Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1916 — Making the Home Comfy [ARTICLE]

Making the Home Comfy

Beauty and Habit. It Is impossible to be beautiful without being healthy. Health is the foundation of beauty. If one wants to be really beautiful the beauty must be more than skin deep. The trouble with most people is that they are quite satisfied with a beauty that is superficial enough to deceive the onlooker. Beauty includes vigor and efficiency.* To be really beautiful one must have, not only a beautiful face, but beautiful hands as well; not simply a good complexion for the face, but a good complexion all over. Not infrequently a person’s body is covered with pimples. With such blemishes on the face one would feel very badly, but so long as they are out of sight, they are not regarded. However, they mean that the whole body is in a state of uncleanliness, and of low resistance because of this uncleanliness. The only way to he really beautiful is to live beautifully, to live rightly. That means to live naturally. For example, if one is aiming to be beautiful, one must eat beautiful things, -because our bodies are made of what we eat. If one eats corpses, how can one expect to be beautiful? But if one eats the beautiful fruits and nuts that are hung from the trees, inviting us to reach up and partake—if one eats these and other natural foods that nature has prepared for us, that are all pure and sweet and good and clean, then one may have normal, clean blood, and the result of good, clean blood will be a clear skin and a good complexion. A lady once asked the writer what was good for her complexion, and we told her oatmeal. She said, “Do you mean rub it on?” “Yes, we said, “rub it on, and rub it in—swallow it.”—J. H. Kellogg, M. D., in Good Health.