The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-02-19 00:00:00

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Belgravia. [Matto and Windos, Piccadilly.]
Althow..h styled • London magazine, we fancy there
are but few provincial hones were ably written novels
and learned discursive an.l interesting articles are
relished that are without it. The chief serial tale "By
Proxy,' this month arrives at • point which promises a
tragic 'mot instalment; th.re who hove followed the
thre obi of this rstrao,linitry story can scarcely fall to
Intuitively truer "Some euperstiti ms of the Turks"
must interest now-a-days. "Conduit at the Hammer"
is a lauiliable nsrnition we cortnenti to the attention
of sapirants for literary bays. "Vittoria Colonna"
is the Italian poet dealt with this month; and the
"Return 4 the Native" ha. progressed so far as to
show us the love of a somewhat eccentric young ,
female, ,1 wh..rn the aultor says "in Heaven she
will probably sit between the lisloises and the I
Cieopatras," for a worthier scamp who ha• just '
jilted another woman almost upon the altar steps.
LitVe Folks is slino.t too (taxi for its title. Old
Merry's "Tom Heriot* will he eagerly devoured by
&la who hsve hint emerted from the category .1
Little Folks. It lie pity it cannot find its way into
the hands of those who spend their pocket-money in
" Wild-fire Jack" and the like wretched creations.
"In Mischief Again" should be read to oil 'reC.Ci"nB
youngsters, while the general contents will be found I
to furnish something lor "a time, for all ages."
No two more welcome works reach um than the I
le;sitre Door and the Murky at Monte. They are
replete with the most wholesome literature, This j
month the former is specially interesting, containinf I
papers on "the days of week and their folk lore."
Realistic letters from the Rocky mountains, Mr.
biaskelyne authoritatively and pleasantly discourses on
Natnral Madc Constantinople comes an for • share
of illustrated—attention. and Sun spits, and our Under-
ground wealth, give • iiientific solidity to the rest of
the contents,. The Sunday at loom has • beautifully
tinted frontispeice, and the article relative the Rev.
C. H. Spurgeon, will serve to disabuse the
public mind of many silly and untrue tales about this
eminent divine.
Rome Words [Patermoster Building.] is well adapted
as it professes to be for Parish Libraries.
Camara Doineatic Dictionary has cached as far NI the
"Fs," and the comprehensive nature of its contents,
may be gathered from the fact, that under this initial
letter, it has practical directions for growing, copying,
and moonting ferns, witm a learned dissertation upon
their nature and habits.
The Cottager sad Aruba has an interesting and
Illustrated account of a visit to " Big Ben, —the
loud-tongued wonder of our country omens, up for •
week in the Metropolla
The Child,, Companion.—We could scarcely recom
mend a better companion for the ehild.
The Day of Days contains well written and appro.
primate reading for the Day, which gives to it its title
TA, Triad it,gazine we recommend to Sunday
School Teachers soul Visitors. .

Not the least interesting among the many valuable
papers comprised in this month s @seer, is that of
Sunday Schools a Century ago, being a well written
and engaging paper upon the life of Robert &Likes.
their founder, and at that dine editor of the Mater
Journal. . .

Among the multitudinous works issued by tbat
enterprising firm Cassell's and Co., is the indsiser lea of
&eat ftrilids The first part deals with the iron and
steel trades. It is well illustrated and ought to find
• place on the book half of every artisan.
Panther Wild Flowers (Cassell) this month has
exquisitely tinted Oates of the Harebell and Leiner
Celendine. .

Myra's Journal, a wonderful embodiment of every-
thing interesting of the daughters of Eve, maintains
its deservedly popular reputation.
Cease /I's Faintly Mogarise.—Thia most excellent of
periodicals cannot fail to win gratification from all
cleave. of readers so disversitied are Ps contents. The
illustrations are excellent, the f rontispeice by Small
being • perfect gem in its way. Two serial tales, each
enjoyable, are running and amongst the many papers
we may menti di as specially interesting at the present
moment "Running the Gauntlet of the Dardanelles
1770." May Vice-Admiral Hornsby, get out of his
present difficulty as easily and triumphantly as the
plucky Lieutenant Elphinstone. The author of
Common sense Cookery write some Common sense
remarks *vent "Soups" which we commend to the
concocters of the green and water combinations served
up at public dinner.. The paper on the Telephone
cannot fall to be acceptable to our Monet reader.
seeing so many experiments had been made with the
instrument in the County. Of he other papers—all
good—we must mention that by a Family Doctor whose
peracriptions are always worth reading. This month
he discourses on :

