Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-29
HOW TOBE A BEAUTY.
Shirley Dare Gives Good Advice to
Her Many Correspondents.
BEAUTIFYING VALUE OF BATHS.
What to Do for Paleness and Pimples and
Loss of Hair.
SOME REMEDIES FOR CoRPULENcE
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH,

country has accumulated upon my desk, and
l will now endeavor to answer the more
pressing queries asked on the subject of pre-
serving and restoring beauty.
Q. W.-You say you are water cure people, to
whom sitz baths, douches. etc., are everyday
! words; but with all these your skin is greasy,
and piece of butter eaten on your bread to-
DAY will give the oily look tomorrow, and, of
course blackheads. Baths alone will not take
| the place Of diet, and both together sometimes
have hard work to undo the neglect of former
| generations. The need of acids is clearly indi.
Gated in your case. A large lemon to goblet
OF water makes drink of proper strength to
be taken three or four times day. alternating
with new tart cider, grape juice and fruit juices
as you can get them. In ordinary diet, people
do not study variety enough. 1t is little good
to force the same thing on the tired appetite Of
system ready for fresh material to work with.
Ihe mineral acids, sulphuric, hydrochloric or
nitric. few drops in goblet of water, Just to
acldulate pleasantly, are also of value, and the
saline aperients, Rochelle EPSON and Carlsbad
salts, provided coarse food is used to
complete their effect You are quite right
bing'' the face. Instead bathe it with weak
alcohol, or soft soap and hot water. Druggists
sell a fine soft soap for the purpose or you may
dissolve CASTLE soap in alcohol and use that
! For "lazy liver" take taraxacum and exercise;
also eat freely of tomatoes in any shape The
toilet preparations you ask about are harmless
ana desirable; but you want the moth and
Ireckle lotion, not the cream. 1 find it very
nice Tor keeping the face smooth and free from
sunburn or irritation, as well as
| FREoKLEs AND TAN.
The second make 1 know nothing about.
Masks have no purifying effect on the skin, but
only protect it. Tie up cut finger and the
skin under the linen becomes soft simply by be-
| ing kept from the air and dust, which irritate
1t; draw the blood to lrritated points, where it
| sets up Inflammation, and pimples result or in
| sluggish anBmic states the oily secretion sep.
arates In undue quantity. 1 hope to find still
more convenient toilet appliance than the
mask, which, however, is excellent for erasing
wrinkles and tan. Glycerine is worse than use.
| less in cases of oily skin.
MONA A.-The hives certainly do not arise
| from pure blood. Take salts or seidlitz pow
ders daily, using coarse food and battle nightly,
changing all the clothes worn by day. To re-
| lleye the irritation, as often as it comes on
sponge with tepd water, with one teaspoonful
common carbolic acid to the quart. Acid
varies in strength, SO if this smarts on the skin
dilute still more. till it is agreeable, Sponge
| TILL the irritation passes away.
IOWA CooUETTE.-H you are pale and pim-
pies come ON your face yoS must improve your
haDIts, bathe oftener and put coarse bread
| beauty bread-and wheaton grits on your daily
bill Using these constantly. you need never
have pimple. To Danish those which are al
ready out, take compound icorice powder
three nights and seidlitz powder mornings.
Bathe or rather scrub yourself with hot water
and plenty of soap. Open the pimples with a
needle, and touch them with camphor spirit a
dozen times day. 1t IS good plan to wet an
old kerchiet in camphor and keep it on the
face when lying down to rest. The camphor
should be weak, as domestic camphor usu.
allyis.
AN ADMIRER-Can hardly improve her nose
if it has the tiptilted shape drawn in the letter.
very wise idea, by the way. Nor does she
need to trouble about it, for wide, good
humored pug noses really give attraction to q
face by the sagacity. humor and friendliness
they impart. With open, shady eyes, decent
complexion and firm mouth, your nose will do
very well, and very charming women have had
no better noses. Five years more will probably
work improvements naturally, in features and
size. The person you ask about is hardly small
5teet inches in height, 120 pounds in weight
and gets round pretty briskly. Face variable
sometimes very gay, very sad. quiet or imperi.
