Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-08-23
How Fresh Air and Good Food Per-
feet Its Color.
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anu the continent. The shortest way TO get at
what women really want to know is by the re.
quests In most OF the 499 letters which haunt
me. This letter will be given up mainly to the
chat with correspondents long promised
ONE WAY TO REDDES THE CHEEKS.
Constant Reader'-thirteenth of the name
wants the recipe for bringing blood to the
checks and lips i'll place of using paint. Ten
drops oil OF mustard IN ounce of alcohol is
the formula. Sponge the checks and liDs with
few drops Of this half an hour before you
wish to present yourself.
1t will soon smart and redden the skin, but
must not be allowed to burn more than five
minutes. Wash off and apply touch OF cold
cream or the new toilet cGrate, which is so fra
grant, 30 balmy to the skin, which does not
grease the skin or produce down tue face,
which it seems nearly all The toilet salves. giy
cerines and fatty preparations have the wicked
ness to encourage. En- PEASANT, if there is no
good blood in the system. if you are an&mIc or
bilious. yoH can't get up good color even by
clustering your checks.
If II boat could steam down the Narrows three
or four times day with a load of ladies i'll
easy dress who should exercise from the time
OF starting till they came back II would be the
best school of color for feminine faces. If you
cant get ocean or lake air take the highest and
lar as possible, and let these pretenses of mus
tard anu ginger and carunino so by.
TOO MUCH RED IL THE EKs.
No. 2 suffers with flushed face. tendency of
blood to the head. the least exertion makes her
warm and she perspires too freely. She wants
to know whether there is medicine she can get
which would cool the blood?
This looks like indigestion. French doctors
say without clrcnmspect!on ihat women,
especially over forty years of age owe their
red noses and flushed faces to fa,ty acids gen-
Grated III the stomachs where Il ge1tion does
not take place. This Castro-cOic dilat on is
the origin Of many skin disorders. bcs!dcs
many mental states OF simple or emotional
depression" say Professors Trastour and
| BUuchard.
! lake hot Carlsbad water or Sprudel salts or
| good seid.Itz powder i'll hot water the first
! thing iii the morning. Eat small bat fire.
quent meas; let starclIv and iesumnous foods
| alone on account OF their Ddk and FATTY arii-
cles on account OF the irritating character of
| the products OF their fermentation" Says Dr.
| Thompson of New York IN his admirable paper
! on diseases OF the stomach.
No. writes: Il nave made inquiries at sew
erai bakeries for bread from unboited flour
| One said steamed bread another 'aerated
bread SO am puzz.ei TO know which is the
bread, If either"
! Ibis KIND OF appeal is enough to raise holy
! hands In wrath and doubtiHg-wrath that our
womon are taught everything that pertains to
culture. artistic. charitable and re i;fsiovs
save and except what belong to their very
! blood and HE. II does not say much for the
Intelligence of Lady or baker that such question
| about the bread w eat three times day should
| be asked aud that 1t should receive such an
swers OF folly. Yet the letter quoted is well
written, in good handwriting
ADVICE As TO BREAD.
! Lot us hope tho hygienic text books of the
! future will tnnCh he Iffarcpan hot ko1,, 1
and unbolted flour. Unbolted flour it is re-
marked in concession to ladylike ignorance, is
Hour containing the whole of the wheat in
GLIDING the outer coat. which is the bran and
phosphates, the very parts needed by sedentary
persons but which are carefully sfted out Of
| the white flour.
Don't go to the bakers for bread to keep YOU
In health. The bakery bread is almost without
exception over-icrmented with yeast to the
| point of sourness, made of inferior flour from
which the best nutrient parts have been re-
| moved by boiling, and. lastly. is seldom baked
enough for human food. This is why Ameri-
cans are nation of dyspeptics. ALWAYS in a
hurry, thin and eXcitaGle. Enough has been
| said about the hurry producing dyspe psla when
| every doctor knows that the hurry, the desire
to Dc continually on the move. is one OF the eff.
fects OF nervous dyspepsia. created by lack of
/ phoSpnates anu their nerve nutrition. We're
We to eat sound, nOurishing bread, were that
| part OF our diet alone to be what it ought we
would change from the thin, sharp. snappjsh
race to amiable, stable, prompt but not excit-
able and worrying beings We would see fur
Their into things and mistakes in business and
affairs would be fewer
No. asks: Can you tell the price of the
summer stove which Mr.. Edward Atkinson in
vented! Mr.. AtkInsons stove, with its
economy and saving of heat is based on a few
OF the comfortable old principles which are
lying by for bright minds to pull them out and
put lhefn IN Use again to the great convenience
OF mankind. The stove is not even patented.
or was not last season. 1t is made in Brook
line, Mass, and sells for SIS to go.
SOCIAL PROGRAM
1.-TWO Light Seekers send an Interesting
letter. the answer to which may serve for other
readers and seasons.
No. asks: What kind Of entertainment
would be most suitable for an evening in sum
mert Would it be permissible to have a musi-
cal and literary program followed bv refresh
ments such as ices, and then conversation?
Or would that be too arduous work for the sum-
mer eveningsI"
Nothing marks the decline of genuine society
and social accomplishment than that such a
phrase as "a musical and literary program"
should ever gam acceptance i'll connection
with entertainments in private houses.
1t sounds like a college fraternity like a
lodge OF GOOD Iemplars, like one OF those nom
descript assemblies over which Nine Adam
and other French women not to the manner
political meeting, where good order must be
Knocked into peoples brains with mallet
The musical and literary program should
have no place in good houses unless at pri-
vate concert
The cut and dried performance which calls
Tor program is the very extingusher of So
ciety. II we'll bred. kindly feeling people can
not get amusement enough out of each others
conversation, that choicest OF gifts. arts and
accomplishments, now and then broken by a
song or gliding into one, glee a chorus a
ballad or comic song, suits the occasion.
why all the company had better 20 to a variety
show and call it society. Music OF the highest
sort ID the only amusement for warm evenings.
except conversation and Irritation.
PLEASANT PROGRAM
The right sort of people brought together
will usually know how to entertain themselves
in the way they like best II ii is cool enoupb
for half dozen dances, very well, and there
may be card tables with clean packs of cards
for those lively games which allow plenty az
taiking-no scientific whist or selfish .:Boston.'
above ALL no playing for money or prizes. The
idea OF giving prizes in private company for
the winner at progressive eucher or the one
VINO pins the donkey's tail on is Glow down.
and mean hammered as you please
Ii used to be a reproach in early society that
certain unweicome visitors ''only went for what
they could get to eat, and the plan of Offering
and taking prizes in private company saws on
the one hand the hostess feels she has nothing
personal to attract her guests, and the taking
Is not less vulgar than the old-fashioned carry
ing away cake and sweets in ones pocket hand
kerchief.
1t says in fact, 1--WE come for loot" and IL ia
| . give and take insult Better taste will have