HOW TO PRESERVE TIE COMPLEXION.
HOW TO PRESERVE THE COMPLEXION.

 To the question which has been propo-

 sed to us by some of our female readers " What is the best fluid as an ordinary wash for the face-calculated, while it re- moves impurities from the skin, to preserve unimpaired the freshness of the complex ion ?' We reply without hesitation- simple soap and water--bo.h articles being as pure as can be obtained. We have pointed out, in former number, most of those causes by which the softness, ,transpa- rency, and brilliant color of the skin, are impaired. These being carefully avoided daily ablutions with soap and water will effectualy answer all the purposes for which a long list of cosmetic lotions are in vain resorted to. Our female readers may rest assured that the only beauti6ers of the skin are personal cleanliness-regular ex- ercise---temperance-pure air, and cheerful temper. If any one of these be neglected, the skin and complexion will in- variably suffer.

 It is only by preserving the skin free from all impurities, and thus enabling it to perform, with freedom, its important func- lions, that an external application is at all

 useful. To this end there is nothing so

 we'll adapted as pure water, with the occa- sional addition of soap. They who, from a ridiculous idea that washing frequently with water injures the skin, substitute dis titled liquor, Cologne water, or any other fluid, simple or compound. pursue prac- tice most effectually calculated to destroy it's suppleness, transparency, and smooth ness, and to cover it with unseelnly blotch- es. But it is not merely as a local wash we would enforce upon all the use of pure wa ter. When applied in the form of a bath to the whole surface, at those seasons of the year in which it is resoried to, it is pro- ductiye of the most beneficial efGects-pro- moting the general well-being of the sys- tenn, as well as that healthy condition of the skin, independent of which it can lay no pretentions whatever to beauty. It is a weil-known fact, that those nations by whom bathing is tho most frequently re- sorted to, arc those distinguished, most generally, for elegance of form and fresh- ness of complexion.--JoMr. of Health.