RAIN A GREAT BEAUTIFIER

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 356, 5 March 1903, Page 3

RAIN A GREAT BEAUTIFIER

tttt Kuffllfria Womw'i Heclpe for *»• Complexion and Her Reasons for Gfvlmg It. ffhe English woman in the Jersey BUburb kicked off her rubbers-, threw aside her rain cloak and felt walking hat and entered with her face bright and glowing, says the New York Sun. "Gracious!" gasped her friend. "Aren't you drowned Why didn't you have an umbrella?" "More mist than rain," responded the English woman, mopping her face with a man's handkerchief. "Besides, I don't carry an umbrella on this sort of trip. I've been taking the complexion cure, I always do, every spring." "Complexion cure?** echoed 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 also free. Anybody eon take it for nothirg, but I'll guarantee that it's just as good as those you pay dollars and dollars for in New York. "The materials are one nice, drizzly 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 golf skirt and a oomfortable rain cloak, and a hat that won't wilt. "Take one hour for it anyway, two if you have good legs, and walk—just walk. It's simplicity itself. You may knead your face and rub it with a towel before and afterward if you like, but the chief things are the rain aim the walking. I present you with the recipe and if you'll try it and keep It up X guarantee its success." "It sounds well," said the friend, "but how about taking cold?" "Bosh!" responded the Englishwoman. "Follow my directions and don't stand around and 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 arid clear complexions, and you spend most of every 24 hours for six months in the year in rooms heated by hot air and wonder why you don't have a complexion like Bridget's. "When you go out you ride in a heated car. You have hot biscuits and ice water for breakfast, drink more ice water throughout the day, yet when you go out you are ever so careful that a little good, wholesome rain water doesn't touch your fae*. "In summer it's a little better, but the air is. d t-ied for you then. Now 100 k at the diiYerence in the life cf Kate and Mary and Bridget in their nuii e heath. In the first place the air is nearly always moist and cool, and i: 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 take a 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 off the heat from your bedrooms except when it is really very cold, and walk out when it's ircod and damp and healthful, and let ihe 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."

Money Wot the Only Thing, Money is not the only thing that is worth saving in this world, nor is it the best thing. If both men and Women would only realize this before it is too late. But the knowledge is always tardy in its arrival; they have gained the one thing at the expense of another quite as valuable, and with the price which they have paid they have lost the capacity of enjoying what they have gained. A little stopping once in awhile to think and to take account of one's mental, physical and nerve stock will very soon set things to rights, especially if the women will be sensible, think in the right direction, and be governed by those thoughts when they have fully formulated them; and, above all, if they will dare to be independent of the opinions of other women, who, like themselves, are held down by tradition, and do the right and sensible way,, even if it is diametrically opposed to "the old way." Why do we live if not to learn?—Sallie Joy White, in Woman's Home Companion. Conoevntaar Petticoat*. Tall women who wish to lessen their height should ohoose petticoats flounced with a darker color than their dresses —or, if that cannot bo arranged, then the same tone of col* or as the dress should be chosen, or fl? contrasting color, but one that is not lighter in tone. A short woman, on the contrary, should always contrive to have her skirt end with a light color, as that catches the eye and) gives an appearance of height.--Brooklyn Eagle. • '.wLiiJ Faranlpa Stewed in Milk. " M Cut cold boiled parsnips in slices lengthwise, put into milk with a little butter, pepper and salt, and stew a few minutes; then thicken with a little flour rubbed smoothly in a little water or milk. This dish to many minds is superior to oyster plant with white sauce.—Ladies' .World, tterr. York.. - . .... . .*•■ >