The San Francisco call., 1899-06-25

benefit you If 1t does not. write to me
again and l will tell you of another treat
ment which. although severe, will almost
rid of the blaCkheads, you can restore
tone to the fiabby skin by the use of as
tringent washes. l scarcely think it
day is often enough to scrub the face
Be. sure that your brush is one of good,
firm brstles.
buttermilk should cause hair to grow on
the face. l have never known it to have
that effect. Where there is an excessive
tendency toward superfiuous hair, every
thing, even the action of the sunlight
or the least bit Of friction, seems in some
cases to increase its growth
DAISY BELLE-I am more delighted
gested has made such short shrift of the
blackheads. Your druggist did not mix
the ingredients In your skin food proper
you. describe. You should have taken it
back to him and had him remix it. Take
silver spoon and beat it up yourself un-
I'll the ingredients are thoroughly incor-
porated, and it is smooth, fluffy mass
II little heat is necessary, place it on
the stove for few minutes.
KATHERINE S.-First of all, get rid
of the idea that you are dyspeptic Go
out OF doors and make a garden or ride
wheel; or, if you cannot do these things
TO give you strength and exercise, walk
air, and occupy yourself with your house
hold duties until there is no time left in
which to remember that you ever had
dyspepsia. You know you can coddle a
disease until 1t brings its trunk and
comes to stay. Drink a quart of hot
water. every day, not all at once, but a
giassful whenever you happen to think
of 1t. Nibble a bit of magnesia as you
would bonbon, and eat food that is sim
pie and wholesome. Fresh dates. straw
berries and other laxative fruits you will
find particularly beneficial, and drink
milk to which teaspoonful of lime
water has been added.
LIZZIE @. T.-The very best rouge is
animation and good health. | disapprove
wicked or anything of that sort, but be-
cause not one woman in ninety-nne
can put coloring stuff on her
cheeks fa svsrw without %na its no being apparent
her artificial complexion If rouge rouge
Is used at all, it should be used so spar
tngly as to give but the faintest sugges-
ton of pink to the checks If you Insist
by adding a tiny bit of powdered car
mine, previously dissolved in teaspoon
ful of alcohol to little of your cold
cream
BESSIE M-Unless the fuzz on your
face and arms is very noticeable l would
leave it religiously alone. So often those
things look terribly Objectionable to one
self, while not one person in a thousand
could notice them-not without a micro
scope at any rate.
VIOLETTA Lit strikes me that YOU
have very good daily routine, and 1 see
no peason why, with such care, you should
not acquire a good, healthy, robust
beauty. AS to the foods that must be
eaten for beauty, 1t is difficult to lay
down any. cast-iron rules. What might
agree perfectly with one might occasion
a terrible attack of indigestion with an
other; so that personal experience must
decide to a great extent what should or
chn hn,111 ha c fa r,,Jo
exclude from the dietary all sweet, fried
and highly seasoned foods, wine and beer,
hot bread, buckwheat cakes, pastry.
cheese. nuts and chocolate Radishes,
beets and cucumbers are also indigestible
to the ordinary individual. AS for meats.
beef or lamb, broiled. roasted or baked,
are the most nourishing and easily di-
gested meats. and steak and chops SINH
larly prepared are equally as nutritious
and digestible. Many of the vegetables
contain medicinal qualities. such as spin
ach. which has a direct effect upon the
kidneys; asparagus, which is a blood
purifier, and celery, which is an excellent