GUS. hair a sort OF amber, SO people say who
have seen her.
AN AID TO BEAUTY.
M. R.-Cocoa oil, or still better, cocoa
butter or almond oil rubbed on the face will
nourish the skin and leave the cheeks fuller.
But really to make the face plumper, the phys
ical developers say, nothing assists more than
to chew gum, or India rubber in which children
delight. The exercise of the facial muscles in
this way half an hour daily will give fullness to
cheeks and Ihroats. Chew with the mouth
shut working tho jaws pretty strongly. 1t is
needless to say this exercise should be strictly
private. 2 There are several harmless hair
dyes. 8. No better specific for the growth of
the hair can be mentioned than brushing. so
strokes at morning and at night, with oil of
lavender applied toward the close OF the late
brushing. 4. The same lotion cannot remove
discolorations of the skin. and prevent wrin-
kles, but separate lotions effect these objects
McD.-The yellowish or sulphur colored
blotches on the face are disorder called chlo-
asma, not unusual in those who have had
nervous shock 1t differs from the"liver spots"
Try lotion, one to five grains corrosive subli-
mate to the ounce of alcohol, applied with an
old linen cloth, wet, ,-and left on the spots five
minutes at time, three times daily. Begin
with one grain of sublimate in the lotion; in a
week add another, and so on till it slightly irr-
tates the skin. Use the taraxacum fortnight
and then take the well-known tonic prepara-
ton of iron, quinine and strychnla or use grape
juice to restore tone to the nerves.
A MARTYR.-You are very foolish never to |
have tried remedies for the loss of hair as it |
can always be arrested If taken in time. Strict |
cleanliness Of the scalp, first of ALL is neces- |
sary, washing with CASTLE soap and warm water |
at least weekly, and drying by holding the head |
In strong sunlight, or by the fire, so that the |
heat reddens the skin. This, in your case.
when the few sparse hairs left come out when
night apply oil of lavender pretty freely, or |
lime juice and glycerine which is one-half pint |
of good sweet oil and six fluid ounces of lime |
water shaken together in a bottle till they are |
a creamy dressing. Or try half q pipt of sweet |
oil with half as much common ammonia water |
Apply teaspoonful of either dressing at night |
first heating the scalp, steaming it is good. |
Then wear nightcap of thin flannel to keep |
the oil from evaporating. AS the loss of hair |
attends poor nervous condition, every care |
should be given to restore strength, especially |
by hypophosphites or phosphates.
RESTORING GRAY HAIR.
v. A. 1.-The best remedy for premature |
gray hair is a change of habits and thorough |
restoration of general health. At the same |
time use the hair brush freely night and morn
ing, exposing the head to the sun daily an |
hour or more. Try this for year. If the |
hair does not improve, then use vegetable
tinctures for coloTing it. 2. Turkish baths |
ought to do a great deal toward removing
blackheaus. 3. The best diet for thin persons |
is cracked wheat, juicy meats, starchy vegeta- |
bles. like potatoes artichokes rice and corn;
sweets, If they do not turn acid after eating,
and especially rich Salads chocolate, cocoa |
and bread of unbolted flour. A. The least in |
furious face powder is that Of rice, very finely
ground and sifted.
NJ. l. MI do not know anything of the |
physician you mention. AS rule the feeling |
Is against doctors who advertise beyond their
names and addresses. There is a training |
school for professional nurses connected with |
Bellevue Hospital Are taraxacum and man. !
drake to be in equal proportions?n Good |
heavens, mol The dose would be deadly. One |
tablespoonful extract of mandrake to pint of |
fluid extract of taraxacum is plenty. Mix in |
the bottle.
AWEsTERN GIRL.-The metallic hair brushes |
are very good, If the hair is thoroughly combed |
and free from snarls before brushing. stiff, |
military brush OF unbleache6 bristles or an |
English brush, with bristIes nearly two inches |
ha xxy,ld |
many varieties, and the sweeter ones are as
good as any common kind for making pure
blood. The port wine grape is the best kind |
for grape juice. 8 A pale girl with light blue
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