Evening star., 1937-03-19
AClearSkin
Based On
H e a | t h
Cleanliness, Internal
and External, Is
Necessary.
BY ANGELO PATRI.

ROYS and girls of high school age
are often troubled by the condi-
ton OF their skins Sometimes this
Is so bad that the afflicted young peo-
pie hate to be seen. They are keenly
conscious of the blemiSheS that mar
their beauty. 1t is no little affliction,
this, nor is the suffering it causes
easy to bear. Most of the trouble
could be avoided if the boys and girls
were willing to pay the price for
avoiding 1t. Clear lovely skin lis the
result of health, a health based on
cleanliness internal and external
High school children are usually
in the stage of early adolescence at
the time of great growth, great bodily
activity that accompanies such growth.
This activity burns up energy and
leaves much waste matter of one sort
or another that must be gotten rid
of promptly. If for any reason the
waste is allowed to accumulate within
the body the skin shows it. Its color
Is muddy and its texture is poor
When this happens many of the
young people take medicine, use salves
and ointmentS and powder and paint.
They help hide the state of the skin,
but do very little to aid. Help comes
through health. Health is based on
cleanliness, internal and external, and
1t cannot be bought. 1t can be earned,
and very simply. Good diet, plenty
of sleep, plenty of exercise, daily
baths are certain to make the skin
glow, to assure its color and texture.
Self-indulgence is the sure method of
spelling the skin.
The food one eats has lot to do
with this matter Eating the daily
ration of vegetables and fruit, drink
ing the eight glasses of fresh water,
going lightly on the sweet stuff will
work wonders. Holding strictly to
mealtimes adds to the power of the
recipe. Nibbling spoils the appetite
for the hearty meal that a growing
body requires. One cannot devour two
ice cream cones, three cream puffs,
seven chocolates, one large dill pickle
and few sweet crackers between
morning classes and hope to eat the
nourishing, cleansing luncheon that
is needed. The stomach has to take
what is put in it and do its best,
but the time comes when it is forced
to rebel. Then the whole works are
splotches and the sin of gluttony
must take its Wage-ugliness.
Internal cleanliness cannot be
bought in terms of medicine. Medi-
cine is to be used in emergency and
always under the physicians orders.
Young people should not, normally,
face such emergencies weekly. If they
do, it is clear they are not emergencies,
but the result of poor habits. the self
Indulgence of the weak and the lazy.
The weak cannot say mo" to the
candy store, cannot train themselves
to eat what they need of vegetables
and fruit. The lazy will not take the
trouble to rise early enough in the
morning to bathe and dress and exer-
else properly. They have their re-
ward and hate it.
A few young people need the help
of the skilled physician at this time.
For some reason their skins do not
function properly and have to be
treated. For them, too, the health
regime is necessary. The doctor can
not work miracles. He can only help
and depend upon the patient to help
himself. Cleanliness is the secret,
and it must be earned.
MIR. Patri has prepared a Ieafet en-
titled "Self-Measuring Chart which
teaches child how to examine him.
self and check up on his behavior.
Send for it, addressing your request
to Mr.. Angelo Patri, Child Psychology
Department of this paper. Inclose a
self-addressed, stamped (3-cent) en-
velope.
Copyright, 1877