Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1880 — Premature Wrinkles. [ARTICLE]

Premature Wrinkles.

The “youth-giving climate” of California has been so long puffed high as the Sierras that it is queer to find a San Francisco paper lamenting the number of wrinkled sirens in that city. “ Come to California,” said the late banker Ralston to a visitor from the East, “ and you will live twenty years longer. ” The climate may suit men, but it seems women fade under its golden skies rather prematurely. The San Francisco writer ascribes the early wrinkles of its women to the lack of muscular exercise and the consumption of pastry. There is a world of truth in that, for while sedentary habits enervate the general system, pastry causes dyspepsia and loss of adipose tissue. Fat is an enemy of wrinkles. The furrows on the forehead are late coming so long as there is enough fatty tissue to supply waste. Women to be healthy must exercise and eat life-sus-taining food. As for wrinkles at the corners of the eyes, vulgarly called “crow’s feet,” it is enough to say that in many cases they are produced by sleeping on one side or the other. The pressure of the head -on the softest pillow will, in time, leave indelible marks about the eyes. The choice of a beauty then is between occasional nightmare while sleeping on her back, or wrinkles from sleeping on her right and left side.