Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-27
WHAT WOMEN WANT TO KNOW.
Shirley Dare Answers some Of the Quea
tions Recently Sent to Her.

Shirley Dare Answers some Of the Ques.
tions Recently Sent to Her.
Among the questions sent to Shirley
d Dare by readers Of The DISPATCH are the
following which she has found time to
answer:
Mrs. A R.-Plesse inform me how to
prepare 3 sulphur bath at home.
A celebrated writer on the skin directs as
follows: Boil six ounces of sulphur Is or
20 minutes in two gallons of water, that 10
two gallons after the boiling is finished
Have ready a cane-seated chair, hot bath
| for the feet and q large blanket A rubber
blanket to go over this is advisable. Pour
| the sulphur water into large earthen or
tin pan, raised from the floor by bricks or
water half brick, heated red hot Seat
the patient undressed on the chair, and
wrap the blanket round the chair, covering
the person all but head and face. This
keeps the steam up 20 minutes, after which
the patient is wiped dry with warm towels
and put to bed al warmly a. possible to
avoid taking cold.
Miss TT should like to try sulphur to
clear the complexion, but fear it will re-
duce my already insufficient flesh. Is 1t
used ever upon the skin, or only inter-
nally?
Sulphur is used in both ways A thin
paste Of sulphur and milk dried on the face
at night is said to whiten it Taken inter.
naly it is laxative and stimulant to the cir
culation, lungs and skin in moderate way.
Caution must be taken to use pure sulphur,
as the common qualities contain arsenic and
sulphuric acid; The washed Sicilian sui
phur is the purest and best Perfectly pure
sulphur entirely disappears when heated
and 50 dissolyes completely in oil Of tur-
rent;ne. Half q teaspoonful in milk or
white sugar syrup with as much msgnesia
is dose, taken the first thing on rising.
Hot soap and water baths and . nutritious
diet should accompany its use, when there
will be no danger Of reducing flesh. It is
highly recommended in chronic rheumatism.
The powdered sulphur is bound upon the
limbs with flannel and kept on for days till
fully absorbed by the skin.
Many persons, doctors among others, have
approved of wine of coca % tonic, but
more conservative practitioners are shy of
1t, except in emergencies where there is need
OF Immediate support at any cost. From my
own experience 1 should not advise it for
nervous people, as the feeling Of being gone
to pieces in its reaction is horrible. Still it
does not affect persons alike.
j. W. B. and 20 others-I am informed
in letter from Philadelphia that the firm
making bread and other preparations raised
by steam have gone out Of business 1t Is
to be regretted that some euterprising and
equally conscientious and clean manufac-
turers cannot be found 70 take the place of
these honest Quakers. What purports to
be health bread is sent hundreds Of miles
regularly to invalids, but nothing SO far
compares with the steam raised bread
Mrs. Nellie WI am getting the horri. |
BILE crowsfeet and some gray hairs; live in
a hotel, and am constantly thrown in com. |
pany, and though my husband says they
don't show bit, my mirror says they do,
and badly, too. never knew how to "make |
up" and have to have everything very sim |
pie. Can't you help me to hair dye,
not injurious, to something for the deep |
lines and downy chin?
Husbands and sons ought to tell the exact |
truth, even if it is uncomplimentary.
Brothers do as general thing, and woman
knows she can depend on their opinion. It
Is no good for ones family to practice polite
little deoeptions. They simply give them
selves away, for deceit doesn't hold sgsinst
our look in the mirror-what blessing that
the glass has no tact! To prevent gray
hair, try the yellow vaseline and petroIa-
tnm dissolved in hot brandy as daily ap-
plication, brushing it well into the roots.
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hair with it. If the gray hairs are few. they
can be brushed separately with hot stain
ing fluid. But the making Of hair.
dye or stain is better left
to practical hands For the crows
feet, don't stay up late nights, and
apply fine sponges wet in warm milk mixed
with as much rosewater. Hold the sponge
to the wrinkles i've minutes at time, and
10 this often. Lint mixed in this mixture
and bound on the face half an hour freshens
I remarkably. The milk and rosewater
should be mixed only as used Send me
stamped and addressed envelope, and will
lirect you to something to help the downy
'hin. If the chin can te kept clear of down
~ simple application nightly repeated,
most women will consider ii a boon. Stiff
tnbbly hair on the face believe is related
o internal disease, as much as acne, and to
'e treated by medicine and outward appli-
ations together.
SHIRLEY DARE