Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-12-16
THE USE OF COSMETICS.
You Can Make Your Own Beautihers Tha
Are Safe to Use.

Are Safe to Use.
The prevalent custom of facial high
art decoration SO marked at the present
time is not only a survival of babarism,
but has great antiquity of origin. Jeze.
bel, you remember. painted her face
and tired her head and looked out at q
window; and the frivolous Roman en-
peror Heliogabalus, when he first en-.
tered Rome, had Ibis eyebrows tinged
black and his cheeks painted with arti-
fetal red and white;" and the first
court present given to Catherine IL of
Russia was rouge pot, as we read in
her memoirs, though the great Cathe-
rine was then only fifteen years old.
Now, what woman has done through
the centuries past she will continue to
do through the eras to come, so let her
do 1t wisely.
Take teaspoonful of the powder you
use on your face, put it in glass with
the juice of lemon. If effervescenoe
follows it is an infallible proof that the
powder is dangerous and will injure
the skin. If unsuccessful in OBJ
tanning pure face powder, then make
your own after some ST these simple
formulas, always remembering that the
very best and purest face powder is
merely levigated tale passed through
silk sieve.
Violet powder is made of wheat
starch, in the proportion of six pounds
to one pound of powdered orris, one
fourth ounce altar of lemon, one draohm
each of bergamot and cloves
Rose face powder consists of rice
starch, seven pounds: rose pink, half
draohm; altar of roses and santal. two
drachms each.
A famous rouge called bloom of roses
is made with half an ounce strong lia-
u1d ammonia, quarter ounce purest
carm1ne, one pint rose water. Pour the
ammonia on the carmine and allow il
to remain four days, stirring occasion
ally, then add the rose water and spir-
1t, and, after letting it stand for a week
decant the bloom of roses.
A rose lip salve may be made of one
half pound Of almond oil, two ounces
OF spermaceti and of wax and alkanet
or blood root, and one-quarter ounce
altar of roses. Place the wax, oil and
alkanet root together in warm water,
and when the first three are melted let
them digest four to six hours on the
alkanet root to extract its color Strain
through muslin and add the perfume
just before the salve sets.
Rushma, a mixture that removes I'M
desirable hairs quickly, is made of
three pounds best slaked lime to one
half pound of orpiment in powder; mix
In drum seive, and keep well corked.
To use, mix with water to a cream; APP
ply to the Objectionable hair until the
skin smarts, scrape it away with bone
or ivory paper knife, wash the place
carefully and apply cold cream.
For the'eyebrows take half an ounce
Indian ink, rub down in fine mortar
rub in half pint of fine rose water,
and after standing two or three days,
with frequent stirring, it is ready to be
applied with fine camels-hair brush.
Sulphide of aDtimony, in which blunt
bodkin of ivory is wetted and drawn
along the edges of the eyes beneath the
eyelashes, adds much to the brilliancy
OF the eye and makes it seem larger.
1t is used in Egypt and Greece to-day,
and is an old custom. Finally the
makeup, however pure. must be care
fully washed off at night with pure soap
and hot water, which may be followed
by an application of cold cream or glyc-
crime lotion
Cold cream contains one pound each
of almond oil and of rose water, one
ounce each of white wax and sperrna-
ceti. and one-half drachm of altar of
roses. Boil the wax and spermaceti
and oil in double boiler of porcelain,
and drop the rose water in, stirring
constantly. The lotion contains one
gallon orange flower water, eight
ounces glycerine and one ounce borax.
IN. Y. Sun.