The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-28

as possessed of every charm but the one
point of complexion, where they fail to
suit themselves. Or they had very nice
complexion up to the date of a recent i'll
ness, or had used some Wanted cosmetic,
which has disappointed them, and must
counteract its effects.
For instance: 81 am a blonde with an
exceedingly thick head of hair, forty
inches long, of rich hue between brown
aud gold. A very fine, delicate coloring,
or SO considered by my friends. Eyes
large, dark and blue; brows and lashes
quite dark; features fairly regular" Now,
what in heavens name has this to do with
the need of a freckle lotion, which the
young lady wishes to order? Does she
wish to enchant the susceptible correspon-
dence clerk by letter, or, which is more
likely, is she so enamored of herself she
cannot avoid lingering over the picture?
The contrast to the self-admiring beauty
is the over-frank woman who complains
she has a yellow, blotched or greasy COM
plexion she thinks comes from a stomach
trouble, in which she is Enthusiastically
right, and there are blackheads at the tip
of her nose.
What is the use of drawing such a hor-
rid picture when Eve words would tell a
dealer all that is needed? The woman
who puts the cares of maternity and re-
duced circumstances, together with heavy
catarrh, in an order for lotion or powder
knows how to rob herself of her last grace.
The girl who writes that she "feeIs as if
she should go crazy over her freckles" and
moth patches will find her unnecessary
frankness more in the way of getting a
lover or husband than any moderate
blemishes.
The woman of % who wants a face wash.
''as she is going to be married in sixteen
days, and wants clear complexion"
should begin sooner by six months to
make sure work of her renaissance. The
woman OF 30 who writes for a developer.
because she is IN show room, and if she
had better figure to show dresses and
cloaks on she would get higher salary, has
more TO recommend her plea than any of
the silly women who wish to improve on
nature unnecessarily. l feel like telling
her at once all the development she needs
is two yards of washing net, stiffened with
gelatlne in the starch and crumpled up
lightly, to I'LL out her gown. 1t is cooler.
fresher and looks better than the coarse,
olowsy figures made by suction with an
air pump, In the hideous, injurious patent
processes.
SIMPLE PLAN.
One girl wants to know if there is anv
apparatus for tying the ears back, for hers
stand out like the handles of jar, and she
doesn't know that one of the surest WAYS
oil correcting this habit is 10 wear the hair
over the ear, the steady, constant pressure
training the cartilage gently and safely to
its proper set.
7 have Epoup =; Il. -
defects when they were is. and despaired
yet their unconscious efforts had their eff
feet years after. Habit will mold the very
bones better than a plaster bodice. and
there IS nothing it will not do with
muscles.
1t Is relief to turn from these speci-
mems OF nature TO the really sweet and
charming women, who are not so scarce as
they might be, after all. Do realize what
the yhrase conveys-'A sweet woman %
Above all that physical sweetness. which
is not merely the cleanliness of washing
ones sell twice or thrice week, or more,
but wholesome state of the secretions
from absence of internal ferment.
In dyspeptics and consumptives the per-
splfatlon IS acid few hours after bathing,
and the body linen wears out sooner tnan
common, the fibre being attacked by the
acld secreted. The remedy is alkaline
patns oil warm water-one dessert spoonful
OF boraI or ammonia to three quarts of
water. Night sweats in consumption and
extreme sweating in any case may be con-
trolled by an ammonia bath daily and the
use oil busting powder, made of three
parts OF salicylic acid, ten of starch and
elghty-seven of Venice tale. The skin is
nrst sponged with weak alcohol, having
Ittie tannin dissolved in it, which
astrlnges the skin and allows the powder
70 adhere. In the morning il is washed
on IN bath and may be renewed at once
IN those trying cases which ruin dresses
ana make ones face a fountain of waters.
remember the recipe given is body
powder, not dress powder for the face,
worn for looks sake alone The stiffest
church member could hardly object to face
nQXder in warm weather IL b. 49,. L.