The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-06
Answers. to Correspondents.

EVELEEN-I am quite sure this is the
first letter from you that has reached me.
Am glad you wrote again. For the hol-
lows in the shoulders massage with equal
parts of cocoa butter, lanolin and cocoa
nut oil melted together. Heat before ap-
plying and massage every night for ten
or fifteen minutes. To increase flesh
cease worrying and get lots of sleep. Eat
starchy, fattening foods such as rice, but
ter, cereals; eggs, milk and game, tapioca,
sage, yermicelli, cuStard, cheese and salad
served with plenty Of oil, but no vinegar.
Eat plenty of fruit; it is the best COM
plexion medicine in the world, and If the
biliousness continues, get your druggist
TO prepare some three-grain taraXacum
pills for you. Take one twice a day, as
long as the system seems to require it.
Oatmeal is better than bran for whiten-
ing the skin. Take some good oatmeal,
boil 1t in water for hour, strain and
use the liquid to wash with night and
morning. Try this wash for the freckles:
Three grains borax. five drains rosewater,
five drains elder flower water. Apply i'm
mediately after coming in out of the sun.
You cannot cleanse the body thoroughly
without the use of soap. If it is pure it
will not cause hair to grow. 1 am really
afraid to suggest anything TO darken the
eyelashes. 1t is so dreadfully risky to
apply any sort of a lotion, for it is sure
to get into the eyes and weaken or injure
them. l am sorry There | believe
there is not a question left unanswered.
l regret that L could not give, you an
answer in the next Sundays Call" as
you requested, but were to reply in the
next issue to all the letters that come to
me during the week l would have to
have an entire page all to myself.
CRADAVUS-I am quite certain that I
answered your first letter. Did you not
write to me over the name Blossom r.?
The answer appeared in the Sunday Call
of September is. do not understand
just what you mean by pink complex
ion" Most people are striving for a
white skin. I know of no way of maxi
ing the hands small, nor can 1 tell you
of anything that Will make any percepti-
bic difference in their smoothnesS and
wilderness, after one application. There
is no way Of making the fingers taper,
shaped appliances that come for the pur-
pose. To make the hair grow apply this
tonic to the scalp every night: Oil of
sweet almonds, 80 grammes; essence of
rosemary, 80 grammes; oil of mace, 1
gramme. While using this tonic wash
the hair once week with white CASTLE
F. F. F.-stop using the sage tea upon
the falling hair and use the following
which is splendid invigorator: Eight
ounces of cologne, one ounce tincture of
cantharides; one-half dram oil of English
lavender and one-half dram oil of rose
mary Apply to the roots of the hair
once or twice a day, using a small sponge
for the purpose. Shampoo once week.
To whiten and soften the skin when bath
ing combine equal parts of shaved CASTLE
soap, almond meal and powdered orris
root. Put into cheeSecloth bags and use
in the bath Or you can use the almond
meal alone in the same way.
b. k.-Am very pleased that my edvice
has been of help TO you. You might
try reducing the size of your hips by the
following exercises: Stand with the heels
close together and try and touch the floor
with the tips of the fingers without bend
ing the knees Then lie fiat upon the
back ON the floor and raise the body to
sitting posture. Repeat, these exercises
ten or fifteen times each night. They
may help, but I rather think mechanical
massage is the only thing that viii re-
duce them This can be had at some one
A. A. B.-For answer to your question
about reducing size of abdomen and hips,
think it very likely that the flushing and
nervousness, also the condition of your
skin, arise from disordered digestion, al
cause. If from the former cause, you
must remedy that condition before you
can hope for Immunity from facial
troubles. If poor circulation is the cause
take plenty of exercise in the open air
sleep in a well-ventilated room, eat nour-
the feet in hot water before retiring for
Beaches which remove the cuticle entirely
are often very dangerous, as the main in
gredient is usually corrosive sublimate,
deadly poison. SO l prefer not to give
you a formula for anything that will re-
strong an acid as any. one should ever
apply to the face. A little borax added
to it makes it more effective. as borax is
very whitening. Cold cream should al
ways be used after the lemon juice AS
do not know the exact shade of your hair
nor the color you wish to make 1t l cam
not tell you what to use on it, Sage tea.
made very strong, will darken light hair
slightly, but whether it would make the
shade you desire or not, / could not say
SCHOOLGIRL = A pretty way for
schoolgirl to dress her hair is to part it,
wave and loosely coil it away from the
temples. Then braid the back hair, turn
it up and fasten with one of the new
buckle pins.