The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-12
Beauty and Health
Dr. E. F. Bowers, Author of Side Stepping Ill Health
 Says Former Without Latter Isn't Even
Skin Deep.

Beauty without health Sis not even skin deep. There was time. in the early Victorian period, when the Blessed Damozel type of pulchritude met with favor. when the long-neck- ed pallid beauty, suffering from anemia and malnutrition, tainted in the sympathetic spotlight of mas- culine appreciation.
 But, thank heaven. we have re- formed. And, she has reformed. We no longer have patience with avoid able peakedness. We are unsym- pathetic with hysteria and non-im- pressed by bloodlessness.
 The girl who graces the. front pages of our magazines, and to whom we now kow-tow. is the red-blooded, vigorous girl. with the level, straight forward eyes that say T can." and the clean-cut chin that says. 'I will"
 She is capable ofNwalking the aver age man ''off his feet" or of putting him through a course, of athletic sprouts that frequently leaves him with his tongue lolling from exhaus- ton.
 This is as it should be. natural and wholesome. For beauty-aside from pleasing symmetry and contour of feature-consists in clearness of eye and skin, lustre of hair, suppleness and development of body, and "ex- pression."
 All these things depend upon good health. And good health is natures way of crowning with approbation our methods of living, and also our judicious selection of ancestors who lived healthily.
 A "c1ean" pair of eyes, with the whites contrasting brightly against the pupils, and a clear, unblemished skin are rarely found except in @ body that is clean inside and out side.
 To bring about this condition em- braces about all there is in rational hygienic living. Pickles and dough- nuts. mince pie and pound of meat at meal, constipation and aqua |phobie eff may coin a, &ord) are mortal enemies of sparkling eyes and fresh skins.
 Lack of exercise in tho open air and sleeping in inadequately ventilat- ed rooms also load the system with a, lot of poisons that should have been burned up and converted by the life giving oxygen. The liver, which has its hands full under even the best con- ditions, cannot strain all this ma- terial out of the blood, and neutralize 1t. So it stays in. This makes the skin "blotchy." sallow and dirty-look- ing, rubs out the clean lustre of the eyes and paints them a sickly saffron and completely alters the expression, which it changes from intelligent to sleepy stupidity-from refreshing wholesomeness to downright unat- tractiveness.
 Insufficient sleep and excessive fatigue are also efficient causes of early old age, wrinkles and lost comeliness. Macbeth had the right idea. Sleeptime is the period of highest activity for the repair and construction departments of the body cells. While we rest they are busy building tissue,> removing waste, and getting the machine properly oiled and cleaned for the next days run.
 Eight hours is none too much sleep. If very nervous or debi1itated and remember that anything de- bilitating is bad for good 1ooks-take an extra dose of one or two hours.
 As a wrinkle-eradfcator sleep-in combination with little pure cold cream or. other "skin food" at night, and a cold water splash" or a chunk" of ice rubed over the face after the morning bath-is an in- stitution worth Dragging about. Mem tai stress and worry also play im- portant roles in making plump and pleasing features plain and severe. There is nothing-unless it might be living on an alkaH desert-that wrinkles the skin, thins' the features and tires the eyes like worry. So, as first-aid to alabaster smoothness Of front, don't worry.
 The relation of baths to beauty is self-evident. None can lay claim to the apple of Venus whose pores are clogged with, sebacious secretion and blackheads, and whose hair and scalp are dry, dusty and dirty. Therefore, soap, water, a hair-brusn, ana elbow grease beat any gifts of fairy god- mother for promoting pulchritude.
 And the same applies-only more so-to teeth. No man or woman can truly claim to be clean-let alone wholesome and handsome-who stays away from the dentist longer than six months at time, or who allows more than ten hours to elapse between toeth-brushings.
 And, for the love of Juno and Aphrodite, never get fat. If you have courage and chin-ful determination this is quite unnecessary.
 This interdiction also applies to anger, or stress of emotion. Emotion can etch more wrinkles into a noble