Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-28


Miss il in youth, and twill come when we're
older,
And fit us as close as the garments we wear.
Sorrow comes into our lives uninvited,
Robbing our heart of lis treasure of song:
Lovers grow cold and our friendships are
sighted,
Yet somehow or other we worry along.
Everyday toll is an everyday blessing.
Though Povertys cottage and crust we may
shore;
Weak is the back on which burdens are press
But Stout is the heart that is strengthened by
prayer.
Just when we mourn there is none to beiriend;
Hope in the heart makes the burden seem
Aud somehow or other we get to the end.
Some of the wisest and best women who
have ever graced this weary world by
their presence, held it bounden duty to
keep themselves looking, at least, as well
as nature intended; and many of them
went even farther than that, if not gener-
ously lowered with beauty at their birth,
and improved upon nature by every
means in their power. The stately danes
of We oiden time-our great-grandmothers
and their grandmothers-dld not disdain
artificial aids by which to enhance their
good looks. Those respected ladies had
their books on cosmetics and receipts for
preserving the hair or changing its color,
their pomades and powders and rouges
and beauty-baths and patent extenders for
the human form divine, and compressors
for another part in the way of stays. The
more refined and high-born they were the
more attention they seem to have paid to
their personal charms; and each genera
tion of beauties wrote in the family book a
detailed account of all that had tended
to increase her loyeliness, with minute
those aids which she had tested and found
worthy of imitation, SO that the coming
beauties of her family might profit by her
experiment and perhaps improve upon it.
1t is said that Cleopatra herself wrote a
book on the arts of the toilet, and many
more modern celebrities have done this
same thing. 1t is also asserted-but |
cannot say with how much truth-that in
Cleopatra's palmiest days the red-haired
goddess was as desperately bothered with
freckles as any country lassie of the pres
ent With the same ability to cope with
the most dire emergency which she after
wards displayed by shufiiing off the ''mor-
tai coil" at the proper time. She set her
great mind to work to find sovereign
remedy. She found it in what has been
called "Virginal Milk" which may be
male in this way: To one quart of rose
water add, drop by drop, one ounce of
tincture of benzoin, stirring it constantly.
Probably they had not precisely those
preparations in that early day, but some
thing of the same nature, upon which the
modern equivalents are an improvement. To
use the "Virginal Milk" put Just enough
of it into your hand-basin to turn te,id
water TO the color of skim milk, and then
wash the face, hands and neck with it
thoroughly, afterwards drying them with
a soft towel
By the way, it is great mistake TO i'm
agine that rubbing the face with harsh
cloths or sponges or using any sort of fric-
tion upon it is necessary to keep the skin
clean and its infinitessimal pores free from
dust, or "black heads" or to alleviate
wrinkles, as some have said Ones face
must be dirty indeed to need any such
heroic treatment, and sensitive skin is
sure to be injured, not benefited, thereby.
Should you try Cleopatras remedy, don't
make the mistake that an acquaintance of
mine did. She wrote the prescription and
sent it to well-known druggist, but
whether her chirography was at fault, or
the man of pills did not see straight that
day-benzine was substituted for benzoin,
with most disastrous results
At this season of the year persons who
are troubled with freckles are hunting
high and low for things to prevent or
eradicate those pests. 1t is no alleviation
to ones misery to be told that those
auty-killers attack only the most deli
cate skins, and that men believe the most
lovable girls are those who freckle-even
the consultations of religion fail to console
when ones countenance is covered with
brown patches that look like small buck
wheat cakes.
The very best remedy for freckles is,
first, TO take as good care of the skin as
you can, consistently with "a good time
(the latter being of decidedly more i'm
portance)-that Is, to wear wells when
possible and hats that shade the face, so
that when boating, fishing, picnicing, ETC.,
the sun will not smile too ferventlv upon
YOU and then to use the virginia. milk
above mentioned.
A good thing for skins that are inclined
to be rough and dry is a warm bath, into
which an ounce of pure glycerine has been
poured, taken once or twice week. OF
course the bath in question means for the
whole body, and that amount of glycerine
is sufficient for several gallons of water.
have never tried it myself, but am sol
emnly assured by those who have that a
few such baths are warranted to make a
skin like buckram soft and smooth as a
baby's. But don't try it on the face, unless
YOU mean to retire from the world for a
time, or to go all summer as closely veiled
as the Sultana-because the glycerine
opens the pores and softens the skin TO
such a marvellous extent that every va
grant zephyr or shot of a sunbeam will
leave its brown stain upon you, and pre-
pare the way for numberless freckles and
wrinkles.
The best thing for the face, hands and
neck in summertime, to give tone to the
complexion and make it resist outside in
fluences, as we'll as to keep it soft and
white. is to bathe them in tepid water, to
which has been added a little common
vinegar. This remedy, which should be
used about once in two or three days, is
mentioned in the oldest toilet books, and
was in great favor away back in the time
of the Stuarts.
For the summer GIRL" and her equally
unoccupied mamma, who are sitting on
verandas and lawns and swinging in ham
mocks, these long, bright days, there is
plenty of occupation more pleasant and
profitable than eternal novel-readiDg, that
may properly come under the head of
PIcK-UFs FOR LEISURE HOURS.
Since the button-craze has so burdened
our maids and matrons, no end of congo
nial occupation may be found in painting
or otherwise decorating those costly ap-
pendages to the toilet To those who are
artists, even in small way, the big, plain
white buttons of common porcelain pre-
sent unlimited possibilities of the most in
yiting character. Tint the ground of them
50 correspond with that of the gown they
are going on, and then put upon it the
figure of the design in the goods, as nearly
as you can copy it. For example: Sup
pose your aesthetic tea-gown is old-rose or
faded-blue in color, with leaf or spray of
flowers, or scroll-patterns upon it, you see
how easy it would be to duplicate the de-
sign upon the buttons.
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