HOW I BECAME BEAUTIFUL. (Answere.)

Otago Witness, Issue 2211, 16 July 1896, Page 44

HOW I BECAME BEAUTIFUL. (Answere.)

$0 ll.— All About- My. Pbach-like Complexion. Last week I gave my experience of how I ! learned the secret by t which every woman may Require a beautiful — or, at any rate, a pretty-r-head of hair without ' having recourse to anything like expensive hah dyeß or washes. The treatment answered so well in my own ca^e that I grew more ambitious. My complexion, I felt, wasn't all that it ought to be. Was it possible, I pondered, to alter it— train it, so to speak, into better ways as I did my hair ? The result of my ponderlngs you shall see for yourself. A oelebrated French beauty, whose dazzlingly exquisite oomplexion was the envy and wonder of all who beheld it, guarded the secret of its source with' the utmost jealousy, cor could anyone discover how she produced it. When, at last, she lay upon her death* bed, she was prevailed upon to give up her recipe. " Rain water," she murmured. That was all.

The lady who told me this anecdote is one of the most famous oomplexion doctori in London— l may say, indeed, in the world. She it is to whom many a great personage is Indebted for the lilies and roses of her face. sfet she is an infallible believer in the limplest of c£iplexion remedies, and treats' illl her cases by the light of common sense. " I often try," she said, when I sought her counsel, " to persuade the great ladies who come to me to give up the artificial lives

they lead, and gather roses for themselves by

leading simple ones. 'Unfortunately, how1 «ver, they pertiat in ruining thsir complexions, and then flj to paint and powder to bide the shortcomings that result. Yes, I grieve to say both paint and powder are enormously used, even"by young girls in their pxil i eason. It is the saddest pity, and leads jto no end of complexion troubles, I assure yon. " Warm water, and plenty of it, used often —but no soap, for in nine cases out of ten the tender gkjc of ft woman wnnofi fesar. {t-~

is my favourite prescription for the improvement of the complexion. Just before going to bed is the time at which a good wash is most needed.

"When water is soft (rain-water is splendid) it is quite sufficient to use it alone, bub when it iB hard a very generous pinch or two of fine oatmeal mixed in the basin has a most delightful and healthy effeot. Then must follow hard friction with a towel until the skin'glowe, and massage with the finger tips — an excellent preventive and oure of wrinkles."

11 Ah, wrinkleß 1 " I myraiured. " With me that is, indeed, an interesting subject-." "How frightened all you girls are of wrinkles I!>I !> laughed my teacher. ."Da you know, I rather like a few ; but I will tell you how I treat them.

" I find that wrinkles are the result either of pulling fa.oßo or lack of nourishment. You may staie, but' I know what I am taking about. Some girls are in ' the habit of constantly pursing their mouths, frowning, and raising their eyebrows. These are the girls who wrinkle early, and then can't understand why they look so old. Others wrinkle because they will not nourish their skins— they have such a horror of becoming far. Some have come to me and confessed that they bave taken vinegar by the quait merely to thin themselves — a fatal policy, believe me, for tonics, fattening foods, and' daily massage with cpld cream are the -best things for the complexion. Cold cream is a splendid skinfood. >■ It should not be used by those who have aaturally greasy skins nor incline towards hair on the face, however. How do I masssge ? Simply by kneading the skin with the finger tips, so as to revive and freshen it. You can easily do it yourself— simply rnovo across what you are pleasad to call your wrinkle?, not with (hem. That intensifies the lines; the other movement eraces them." At this most Interesting moment we were interrupted. An important client— l daren't say how exalted in rank— had arrived. '• Oome^agsirj, and I will tell you some more," said this fairy godmother of fair faces aa I took my departure. I determined to do 80. '

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THE LEAP-YEAR BALL AT EDENDALE.

Dear Emmeline.—l am the Otakou 'Wallflower" who sent you an account of a leap-year ball held at the Maori Kaik Hall on Juno 19, and which duly appeared in the Witness of June 25. You cm imagine I was ratlur surprised when looking at the Ladies' Pnge of the last issue (July 9), uDdsr the heading of " Leap-year Ball at Edendale," and after a description of the dresses worn by the ladie3 at that entertainment I find almost word for word uiy account repeated. Now, lam not the Ed-ndale " Wallflower."— in. fact, lam not quite sure svhere Edendale is situated. They must be something out of the ,commot>, and far ahead of poor little Otnkou, when they manage 60 c up!e for th° grand march. Does it not seem a strange cosneidei«C3 that it should be whispered that tbp Hdandole gentleman left at the early hour of'l am., as that was the, exact h'ourtha Otakou gentleman left oa a previous occasion, aid it seems it was for the same purpose they left the scene? And is it not storage that the Edcodalo man kept close to his fellows, ths same as his Otakou dmble, and also for the pame reason also, it was agreed to leavj the E leudale M.C 'a Alone fur the sJimeparpdfce as the poor Eolitary O'akou M.C. was left for. There nwit oe a strong bond of.affi aity between the Edendale men and those of Otakou, as it appears they act so much alike at a leap"year ball. N0w,. 1 am only a poor, plnin Wallflower, but I should certainly advive the Edendale Wallflower the next time he or bhe, as the case may be, wants to report a danca or entertainment in that locality either to copy some of the accounts in some of the odor copies of the Witness or send to me and I will try to ffive him or her something a bit original, aud not such a glaring piece of copy as the piece mentioned.— l " Otakou Wallflower.

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