The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-11-04
SIMPLE AIDS TO BEAUTY.
There Is Nothing in the World Better
for the Skin Than Pure
Rainwater.

HOW OIL6Q we WduucI Aoi ohCAu "AS
what we want is at our feet, or within
easy reach of our hands. Years ago
when skin specialists were few and Tar
between. one famous woman, VINO In
her lifetime had commanded enormous
prices. and had huge clientele, was
on her deathbed; friend asked her
plainly what she could honestly and
truthfully recommend as the best ala /
to beauty. and she murmured with al
most her last breath, Eau de Gel.
And Eau de Ciel remains the very best
of all simple remedies for the skin, the
best promoter and preservative OF
healthy complexion. And yet, though
it would be so easy to have rainwater
always ready to hand, even in the
6riest summer weather, no one takes
any trouble to preserve it. In the
country people do not quite neglect the
opportunity, but very seldom does any
one try to acquire it in London, ana
yet an open trough on the ROOF ana
water-butt in the area would erect the
purpose. The point is to have suf1-
Gent quantity for the face and hands,
and in doing so to keep it as free from
blacks as possible. A French woman
who has almost passed beyond middle
age. vet has a skin almost as fresh and
pure as a girl, manages to keep small
barrel almost always full, about the
size of those tamarinds that come In
from the West Indies, or a key that
would hold a gallon This she Las
poised outside her house, where 1t
catches whatever rain falls; but the
ION is covered with piece OF coarse
fanny, which allows all the moisture
to drop into it, but keeps out dust and
blacks. 1t is constantly being washed
and only enough is poured out OF 1t
daily to wash the face, and 1t is never
kept in jugs for any length Of time.
Anyone who has taken the trouble to
| verify the difference beween the use OF
ordinary water and rain water cannot
fail to realize that the skin becomes
sofer and smoother.
Our forbears, who have left behind
them many wonderful receipts for the
preservation of the skin, and decoc-
tons of many kinds, some OF them
well worth trying, recommended soft
water as the fundamental principle
There are many most excellent ways
of making water soft, but none o.
them are so good as the real tnins
which needs no softening.
Take care of your health. FIND gu,
what suits you in the way OF 1000 AM
never oyer-eat. Half ones acquaint'
ances are going abroad to drink tne
waters. simply because, to put the mat
fer plainly, they have done tnen'
selves" too we'll and over-eaten. Notn
ing initiates more against good ap
pearance than an unhealthy-iooKins
skin.
m not worry. Wrinkles and crows
feet come all too soon, but you nell
them on the way when you greet un
duly. as the old Scotch women put II
Those who devote themselves TO IN
treatment of the complexion will tel
YOU not half the people who come Z
them can show a perfectly clean skin
Some have clogged the pores with pow
ders and ointments. half of them ar
afraid of thoroughly cleansing IL an
using very necessary friction.
Do you remember the heroine wn
was advised before she entered ROOF
to say papa. potatoes, poultry, prune'
, and prisms' in order to give the bes
J expression to the mouth? Perhaps som
one tries this even now sometimes; bl
: there is wisdom in putting the face an
: features into the right expression, an
I neither allowing frowns nor a peevis
twist of the lips to rest there. If you d
: they will become a constant accomp
: niment to the face, and very difficult
:. eradicate. Prevention is far better tha
}, any cure, and we give ourselves endle
q trouble to cure what Wa might most ca
; lily have prevented. IAN apple a ds
l. keeps the doctor away" Even the me
e ical profession are beginning to reali
j that drugs are not to be taken Who'll
sale. Take care of your health, al
It your complexion will take care of itse
was the advice of physician of not
and, what is more. you will be pro-
u Of It.