Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-19
DAINTY EFFECTS, TOO
HOW A WINDOW ARRANGEMENT
CAN BE MADE.
The Wealthy Can Have Travellers
Bag and Be Ready for
Any Need.

plexions and destroying poor ones. Then,
too, light clothing makes tan and freckles
so much more noticeable. Nothing but con-
slant attention to the skin VIII keep these
evils in allegiance. Therefore wherever she
goes the would be fair needs her toilet aux
iiares always at hand.
The season begins happily enough. Each
woman fondly trusts that she may escape
unscathed. Spring winds and the spring
sun cause little injury; it Is when midsum-
mer arrives and blstering rays are relent-
lessly cast back from bare sands and water
that the skin assumes a dull copper or
lobster red tan. Reflected sunshine Is the
most adverse to beauty, but, alas, few wo-
men are sufficiently well informed to know
this No hat or parasol veil will ade-
quately protect from the action of reflected
sunlight: toilet preparations must be relied
on; so even if a woman does not use cos
metics at any other time, should she care
at all for her good looks she Is pretty GER
tain to resort to them in midsummer.
AS prevention is worth a pound of cure,
it is best to make the face an object of
care every day. A really dainty woman
furnishes her dressing table as prettily as
possible. When she is at home, there is no
difficulty in arranging combs, brushes man
touring tools, bottles of scents and cos
metics just where she can put her hand
upon them at minutes notice. At sum-
mer resort quarters are HeCeSSdIily sinai,
and every inch of space is valuable.
The Only Mirror.
In ordinary hotels or boarding houses the
large bureau contains the only mirror in
the room. The glass, often an inferior quail
ity, is not relied upon by fastidious women,
who provide themselves with a mirror
wherever they go. There Is decided diff
ference In the qualities of these. Often a
looking glass will distort the features or
discolor the skin to an extent that is highly
annoying, and the owner of the face fances
that her looks have deteriorated over night.
Best for the traveller is one of the folding
mirrors that afford a view of the head in
different positions. These are inexpensive
and useful.
A good glass in a plain wooden frame
is a convenience which any woman can af
ford. 1t may be mounted on a fiat base
with two wooden arms, in which the mirror
is held by screws. This glass can be so
swung that the entire figure is brought into
view.
If wrapped in cotton and packed in a
fiat pasteboard box, the apparatus may be
carried in the trunk with safety. The wood
en- support should be tucked away under
meath the clothing. When the owner
reaches her temporary quarters, she may
select a wide window or small table for
her toilet stand
piece of embroidered linen is spread
over it to protect the polished wood from
the sharp edges of glass bottles and knives
Women who wish to keep their cosmetics
from curious eyes often carry with them
when long away light bamboo or wooden
shelf Over the front of this a silken cur
tain is hung, and bottles and jars are tuck
ed away behind the drapery. The pin
cushion or odds and ends of that kind may
be laid out on top of the shelf.
A Transformation.
If there is nothing better, an ordinary
table, with the assistance of a white cloth,
may be transformed into a very fair toilet
table. If the piece of furniture is of the
doubledecked kinds, second cover laid
over the under shelf will give space for
extra brushes or boxes.
An ordinary small table may be made
into a dressing case very easily. Get a
carpenter or some one accustomed to the
use of tools to shape a support for square
or oblong mirror, which can be then screw
ed into place at the back A couple of
coats of white enamel will make the table
a suitable decoration for bed room. This
makes a cheap and handsome piece of fur
nlture for summer cottage.
Fashionable women carry travelling bags,
in which all the utensils needed for the
toilet are snugly tucked in little cases.
AS one of the bags will last a lifetime,
they are a good investment for any woman
who goes about much. The bottles in the
finest qualities of cases are made of cut
glass and mounted in silver. Such Access
series to the toilet are, of course, very
expensive, but ordinary jars with caps of
plated ware are within the means of any
one. A suitable case might be gradually
furnished with the needed articles, bought
one at a time.
In a Neat Array.
Tho travellers toilet case is box shaped
and covered with leather One side opens
like an ordinary lid and discloses the con-
re In
tached to the upper side that 1t may be
carried like a dress suit case. Its size
depends altogether on the number of things
which the owner considers necessary to
her comfort as a traveller
mana glass, comb, a nail file and
scissors, case for the toilet soap, curl
ing irons, a spirit lamp, button and glove
hooks, shoe horn, powder box, jars and
cases containing scents, cosmetics, clothes,
tooth, hat, nail, shoe, bath, complexion and
halr brushes, notebook, bottle of ink, note
paper, pen, ink and pencils a housewife
containing a full set of needles and a small
medicine chest are, with many other trif1es
OF ike nature, considered essential to the
proper furnishing of the larger bags.
Everything mas its special stall and is
slipped into 1t when not in use. Thus it
is in place when it is needed; there is no
necessity for packing when hurriedly 60
ing away.
Filling for the Jars.
TO come back to the question of filing
the jars, the best antidote- for lsunburn is
glycerin and rosewater The proportions
in which these are combined depend upon
the skin to which the lotion Is to be ap-
pled. Some require mora glycerin, some
less. About one-third of the ioil to two
thirds of rosewater is an average COM
bination. Before going out into the sun
the race should be washed and a thin
coating or the lotion rubbed over the skin;
thus the complexion will be protected
from tan On returning to, the house wash
with cold water. A thin coat1of powder
is often applied over the lotion, it is quite
harmless, provided a pureuricel quality is
USED, and 1t affords better defense
against the sun than any mere wash.
Lemon juice rubbed over the skin is said
to be good whitener. 1t roushens some
complications, and after trying it rosewater
and glycerine or some other healing lotion
should be put on the face When the sun
mas irritated or inflamed the skin, use the
Following preparation twice each day:
POWDERED borax, one-half ounce; glycerin,
one ounce; carbonate of soda, one ounce;
milk, ore pint.
The combination of half pint of oat-
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