Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-07-27
SU M MER COMPETITIONS
SAFE LOTIONS THAT MAY BE Made
AT HOME
How to Prepare Milk of Roses, Let
tuce and Cucumber Creams
Remedies for Prickly Heat.
Written for The Evening Star.

Written for The Evening Star.
The sun and breezes of July and August
may be regarded with a mind fairly re-
signed, even by the woman possessed of
the most delicate complexion, if her dress
ing table be supplied with few judicious-
ly selected lotions and healing creams.
Many of these may be of home manu-
facture and quite as effectual for the re-
moVai of tan, sunburn and freckles as the
high priced imported articles
Sunshine, In spite of tan, red noses and
freckies, Is good fer the skin. So is fresh
air. Both united give bloom and color,
and II taken early before the former has
lost its morning fragrance and while the
latter has not yet gained it's power to tan
too deeply, the benefit is very certain, and
the bloom OF Hebe. Diana or Hygeia may
be secured, or the bloom of all these COM
bined, shall we say?
OF the two kinds of freckes, the consti-
tutional or permanent. and the evanescent
or summer freckles, the latter are the
least difficult to deal with. Some skins are
SO delicate that they become freckled on
the slightest exposure to the open air In
summer. The cause assigned is that the
iron in the blood, forming a junction with
the oxygen, leaves a rusty mark The
cure, then, is to dissolve the combination
A lotion of one part good Jamaica rum to
two parts lemon Juice and little glycerine
is one recipe for removing freckles. An
other one, which is easily prepared re-
qnires one ounce of alum, one ounce OF
lemon juice and one pint of rose water.
Rose water and lemon juice are excellent
for removing tan-one spoonful Of lemon
juice In half pint of rose water.
A Skin Whitener.
For whitening the skin, after tan has
been removed, there is a cosmetic-milk of
.roses-which is made without great trouble
Pound an ounce of almonds In a mortar
very finely, then put in shavings of honey
soap In a small quantity. and add enough
rose water to make paste. That 1t may
keep any length of time, add slowly an
ounce of alcohol. Strain through fine mus
lin and perfume with altar of rose, If de-
sired Apply at night to the face with a
sponge, washing off with warm water in
the morning
The juice of lettuce is highly esteemed by
french women for it's healing properties.
Lettuce creams purchased at the chemists
are expensive, and no better than those of
nome manufacture. Pour quart Of boiling
water over half a peck of full grown outside
leaves Of lettuce After ten minutes drain
OH the water and chop the lettuce fine. Put
1t In a soft, clean cloth and wiring out all
lhe juice that can be extracted-only the dry
pup Will be left In the cloth. Boil this juice
In porcelain saucepan for four minutes.
There will be about three tablespoonful of
the green liquor, which is set aside until
wanted later Take half an ounce each of
white wax and of spermaceti and four
ounces of oil Of almonds and melt together
in vessel placed over the stove in another
vessel of hot water Stir occasionally, and
when 1t is quite smooth add the lettuce
juice and mix thoroughly Pour into little
porcelain jar, placing this jar in cold water
while the mixture is cooling. No cream is
more soothing to a sunburned complexion.
For Sunburn.
Cucumber cream, to .whiten the complex
ion after removing sunburn, requires about
pint Of green cucumbers chopped and the
juice extracted with a1Iemon squeezer. To
this add enough sweet cream to make a
paste and few drops oef rose water. This
paste may. be diluted sasf used with sweet
milk, and Is to be used on the face at night
and washed OFF in the morning. The juice
of watermelon may be substituted for the
cucumber juice. a. 81
For prickly heat simple remedy is To-.
ton made of two oundes oftdistilled waters
and two drains of suIphateo of iron. This
may be applied as often as Necessary. An
other soothing and cooling wash requires
half ounce Of glycerine, quarter ounce OF
finely powdered borax and one pint of cam
phor waterfall is, a weak solution of
| camphor o.
For excessive perspira hon, which is both
disagreeabe and facilitating, some Of the
unpleasant effects may be aliayed by wash
Ing the affected place with one part boracic
acid and ten parts water Then dust the
skin with powdered boracic acid.