which is famous
now In two continents, is not that
of feature but of good grooming.
AS rule American girls do not
have regular features; a classic,
straight nose is markedly unusual,
a cupid S bow mouth is seldom seen
nowadays, arched eye brows, not
once year, masses of hair only
on children of foreign parents, and
the Irish pink and white skin rare
ly enough to be noticeable. And
yet the proportion of beautiful wom-
en- in America is greater than IN
any other country in the world. 1t
is because American girls know
how to achieve beauty; they are
amateur beauty makers. Every
American girls brain is an indi-
vidual Alladin S lamp when it comes
to begging for loneliness.
First of all they are willing to de-
vote time and money to the art OF
beauty making; often quite a lot OF
time, though seldom very much
money. You can spend lot OF
money in good grooming if you
want 20, because you can call in the
aid of a Turkish bath and a mas
seuse and all sorts of expensive
creams, lotions and unguents; but
you don't have to spend much mon
ey, because you can make your own
creams and lotions and be your own
masseuse and you can provide a
moneyless understudy for Turkish
bath.
And the bath is the beginning of
good grooming, or rather bathing
is, for there are two sorts of baths
that every woman who wishes to
become beauty must take regu-
larly, the bath of beauty and the
bath of health One is quite as i'm
portant as the other and 40 girl
can hope to be really well groomed
without adhering strictly to certain
r11oc q ho11t tho bo4h
For health there must be two hot
baths a week, and these baths
should be taken at night to avoid
exhaustion, and should be so thor
ough as to effectually substitute the
Turkish bath. The bath room
should be we'll warmed and the tub
should be half full of water; to this
amount of water add a teaspoonful
of borax, which will not only give
the quality of rain watex but will
greatly increase the cleansing pow
er and also soften and whiten the
skin.
To get the best results from tht
health baths, they should be takeI
Systematically. There should be
| food deal of that tiresome thing
routine, about it. The bathroom
should be warm and the half-tub Q
water should hold teaspoonful O
borax in solution. First Their
should be brisk rubbing with
flesh brush and pure CASTLE soap
followed by a thorough rinsinq
first with warm water, and then
cold spray or the splashing owe
the body of cold water with
sponge. Use a moderately heav
Turkish towel for drying, rub til
chest with alcohol, and if the ski
is at all dry, finish with. a quic
self massage of simple oil. Til
bath need not take over half a
hour, yet it means exquisite clear
4 liness, is marvellous aid to dlge
ton and strengthens the lungs.
4 After the bath, one should go
once to bed and sleep in cool roo
I with plenty of air in circulatio
Y And if the digestion and compile
: ion need special attention much CT
be accomplished by drinking pi
of very hot water Immediately aft
the bath.
The bath of beauty, which mu
always be considered with t
health bath, is managed quite di
erently. Though again, first of
the bathroom must be well warm
by little gas or oil stove, if nece
sary. This bath is taken the nj
ute one gets out of bed in the nor