Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-15

n TME AIDA thinks she has found IL
MI the fountain of youth for which
49, Ponce de Leon sought and IN
seeking which he died. The prima DONNA
whose name is printed Nine Frances
Aida" when she sings at the Metropolitan
Opera House in New York, and Nine Cat
h-Casazza" on visiting cards, has dis
covered that the art of preserving youth
and beauty is strange and simple. Her
formula is Mud for my face and malk for
my figure"
Her complexion she keeps as fresh and
clear and free from lines as a babes by
outward mud baths. Her figure she keeps
supple and as thin as she wishes by in
ward baths of milk. That is all, but when
you hear how these simple things are ef-
fected you will understand that the COM
pick may be the apparently simple.
Great discoveries have been made by
simple means. Isaac Newton lolling on
the grass saw an apple fall and wonder
ing why it did not fall up hit upon the
law Of gravitation. Nine. Aida, or, il you
prefer, Nine. Gatti-Casazza, while taking
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rheumatism, noticed that you could tell
how long a visitor had been taking the
baths by the state of her complexion. ~
it were her first day, the skin of her faca
was yellowish or Of a grayish tone If She
had been there week 1t was notified with
red, showing that the powerful mud was
drawing the humors out of the blood
through the pores to the surface But ~
she had DnNn Fpgnlar hofhaw g.
weeks her skin was clear and smooth and
of beautiful new baby-like whitenessI .
Therefore, so reasoned the prima donna
If taking the mud baths for the body so
improves the complexion what would not
regularly washing the face in mud do
for 1t?
Behold her, then. every ten days in com
munion with her Woodworking mudl
Her maid brings to her a bottle of erav-
Ish, half liquid mud. Beside it is on the
toilet table she lays brush like that with
which Signor Gatti-CasaZza, her husband
is lathered of a morning by his barber
Or If 1t Is her within she may call for her
own complexion brush, one Of camel's hair,
the size OF baby's brush, and with a
small white handle.
Lying on her towel covered pillow and
with her hair tied back in another towel.
she dips the brush into the bottle and be-
gins painting her neck with It, commence
ing at the point of the collar bone and
painting always upward. For the purpose
of the mud is not only to clear the COM
plexion but to lift up the face and tighten
the skin.
The tUl round throat being th!ckly
smeared with the grayish brown mud, she
begins with long, strong strokes to coat
the face with il. From the point of the
chin the brush passes with long sweeping,
curying strokes upward and across the
forehead. Even the eyelids are slightly
coated with it, great care oeing taken that
the muddy substance does not drop into
the eyes.
When every part of the face Is thickly
smeared with this she lies quite still and
allows the substance to harden.
When the mud has hardened, the face
is as tightly locked as a prisoner in iail,"
says Nine Aida. u cannot speak. | cam
not utter syllable, nor make the slightest
noise. For two hours ! lie thus as silent
as though / were a mute. Afterward 7
remove the mud by washing 1t off with
warm water, washing again and again
until every trace of the mud IL zone
This do every ten days or two weeks or
whenever my face seems to need 4 NV
race you see, is wrinkleless Also thai I
have not what l once had, a double obi,,"