the West is any more beneficial

to the skin; many a sweet-smelling soap has by itself been the cause of exposing a pure skin to all manner of flaws.

It is known that every skin needs a nourishing cream or paste after the age of twenty-five, to guard against light, early wrinkles. But it is a mistake for a lady to rush into using a particular cream merely because a friend has recommended it to her and exag-gerated in describing its benefits! Rather, every lady should take her time before using any paste or any powder on her face, to be sure that its effects are safe and that its ingredients will not produce a bad reaction..

To remove wrinkles, madam, rub your face twice a day with a

quantity of cold cream, and work the wrinkled areas with your fin-gertips in a light circular motion, moving from below upward and not the reverse — for the skin of the face tends to sag, so let the motion lift it, though not with violence and force. Continue this light massage in this fashion for ten minutes.

There is one piece of advice which, for all its simplicity, is of the greatest practical benefit: to accustom the features of the face to serenity and complete calm, and to shun agitation and scowling, with the movements that accom-pany them, which leave traces on the face that are hard to erase. Let us shun these expressions before the lines take hold and settle in, and getting rid of them becomes impossible.

And to keep a pure skin that resembles the skin of children in freshness and radiance, we must also cleanse the conscience within us of all the poisoned thoughts that leave on the face the ugliest of traces, whatever its beauty. This clean spirit, joined to the love that springs from within, is the best thing to beautify your skin, madam, and to give it a touch of that refined feminine magic which comes to it by no other road. So remember this precious truth, and turn first to your heart: wash it of all the impurities that cling about it, and purge it of the grudges and rancors nesting in its folds — and you will find your spiritual beauty reflected on the page of your face, making it lovelier and more radiant than ever it was...