How to Keep Young.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue I, 5 July 1902, Page 59

How to Keep Young.

It is the woman who never permits herself to be disturbed by strong feelings of any’ kind whom age cannot wither, for i,t is not so much the passage of years that, makes one grow old as the emotions and experiences they bring. Equability of temper, indifference of nature, and repose of manner are the great preservatives of b: auty. Given these, and there is another important one—a freedom from all pecuniary anxieties. Then there is no reason why‘a woman should not retain her youthful charms long after she is a grandmother. If yon wish to look young and unwrinkled, repress all emotions. Whether of love, hate, fear. avarice, terror, anxiety, or ambition. A strong, healthy organisation is the

first essential to youth. We all recog ■line this fact. Mental suffering is wonderfully quick in tracing wrinkles and producing white hair. Some men and women are twenty years younger. ls>th physically and mentally, than otheis oi the same age. We may take it, th.refore. that old age does not begin at anyset time and fixed period. One of the greatest aids to a woman's beauty is a dear, good complexion: amt the best help is proper cleanline.-s. Not only are the pores of the face to b - kept active, but those of the intire person. Avoid hard water as you would a pestilence, as it is fatal to a good skin. VALUE OE THE NIGHTLY FACE BATH. Madame Bernhardt, whose perennial youth is well known, is quoted as saying: "When I am tired 1 take a hot bath and massage. Every night, when 1 am playing as well as when I am at leisure, I take a hot scrub before going to bed. I scrub my face with soap and hot water twice and sometimes three times in the twenty-four hours. There is no beautifier like soap and water, anil no preservative against illness, nerves, ami age that compares with hot water." Face-washing is a fine art. Hard water should not be used. Rain, distilled. or boiled water preserves th ■ sanitary texture of the skin. A pinen of borax may be used in hard water just enough to make it feel slippery-. Lather the face well ami rub it g n tly but thoroughly with the finger-t : ps or a bit of fine flannel, to remove all dust and secretions from the pores. A face-brush is unnecessary, except in ease of rough skin or pimples, when the extra friction is desirable. Rinse the face in somewhat cooler water, and lastly in cold, dashing it repeatedly upon the face to create reaction. Dry thoroughly upon a sift absorbent towel, rubbing alwayi npw.ud and backward, as lines invariably droop. The face is now thoroughly soft.ned and cleansed. It is ready for food and exercise. As with the stomach, the latter comes first, as Paddy would say. The exercise consists of the best form ot massage that you can command. There are mechanical devices for this purpose, which the unskilled can use to advantage. One is a message-roller, with rubber wheels, which gently manipulates the tissues; another is a facial exerciser, or developer. wlrch consist of a small glass vacum cup. to which is attached a rubber bulb. It lifts the facial lines out of their old. ,iet grooves. After the face has been well exercised, and is warm, rosy, and tingling with a ruddy glow, rub in a little good, pure skin-food until thoroughly absorbed. The reflected face in the glass that beams back at you looks unite unlike the pale, tired visage Seen t here one short quarter of an hour before. ■’ • "»