The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-06-12
Value of Cucumber Juice
as a Face Cosmetic.
Parisians D0N0t Take Kindly
10 M0urnful Music.
Bicycle Polo In India Pigeons and
Dogs For Use IL War Time.

1t Is not generally known that the most
expensive toilet luxuries contain cucum-
Der Juice and just now 10 Is time Tor the
wise bousekeeper TO preserve their cool
ing and healing properties not only for
her own use, but for that OF the whole
family To make cucumber cream, which
not only clears and cleanses the complex
len, but is also very healing, proceed as
follows: Remove the soft part from two
or three cucumbers, warm sufficiently
20 make Ii squeeze through the colander,
then squeeze through hair sioye; To hall
a teacupful of this add q teaspoonful OF
glycerine and five drops OF salicylic acid ;
10th the latter are personalities and. II
glycerine does not agree with the skin
tho salicylatc alone swill bo sufficient.
Add few drops of any perfume liked ana
the ointment Is ready for use. While GU
cunbers are plentiful IL is we'll TO havo
thick slices of the softest, with the soap
on the washstand and TO use after tho
former TO rub face. hands AMI throat,
ripsing afterward. The clean soft feel
ing of the skin will answer tor Its future
use. While tomatoes are riDe and rlenti-
ful they are excellent 20 remove freckles
and muddiness from this skin. a woman
with a peachlike bloom on her skin de-
clares she has used nothing else besides
soap from her grlhood. A thorough rub
hing OF the skin once or twice daily while
the season lasts with a ripe tomato VIII
work woI ders. and IL this Is found To be
the yory thing for certain complexions
tho canned may be used occasionally
through the winter; those canned nearly
whole must be chosen, as they are the
least cooked
The organ grinders OF Paris on their
tours through the districts where had
lived somo Of the victims Of the Charity
tire took TO playing mournfui dirges re-
contly instead of their customary selec-
tions from opera bouffe hoping thereby to
attune their Instruments TO the presuma-
bly, snddened mood oe the concierges and
butlSrs.s But they have found that they
were losing money in consequence. The
inference, Of course. was TINT Messieurs
tho Janitors ct al, were not sad, since they
preferred frivolous airs to those more
appropriate TO the melancholy event. TO
the extent of Withdrawing their patronage
from the itinerant musicians. At any
rate, the organ grinders have abandoned
their attempts TO probe into the true In
wardness OF sentiments below stairs, and
have returned to their "Fille dc Madame
Angotv and tie Partisan equivalent for
'Tarara- boom decay" with marked i'm
provement TO their finances
The returns OF accidents as reported by
the railway companies of Great Britain
have just been made public. Ii Is stated
that accidents TO trains caused the death
OF eight persons and injury 10 549 persons,
as compared with IL deaths and 4S7 per
sons injured i'm 1895. or the passengers
In ls96, against 4 killed and 800 injured In
the year previous During the twelve
months there were reported 20 collisions
between passenger trains and ~ collisions
between passenger trains and goods trains
The small number OF accidents Is 10 bo
attributed to the general prevalence of
what Is known rs the "block system on
English railways. term used for well
known system OF signal.
Oyer in India they have been playing
polo on BICYCLES and the game seems To
ne very popular Young officers in India
find the innovation a great advantage in
the way of economy, and IL is proba-
ble that there will bo much less risk OF
serious ACCIDENT with bicycles than there
is with ponies. IL is scarcely likely, how
ever, that the polo pony will bo entirely
superseded for the substitution of "b &
of machinery" for the living animal Will
excite the ridicule of those war like races
in India who are born horsemen. Similar
games 60 that of polo have been common
among the natives Of India for centuries
and the cultivation OF such manly sport
commends the Britisher In the eyes of the
native subject.
Such important fortresses as Metz,
Strasburg and Cologne are supplied with
800 pigeons, and the military pigeon or
ganization has been brought To the great
est perfection In Germany. The network
Of pigeon stations is so perfect that even
II every railway and telegraph wire in
the German empire were IN the hands Of
an enemy the principal towns on the from
tier could communicate with one another,
and the capital. Berlin, could keep in
touch with them oil by means of the mil
itary carrier pigeons. Whilst tho Ger
mans are making the best use of the
pigeons tho Russians are using dogs for
tho transmission Of messages ard more
especially as protectors TO advanced out
costs and Isolated sentries The dogs are
deployed i'm fighting order, and ut given
signal bound forward To the skirmishcs
taking with them supplies Of cSrtriGges
placed I'm little saddles. Both IN
this duty and the CONVEYANCE OF messages
the dogs are stated 10 have shown high
degrce of intelligence, rejecting great
credit upon those responsible for thoir
training.
curious statement is made by n
veterinarian journal on the relative