Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-30

as though there were a special i%nterven-
ton Of Providence in this respect.
"The day before / am to don my youth
ful hat l buy a pint Of fresh Strawberries
and put them on to steep an a quart Of
water. In time l get a basin Of sweet
smelling pinky fluid. into which I plunge
my face. II my skin Is very sallow l
make a soapsuds. using a special kind Of
soap that goes well with my skin and a
complexion brush. You would be surprised
at the change in my face. 1t is necessary
at the same time to bleach the neck and
throat a little with this same liquid. The
process may be expensive, but 1t pays in
the long run and 1 keep 1t up all the straw
berry season.
But then there are the forget-me-not
hats. 1t isn't all roses, you know, in the
spring. For the forget-me-not complexion
1 know nothing that equals the cucum-
Der. lettuce and celery bleach. 1t sounds
like a salad, as indeed It is.
II steep all these together and ] add
some lemon juice to the lotion. 1t makes
a very acid bleach. which l follow with a
cream OF sleeps fat. By this treatment
I can wear blue or pale green, and I have
been known to look well in bright red,
the tomato color which turns us al as
brown as berries.
IL wish that face bleaching were the
only thing necessary for the perfecting Of
the complexion for the spring hat, but It
is only one OF severa, processes. One of
the others is the tempering of the skin. 1t
is a matter of temperature. | am begin
ming to sit in a cool room. When l read
l have the thermometer at IS. When 1
sew, since sewing is a form of exercise,
/ let the thermometer drop down to &C. But
when l am working, say, at the household
tasks, I let IT get much cooler. 1 some
times open the window until the room is
down to- the English temperature, which
is along in the fifties.
by keeping the climate of the house
low you temper the skin, and when you
go out into the air your face doesn't suffer.
Most women are afraid of-catching cold
In a cool room. But you don't catch colds
that way. They come from hot rooms and
Indigestion.
o course the state of the skin depends
upon your food and particularly your
drink. In the winter you need sugars and
sweet drinks to keep you warm and rosy,
but in the spring you need green things
and hot drinks without sugar.
1.-THE English woman, again, has the ad-
vantage over other women in the matter
OF an out door c%omp-exion. That is because
she learned to like tea in her childhood
and she takes it weak and hot. She has a
little lump Of sugar in it and perhaps a
dash Of lemon. She takes it half a dozen
times a day.
tie makes the American woman ner-
vous, but thai is because she hasn't
learned to like it. If she will put half a
teaspoon of tea into a hot pot and will
pour almost a quart of boiling water upon
1t she will have a pot of tea for the whole
family. 1t is served for the complexion's
sake at IL o'clock in the morning at at 8
o'clock in the afternoon and again at bed
time.
"You can't have a good skin in the spring,
so the trainers say, unless you exercise
your muscles. There are contain exercises
that make for en- Easter complexion and
a spring hat. One of these is the rising
sun exercise.
'You set your alarm clock for 5 a. m.
At the first ring you rise and take five
minutes of violent arm exercise standing
in front of an open window. Following
this there Is a hot bath and then five
minutes more of swift arm exercise. You
now return to bed and wait for the break
fast tray. The breakfast tray habit makes
for a fine skin.
You must bleach the skin until it is
pink.
you must treat it to keep the wrinkles
and freckles from getting into it at the
first breeze.
you must lacclimate it by degrees so
that the spring air will not spoil the tone,
you must diet for roses and lilies II
you want to pee them bloom in your face
And you must study out your own color
scheme IL you are going to work out your
salvation In the choosing of your flower
hat for spring"