MILK AND CLIVE OIL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8235, 13 September 1906, Page 3

MILK AND CLIVE OIL.

"Ever since the days of Nero, and the exquisite Poppaea," writes a woman journalist,* "women have been aware of the beautifying qualities of milk, but it is a cheap cure, and therefore not fashionable. Professor Methoiukoff, of Paris, was convinced that a diet, of milk—slightly sour —would suessfully combat the attacks of old' ago, but his words never carried much weight; now the simple cure is again attract ing general attention because of the extrordinarycase of Mrs Pay,of New York, woo died the advauoed age of 105, aud whoso tody—at the tirae of hei death—was well preserved as that of an ordinary woman of thirty I For over foity years Mrs Fay had lived entirly on bread and milk. "It would be difficult to induce the fashionable woman of to-day to live entirely on bread and milk, but it is rot possible to express in words the good qnnlities— from the beauty point of view—that are era braced iu milk. Almost every noman oould afford to bathe or face and nock iu milk, night and morning. First o!' nil, the ( fnno Ehould be carefully cleaned with some pieces ofgwaddiug soaked in a mixture of clive oil aud oogmic, or olive oil and eau do (Cologne, and then when the skin has been dried the milk bath applied. bet too milk nry on the face and thou rub over thin aliuas of raw potato or cucumber. Driuk a large glass of hot water before going to bud, and another tirat thing in the uioriiing. When possible, eat at least one orange before breakfast, and (iuriug the ouy drink many glasses of pure milk. A little meat, plenty of salad an'* no wine, no tea, no cakes. A simple 'beauty oure, j and one worth remembering. "While on the subject of 'curee,' let uj6 bog of my readers who have arrived—or are arriving—at the much talked-of age' not to eglect the regular use of olive oil: It helps in a wonderful way to preserve the soft; outlines of chin and throat and if pure—it is pure! People advocate 'pure glyoerine,' but this stick stuff is absolutely ruinous to the skin, on the other hand, olive oil, though extremely inexpensive, is.most beneficial, it need hardly bejsaid that any remedy must be used regularly and continued for a 'length of time if good results are to be looked for. Sometimes women find that even plain milk seems to i barn the face at first, but it must be continued, and in a short time good effects will be perceived.'