Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-05
WHAT WOMEN WANT TO KNOW.

WHAT WOMEN WANT TO KNOW.
Shirley Dare on Coarse Skin, Dazz,ine
Noses and Round Shoulders.
Of the numerous inquiries sent to Shirley
Dare by readers of THE DISPATCH, she has
found time to answer the following:
A SEwICKLEY GIRL am in despair
about my nose. 1t shines so that at times
it is absolutely dazzling. Of course I use
powder, and the luster is dimmed for pei.
haps ten minutes. My nose perspire,
dreadfully-it is the only part of my face
that does pefspire. What can do?
Use equal parts Of pulverized borax and
prepared chalk as a powder. Plaster the
nose with this moistened with glycerine at
night or melt fine CASTLE soap and rub on
the nose nightly. Keep piece of flannel
to rub the nose frequently instead of pow.
dering it by day. Mild purgation and alter.
atives are called for and correction of all ir-
regularities of health and habits
second-Can you tell me how to make my
eyelashes grow?
If you have friend you can trust, clip
the minute points once a month and apply a
drop Of glycerine nightly with fine hair
pencil.
Third-How often should Turkish bath
be taken? Is once week too often?
Not if one has fair health and strength.
1t is often enough for any one.
Fourth-What exercise can take to keep
my shoulders back? lean over desk all
day, and / am afraid I am growing round
shouldered.
Throwing the arms back till the hands
touch 40 or 30 times daily is good. Or sit
bolt upri sht, let the arms hang down easily
with elbows stiff and straight, raise the arms
two feet from the sides and swing them back
till they touch the sides again With the
upper arm, keeping the forearm out This
exercise should be easy and comfortable. II
the palms of the hands are kept uppermost
then the shoulders naturally fail back.
Painful gymnastics are not to be recon-
mended for sedentary, nervous persona
Skipping rope, throwing it backward over
the head, also corrects bent forms, and is the
best of exercise for the whole body. Or 60
to the end of a room. face q wall, and throw
bean bags backward over the shoulders, 40
or 100 times in succession. Beans are espe-
cislly healthy when taken in this form. This
is the sort of letter like to get from wo-
man, who thinks about her habits all round,
and does not concentrate her apprehensions
on few pimples or on her gray bangs.
NJ. il wish you would advise me what
Some years ago it was only on my nose,
now my forehead and chin and face around
my nose are all large pores and my face is
very aabby. have tried steaming it every
day for six months. 1t brought out q red
rash that did not disappear for three
monthA
Hints from just such experiences are In
valuable, proving that there is no specific
mode of treatment for the disorder known
as bad skin. Massage is not general in,-
proven, steaming is not, salves and creams
are not. To be of service and safety these
remedial processes must be selected and
used with as much care and knowledge as
goes to the work of physician. Steaming
the facets a risky performance, and the
woman who tried it daily tor six months
was lucky to get off with an Inflammation
that was cured in three. The most
intelligent and experienced French COS
metic artists do not advise the
make the face wrinkled and baggy, just as
the skin of the hands is after soaking in hot
suds and steam over washing. Women
who intend buying steam apparatus for
home treatment had better send the money
to starving Russia, tor it will do their COM
plexions more good and save facial neu-
ralgia most likely. The cure for enlarged
pores must be internal, if the improvement
is to be at all lasting. The skin of the lace
is very sensitive, the blood vessels numer-
GUS. and local irritation predisposes to the
disorder. AS for steam treatment, a woman
might as well apply a mustard plaster
daily for the same length of time as the
heated vapor, which draws the blood to tho
surface even more powerfully.
Were a specific called for, upon honor, I
should name bread of entire or unbolted
wheat meal. The readiness with which
glands vanishes when this bread becomes
4 fixed diet is delightful. But as it is easier
TO live on golden plovers' eggs than to Sc
sure constant supply Of good bread, one
must fall back ON the established treatment.
hearty purgation to begin. A table
spoonful of EPSON salts in . small cup of
,offee first thing in the morning or pill at
hight, not a mercurial one. Follow this
with half q teaspoonful of the salts in half
/ cup of hot water, with five drops aromatic
Iulphuric acid daily for two or three weeks,
20 clear the system Of its accumulated
tastes. By this time q coarse nutritious
liet should render such medicines unneces-
ary. Hot alkaline baths to stimulate the
kin all over, twice week if not daily,
enderloin steak twice day and sunshine
trength. If these are unattainabls the
anne preparation of iron, strychnia and
luinine must be a poor substitute.
Mrs. W. M.-What will make the eye
ashes grow dark and heavy?
An old and very clever book says decoe-
ion Of dandelion plant and root will restore
his growth, applied nightly. Olive oil is
eported as having satisfactory effect on
he lashes Use it six weeks, and if the
,rowth starts, have discreet friend clip the
ips infnitesimally. Lanoline might be of
se, as it seems to make hair grow every
Vhere it ought not
M. P.-What is good for a red nose?
The nose is an index of the state of the
limentary organs. If Inflammation or ul-
GRAFTON exist there the nose reddens in SYM
athy. II it comes from a tendency to
rysipelas, ,poultice with cooked cranberres,
artar water, drinking pint in the course |
t the day, taking it preferably an hour before |
leals White vitriol the size of pea dis |
olyed in pint of warm water was recon-
1ended by well-known physician of New |
.ork to patti mt with nose infamed BY |
,uch drinking.
Polly Peabody-What can do for my
set to make them SOFT They are very
ard and dry and feel uncomfortable?
Bathe in water hot as they can bear,
nth teaspoontul Of borax to the pail OF,
'ater, 10 minutes nightly or oftener as con-
enient Keep the water hot till the end
the bath, dry the feet thoroughly and
ub all harsh parts with plenty Of Yaseline
r any of the petroleum jellies, and wear
1in stockings to bed. In q week or two
,e skin will be fine, soft and sufficiently
loist. The perspiration sometimes cannot
st through the cslloused thickened sur