A GREAT BEAUTIFIER

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXXI, Issue 5, 20 January 1905, Page 2

A GREAT BEAUTIFIER

■Ska Bngllnh Woman* Recipe, for tho ' ' Complexion nnd Her Reason* ■Cor GiVinar It. ~~. " . 4! "1 ■■" The English woman in the Jersey.. A suburb kicked off her rubbers, threw \ aside her rain cloak; and felt walking hat and entered with her face bright and "flowing, says the New York Sun. ' "Gracious!" gasped -her friend. "Aren't you . di-qwhed. Why didn't you have an umbrella?" ,; "More mist than rain,'! responded the English woman, mopping her face with a man'shandkerchief. "Besides, I don't carry an umbrella on this sort of trip. I've been : " taking the complexion cure.. I always do, every spring." . . d "-■--'. "Complexion cure?" eohoed the"' friend. "Is it a new one? Come right in and tell me all about it.*.. If that color you have is permanent I want to take that cure myself. You're a walking* testimonial." "It's the oldest cure in the world, my dear," remarked the English woman, settling* herself to make a speech, "and the simplest. It's alsodfree. Anybod3 r can take it for nothing, but I'll guarantee that it's v just as good as those you pay dollars and dollars for in New York. "The materials are one nice, di-izzly or misty-, day, which nature will provide, one good country road, -of which there are plenty around here, one pair of easy shoes, light rubbers, a goU skirt and a comfortable rain cloak, and a hat that won't wilt. • "Take one hour f op' it anyway, two if .yoxi have good legs, and walk — just . valk. It's simplicity itself . Yqu may cnead your face and rub it -with a toy before and afterward if you like, br the chief things are the rain nnd tl.. walking. I present you with thejrecip*-* and if you'll try it and keep it up 1 T-uarantee ita success." "It sounds " well," Sjaid the friend, "but how about taking cold'?" "Bosh! " responded the Englishwoman. "Follow my directions and don't stand around ahd you won't take cold. On the contrary you'll be all the better for the exercise you've taken. That's part of the cure.' "You see it's as plain as the nose on your face: You American women envy the poor Irish* and Scotch servant girls who come over here their red cheeks and clear complexions, and'you sper^l niost of every 24 hours for six mon 11 in the year in rooms heated by hot n i ;• and wonder why you don't have ac< ■•■■.- . plexion like Bridget's. "When you go out you ride in a heated car. You have hot biscuits and ice water for breakfast, drink mor;> ice water throughout the day, vpt when you go.outybu are ever s6 careful that a little good, wholesome rain water doesn't touch your face. " "In summer it's a little better, but. the air is dried for you then. Now look at the difference in the life of Kate and Mary and Bridg-et in their native 'heath. In the first place the airis nearly always moist and cool, and it rains or is misty— foggy you might call it — two days out of three for nine months in the year. "Kate and Bridget probably worked out doors in the fields. Whether they did or not they weren't slaves to umbrellas, and while you taken car to go three blocks .they would walk three miles and think nothing about it. In .winter in the house -they have an open fire in the kitchen, and the living room, if they have two, and cold bedrooms, so there is no warm, dry air to dry their skin and fade the color in their cheeks. "Of course, you can't alter climatic conditions, but' that isn't necessary. If you'll shut offthe heat from your bedrooms except'wljen it is really yery cold, and walk out when it's good and damp and healthful, and let the rain beat on your face and the moisture soak into your skin, you'll be all the healthier and look all the better for it."