TAKE A RAIN BATH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8538, 11 April 1891, Page 2 (Supplement)

TAKE A RAIN BATH.

One of the best ways of refreshing the complexion i 3 to expose it freely to the rain. A Hong walk, with the soft rain playing in one's face, is a thorough beautifier, which umbrellas have robbed us of long enough. Equipped in waterproof cloak and cap of storm serge, leaving the face quite bare, one should walk hours at least to got the full benefit of bhe rain. Nob only the rain but the vapour-laden air soaks tho tissues, washing the skin more thoroughly than a Turkish bath, filling out tho shrunken skin, parched by house heat, and obliterating fine wrinkles. Sleep and walking in the rain are two great aids to beauty which preserved the charms of Diana of Poitirs, who never allowed weather bo keep her indoors, and who never lost an umbrella because she never had one. Spraying the face with water from an atomiser every night for fifteen minutes will soften the complexion withering by indoor dryness. Ib is a fact bhab within a month after the steam is turned on, or the furnace going, fine lines and wrinkles begin to show in faces which the coast, fogs had sont borne fair and fresh. The furnace is best if the air supply is pure and not taken from the cellar, and the water-pan is kept full. Bub steam pipes are the unkindesb bhing bo women's faces known. The only way to endure them (s to keep a pan of water or web bowels evaporating constantly on the register.