Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-24
THINGS THAT MAR BEAUTY.
Suggestions for Unfortunate Women From
the en- of Shirley Dare.

THINGS THAT MAR BEAUTY.
Suggestions for Unfortunate Women From
the en- of Shirley Dare.
Shirley Dare answers some queries sent
to her through THE DISPATCH as follows:
L. r. Louisville-Is there anything that
will remove wrinkles and make the skin
full and smooth?
First-Keep the skin moist and clean, the
first and last things in the day, by washing
face and throat with hot water and good
soap, rinsing thoroughly with tepid water
and using warm towel. Second-Keep
the air of rooms moist by broad shallow
pans of water on the stove or heater. With
water pan daily. Third-In hot rooms and
in dry, parching weather, not uncommon in
winter, moisten the face frequently with a
sponge kept in bowl of rosewater with
teaspoonful of vegetable glycerine,
and let this dry on the face. It is very re-
freshing and keeps the skin from shriveling.
Fourth-On going out windy days, use
toilet cerate for the cheeks and brow, with
touch of cold cream for the lips and edge
of the nostrils Fifth-Steam the face over
boiling water, not SO close as to be uncom-
Portable or suffocating. Allow 15 minutes
for bath of this kind, giving the tissues
time to absorb the vapor. Twice a week is
often enough, though it will DO no harm and
erase wrinkles faster to use the steam bath
oftener. Time is worth something to most
women. Sixth-Use cerate at night until
the skin regains its smoothness, and then
use it whenever dryness and harshness of
the skin is felt. Seven-Apply facial mas
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the daily practice till the face is smooth,
then occasional friction will keep it so.
E. HIS there any remedy for the
wrinkles round the mouth caused by laugh
ing? do not want to 60 through life with
q parenthesis around my mouth and yet
must laugh
Laughter is pleasant, but there is no need
of laughing with mouth open and stretched
at every minute amusement The deepest
sense of fun may exist with o controlled
mouth. Oval or long faces with high noses
and sizable mouths cannot afford to be on
the stretch at every smiling matter, for
parenthesis will come in such features.
Learn to laugh internally with shut lips. It
may be difficult Mt first, but it is possible /
and your friends will like your expression
quite as we'll for the composure.
Mrs. c. F.-Is there really an establish
ment for mechanical massage, or is it one of
your pleasing articles for the press?
Mechanical massage is we'll known in
Boston and. New York, if not in other cities
Whether pleasing ordispleasing, this writer
does not deal IN imaginary pictures without
giving full notice. I have neither time nor
strength for private letters of advice
Dora-Kindly tell me something that will
relieve me from pilnples and blackheads. I
have been troubled with them since 1 was 10
years old and am now II. should like to
know what to eat
1t is hardly so much matter what you eat,
as to exercise briefly four or five hours |
cause for the beautiful English compilations |
shared by princess and milkmaid, is the use |
of coarse brown bread altogether and much |
cereal food. Avoid pork, -four gravies and |
sauces, strong cheese and all lard pastry, or |
underdone pastry of any sort, also waxy |
potatoes and milk porridge. Take hot |
footbath twice week to improve the circu-
lation, bathe with hot water and CASTLE |
soap every night and change the |
nightly until the erup-
tion is cured. Rub the person
after the bath. The latest |
medical advice for blackheads is fomenta- |
tions of hot water daily. Wash the face |
first with warm water aud CASTLE soap to |
apply folded soft towel dipped in water
hot as the skin can bear. Wet it in the hot |
water as fast as it loses heat. covering the |
face with dry hot towel as the wet one is
This brings the blood to the |
sluggish glands and stimulates their activity, |
while it dissolves the greasy hard matter |
in the tiny sacs which form blackheads
This treatment is repeated three times
day, five minutes at each time, wiping with
q soft, very warm towel, and avoiding cool
air for the next half hour. To chill the
surface would drive the blood back from
the opened cells and make matters worse
Mrs. j. F.-The muscles of nv face are
getting flabby with tendency to sag at the
corners of the chin, and the skin has an old |
look far beyond my years-not
yet 80.
You must have rest and sleep and fresh
air. Use gentle massage or Stroking of
the cheeks upward with the palms of the
hands, doing this leisurely with rests eyery
half dozen strokes until 25 have been made.
Battle the flabby muscles in cool or tepid
salt water and stroke them With palms wet
in the brine, rinsing with fresh water.
When the face is heated by the gentle fric-
lion, bathe it with sponge and cool rose
water till the slight irritation passes off.
and wipe the cheeks always upward from
.he chin to prevent lax corners
Allis.-Can you tell men some remedy
FOR oily hair? am afraid too much wasE-
ng is hurtfu1, but find nothing else success
'ul
Try wetting it with alcohol and black tea.
equal parts, every other night Washing
,ily hair with borax, or soapbark and hot
water once week, rinsing and driving
quickly will not injure it.
Beth.-Is there anything to prevent the
7eins in ones hands from looking large?
Mine are so, but not from work or old age.
Large veins show depression of the
hearts forces, and weak arterial action.
Long sleep, driving in an open carriage.
he use of potash water (kept at soda co1n.
ers), together with hot drink and baths.
re of special benefit. Cardiac depression
s often caused by women sleeping in close
bedrooms.