The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-13
BEAUTY COMES
FROM THE BATH.

For the time being it is fashionable
to be healthy. Standards of beauty
set forth, in fact, that health is beauty
and beauty Is health. AS a result the
woman who keeps company with a
camphor bottle and chest protector,
who must be pampered and guarded
from draughts, is no longer popular
outside of her own domestic circle
even If she is within 1t, and the girl
who oftenest achieves belledom is not
she of the once admired lachrymose,
fainting away type.
The modern woman, says the New
York Sun, accepts the maxim that a
pretty woman is all the prettier if she
is healthy and that one of the most
valuable assets of the plain woman is
good health, with complaisance, almost
with eagerness, and plans her beauty
and health campaign accordingly. This
includes the use of recipes scarcely
known to the fragile high-as-my-heart
beauty of the old days, and which it
is unlikely would have been popular
with her even if she had known them.
First and foremost of the recipes is
an unf1agging devotion to some sort of
a bath or baths, a devotion which ex-
plains in part the rapid multiplication
of bathing establishments for woman
all over the city in a very few years
and the reason why newer style bath
tubs in high priced houses are equipped
with no end of wonderful douches and
sprays and showers placed at all sorts
of angles.
AS a rule, the first effects Of many
either plain of fancy baths to the person
in normal health are invigorating and
beauty promoting. This discovery was
all that was needed to convert any
woman who wants to make the most of
her personal charms into an enthu-
siastic devotee of the bathing habit,
an ardent experimenter with baths hot,
cold and tepid, at any and all hours.
When, as sometimes happens, a
physician hints that a woman is not an
aTnphibious animal and that in her case
too much bathing may be quite as in
furious as no bathing at all, he usually
has his trouble for nothing. Beauty
and health baths have caught the fem
mime fancy, and so long as results
are up to a required mark II Is probable
that they will continue to be the rage,
the doctors warnings to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
Although fashionable woman seem
to agree that the bath is a wonderful
beauty and health agent, at the same
time they show a wide difference of
opinion as to just what sort Of bath
is the best means to preserve woman )
charms.
When for example, remarkably
pretty woman, who looks like girl in
spite Of her almost 40 years, was
asked to tell her receipt for keeping
young, she answered promptly, Hot
baths"
"At night?"
mo. indeed" she said. GAS soon as
get out of bed in the morning l go
to my bath room and take a bath as
hot as / can stand it without discom-
fort, staying in the water at least nve
minutes. No, 1 do not cool off the
water before leaving the tub. If any
thing, increase the heat.
"Afterward 1 dress and have break
fast served in my room, where / re-
main for at least an hour longer. /
have followed this plan for the last Ave
or six years and have never felt so
we'll in my life Before that / used
to take the ordinary tepid bath, and
for a time / tried cold bath every
morning, but l found that cold baths
did not agree with me. They certainly
were not becoming.
MANY of my friends have predicted
that would catch a frightful cold by
taking a hot bath in the morning, but
l don't know what it is to have a cold
in these days, and give the credit to
the hot baths.
You see. l am extremely careful
about not exposing myself to a draught
after getting out OF the bath. I won't
have a window opened in my room un-
til after l have eaten breakfast and
drunk two cups Of hot coffee-not, in
fact, until l am ready to go down
stairs. And never go out Of doors in
less than an hour and a half after a
bath.
II take no more tubs during the
day, contenting myself with sponge
Off II have been on long dusty rid