The Yale expositor., 1912-07-04

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Girls of sixteen and even younger
often write me for complexion formu-
las and always feel like saying the
same thing to them all:
MY dear children, you have it in
your own hands to possess not only
good, but very likely beautiful, COM
plexion."
And If ! did say this thing l should
be speaking the absolute truth.
Now let us consider the complexion
defects which affiict so many girls be-
tween the ages of twelve and eighteen.
Pimples, oily skin and large pores are
the chiefest ones, and these are large
ly attributable to unhygienic habits.
The proof of the statement is that
girls ~ho are looked after very care
! fully and who are warned by their
mothers against mental excitement,
rarely have them. Left to their own
judgments about their health, the girls
with complexion worries have neglect
ed their bowels, ignored the impor-
tance of the hot bath, been lazy about
exercise, have eaten coarse or highly
seasoned foods, have drunk too much
! ice water, have slept in close rooms
and done everything else they ought
! not to have done. OF what benefit to
these young ostriches would cosmetics
be? Their heads are buried in the
! sand of ignorance as to the needs of
their own little bodies, and there is
nothing TO do but wake up their under
standing as to the operations of ma
ture herself.
There is that much abused organ,
| the liver to which is intrusted so
many OF the chemical processes of the
body. If il is clogged through having
too much work thrown upon it as in
gormandizing or when deprived of the
mechanical action needed to stimulate
! the flow Of it's juices. as in a sedentary
! life, it is not ordinary waste matter
which is thrown back into the blood,
| but foreign products which no organ
| knows what to do with. It is this con-
dition, the existence Of poisonous mat
| ter. which gives rise to so many COM
plexion defects, and, when the liver is
so clogged there is nothing to do but
! give the system 2 complete clearing
out. An innocent little dose of castor
oil, bought at the drug store for ten
cents and doctored with five drops Of
brandy to keep 1t from gripping, will
| start the liver to better action
through freely moving the bowels. The
oil must be taken on an empty stom-
ach on going to bed, and the next
morning 1t is wise to take bottle OF
citrate Of magnesia to start the move
ment of the intestinss and further
clear them.
A diet Of laxative foods after this
will continue the good cork of keeping
| tie bowels i'll easy order, all fresh
fruits. cooked rhubarb, cooked and raw
prunes. spinach and green's coming un-
der this head. AS a beautifer to the
skin, and gentle laxative, molasses.
| too, is unequaled, but it is necessary
| 10 get the very dark, rich kind and eat
it with coarse bread, such as graham
and rye, whose rough grain is very
beneficial in clearing the bowels. A
sufficient quantity OF pure drinking
water between meals, this taken hot or
lemon juice is added to the hot water
at least once day the complexion is
further cleared Other drinks of a
freshening sort to the skin might be
sassafras and spearmint tea. The
sassafras is prepared by sleeping the
roots in boiling water, and the infu-
sion may be taken hot or cold.
i,o Of hn hny IN
order and keeping them so with fresh
foods and drinking water is required
for the preliminary treatment of every
skin trouble-pimples, large pores,
oily condition, discolorations and sal.
lowness Even freckles,. those teasing
little skin sprites which are so hard
to Danish, are more easily dispersed
and dimmed If the bowels are cleared
first.
AS to other foods useful for clearing
the complexion, milk, sweet and sour,
Is undoubtedly beautifying. milk pos
sessing the Tactic acid which bleaches
the skin, and being about the most
natural of all foods to the stomach.
Sweet butter is also preferable to salt,
while u liberal diet OF green salads.
prepared with olive oil and lemon
juice. through the help they give in
the digesting OF heavier foods is cer-
tainly to be recommended. The amaze
mic girl who needs all the nourishment
she can get should, however take her
salad with mayonnaise, which is i'm n
way quite solid food and easily di-
gested as well. In fact. the more
olive oil the thin, pale girl takes the
Better. and II would do her far more
good than harm If she consumed, be-
sides, four raw eggs a day.