The age-herald., 1897-09-09

protected from the hot, blisiering desert wind. and the awful glare of the yellow sand. Women who have conscientious scruples about putting on powdsr at any time 5r for any purpose, have been known while crossing the desert to hys- tericaly weep themselves into a fever with the pain of tn fir blister5d faceg. After trying day by the sea or on the river, or on a yacht, the face should never be washed with water. Cold cream or cocoa butter rubbed on with a bit of soft linen will be found msre cleansing as we'll as more soothing, than the tempting but jud,cious bowl of wa- ter. For ordinary use during the summer or irdeed, at any time, a wash made as follows will be found an excellent skin pressrver: In one gallon of boil ing waiter dissolve half a pound of pure white castillo soap cut into shavings. After this has cooled, add one quart of best alcohol and one ounce of oil of rosemary The mixture is to be well shaken and the face and neck anoint ed with it every morning after the bath. Madame Adelina Patti has used a simi- lar lotion foa many years. Hers is composed, if I remember rightly, of rose water, glycerine, and white brandy. But glycerine is apt to coarsen some skins, and th= recipe given above is the be.- ter of the two. Genuine white castillo soap, it must be remembered, is made of pure olive oli, ard Is the finest soap in the world. It is the basis of all the finest and most expensive scented soaps and also of many shampoos and lotions sold by. perfume and hairdressers. Chemists do not like to furnish castle soap. It is far more profitable for them to melt it down with equal quantities of common white soap add little oat- meal or coloring matter or cheap scent of som=- sort, run it into moulds and sell 1t in tablets under various fancy names. They invariably 'pooh-pooh' the article when asked for castillo soap It may be best procured at some large first-class shop. The oil shops import it in bulk, and sell it by weight to barbers and psrfumers. The genuine castle soap comes from Spain. It is imported in very large, long bars, stamped here and there with an oval shaped inscrip- tion in Spanish. The best quality is cream white and costs something over shilling a pound. A lower and cheaper grade, darkish and mottled, is an ex- cellent soap for washing fine flannels or for ordinary bathing purposes.
 hfr. Arthur Jule Goodman has just completed a. portrait of the celebrated actress, Mrs. Beerbohm Tree. It is done in pastel, and MS. Tree is taken as Man quise de Pre- in 'eTha Silver Key" The portrait will be exhibited this autumn. P,acfJ ir1 laa 1Ofsf,4 {r- of pinkish velvet, with whae satin front, covered with tulle, caught with punches of pink roses. Her hair is pow dered, and she wears a jeweled turban ornamented with three white plumes.
 
 Miss Lucile Smith has returned from a visit to Tate Sp.ings
 Miss Bessie Walker, of MonItg omery, is the guest of her aun.. Mrs. B. L. Wy man, SIS Nineteenth street, Month.
 Miss Malanie Holt, of Galveston, Tex, is spending the summer at Pulaski, Va.
 Misses Luci!e Smith, Virginia Walker, Daura Ferguson and Jeannette Moore will fill cen;ain vacancies in the Treble Clef club, and accompany the members of this delightful organization to Nash vtlle on the 18th :net.
 Mrs. s. E. Thompson and her little daughter Miss Helen, left yesterday at noon for a long wish. to relatives in Ohio.
 Miss Mary Louise Larfer is spending some time in Huntsville with her aunt, Miss Annie Banister.
 Mr ErslJ,ne Ramsey has returned from visit of several weeks to points of in- terest north and east.
 Mrs. J. W. Clay, Jr., and family, who have been lhe guests of realtives at Huntsville during the summer, will de- turn home tomorrow.
 Miss Louise Ban7ster of Huntsville will spend several rnonths with her sis ter, Mrs. Sterling Lalrier, and peruse her musical studies at the Birmingham Con- se!vacory.
 MT. Charles D. Robertson and Miss Alice Darby will be married on the 18th irjst. at the home of MT. and Mrs. w. L. Robertson. Mrs. Robertson is sis- ter of Miss Darby.
 Misses Annie and Maggie O'Neill left yesterday for New York City, where they will spend several weeks.
 Mrs. Irene Semple, of Montgomery, has had placed in St. Johns church. Monk gorrnery' a tablet to the memory of her father the late MT. Joel White, who was a very prominent and useful citizen of Alabarla