Climate for the Complexion

The wonderful climate of the Pacific slope has also contributed no small part toward this physical superiority; for its genial nature favors outdoor life, and the perfume-laden breezes, wafted over its boundless wealth of aromatic herbs and blossoms, are both tonic and sedative to the nerves, while they stimulate the imagination and make every breath a joy. There are regions in the temperate middle coast and the foot-hills of the Sierras which are more favorable to the enjoyment of absolute physical health than any other part of the world. It has been well-named the country for women and roses, for nowhere are they developed in greater beauty and perfection. The women are tall of stature, graceful and lithe, by virtue of the elixir inhaled with every breath in the open; have "cheeks and throats that take no shame beside the roses that they wear, lips that have the true ruby gleam of health and pure blood, and eyes of starry fire." If a nearly perfect climate produces such results, it follows that the temperate zones are more favorable to health and consequently beauty than extremes of either heat or cold. Beauty, however, basks in warmth and genial skies, and can better endure a high temperature than a low one. 

Nothing so disturbs the circulation of woman as prolonged exposure to severe cold. She should never allow her feet or hands to become stingingly cold, and to sit in a cold room till "chilled to the marrow" is to woo sickness and a bad complexion.