Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28


which no cosmetics are of any lasting use.
Natures Complexion Beautifiors.
1t is the season for testing the virtues Of
strawberry juice for the complexion, the best
use to make of the wretched crop this year.
No French preparation of cream of straw
berries compares with the juice of the fresh
fruit, of wpich big berry yields enough for
the face at one time. Crush the berry and
rub over forehead, cheeks and chin, letting
it dry in, and sleep over it.
Next morning wash in the softest water
to be had-distilled water if possible. For
low this up, and the old English recipe
book says the face will soon become fair
and smooth. Now is the time for trying all
sorts of herb recipes for the face-from
poeny root, which we read "taketh away
black spots of the body" to the juice OF
purslane, mixed with white of egg, and al
lowed to dry on the face over night. 1t is
blessing to learn of so much use for that
heart-breaking graceless weed.
For pimples, says manual which is old
enough to have been in Montespan's Cabl-
net, drink the juice of decoction of plan
tain, which is very cooling remedy. DO
not take the tough, stunted herbs which
grow on foul heaps, acrid and injurious, but
choose large, healthy looking plants grown
on sweet soil If you feel bloated and dull
Eat a Leaf of Parsley,
and you will be surprised to find the relief
and 1ightness it gives. And this is very
well worth trying foI the profuse sweats
which trouble middle aged women. 1t IS
altogether too good to tell but after making
a night of it, parsley clears the head and
system in way altogether too merciful for
the sinner. The Romans were not lmagln-
aries when they wore parsley crowns to
avoid the efects>of wine, and 1t Is probable
they knew enough to eat leaf or two.
A beautifying wash which dates from the
time of Nine. de Maintenon takes equal
parts of white tansy and rhubarb water, to
every half pint of which is added two
drachms of sal ammoniac. This fluid is ap-
piled with feather or hair pencil three or
four times day to pimples or letters on any
part of the person. How sweet would be
such an "Odoriferous Water" as follows,
and how few can cut enough fragrant herbs
and gillifowers to make pint of it. How
much finer, too, than the recspes current for
potpourri, one of which called for two
quarts of rose petals and two ounces-i e.,
four tablespoonfuls of ground cinnamon, and
as much cloves as would kill the flower
scent. Most of the potpourri made smells
like spiced fruit cake or mlnce
meat more than anything else.
Our genuine old English recipe says:
Take equal parts of sweet marjoram
thyme (and these culinary herbs blend very
richly with the flower scents), lavender,
rosemary, pennyroyal buds, red roses, vlo-
lets, Glove -julyfowers, savory and orange
peels, infuse in white wine till they sink en-
tirely to the bottom of the wine, then distil
in an alembic two or three times. Keep the
water in bottles, well corked, and prepare
the residuum as a perfume" Fancy deli
cately kept house smelling through its
rooms with the subtle spirit of gardens.
For Pimply and Infiamed Faces.
The italian rose ointment is feasible and
has repute for pinply and imflamed faces.
Take II ounces of fine lard, four ounces
white rose petals, and as much OF red, with
an ounce of wax. Melt the lard and pour
on the petals in queensware jar, covered
and kept in the sun three days, placing in
warm sand at night Strain the lard through
linen cheesecloth add the wax melted, beat
ing the mass till it cools. 1t is finer to be
melted again with low heat and beaten two
or three times.
The elder flower pomade is four ounces of
fresh elder flowers, stepped in warm olive
oil of the finest quality, for two days in
covered china pot, and an ounce of white
wax, melted and beaten into the oil when
strained. 1t is very emollient and soothing.
The italian tutty pomade is odd, but very
much esteemed for whitening the skin and
rendering it velvety. Tutty Is whitish
oxide Of zinc with trace perhaps of lead.
EQUAL parts of the rose ointment given
before and of butter washed in rose water
are worked together without melting, other
than by sun heat, and half as much tutty in
fine powder is worked in by long and thor
ough rubbing with a bone spatula on por-
celain slab.
Healing and Cooling Remedies.
The remedy acne and comedones Spanish
ladies use a salve of so drains rose ointment
with drains carbonate of ammonia worked
into it, and scented with tuberose or jas
mine. The Spanish cucumber pomade is
said to be very effective as healing and
softening agent to the skin. Equal weights
of sliced cucumber, purslane, violet leaves
and leaves of black nightshade are bruised
and stepped 4S hours in warm olive oil,
then heated and strained, and white wax
added to give it consistence.
The violet foliage is cooling and the night
shade soothing to the nerves of the skin. A
softening application in favor with clever
gouvernantes is olive oil 10 parts, yolk OF
egg 20 parts, turpentine 40 parts, the yolk
and turpentine rubbed together and the
olive oil worked in, as salad dressing is
made. 1t is said to be very nice for the
skin, and when great tester is anticipated
this pomade is applied to the face nights be-
forenand that it may present unrivaled
softness Greek women of certain province
were famed for their pure and velvety COM
plexions, owing to the use of
An Unctuous White Earth
on the skin. 1t is possible we have some
such cosmetic in the soapy earth or mineral
SOAP of Montana, but our far West provinces
seem inclined to keep all their good things
to themselves, or are too modest to let them
be known Pharmacy and the cosmetic
arts should revel in the riches of our mount
ain slopes.
1 have to repeat that no further recon-
mendation can be given sponge silk. 1t Is
now eight months since it was mentioned,
and in that time prices of ordinary silk
have come down the sponge silk has risen,
SO that the advantage to buyers is in the
regular goods. The benefit to rheumatic
cases lies in wearing silk of any kind, and
the advantage of sponge silk was its cheap
ness, which no longer exists. Much could
be said for the benefit of wearing paper next
the skin for warmth and defense against
rheumatism as substitute for higher class
materials, but if paper. shirts Immediately
went up to higher price than silk it would
not be advisable to buy them. feel very
shy of mentioning new things, since the
penalty is having few thousand letters to
answer for the next year or two in addition
to regular work. SHIRLEY DARE.