11•111Liee ItIQUISRIS FOR TUX TOILIT.
Now, the first great requisite of the toilet is water, par.
soft, and in plenty. Rain-water is the best b ith for the
skin and the complexion, both foe the hath and the basin-
I have been asked more than once by readere of this
Magazine, if it is safe for ereryone to indulge in • cold
bath every morning. With the exception of the very
delicate, and thaw who are afflicted ,‘ ith heart complaint,
1111).110 may use the matutinal tub with benefit and
safety; and even the delicate may do so if they take it
first with the chill off. and day hy day lower its tempera-
ture till the mercury poinbi to fifty or sixty. It ought to
be remembered, however, that the reaction which follows
a cold bath, is much more pleasant and speedy than that
from • tepid, end more invigorseng too, to ea,' nothing of
the prophybetic effects of the former, against colds and the
hundred ills that cold induces. The kind of soap one uses
for the toilet is a matter of N. i.e moment, for some soaps
denude or otherwise injure the cuticle. I know many
ladies who dare not use glycerine snap even. Good soap
for lath's' use should be white, tolerably hard, and non.
transparent, and most delicately perfumed. Deed soap.
are an abomination, and they are at tenses dangerous es
well. The use of warm water to wash the hands and face,
it may not be amiss to mention, is not to he councelled.
as it tends to relaxation of the capillaries but if warm
water be used at the toilet it ought to be followed up by
cold.
The hair, with most people, is a subject of anxiety
sooner or later. I wish I solid give • recipe for keeping
It on the female bead and off the female lip; to keep it
always Rio-my and bright, and prevent it from turning
grey. I cannot do that, however, but I can remind you
that the date of the health exerts • wonderful inilmence
over the appearance of the hair.
Now, all that is required in order to keep the hair
betutiful. with a healthy person, is occasional washing,
using eggs instead of soap, and the use of • good though
not too hard heir-brush. It Ls not the hair itself that
Is evade of being acted upon by these meant but the
scalp —the soil, so to spank, in which it grows.
The best tooth-powders are the simplest Many people
use nothing but plain carbonate of soda; it is both cleanly
and efficacious. Precipitated chalk, with one-fourth it.
bulk of orris-root and a little camphor, is • safe and simple
tooth-powder. If the gums are at all spongy, or apt to
Need, • portion of borax and of powered myrrh should be
added, and proves of great service. If you trust to your
own chemist to prescribe your tooth-powder, ask him to
give you something that contains neither acid, sepia, nor
pumice-stone, any of which will tend to destroy the
enamel of the teeth. It is • capital plan to make • habit
of using the tooth-brush after every meal.
fiat ammonica, as much as will lie on • florin, mixed
with two pints of warm water and a little toilet vinegar,
makee an excellent bath for the hands when it is wished
to whiten them. It should be used for fully ten minutes
at • time. . . _

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A young lady whom I know suffers severely .Very
SUMMOT with the disease called Epirkrosie !rat.%la
" Dear r I think I hear you exclaim, "does it her
much r No, not touch, madam, for those two terrible,
looking words are preposterously used lip medical mein,
to express that little facial failing which others call
freckles. Nowffreckles all across the bridge of one's nose
may not cause very much bodily anguish. but they are
certainly not ornamental. The heat plan to get rid of
them is washing the face two or three times • day with
carbolic acid lotion, and afterwards using • lotion of tea
grains of hichlorida of mercury to one ounce of NUS'
almond emulsion. Old Calms gives a remedy, which ass,
be worth trying, should mine fail. It Is this: galhanunt
and carbonate of soda rubbed down with vinegar to tb.
coosistenoe of honey. The puts is smeared upon the fair
and allowed to remain on for • few hours, then washed off
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