Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-14
THE QUESTION BOX.
Shirley Dare Answers Some Unique
Queries From the Girls.
MAKING THE EYEBROWS SILKY.
To Cure Bad Compilations One Must Com.
mence Beneath the Skin.
THE IMPORTANCE OF DIET AND BATH
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH !


An admirer desires to learn what will
promote the growth of eyebrows. This is
quite a desideratum, when the brows have
been destroyed by accident or where the
natural growth Is weak. Slight eyebrows
always give the impression of weak char
acter, and most people judge by a glance,
never remembering that nature often takes
us in hand by stern discipline to bring out
Just those points which are lacking. The
least of us have all the capabilities of the
greatest, and we are sometimes surprised to
see pale, unfinished, gentle-looking creatures,
shrinking and apologetic in ordinary, face
emergencies, or blaze up at the one step too
far with a fire and force that works wider
and lasts longer than our everyday pert
| wilfulness.
Still if one wants to look the part as we'll
as feel it, eyebrows need special attention.
| A bandoline brush or cheap tooth brush
should be kept for their treatment. They
should be brushed till the skin is red, and
lanoline. which is wool fat, rubbed on and
brushed in. Melted suet or leafs marrow
applied hot as possible, and brushed into
the skin will help TO bring out the eye-
brows. The application OF any kind should
be made three times day, at the morning
toilet, at noon and on going to bed. The
darkest yellow vsseline or any OF the strong
petroleum salves are also useful to bring out
hair or eyebrows and deepen their coloring.
PAINTING THE EYEBROWS.
2. Will darkening with pencil injure
the brows?
A lead pencil will do them no good in
the long run, and eyebrow pencils" are
unsatisfactory. The best way to tint brows
is with the ''grease paint" used by theat-
rical people, which is sold in drug stores
and toilet shops, and comes in shape of a
blackboard crayon. at 10 cents a stick.
Light brown or chestnut should be used for
pale eyebrows, not black, which is un-
natural, and the tinting should be lightly
laid on to look at all well. A line of color
| along the ridge of the eyebrow is grateful
| touch when nature has slighted her work,
but most pretenders overdo the matter, and
produce leaden traces, or black lines heav-
lily put on, which give bold repellant ex-
preston. The grease paint will not injure
the growth of eyebrows but rather encour-
| age it, and is not readily washed off The
color sometimes lasts two or three days.
g. What will remove "iuzzy" growth
Of hair from the neck?
If you mean the underlocks on the nape
of the neck, keep them brushed smooth
with stick bandoline, made from five certs
worth of gum tragacanth soaked "a hours in
pint Of water which has been boiled and
| cooled, and the bandoline boiled again five
! minutes. Thick bandoline will straIghten
the fuzziest, kinkiest hair, and if kept on
he %ho
hair so that it comes out. Ifyou mean the
fuzzy or down that grows over the shoulder
it will require regular depilatory treat
ment.
HERE'S A WARNING.
Worried-1-.Would the use Of sulphur
soap do any permanent injury to a perfect
ly healthy and not very sensitive skin?
Since used it, though only tew times,
blackheads and a small red, gritty eruption
have appeared on my face, and though as
sured by my physician that no harm was
done and the eruption would soon pass
away, it has continued several months and
shows no sign of disappearing. My skin is
very rough, red, and seems in places finely
pitted. Have 1 permanently injured nv
complexion, or will the eruption in time
pass away and the skin regain its smooth
ness?"
1t is remarkable how girls with decent
compilations will try and risk every sort of
quackery in hope of obtaining some ideal
perfection, better reached in the natural
way of gaining complete health. The skin
could not have been perfectly healthy in
this case, or no lasting trouble could result,
even from using impure and irritating
soaps. Physicians are shy of medicated
soaps which, as one of them says, are often
the coarsest soda soaps, perfumed and medi-
Gated, both dangerous and distressing to the
skin. No soap however pure will refine the
complexion without care in other respects of
health. Probably the system was near some
crisis, the result of accumulation of small
daily wastes from the perspiration, the
products of digestion or some alteration in
the general health.
DEPENDS ON THE HEALTH.
Young people with the debility which re-
| suits from growing too fast, young women
whose health is not established, or who are
in those vicissitudes of feeling which tell
| functions of the skin are quick to be de-
| ranged. In such case strong irritant
soap is quite enough to draw the disorder to
the face on which it is used. Or the soap
may not be in fault at all, but the skin dis
| order be mere coincidence that would have
come anyhow when it did This display of
hard white minute pimples and comedones
is not an unusual trouble in youth. A Gin
| cinnati physician reports o college student
under age who for nearly four years suf-
fered from the spread of the disease from the
roots of the hair over the entire back. The
disorder is simply acne indescata, and the
| gritty points are hard secretion which mad
undergone calcareous change, or collections
| of h.. Of
| There is loss OF tissue, that is pitting, where
these collections are finally thrown off
In the first place these white hard points
| are to be opened with long fine needle and
| the "grit' pressed out or cut out with fine
lance. A good tar soap may be used on the
| face, or a mixture of fine tar and three times
| as much choice olive oil heated together
may be rubbed on the face daily. Wash the
| face with very warm water, soft cloth and
| lather of pure toilet soap. The thick lather,
| not the soap in this instance, is to be lightly
| rubbed over the face, washed off and dried
| with soft, warm towel, and a little of the
tar mixture smeared on the pimply spots, to
remain ten minutes, when it should be
washed of with warm soapy water.
LITTLE, BUT IMPORTANT.
It seems very fussy to most persons to OBJ
serve these small points, the water so warm
as not to burn the skin, using lather in
place of soaping the face, and-acme of
coddlins-a warm towell But men used to
| the bese BARRIERS know the luxury of soft,
| fresh-warmed damask on the moist sensi-
tive face, and how it leaves soothing,
healthier feeling than cold linen. After
this rub the face, stroking it swiftly with
I both hands dozen or 20 times downward
always one wsy. This brings the vessels of
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