Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-05

 washed, and if you have been in the most reprehensible custom of using little soft cloth dipped in water, or sponge, or any makeshift for soap and serubbing pray pardon me when I say your face IS now washed but it will not be clean, by which I mean rid of the accumulation or dead skin and clogged pores, for a month yet with a daily repetition of the scrub bing-and just here let me ask you how long you think you could keep your hands clean if you used a little rag dipped In water for the purpose.
 Now the texture of the skin of the face, particularly if oily, possesses a peculiar attraction for dust, and the loathsome baekheads. or, as they are still more vulgarly called. flesh worms, are nothing but an accumulation of dirt (pardon the terseness of my English), each black point marking an obstructed toincle. You may count on banishing blackneads forever if you will follow my instruc- tions, for later I will give full directions as to the treatment for these truly dls- gusting robbers of good looks. After your face is thoroughly scrubbed and rinsed, take the ordinary flesh prush, with the long handle, and scrub your body quickly and thoroughly-decreas the temperature of the water by letting the cold water run until it is cold. Sponge off with the cold water and you will have taken one step each day to- ward the bright eye and clear skin we are striving for.
 Treatment at Night.
 If you take your bath at night just be- fore retiring, apply some good eiloiiieIlI to your face; there are several to be had which are highly commended. AVold nostrums which have not been analysed and indorsed by reputable physicians, and keep away from any preparation containing hair-growing qualities, or we
 n, ra1c4tl lnhn hands, and that I do not in the least de- sire It is an understood truth that the prevalence of the superfluous hair on our womens faces, which has never been so extensive as now, is directly ac- counted for by the fact that we have all, more or less, as families or individuals, been addicted to using impure ointments. Please, therefore, to eschew for your face all such compounds.
 If you take your bath and scrub at night you will find, no matter how ner- vous and tired you may be- that 1t will induce a delicious languor, and un- less you have been drinking lot of strong tea and coffee during the day about the iniquity of which I have something to say later-you will, like a wise woman, go directly to bed and fall into a dreamless, placid sleep, dur ing which, if you could but see your self as you lie>there so sweetly resting,
  smoothed on brow and cheek, for this much the bath and scrub will do almost immediately.
 If you prefer to take your bath in the morning there is no objection to it, though few delicate women can bear well the lassitude which a warm bath often induces, taken early in the day, even when followed by the cold sponge. You cannot keep your body clean by scrubbing in cold water alone, any more than you can wash clothes in cold water and without strong alkalieS get |. the dirt out of them. A cold plunge is most invigorating to those who are robust enough to bear the shock, but it is utter nonsense to say it can take the place of soap and a scrubbing brush and plenty of warm, soft water. Of course if you prefer your bath in the morning you must leave the emol- lient out of the programme. In any event scrub your face thoroughly with the brush every night, rinsing it with care, and then put the cream or emol- lient on.
 Note-It is possible the scrubbing will for a few days irritate your face. Use the emollient freely) It will pass away as soon as your skin becomes used to the treatment.
 An Excellent Cold Cream. Melt three ounces spermaceti. two ounces white wax and twelve ounces sweet oil of almonds, in a water bath f; pour it into a marble mortar and stir brisllly to prevent granulation; when of the conscience of butter triturate until the mixture has a white, creamy appear ance; then during continued trituration add by degrees a mixture of one ounce double water of roses and one ounce odorless glycerine; incorporate for twenty minutes and add ten drops essence of roses; beat for about half an hour, put | into pots or jars, and close air tight Lait Virginal Gath Liquid. Orange flower water, eight ounces; and | tincture of benzoin, two drachms The | former is added very slowly to the latter | during constant trituration, so as to pro- | duce an opalescent milky fluid.
 Bran and Almond Meal Bags To three pounds of clean bran add one l of Florentine orris pulverized, one and a l half pounds of almond meal and eight l ounces white castillo soap grated. Mix thoroughly. Make twenty-four bags of l cheese cloth about eight inches in length l and five across; put about five ounces in | each bag and use one bag for a bath l just as you would use a sponge. Be care | full to sew the bags firmly.
 | COL. l.. J. ALLRED WRITES: | am in my 73d year, and for fifty years
 have been great sufferer from indiges-