The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-19
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l WHOLESOME, CLEAR COLOR
: INDICATIVE OF GOOD
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That Fascinating Looking-Glass
How to Be Rid OF Blackheads. Pim-
pies and Freckles-Fresh Air md
Exercise the Best Beauty Prescrip-
tions-No Veil for the SCHOOLGIRL
Tight Corsets Make Red Noses
BY MARGARET E. SANGsTER.
Copyright, 1905, by Joseph B. Bow:es,
A schoolgirl OF II is old enough to
care good deal about her looks. and
nobody should blame her or accuse
her of vanity, if she wishes for a
good complexion and bewails a. bad
one. l have known mothers who ,yor-
ried not little because Jessie and
Jenny liked to look in the glass as
they passed it, and who seemed to
think the custom worthy of rep. oof.
Now, girls, please don't tell anyone.
Ii whisper my own little secret I
have always loved to see myself in a
mirror, and, to this day, cannot re-
sist it's fascination, and am sure, un-
less in great haste to keep an ap-
pointment, to pay my respects to it,
as l 60 through the room where it
hangs.
A friend of my girlhood had a love-
ly room in which were four long mir
rors set in four high doors. 1t was my
delight to take a book to that room
and seat myself on a sofa in the
middle Of it, with looking glass in
each corner, repeating the furniture
and books as we'll as the young per-
son in the center. Later slept, dur
ing a visit to the south, in a cham
Der of which one side of the wall was
a great, cleaning sheet of glass, from
Dashboard to ceiling. In that room
colonial bellies had dressed for colo
NAL dances in the days of long ago.
In these days when 1 look in the
glass, do not see my own face only,
but often seem to see faces of dear
ones who are not with me now; my
mother, my sister, and others who
were once here. You are too young
to have the sort of pleasure in
looking glass that you will have by
and by. Meanwhile, when you come
to visit me, you may look in the glass
as much as you like.
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I hope you will see pretty COM
plexion reflected there.
complexion has a great deal to
do with eirlish beauty. For one
thing, it is an index to your health,
a sickly complexion showing unerr,ng-
ly that the body is out of order. A
rough, sallow,' or pimply complexion,
with red spots or the ugly things
called blackheads, disfgure any girl,
and spoil the effect of regular fea-
lures, as a blotch or blur would spoil
a picture.
There are few things to do, and
few not to do, if you would have a
nice skin, and a good color, and be
free from boils, pimples and insight
ly patches upon your face. Iniis-
pensable to good complexion is a
bath from head to foot every day. The
best time for this bath is in the morn
ing as soon as you rise. Wash thor.
oughly every inch of the body, and dry
with a rough towel, so that the fric-
ton will bring a warm glow to the
surface. A tub-bath is not necessary
A sponge-bath is quite as good, if YOU
have no tub.
Some girls fancy that soap must not
be put on the face. This is an old
fashioned prejudice. Everything de-
ponds on the soap, which ought to
be of the best quality. In a toilet
soap it is wise to purchase delicate
variety, not of the very cheapest,
either. Wash the face thoroughly
every night at bedtime with fine SOAP
and tepid water, rinsing it we'll and
removing the lather, and drying it
with soft towel. Once day is often
enough to use soap on the face, but
this one using should never be
omitted.
Blackheads are accumulations of
dust and dirt in the pores of the skin.
To press them out with watch-key,
or to fuss with them at all is very
foolish. A little cold cream may be
applied, after the thorough washing
with soap, but this is seldom neces-
sray. A schoolgirl whose face is
really clean will have no blackheads
to bother her.
AS for freckles, they are the kisses
of the sun on fair skin, and no one
should be worried over them. If
they do distress a girl, she may re-
move them by using lemon juice free
ly, adding to it an equal portion CT
much diluted glycerine. Never use
glycerine either with rose water or
lemon juice, unless you dilute it tree
ly with water. A country girl may
drive away freckles by washing her
face frequently with butterniilk,
which is one of the best possible lc-
lions for the skin. Be very partlcu-
lar never to use another persons towel
and wash cloths T..
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Be very careful to keep the bowels
In good order. The human frame is