Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-14

Lotion for Slight Skin Irritations.
 Pulverized borax, drachms; pure gly- cerine, A ounce; orange flower water, 12 ounces. Mix and bottle. This is a de- lightful wash for any slight skin affec- tions, and may be used with most sooth- ing effect for children when sun or wind burned.
 Vaccination scars upon the arms are moi beautifying, but I cannot indorse the much vaunted method of removing them by surgery. They are less unsightly than a scar from an abscess or sore, be- cause the association is quite different Of course it goes without saying that all little girls nowadays are vaceinated upon the leg.
 Nothing but exercise of the arm mus cles will prevent the arm of womankind from growing soft underneath near the shoulder, and exercise alone will harden 1t once 1t has become daccid. The con dition is one which bctokens years but 1t can be defied. The first four of the dumb bell exercises and Indian clubs are excellent for hardening the relaxed muscles. Use the following astringent
 Astringent I o icn.
 Pulverized alum. 11s drachms; distilled water, l pint: glycerine. 1 ounce; rose water, ounces.
 Treatment of F'laocid Muscles,
 Deep, brisk massage will also aid in hardening relaxed arms. The neck and throat are more beautiful in woman from her early prime to her ripe maturity; that is to say the girlish beauty of a youthful neck is not so much in the lines, which are usually a little sharp but in the general air of innocence and sweetness, and also of delicacy, which is ever associated with the slender white column of the virginal throat and dainty shoulders. { is the full-blown woman of 30 who is cblouissa nte when the splendor of her neck and bust is revealed It is mistake to consider either the elongated, crane-like neck or the short, stocky throat, which resembles the frus- tum of a cone, as the model of beauty The neck is properly the column of the head and when quite symmetrical should be a little wider at the base and at the top with the gentlest of inward slopes toward the middle It is curious fact that so many women learn to use their feet and hands gracefully and eX- pressively, and never seem to consider that the neck is most eloquent in its gestures. We are too many of us siff- necked or wabbly-necked or we crane our necks Very, very few are the grace ful-necked women of our times
 A Perfect Neck and Shoulders.
 In London some years ago I heard an Englishman say that he used to willingly pay his guineas for a seat at the opera where he could watch Lady Randolph Churchlrs graceful neck and head. I cannot teach you from this distance how to hold your heads but you have the great artistes Sarah Bernhardt and Elm ma Flames for models of the nineteenth century and the Greek statues for the standard of antique beauty. It Is an un- doubted truth that the neck and throat of high bred woman are incomparably more beautiful than in the woman of lower origin Blood will tell; there is no diSputing it.. The shoulders of perfect loVeliness should be neither wide nor meanly contracted, but of medium width and should droop or flow into the arms in a graceful. unduating curve. Square shoulders are not pretty, nor or they wo- manly. Of late years the metal trim mings about the necks of our bodices have resulted often in dark. sometimes almost black stains around the throat Soap and water will have little or no effect upon such dscolorations. but I have not failed to remove them by wash composed of a weak dilution of hydrochloric acid-about one fluid ounce of the acid to nineteen of water. The two circles or rings around the throat which mark the thirty-ffth year particularly of the plump beauty, may be frightened and sometimes removed by wearing looser neck bands and by gen tie, but frequent, manipulations. The present choking style of neck arrange ments is ruinous to the beauty of the
 
 liberty
 Gross Old Fashion.
 Some of my readers will perhaps recall the padded busts of twenty-five years back. I remember quite well that no woman was considered of fine figure about the time of the reign of the Gre elan bend and filters without a corre- spondingly abnormal development of bust. I have a cousin who rejoiced in a waist measurement of IS inches, a bust which called for A inches of room, and when this young lady honored my moth CTS home with her magnificent presence, waist, bust, Grecian bend. tilting skirts and high-heeled French shoes, I was the most humble of her adorers and used to pray heaven that some day, some won- drous beautiful day, it might be my for tune to resemble her.
 It seems scarcely necessary to say a warning word concerning pads, for no dressmaker of renown will at present them. They are responsi- ble for many diseased and broken down women, and I think despite our exagger- ated and ridiculous fin de Siecle fashions of the present time, we have much to be thankful for in the extirpation of false busts. palpitators and kindred consump- tion breeders.
 Slender Busts are Beautiful.
 We no longer delight in 44-inch busts, but we are not much less absurd in our present shoulder monStrOSltleS. Mod ern fashion decrees that the average of a finely formed woman in perfect health should be: Circumfer- cnce at the level of the nipple, 32 inches; from nipple to nipple, one-fourth of the or 8 inches; waist meas ure from 2S to 29 inches. The best meth cd for developing the bust is vocal cul- ture combined with massage and ire quent ablutions. I beg particularly to warn you against the use of the glass cup for the development of the breasts as I have personally seen several seri- ous glandular swellings and abscesses produced from it's use. For decreasing a too abundant or as the French term a too fieshy breast-Monin authorizes the following, which is called the Kisch treatment to reduce feshy breasts First the breasts are to be annointed with the following:
 Pure deordorized iodoform, one part
 Vaseline, fifteen parts.
 Essence of peppermint eleven drops.
 Then cover the breasts with hot linen cloths dipped in the following lotion:
 Pulverized alum, l part; acetate of lead, 15 parts; distilled water, 20 drops. Over the clothes lay oiled paper and leave the whole on from ten to twelve hours. This treatment should be con-