The Holbrook news., 1912-08-23

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 Girls of sixteen and even younger
 often write me for complexion formu-
 las and I always feel like saying the
 same thing to them all:
 My dear children, you have it in
 your own hands to possess not only a i good, but very likely a beautiful, com 1 plexion'
 And if I did say this thing should
 be speaking the absolute truth.
 Now let us consider the complexion
 defects which aff1ict 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 who 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 underv standing as to the operations of na- ture herself.
 There is that much abused organ, the liver, to which is intrusted so many of the chemical processes of the body. If it 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 a 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 it 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 intestines and further clear them.
 A diet of laxative foods after this. will continue the good work of keeping the bowels in easy order, all fresh fruits, cooked rhubarb, cooked and raw prunes, spinach and greens coming un- der this head. As a beautifier to the skin, and a gentle laxative, molasses, too, is unequaled, but 1t is necessary to get the very dark, rich kind and eat 1t 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 cold, is required, and if a squeeze of lemon juice is added to the hot water dI 4CetoI OAC0 O QcJ LAO SO1Ap1OA4OA ID 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.
 This getting of the bowels in good 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 banish, 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 a 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 anae- mic girl who needs all the nourishment she can get should, however take her salad with mayonnaise, which is in 8 way quite solid food and easily di- gested as well. In fact, the more olive oil the thin, pale girl takes the better, and it would do her far more good than harm if she consumed, be- sides, four raw eggs day.