The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-07-25
the next best thing is proper care of

the eyes.
''Do not rock while you are read
ing, for this compels the eyes con
stantly to change their focus and in
jures them. Do not face a stron.
light. Do not read or write wher
you are mentally exhausted. Do no
wear glasses that do not fit the eyes
and do not look fxedly at one spo
too long. Rest your eyes frequently
and never on any account press upor
the eyeballs.
"Nearsightedness is caused in the
young very often by sudden exposure
to bright light. In the mature per.
son bright light will make the eyes
dull and old looking.
"The eyes are greatly assisted by
nice, long lashes and good eyebrows.
ttst1ell It the lashes s are short they can bs
bathing the eyes in a weak solution
of boracic acid and by using tepic
water upon them when they are tired.
Cutting the lashes seldom gives good
results, while the pulling out of the
lashes in the hope that they will come
in thicker is positively injurious.
"Thin eyebrows can be treated to
nightly application of sweet oil
slightly warmed and applied with a
camel's hair brush. Do not have the
oil hot and do not use too much of it,
1t should be just warm enough to
spread easily on the tip of the brush.
eff the eyebrows meet and form an
ugly line over the nose, it is best to
have the superfuous hair scientifcal-
ly removed. Eyebrows that meet give
scowling, sinister expression to the
face.
"The removal of the hair from be-
tween the eyebrows is an interesting
operation. 1t can be beautifully per-
formed by the electric needle, and
some of the most perfectly arched
brows have been made to curve in
this manner.
Again, there is the tweezers ex-
pedient. The hair is pulled out with
the tweezers. Of course, it grows,
but it can be pulled out again, and
the victim must keep eternally pull
ing. Yet it is better than having
that ugly bunch of hair growing be-
tween the eyes, and nearly every
woman would be willing to devote
five minutes day to the tweezers for
the rest of her life.
"There are cases where peroxide
of hydrogen and ammonia have killed
the hair, and it is exceedingly dan
gerous to use ammonia so near the
eyes. Pumice stone used as a scour-
ing agency to scour the hair off from
the space between the eyes is good.
But it is open to the same objection,
namely, that it may injure the eyes.
The woman who wants to look
young must have an assistant, for the
shoulders nfpAaffh be SRl9Hvnedait roAtnd
shoulders and back.
''It must be applied with patience,
slowly and with hands that do not
tire, or the cream must be made to
sink into the skin, and this can only
be done with the palm of the hand
and the fingers, a steady pressing,
rubbing and kneading.
"The woman who wants to look
young must use skin foods. She will
need to learn the formulae for making
a face cream, for making wrinkle
cream, for putting together skin
food and for mixing lotions.
"The woman who keeps her hair
looking nice, her eyes bright, her
skin smooth and pink and her mouth
curved will, most likely, own little
book, which she will call her beauty
book. Into it she will paste all her
recipes, taking care that they are
properly labelled and that there are
chapters telling her where and how
to use this and to use that. The
trouble in making up the book will
be as nothing compared with the re-
suits it will give.
1.-The woman who wants to take
ten years off her looks must not for
get the reduction lessons. No very
fat woman ever looks very young,
and one way of telling woman's
years is by her weight. A very
slender figure is always youthful in
its lines.
eff woman will keep her figure,
she will keep her grace and her youth,
and to this she can add the pretty
artifces for the preservation of hel
face. But, if she lets her figure
spread and her shoulders grow fat
while her chin doubles and her neck
coarsens, then it is all over with hel
as far as looking pretty is concerned
She must reduce her weight and keer
it reduced"