Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-06
COLD CREAM AND WHITE HANDS.
What Shirley Dare Has to Say to InquIsl
tive Readers of The Dispatch.

What Shirley Dare Has to Say to Inquisl-
tive Readers of The Dispatch.
Among the questions sent to Shirley Dare
by readers of The DISPATCH she has Sc
lected the following for considerations:
ybelle-Does cold cream make the
complexion soft and smooth like child's?
Does it make hair grow on the face?
Answer-It certainly softens the skin, un-
less the complexion tends to coarse pores
or pimples, in which case different appli-
cations are demanded. If l am to credit
repeated complaints from women who
write to me, cold cream, clear -vaseline,
glvcerine lanoline tend to furry skin
when used as the daily cosmetic. ALI
creams made up of oils and fatty matter
nourish down on the face But there is
great difference with susceptibility of
skins to this nourishment. The moustaches
and downy skins of South American women
are said to be largely owing to the constant
use of cocoa butter to soften the skin. Cold
cream is intended for chapped hands,
lips and nostrils, burns or scratches. 1t is
an exquisite dressing, but not suited to
most faces as an all-over cosmetic, 1t must
be fresh, kept cool and closed, or it irritates
instead of soothing the skin. d.
NJ. B.-Do you know anything that will
make my hands white? am at home doing
the housework and wear gloves of crash
while at the roughest work, and put vase
line on them at night. But when plav
the piano or play games, nv hands are like
beets. 1 have now quit playing, for was
ashamed of them.
Answer-This will never do Our Ameri.
can gentlewomen who have the ability and
independence to do their own work as most
of the proudest mothers of the republic did
in the beginning, should never have to
blush for any defect like red hands. A
woman who is easily queen" in all arts of
housewifery must remember that hands are
not made for washboards, or butter paddlers,
cake beaters, dish mops or potato brushes.
They are not to be sodden in water hot or
cold, three parts of the time, or any time
avoidable. Especially are they to be kept
out of scalding suds, in trifling matters like
washing cup-towels or handkerchiefs, which
woman hurries through, tempering her
skin to parboiling water rather than TO stop
to cool it. Constant scalding hands in suds
of harsh caustic soap ruins their color, and
it must be impressed on woman's mind that
neither glycerine nor vaseline while thew
soften the skin, have any bleaching effect
on it.
When feet are habitually cold from i'm
perfect health, cold floors, or insufficient
protection, the hands are almost always red
or blue. Floors in houses heated BY stoves
are usually cold ,sand housekeeper should
wear warm stockingsand flannel or fur-lined
slippers or house boots. A farorite domes-
fic cosmetic is fine oatmeal, cooked into
paste with water and while hot, mixed with
a spoonful of lemon juice and as much vase
line, fresh butter, mutton suet or salad oil
to make the paste less adhesive. The hands
are snread with the paste the last thiuo of
night and enveloped in cotton flannel nit
tens tied around the waist. Homely as it is,
oatmeal is as whitening to the hands Is
almond paste, and is the basis of recipes
which have a continent and court reputa-
tion :