If You Want a Good Complexion.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue II, 12 January 1901, Page 89

If You Want a Good Complexion.

WHAT TO TAKE. I f you w ant to have, a clear, soft skin and a fresh complexion free from imperfection. you must be very careful to select the food that will agree with you and with it. and to follow certain rides of health. Many articles of food are excellent, in their way but do not improve the complexion, so that you should make up your menu from this page if you want to look your best.

Coffee and cocoa are the l>est thine* to drink. Milk is also very good; so is tea it freshly made. Burgundy and light wines, if diluted with water. Brown bread, a day old. Fish is better than meat, and sh»u‘d Im* boiled. Mutton is better than beef. Pmiltry n»rtier thn.ii game. t.reen vegetables, such as caulitl oxer, spinach, seakale, peas, asparagus*. and beans, plainly served. Salad. watercress, and tomatoes. Strawberries and raspberries are good. unless you suffer from nettlerash or eczema. Fruit can Im* eaten, especially before breakfast and at luncheon. Oranges. but these are best to be eaten early in the day. Eggs must be lioiled or poached. Sugar must lie eaten with caution. Honey is good for breakfast. Puddings of sago and rice. Fruit tarts, but avoid the pastry. (Tiecse. if it is fresh and mild. Lemonade, if not too sweet. Gingerbread. but not freshlvbaked. A dose of medicine is needful now ind then. Take aperient waters or sridlitz powders before breakfast. Fresh air; walking and bicycling, but not in the hot sun or in the rain. Early to bed and early to rise. An open bedroom window all night except in severe weather. WHAT TO AVOID. There are many foods to be avoided if you wish to look your best, and retain your good looks till you are old. Ami various rules of health that you must not break if you wish successfully to attain the same object. Strong tea is bad. because it causes a red nose and a flushed face. Spirits, beer, and heavy wines cause redness of skin and a coarse look to the complexion. Pork and bacon make the complexion spotty. New bread and cake, because they cause indigestion. Veal is bad. Tripe is even worse. All made dishes and rich entreemake the skin muddy. Sausages and smoked meats and salt fisli cause spots and indigestion. Ices if you are overheated: they bring on a chill and skin eruptions. Condiments, such as anchovy sauce, mustard, etc., because they disagree and cause blotches on the skin. Vinegar is very bad. Kich cheese ard pastries, because they make the skin rough and muddv and coarse. East winds, because they dry the skin. . Tight lacing. (lose, hot rooms and over-excite-ment. Cold feet, and sitting over a hot fire. Outdoor sports, when indulged in in all weathers, and with «; ver-exertion. Hunting, lircause the skin becomes rough avd hard. The same applies to hockev r.nd cricket.