Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-10-05
SIMPLE AIDS TO BEAUTY.
There Is Nothing in the World Better
for the Skin Than Pure
Rainwater.

How often we wander far afield while
what we want is at our feet, or within
easy reach of our hands. Years ago
when skin specialists were few and far
between, n famous woman, who in
her lifetime had commanded enormous
prices, and had a huge clientele, was
on her %deathbed; a friend asked her
plainly what she could honestly and
truthfully recommend as the best aid
to beauty, and she murmured with al
most her last breath, Eau de Ciel.'
And Eau de Ciel remains the very best
of all simple remedies for the skin, the
best promoter and preseryative of a
healthy complexion. And yet, though
it would be so easy to have rainwater
always ready to hand, even in the
driest 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,
enc try to acquire it in London, and
yet an open trough on the roof and a
water-butt in the area would effect the
purpose. The point is to have a sufi-
cient 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, yet has a skin almost as fresh and
pure as a girl, manages to keep a small
barre 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 has
poised outside her house, where it
catches whatever rain falls; but the
top is covered with a 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 it 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
we'll worth trying, recommended soft
water as The fundamental principle.
There are many most excellent ways
Of making water soft, but none OF
them are so good as the real thing,
which needs no softening.
Take care of your health. Find out
what suits you in the way OF food, n
never over-eat. Half ones acqualnt-
ances are going abroad to drink the
waters, simply because. to put the mat
ter plainly. they have done them
selves too well and o~ver-eaten. Moth
ing initiates more against a good ap-
pearance thar an notwithstanding
skin.
Do not worry. Wrinkles and crows
feet come all too soon, but you help
them on the way when you greet" UNI
duly, as the old Scotch women put it,
Those who devote themselves to the
treatment Of the complexion will tell
you not half the people who come to
them can show a perfectly clean skin.
Some have clogged the pores with pow
ders and ointments, half of them are
afraid of thoroughly cleansing it and
using very necessary friction.
Do you remember the heroine who
was advised before she entered a room
to say papa. potatoes, poultry, prunes,
and prisms" in order to give the best
expression to the mouth? Perhaps some
one tries this even nov sometimes; bu.e
there is wisdom in putting the face and
features into the right expression, and
neither allowing frowns nor a peevish
twist of the lips to rest there. If you do
they will become a constant accompa-
niment to the face, andvery difficult to
eradicate. Prevention is far better than
any cure, and w give ourselves endless
trouble to cure what We might most cas-
ily>have prevented. can apple a day
keeps the doctor away" Even the med
ical profession are beginning to realize
that drugs are not to be taken whole
sale. Take care of your health, and
your complexion will take care of itself.
was the advice of a physician of note.
and, what Is more, you will be proud
of 1t.