The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-10-24
LETTERS AND ANSWERS.

(Marian Martineau in Chicago Tribune
Mrs. t: My height is only feet 5
inches and 1 weigh over 200 pounds.
Please give me full Instructions as to
diet.
If you are in good health try this:
Take two slices of dry toast al break
fast, with all the fruit you can eat,
and one small cup of weak tea. At
the middle meal of the day take the
same. At night take two small lamb
chops, one dish of some kind of vege-
table and one cup of tea. You will
not starve on this, and it will help you
to get thin rapidly.
Mrs. Y: took your dietary for
some months and lost quite a little
flesh. Now give me your dietary for
the second reduction month.
If eggs agree with you, live on
poached eggs and toast. Take them
three times a day, with a small cup
Of tea or coffee, and nothing else. If
you can't stand eggs, take one chop at
noon and one slice of toast.
Miss T.: I purchased an electric
needle and am using it on my face
with fine results. The hair disappears
with each little jab Of the needle.
Mrs. T.: I found that the pumice
stone was all that I required for the
removal of superfluous hair from my
lips. I scrubbed my lip with it and
it is now perfectly smooth. The hair
does not seem to return again.
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Miss Y: Give me a wrinkle paste.
Try the pure oil of mutton tallow.
Heat in a double boiler and add half
the quantity of white vaseline. Into
this beat enough sweet almond oil to
make a paste. Beat with an egg beat
er until perfectly cold.
Miss G.: What is the best way to
keep cold cream and how can per-
fume it?
Our grandmothers heated the cold
cream and stirred clover leaves into
it. You might use a little clover per-
funle. Egg shells, tied with ribbons
and suspended at the side of the dress
er, make a good receptacle for the
cream.
Miss H: Give me a hand whitener
Take soap jelly and dissolve it in hot
water. Add a handful of powdered
oatmeal. Soak the hands in this and
rinse in clear hot water.
Mrs. V. G. B.: I would like to have
a good bust developer. What can you
recommend? Which patent bust de-
veloper is best?
1 have never personally seen any
tried, so cannot say. If you want to
develop the bust slowly you can do so
with cocoa butter gently rubbed into
the skin. Do not try to massage, but
be content with applying the cocoa
butter to the surface.
Miss H. G.: How shall 1 use the
salve stick which you advise for su-
perfluous hair?
Take the stick and heat it. Apply
it to the afflicted portion. Let it get
cold. Pull it off and it will bring the
Miss H: Do you think powdered
pumice would keep the hair off my
arms?
1t is difficult to tell. You might try
it and see what it will do. Scrub the
hair off with the pumice stone and
wait Sometimes it does not return.
The constitution of the hair is diff
ferent in different cases.
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Miss T.: am yellow, and there is
no Tightening up my face, try as 1
will
Your complexion can be frightened
if you eat fruit late at night, before
going to bed. In the morning take
a teaspoonful of phosphate of soda
in hot water. Continue this for a
month. Be sure that the fruit is of a
sort that agrees with you.
NJ c.: pulled the superfuous hairs
Off my lip, taking a little patch at
time. l then applied diluted ammonia
and was gratified to find that the hairs
did not come back. 1 wonder how this
would work on my arms, which are
covered with soft down.
You could hardly pub the down off
your arms, but you could apply the
5alve stick hot, and pull it off, taking
The down with it. Then you could
apply diluted ammonia, not hot enough 7
70 blister the skin.
d.: The hair on my arms is jet !
black and long, so that 1 am almost |