The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-23
CURE FOR FRECKLES.
CUCUMBER JUICE AND ORRIS
RoOT VILE KNOCK THEM OUT
EVERY TIME.
Superstitions About July Dates-Cos-
metics Always Pay-A Widower's Mar
riage Ring-Life Is Composed of Conn
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Superstitions About July Dates-Cos-
metics Always Pay-A Widower's Mar
rage Ring-Life Is Composed OF Com
pensations. ItfI
With the season for out-of-doof
sports begins a time of much tr1bula-
ton to the girl who freckles. 1t is
quite the correct thing nowadays for
a girl to acquire a lovely biscuit tint
all over face and hands during the
summer months, and lucky is she
whose skin takes on merely n de-
sired coat of delicate brown; but the
young women who freckle have a de-
eidedly hard time of it. For the COM
fort of these unfortunate maidens are
reproduced here some plans that are
successfully followed in combating
the seasons terror.
Washing the face in acid butter
milk, an old country cosmetic, Is
still in favor, but the juice pressed
from cucumbers is altogether prefera-
BILE, and, though of old repute, IS a
fashionable London preparation. The
juice of milkweed also is a proprietary
lotion for the face, sold by modish cos
netic artists abroad. The home
formula for making it is:-Bruise, and
then squeeze out the juice of milk
weed, and to this juice add three
times the quantity of soft water:
Battle the skin with this night n
morning, and wash afterward with
clean water. Those vegetable lotions
being gummy, protective and deter
sive, refine the skin, and, unlike
spirituous washes, do not bring out
the hair on the cheeks. !,
A favorite lotion consists OF equal
parts of fresh lemon juice, rose water
and rectified spirits. and a little pow
dered borax. The whole is allowed to
stand twenty-four hours, and is
strained through muslin and bottled.
Or you may touch the freckles with
iavelle water, taking care that it does
not touch the eyes, lips, or the inside
of the nose, and after a few minutes
washing off with lemon or vinegar.
This, however, is rather severe treat
ment.
Perhaps the most satisfactory OF all
is the following process, recently re
commended:-When the unhappy
freckler comes home from a long day
on top of a coach or on the deck OF a
yacht, let her battle her face in a basin
of water as hot as she can bear he1
hand in, using a soft, fat sponge, and
it will be no harm if she first dissolves
in this hot water a handful of almond
meal. The face should then be dried
with a soft towel, not rubbed, but
| gently mopped dry, and then lightly
| powdered with a little pulverized orris
root. This will take all the soreness
and Inflammation out of the'skin and
will prevent her little nose from turn
ing a rosy carmine, as might very
probably be the case otherwise. She
may safely go down to dinner this
way, for the freckles will not appear
that evening; it is the first look in the
glass the next morning when she
Jumps out of bed that is so discourag-
ing to the freckler after a day out OF
doors.
To prevent this woe she must carry
with her wherever she goes a little
box of powdered sulphur and a lemon
or two. When she is about to retire
for the night let her wipe off the orris
root powder, put a tablespoonful OF
this sulphur in q saucer, squeeze the
| juice of half a lemon over it, and
spread the thin paste she makes OF
this all over her face and hands; and
let her not go to bed until it is thor
oughly dry. When she wakes in the
morning and washes off what is left
of the paste she will find not a single
spot underneath it; or, if she happen
to be a very obstinate freckler indeed,
they will be so few and light as not tt
cause her any great grief. Exchange