The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-10-04
HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL.
s.BABv GIVES SOME INTERESTING
POINTS TO Ex-SUMMER GIRLS.

your arms, darkened by battling with
the waves, a mixture of two parts o.
Jamaica rum to one of lemon juice
dabble it we'll on the surface, let IL
dry, and wash it off in the morning In
your hot bath. Besides whitening the
skin, which the lemon does, the ruln
gives it q vigor and makes a rosy flush
come to the surface. You will gain no
good from this by doing it for one or
two nights: keep it up for two weeks
at the least. and remember that when
your skin has that depressed, worn
out look that comes from sitting up
too late at might, nothing will invigor-
ate it like a few drops of Jamaica rum
put into the water with which you
wash your face. | say 'twash your
face'-because language is contagious,
nor contagious than the measles
but what | really mean is battle your
face. You want to have a good bowl,
you want to fill it almost to the top,
and you want your face to have the
best sort of a bath, both night and
morning.
Your eyebrows, because they have
not been attended to, are standing up
in a fierce fashion which makes you
look as aggressive as the ideal suff-
ragist; you must smooth them down
every night with a little cold cream,
which will thicken a darken them.
The smoothing may be done with the
fingers or with a soft little brush, but
no stiff bristles must be brought IN
contact with the sensitive part OF the
face. If you haven't eyebrowsY Then
buy a crayon pencil and practise Civ
ing them to yourself before a mirror.
Practice and that alone will make
them perfect. and when it omes to
supplying natures neglect, only per-
lection a be accepted. Spots on
the skin are not desirable, except for
the gay and festive leopard, SO what
you want to do is to get rid of them
as soon as possible, for, like vice grown
familiar, we learn to endure, and II
not exactly embrace, at least to think
that nobody else notices them.
The great skin specialist, Erasmus
Wilson, gave to make the spots dis
appear the following prescription
Elder flower ointment. .................. ounce
Sulpate of zinc .......20 grains
Mix well and rub into the spots at
night. In the morning wash off with
warm water and soap, and when the
grease is completely removed apply
the following lotion
Infusion of rose petals ............... ~ pint
Citric acid 80 grains
If the skin feels a little rough after
| this, a lotion composed of half a pint
of almond mixture and half a drachm
of Goulard's Extract will ease it, This
is absolutely DR.. Wilson'S prescrip-
| ton, and as the world has not yet
produced a better authority on the
| subject of the skin, it is worth while
cutting out and putting in the scrap
book Of the toilet.
You realize that a wrinkle is COM
ing; you don't understand it and you
like it less. How did it get there?
Like the rest of your sisters. you are
of a nervous temperament, and even
when you are not speaking you are
moving your mouth. Nothing SO en-
tirely tends to the formation of
wrinkles as a continual biting of the
under lip, a moistening of the lips
with the tongue, or a drawing the
lips up at the sides, which auses an
ugly, supercilious look, and which is
the best friend for the cultivation of
wrinkles. Learn the art of repose rs
far as your face is concerned. You
can look intelligently at things, and
all the expression desired may be in
your eyes, but that is no reason why
any other part of your face need
move. Laughing and crying alike
are said to cause wrinkles, while a
pleasant smile never will, and the
moral of this would to be that
it's wisest to repress ones feelings, or,
as the darkey mammies have always
taught, that "a loud laugh bespeaks
a vulgar mind.p Avoiding this, you
are stamped well-bred, and the
wrinkles do not come,
Early inthe autumn the winds cause
assures or cracks in the lips that are
not only extremely unpleasant to look
upon, but are ~eXquisiteiy painful, and
by touching them with your tongue
you intensity the pain very much. Go
to the drug shop and get there an old
remedy, so old that it has the charm
of novelty. 1t ~rejoices in an over
powering Latin name, but when you
ask the druggist for it in English, say
YOU want citron cream, apply with
YOUR fingers, or a soft linen cloth, and
the cooling and healing result that
will follow will convince you that
even in medicine sometimes old things
are best.
Now about your hair:-Its gloss is
gone, it looks dirty; very well, then.
what it needs first of all is a good
shampooing with warm water and
brown soap gotten from the kitchen.
You only need enough soap to make
a good lather, but no other is as really
desirable as this, which seems to cut
the dirt, and being washed out inn
mediately by the hot water it does not
injure the hair.
Have your hair famed until it is
dry, or else go about with it loose, but
do not under any circumstances put
it up while it is damp, for if you do it
will have for days an abominable
mouldy smell. TO get back its gloss
YOU will need to cultivate the muscles
Of your arm; brush it for fifteen min
utes every night and morning, giving
it long, sweeping strokes and having
q brush the bristles of which, while
they are long and close together, are
vet not stiff enough to hurt your head.
1t is a matter of small Importance
about the brains, but when it comes
to brushing the hair, you need not
bang your head as if you thought it
was made of wood. That sort of
treatment will never give it the beau
tiful gloss, the beautiful natural gloss
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