The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-16

the p as anu must R be Gentle lie This VIII
keep the flesh from becoming fiabby
battle the neck in water in which a small
piece of alum has been dissolved. A piece
the size of a bean to pint of cold water
BLONDE-I think if you will apply the
following sedative lotion to your face. be-
will obviate the excessive tendency to
irritation of the skim Distilled witch
hazel, ounces; prepared cucumber juice,
ounces; rosewater, 112 ounces; essence
white rose, liz ounces simple tincture of
benzoin. half an ounce. Rub this into
the skin with the finger tips and let the
vegetable powder. To put on flesh, first
of all you must bid a fond farewell to
the habit of fussing and worrying. Get
lots of sleep, and If convenient take be-
fore rising cup of hot milk or of milk
and cocoa well sugared. Take tepid
baths and exercise moderately. Eat all
rice, butter, cereals, eggs, milk and game,
tapioca, sage, vermicelli or custard pud-
ding, macaroni, cheese and salad served
with plenty of oil, but no vinegar; they
are all good. Avoid pickles and acids OF
all kinds. A teaspoonful of olive oil taken
several times day, and frequent, rub
the good work along.
CORA V.-The orange flower skin food
should keep your face from becomin
rough. Perhaps the blood becomes over
heated at times and dries the skin. Here
is the formula for most delightful
cream, WHICH is particularly good for
the skin of the hands: Spermacet,
1 ounce; white wax, 1 ounce; oil of
sweet almonds, ounces; rosewater, 80
ounces; powdered borax, 20 grains, es-
quantities will fill S-ounce jar, which
will last you all winter. The brown spots
probably. liver spots, and nothing will
Danish them until the disordered liver
which causes them is remedied.
AGNES B.--Do not try to reduce the
size of your bust unless you do so by a
general fiesh-reducing diet. All sorts OF
harm can come about by trying the reme-
smaller. For the fabbiness, use the alum
bath suggested to Mrs L. G. You might
try lemon juice and borax-hfteen grains
to the ounce-on those brown spots on
your hands; but if, as | strongly suspect,
they are liver spots, nothing in the world
will permanently do away with them until
their cause "a disordered liver) is RENE
died.
DIMPLE CHEEK-To improve the COM
plexion, follow the general health rules
which 1 have so often laid down in these
columns, and which, if you are constant
reader of my department.; you must have
seen more than once. For the freckles.
useShfteen grains of borax in one ounce
of lemon juice. For the projecting bones,
massage each night with lanoline, partly
melted, and eat plenty of fattening foods.
The effect which you desire under the
eyes is neither healthy looking nor pretty,
and L cannot suggest any means ny WHICH
it may be brought about. Touch the
pimples with listerine, diluted with three
times as much boiled water, or with tine
ture Of myrrh. With a stout face, would
advise drawing the front hair back and
up in pompadour style, rather close at
the sides the long tresses puffed and
piled up quite loftily on top of the head.
MRS. HENRY L. Gin order to gam
the amount of flesh that you desire, fol-
low the directions given in foregoing re;
ply to Blonde. To enlarge the bust and
add pIunpness to the neck, massage with
equal parts of cocoa butter, lanoline and
cocoanut oil melted together. Heat before
applying and massage the neck and bust
every night for fifteen minutes Wear
loose clothing and discard all pads. A
very good lotion with which to whiten
the skin is made by pressing the. juice out
of the green cucumber and heating 1T I'M
til a white scum rises to the top. Skim
this and then strain. Dilute it about one
third with rosewater and apply each
night. .
made by sitting over and over again one
ounce of Lubin's rice powder with three
ounces of pure oxide Of zinc and adding
three drops of oil of roses. Better let
your druggist mix this for you, as face
powders are very troublesome to make,
unless one has the proper appliances.