The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-04


 smoother is for the final touch and is used
 with a lighr stroke. A soft and hard brush are also part of the set; use first the hard, then the soft brush. To stimu- late and thicken the brows, apply lotion made of:
 oil of rosemary, 10 drops: Chloride of ammonia. 10 grains: camphor. grains; alcohol. dram; common salt. dram; water. Ia grains.
 Mrs. Nelson C.-There is nothing so fatal to a youthful appearance as settling down to the conviction that one is grow ing old-"too old to dance." "too old' for this, ''too old" for that Don't do it. You grow old by thinking yourself old, while you may keep young by being young in thought and feling. Not kitten ish, but just cheerful and lively and not
 "old." A good shampoo liquid Is made of:
 sesquicarbonate of ammonia, dram; bicarbonate of potash, dram; distilled water, 1 pint.
 Dissolve and add the solution to a mixt- ure of:
 Tincture of cantharides, dram; alcohol 4 ounces; Jamaica rum, pint
 Mix the whole well together and add
 any perfume Put little of this in the water with which the hair is washed.
 Always rinse hair with clear water. | Albina and Anxiety.--A good liquid dentifrice is made by dissolving 1 ounce of castillo soap in pint of water. and then adding drams of powdered borax. s drops of oil of nutmeg and grains of honey water. A little powdered castillo soap, added to camphorated chalk makes cleansing powder.
 Evelyn.-A dressing comb should have its teeth equally divided into two sets; the one rather large and open for loosen- ing and disentangling the hair, the other smaller and finer, but not with very fine teeth. This is to be used in the final ad- Justment, along with the brush. Handle comb lightly so as not to cause any drag on the roots of the hair. The best Iqmaterial for comb Is tortoise shell, and l If pays to buy good one.
 | Geraldine-Coldness of the feet indicates
 delicate health and feeble state of the circulation. Friction and active exercise
 are the remedies. An effort should also
 be made to improve the general tone of the system. Walking, dancing and run ming are to be recommended for cold feet ;also walking around the room on tiptoes To make lavender smelling salts cut in pieces 2 ounces of carbonate of ammonia and put 1t in a bottle. Pour over 1t the following oils, after rubbing | them well together: # ounce oil of cloves Eand # ounce each of of1 of lavender. oil saf bergamot and oil of cassia. Then put | few bits of the carbonate of ammonia
 in the vinaigrette.
 Melvina and Phebe-To make camphor | ice melt 4 ounces of white vaseline and
 ounces of paraffin; then add 1 ounce oi | spirits of camphor. and stir slowly until | cold. Keep in a porcelain jar. Camphoi
 ice Is used for many ills-for roughened
 hands, for an eruption on the face, oi
 for any other irritation of the skin. | Ursula V. R. and Grace-The reason
 why you must not use hard water fol washing the face Is that the excess oi | lime in hard water neutralizes the oil ir
 the skin pores, and thus hardens the GU.
 ticle. Better not wash the face at al than use hard water. Try always to get | rain water for the entire bath, but cer- | tainly for the face. Rain water is in fact | the only water fit for washing the face | Always rinse with cold water after us
 ing warm water on the face, to prevent
 chapping and roughening of the skin After using soap. rinse carefully witt | clear water. because you don't want any | soap left on the face to clog the pores l Elizabeth and Edth-Coral and tur. | duoise can be worn by blondes. Pearls | lose much of their effect when the hail | is light and the complexion pale. Dia-
 monds, too, can be worn by blondes as
 well as by brunettes. although they are
 perhaps, best set off by the dark haired