Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-03-10

A Better Plan TO Secure Good Com
plexion.
Copyright. 1895. by Joseph 3. BoNIss
Why do our girls want 10 "gild re-
lined gold and paint the lily by pow
dering their faces?
one can understand why vain elder
~ women, whose bloom has Departed
may desire to simulate the eomplexiou+
Of youth by powder and rouge. Bud
why this fashion should have SO gem
eraily attacked our girls, it Is harder
70 understand.
Scarcely anybody can be found Wild
VIII maintain that the use of powded
IS good for the skin. Nearly all exI
perts on the skin assert that it is dis
tinctly bad. Ii it is carefully washed
out every night. and some sort Of am
emol4lent applied after this thorough
cleansing, the harm is reduced TO
minimum, but the skin is injured q
lttle even then. AS for that oil a Girl
VINO powders thiekly every day, and
then lets it 60 as thousands do. id
K but a few years to ruin her skin.
1T won't make any difference to-
me then said one girl, coarsely.
after my market is made
This vulgar indifference to ones
locks as a wife. after one has strained
every nerve to be beautiful as, a
maiden, is undoubtedly at the root
OF very much of the prevalent marital
unhappiness.
But. seriously. why this UNIVERSAL
bordering of the face. among TIL
young and old alike? In some cities.
the custom is more nearly universal |
than in others. For instance. in the
city OF Boston. there is not half las
Il OF ii as in the west or the south.
The very finest women, the most sehol-
arly, the most refined, do not powder
at all.
Every observer knows when you
have put powder on your face. In
mos cases, it is disgustingly apparent.
Even when most skillfully applied by
the hands of a maid, it Is still dis
cernible, and if you think it looks
pretty, there is something the matter
with your taste. The woad of the
barbarian and the henna of the orient
belong in the same category and are
no worse.
But" SAID one young girl, Il am
SO sallow after being out several
nights! Don't you think it is better
TO hide the sallowness-especialiy
when most of the other girls are do
ing the same thing? You say the
powder isn't pretty. Well. do you
think the ~sallowness is pretty? Andf
almost no girl can keep her CON-
plexion in the height of the season.
The late hours and the Welsh-rarebit
suppers and all the excitement-wlM.
We just have to powder
Now there is a beautiful green dive
which is extracted from that useful
vegetable, spinach, and is perfectly
harmless. We believe that it might
be applied to the most delicate skiri
without doing harm. The presence of
powder on the lace is perfectly oh
yious. That OF this charming green
dye would be little more so. We re-
spectfully suggest something of this
sort as a substitute. IL would cover
up the sallowness and the other raw
ages OF dissipation far more effective
ly than powder does--and it would be
%innocuous.
1t is argued in favor of powder that
it takes of the ~disagreeable shine"
from the face; but this can usually b.
done by the application briskly for a
few minutes of a piece of soft flannel.
The real reason why powder is used
is in order TO make the complexion
look whittier than it otherwise would.
But" the southern girl says. zone
cant live in our climate without using
powder. The moisture and the shine
make one absolutely u~npresentable
without it. The Cubans put ON pow
der openly and thickly, as a needed
protection. On the water, it is the
best thing TO keep off sunburn. Good
powder harms the skin little, if at ALL
And yet the very common sallow-
ness and %roughness of the skin among
southern women is attributed by good
authorities chiefly to the reckless use
CT powder.
The drinking water in the west and
south has alkaline qualities which are
said to disco,or and harden the skin.
Certainly. good compilations. though
not unknown, are rarer there than in
the east. The care of the health is
far less understood or practieed in
some parts Of the country than in
others. And where the health of our
women is the best. there. other things
being equal, the compilations are the
best. The good complexion, like most
other good attributes of the human
creature, has TO come from within. II
your internal organs are clogged or
torpid or displaced or crowded, so that
they cannot expand and contract regu-
larly. as most of them have to in or
der TO perform their various functions.
the skin will show the irregularity
sooner thai anything else. flour women