Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-09
HOW TO BE A BEAUTY.
Shirley Dare Tells Why Women Want
to be Good Looking.
REMOVING SPOTS ON THE FACE.
What to Do for Red Noses, Flushed Faces
and Shiny Compilations.
ANSWERS FOR ANXIOUS 1NoUIBERs.
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH

WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATCH.!
This letter must be given up to cosmetics,
or editors will have to answer the 400 in
quiring correspondents themselves. Next
to money making, or making living, people
seemed to be concerned about their looks,
and it is quite reasonable, for on personal
attractiveness, in physique and manner, de-
pends most that makes life worth living.
So much hinges on personal favor, among
men and women, that it must redeem the
office of the cosmetic and hygienic adviser,
from the mere pander to the vanity to that
OF the con6dante who must minister to
soul and body, to put people in right rela-
tions with themselves.
There is half divine pleasure in this
impersonal service to those whose names are
often unknown, to feel that in removing o
blemish, or improving dull appearance,
one is giving confidence to sensitive, shy
people, and banishing the smart of unde-
served inferiority. Some of these letters
touch one deeply, from the motherless girls
who have nobody to advise them; the lads
away from home, anxious as girls to have a
good complexion, and justly so, the young
wives who tell a whole story in the line, ''I
am afraid my husband does not love me as
he did when I was better looking" and the
women of 40 who still work to look we'll for
their husbands and their big boys. Will
correspondents in all cases send an address
at which replies can reach them, in no case
for publication.
A SALLow SKIN.
fnafAarBJ a. L.
low skin and sulphur-colored blotches on
the face, for which she "doctored" with
so little success as to discourage Her till she
tried the taraxacum treatment The small
spots have left her face, the complexion is
daily becoming clearer, and she says 81 am
not ashamed to have anybody look at me.
Still one spot on the forehead does not re.
move, and grows darker instead of lighter
have no mother, ana am the only girl, so
that have nobody but doctor to go to for
advice. All the doctors say it is nothing,
and tell me to never mind it. But do"
wish Bother" had sent her address, for one
can't help having a kind corner in ones
heart for the girl who has no mother, and
only doctor to go to for advice, who tells
her blemish of such fragrant sort is moth
ing. A future of love and success has been
lost for such mere nothing before this. In
such case baths, friction daily, especially
over the right side, where the liver is, and
careful diet, with coarse bread, cereals and
much fruit juice should form part of the
treatment, and two or three doses of COM
pound icorice powder be taken successive
nights, This is well known at most drug
stores, and costs something like 10 cents an
ounce. The spot may be rubbed at night
with this paste: Elder-fower ointment, one
ounce, mixed with sulphate of zinc, 20
grains. Take care not to let it touch the
skin beyond the spot. At morning wash it
with CASTLE soap and soft warm water, and
battle five minutes with a lotion of citric
acid and 80 grains in one-half pint fusion of
roses. This should dispel the spot in fort
night.
FACE WASHES.
Formulas for Magnolia Balm and other
face washes containing chalk and bismuth
will not be given in these letters.
"Hattie S." To make hair grow on q
high forehead, try rubbing the skin with
flannel till red. and applying another flannel
wet with oil of lavender over night. bind
ing it on by tape round the head. A years
trial is not too much time for the expert
ment. Or, apply high test kerosene, with
out rubbing the skin, repeating the applica-
tion nightly and letting it evaporate at will.
To all inquiries about the toilet mask, and
their name is legion, it must be said that
the use of any mask proves less advisable
than other toilet preparations, which i'm
prove the complexion more quickly and
For this and other reasons, 1
advise the use of lotion which dries into
protective layer on the face, that will not
wash off: The lotion is perfectly safe, and
refines the skin more rapidly than anything
The ,1rioa ie G1 a hnff1o ss
a paint or powder in any shape, and does
not disfgure the face in its effect But it
should be distinctly understood that no
lotion or mask, medicated or not, will ever
refine the skin, unless care is given to diet
and health. Women seem to think toilet
mask will prove all that is necessary to in
sure good complexion, which is a great
mistake.
Constant Reader" finds her neck turn
ing brownish yellow where the collar of her
dresses rub it. and ammonia will not remove
the stain. For such discolorations apply
powdered borax wet with very little cam
phor, letting the paste dry on the skin for
10 minutes, then washing of. Repeated
daily this will bleach the skin, provided
thin lawn is worn between the neck and the
dress collar. The dye of the material has
possibly stained the skin.
A DANGER SIGNAL,
"Ninon." Rel noses seem to be the
aff1iction of many persons who take great
care of their health. A nose always reddish
at the sides and swelling and growing
red at the first touch of cold is
truly a humiliation, and when it comes
without use of malt or spurious liquors, in
spite of the closest personal care, it is the
sign of deep-seated internal disorders.
Unsuspected disease of the intestines, in
fammation which gives little discomfort,
signal their lurking danger by this persist
ent redness of the nose. At once lay aside
the use of white bread and pastry forever,
making whole wheat meal bread, and
grits and staples of diet. without
meat or other acceptable food.
But the use of bolted fine -four is response
BILE for most of the brain exhaustion and
the worst infammatory disorders of modern
civilized life. The experience of the wisest
physicians confirm this, and nothing can be
said too strongly against this waste of vital
ity and stinting the most necessary food of
the system.
A woman with a red nose should wear q
wet bandage about the hips, and take tepid
sitz baths daily, to relieve internal inham-
nation, treatment which of itself is
enough to cure many abdominal diseases
the degrading and painful practice
common in such cases. Laxatives like COM
pound licorice powder, figs and senna or
castor oil should be used freely, beginning
with dose nightly for three nights, then
one every third night, for fortnight or a
month, as suits the person. This removes
wastes which infame the tis-
sues, and if the habit of using coarse food
has been established meantime, nature will
prevent further trouhle Rut few persons
have any idea of the
STRICT REGIMEN NECESSARY
10 prevent harm when nature has once fallen
into disrepair. Going without coarse bread
a day or two because it does not suit domes-
tic convenience oprovide it, will throw ner-
vous person back into sleeplessness. oppres-