Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08
WHAT WOMEN WANT TO KNOW.

Facts About Drugs, Corns and Bunions and
Slippers for Evening Wear.
Shirley Dare answers below few of the
many queries that have been sent to her
recently by readers of The DISPATCH:
H. BIS resorcin any good as cosmetic?
1t is used for skin diseases by the ex-
tremely German practice of the day, and
doubtless has its uses But I freely say that
experience does not recommend any of the
class Of antipyretcs in which it ranks, for
toilet practice. The new drugs are powerful,
risky and not too well understood even by
the profession. Resorcin is used in parasitic
disease, or skin fungus, like ringworm, but
is too caustic for acute diseases. Cases of
poisoning by absorption through the skin
happen frequently enough with the new
drugs to render any one health:ly careful of
using them as cosmetics The accumulated
action of such drugs as iodol, resorcin, salol.
napthol and their increasing coterie, used
daily in toilet preparations, would be a
source of danger beyond any ordinary use in
medicine. The President of the British
Medical Association, in last years address,
warned the profession against the new drugs
until their action should be more fully
studied, and women would better leave an
tipyretics and coal tar derivations to the
doctors, reserving to themselves the precious
therapeutics and cosmetics of the sweetest,
blandest herbs and flowers.
27o, Lowell OILS there anything which
will cause the blood to circulate in my
feet? They are always cold, and I have
tried cold tootbaths without success.
Take hot footbaths, rubbing the skin dry,
and sprinkle cayenne pepper in the soles of
the stockings.
(2)-Is there anything that will relieve
or remove bunions?
Rub daily with dark yaseline and wear
very thin waxed silk over it. This is pre-
pared by shaving bits of parafine wax over
thin white lining silk, and smoothing with
hot iron. If this does not relieve the
bunion, apply iodine salve, 16 grains to the
half ounce. Wear rubber protector made
for bunions. Soak the feet in hot water
with wood ashes added, or teaspoonful
of washing soda to pail of water. A warm
poultice of faxseed at night often eases
great deal.
NJ. C.-What will take away soft corhs7
Mosten them with salicylic acid, four
parts in 20 parts of collodion or alcohol.
Vaseline will sometimes soften and remove
them. It will prevent corns if applied
every time after the feet are washed. 1t
should be rubbed between the toes to keep
the skin healthy and prevent maceration by
the secretions abundant there.
Maldens.-White slippers must be worn
with white silk evening dress, and a piece
of the dress is usually sent to fashionable
shoe dealer, to be made into slippers to
match Or low shoes of white ooze leather
are furnished by the best class houses for
evening wear. Your screen-fan OF feathers
is pronounced all right for evening use,
with other toilets, but white dress de-
to Tha
fashion of few years since, which allowed
black slippers, black gloves and black fan
with any sort of dress, is past. The effect
was artistically wrong bringing detail into
prominence which had no harmony with the
rest of the dress.