Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-08
HEALTH AND BEAUTY.
A Specialist Tells. How to Become
Attractive and Vigorous.

Vera Short of Towson, writes:
| please tell me in your next issue how
| to increase my height. 1 am only 4
feet tall, but weigh $50 pounds, so you
see there is plenty of me to constitute
a person of increased length and de-
creased diameter
While it is much easier to become
short than to become tall, yet the lat
| ter is not altogether impossible. You
| should fasten your feet to the floor, tie
ropes to your hands, run the ropes over
pulleys, and get some strong person to
pull on the other end of the ropes until
you have stretchedi out as far as you
think best. If you were a man, there
would be an easier method open to you.
| Recently, during the corn manipula-
tons, quite a number of very short
operators went long on corn with strik-
| ing results.
| "Pulsifer Scroggs," of Sudbroo,1
Park, writes: kindly give directions
for washing the face
| Too much attention cannot be given
to this important feature of the toilet.
SO many people seem to think if they
put their faces in the wash on Monday
that is sufficient. But, alas! many
face gets lost in the laundry. The best
way is to wash your own face. Lay
the face on a smooth surface and
scrub it with sand soap until a healthy
glow appears; then drop it into indigo
water for three hours. Hang out to
| dry and iron gently with sad iron.
Use no starch, unless you are smooth
faced. If starch is used where there
is beard it will stiffen the whiskers
and cause them to cut your collar off.
| .'Lizette O'Tunder,, of Mt. Winans.
writes: please be so good as to pub
fish good set of rules for combing the
| hair"
| Let the hair hang out of the window
| The night before it is cOmbed. Take
! it in the next morning, spread it over
| the back of a chair and work it out
| well with a curry comb. Brush from
right to left and then up and down.
| While the hair is on the chair rub the
tonic into your scalp. Do not apply
| the tonic to the chair unless it has hair
cushions. The use of curl papers is
! discouraged. Curl your hair with
mixture of upholsterer's glue and sim
pie syrup. This produces the ''sweetly
| clinging curl" of which Janice Mere
| dith was so proud.
"Arabella de Rotundah,'' of Roland
! Park, begs: please, please, dear kind
| editor, tell me how to cure a red nose
| Peel carefully and placein a porcelain
vessel half filled with salt water. Cover
with a coarse cloth, and lay on that a
! board which fits the vessel. On top of
this place weight. Let stand for
| forty-eight hours. Remove, drain,
dash with cold water. and simmer over
slow fire for five hours. Put in a
cool place for two days Then cover
with vinegar, which has been boiled
with sugar, cloves, pepper pods and
lemon rind. Put into glass jars, seal;
place in a dark corner. Do not open
: for six months.
(Note. Since writing the above we
discover that we have confused Ara
bella de Rotundah" with "Arabelle F'a-
! doogus.'' Miss Fadoogus asked for a
pickle recipe.)
! just written that she referred to her
| fathers nose in her query.)
| "Felicia Gastrous," of Catonsville:
, Yes, it is claimed that the castor plant
prevents mosquitoes from coming on
the premises. We cannpt imagine
/ how you got the idea that you had to
eat the leaves of the plant to drive
A., the insects away. Consult a doctor.
Lucille de Vere," of Mt. Washing
ton, asks: What is a good remedy
for moles?''
This query was referred to the agri-
| cultural editor. who says These
pests are difficult to contend with. II
you can catch them behind the ears
and drop them into barrel of water,
that will settle Them
Are yours behind the ears, Lucille?
! One of the hardware stores adver-
| fiSaS a CnOd mole tran Send slammed