Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-05-06
Health Talks by DR.. Brady
Young skins md Old Hides.

Remember the honest. unpretentlous old
uuack who used to travel with a cart tai,
minstrel outfit and put a perfo lance Sat
urday night down Mt the corner. when ladies
and gentlemen gents. | mcan). going
down street with their weeks wages? Six
bottles for So. and every bottle warranted
to work miracle. Didn't matter whether
anything allied you--after listening awhile TO
the great Doctors cloQucncc, you managed to
work up enough symptoms to prompt 4 trial
OF tho medicine. II small sum to pay
for what the doctor promised--a mere two
thirds OF your weeks wages. Them were the
happy days" Gone is the good Old honest
out and out bollyhoo quack. Advertising killed
his business. The corner druggist saw the
light which that big-hcartcd. high tied
mountcbank used to draw Il crowd. and now
the corner druggist catches 'em their way
down town with their weeks wages.
one of the six bottle outfits used to drive
all impurities out OF your blood and make
your skin perfect and give you compile xion
like a smiling babys. Gosh how l used TO
wish had S. for that OUTFIT for my n!mplcs!
l coGtatcd a good deal about that, and made
IN my mind that when became doctor I'd
try TO shave the price OF six bottles down
TO figure within the reach OF fellow who
was making only So week. 1t wasn't until
considerably further along in my career that
| found out that tho sx-bottlc cornbina ion
was pure hokum. and the notion of y .rifying
the blood with medicine was merely l easy
way to take money away from ignorant, gull
bio folk Some OF the nobicst impulses are
cNtinEushed by education.
y woman's or girls OF complexion ar
tinces varies indirectly with her Intelligence.
The dumb bell has need for articles! In fact.
the complexion very largely depends and
reflects the womans education; IL her cduca-
ton has been neglected. particularly from
the eyebrows down, her complexion is likely
TO bother her more or less. Barring ordinary
pimplcs (acne), which must he looked upon
as almost physiological aud not a very re-
Erettahls check on tn" vanity Of youth, the
complexion, the appearance beauty the
skim is an index OF the girls uOman's hy-
Gicnc health habits.
From the queries ! receive il is apparcnt
that the average girl without good education
harbors fancy that her skin requires some
thing In the way Of cold or. as she
sometimes calls 1t, vanishing cream An
old hide may need daily oling. but certainly
tho young skin has plenty of natural oil and
sometimes oil to spare. Therefore. 1t is a mis-
take TO use cold cream any other mcdic;t-
ment of that class on young skin. The hest
for the young skin is the open air and a rca-
sonable amount OF sunlight. The best of all
medicines for common. triAing skin annoy
is the air bath. nakcdncss or at any
rate the nearest approach to nakedness Tie
circumstances will permit. Clothing is al
ways bad thing for any skin though some
times necessary for protection against excess
Svc against great cold. Nearly always
q young skin Is only injured by creams or
powders of whatever character The young
skin needs soap and water The Old hide
rcsents soap and water. oil creams for
the old hide. Fresh air for the young skin