The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-11-14


1 want my face to be the color it was
last spring.
To restore the skin, treat it as you
would treat a piece of unbleached mus
lin. You would wash it. would you
not. with bleaching substances? Battle
your face with water softened with
powdered borax. Add q handful of
bran. Once a day wet the skin with
diluted lemon juice, keeping it away
from the eyes. At night apply ben
zoinated cold cream.
L. K. G.: Do you consider diet OF
chopped raw meat healthful? | was
advised to live upon raw meat chopped.
/ take 1t in sandwiches with plenty of
pepper and salt on top.
No. | do not consider it healthy,
Raw meat is not considered good for
human beings. Cook your meat before
you eat it. You will destroy germ life
by the cooking.
G. X: l am a vegetarian. yet I do
not seem to get as strong as l should.
They say vegetarianism agrees with
some people, but not with others.
What is your opinion?
l think they are about right. 1t
does not agree with every person
Many do not derive sufficient strength
from an all vegetable diet, and for
these there should be meat as well as
vegetables. Meat taken three times a
week is allowed by many vegetarians.
H. G.: Can a person live on wheat
alone? 1 am told that it is the ideal
food.
wheat alone may be ideal if one
were to live in perfectly natural
state But we, born in a state of civ
ilization. and living in this ordinary
everyday world, find it necessary to
eat a great deal besides wheat.
Mrs. w. H.: would like to try
electrolysis, yet 1 cannot afford the
treatment. Can you tell me how L
can perform it at home?
Purchase an electric needle, one of
the regular needles used for this pur-
pose, attach it to a battery and then,
seating yourself before a mirror, slow
ly puncture the roots of the hair until
you have killed every hair.
NJ. c.: Give me your treatment for
the development of the bust.
Apply cocoa butter nightly. Take
deep breathing exercises, and eat and
drink as much chocolate as you can.
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B. c.: Do you think that hair can
be permanently removed from the face
when 1t has been there for many years |
and mas been cut with the scissors un-
til it is all stubbly?
Yes, but it is not so easy. Electroly- |
sis is best. Next comes the tweezers, |
with diluted ammonia applied after |
wards. For the hair that is left try |
powdered pumice stone.
Miss X: What is the color Of my
hair? 1 enclose a lock. Please let me |
know at once.
Your hair is exactly the color of the |
Did bark on tree. It might be called !
bark colored hair. You could easily i
make 1t shine until it would show love-
y red lights.
Miss G.: L weigh nearly 200 pounds.
Though I am tall. this is too heavy to |
be comfortable.
1t is, indeed. Why don't you try the
peary diet? This consists of fruit and |
ablets. Many foods can be purchased |
n tablet form. They are satisfying, |
hough you miss the full feeling of a
hearty meal at first.
Miss H: Is there any way to clear
ny complexion? I eat little, and never
axe pastry.
,read. The yeast continues to ferment
n fresh bread for long time, and the
,read is highly indigestible until this
.ction has ceased. It need not be
Try. for bread can be kept in a good,
moist state for many days.
G. H: In massaging the wrinkles
round the mouth what sort of a series
# movements would you advise?
Massage in a rotary manner, letting
he fingers travel round and round.
Do not go in the lines of the wrinkles,
,ut across them, as if you We're rub
ing the creases and wrinkles out of a
,iece Of paper.
Mrs. O.. What can do for double
hin? All my fat seems to go to my
ace.
For a double chin massage under the
hin with the palm of the hand, strok-
ng it gently. Do not use a skin food
or this sort of massage, but stroke
he skin dry.
B. V: I am dieting, and with the
'est results. I have reduced my
Weight marvelously, and think it will
ONE down still more. Let me thank
on again Sad again. I want to ask
xercising too much? I now walk ten
niles a day, and feel as if could
walk more.
I should say that there is no such
hing as walking too much. providing
on feel well. Probably the exercise
as reduced you as well as the dieting.
Miss G.: Where can 7 study a COM
lete system of physical culture exer-
Uses and movements for the reduction
nd development of the figure?
Such exercises are frequently given
D this column. You cannot do better
han study them right in this news
aper.
In writing to this department do not
nclose money. The advice is free.
you need not be a subscriber to the
aper. All who read this column are
Welcome to make inquiries.
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