The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-02-21

:. Mrs. Az I am another one to ask ad-
vice. The trouble is with my complexion
and my weight.
Or reading your letter through. 1 have
, come to the conclusion that it is all :;
matter of diet with you. Go on hot
water. green vegetables. stewcd fruits
and lamb chops. taken once Il day. This
will clear your skin wonderfully in a
little while.
No Name: Please tell me how to make
soap jelly.
Take of good. pure soap all the odd
bits you have and pound them in Il bit
Of linen. Put this soap powder in Il
double boiler and cover with hot water.
Add half a teaspoon of borax powder.
spoon of witch hazel. Melt together and
pour into a jar. This provides for about
half a pint Of the jelly.
Reader: An easy way to make a good
skin food is to buy cold cream without
slycerine. Melt in a double boiler
and add half the quantity of sleeps tai
lew. one-fourth the quantity of lanolin
and a few. drops of rose.
Anonymous wants a wrinkle cream for
sagging cheeks and poor skin.
Take enough sweet almond oil 10 fill an
ounce bottle. Add half an ounce of sper-
maceti. half an ounce of white Nascline.
six drops of benzoin and a few drops of
| perfume. Melt together and beat with IN
egg beater as it is cooling. If ZOO thick
| melt again and add oil OF almonds TO
thin.
H.: My hands are red and rough and
thin. Can l make them pretty:
You and a reader who asks not to have
her letter printed. ask the same question.
| You certainly can make your hands pref
ty. Wash them daily with hot water and
| soap. then rub in a little red vaseline.
Hold over the fire until the Nascline is
absorbed. Do not go out for at least an
hour after washing the hands. Sleep in
gloves lined with paste.
L.: Can you recommend Il glove paste
fer hands that are in an awful Ccncition.
red and chapped until they bleed?
The best results / havc ever seen and
the quickest came from putting an ounce
OF sweet oil In a double boiler and STIR
ring into it enough corn meal 10 make
creamy. Let simmer an hour. AT night
spread on the hands and wear gloves un-
til morning.
G. H: Ms hands are srimy and soap
does not help them.
Soap will do little for grimy hands.
Such hands need 4 large dose of red vas
cline rubbed into them. Scrub them one
over the other. as If you ssyere using
soap. Wash off with soap and very cot,
water. Finally rub III a speck|of Vasciine
10 keep them from getting rough again.
Western Woman: i nave written sew
eral times about the rcmova of superfiu-
GUS hair from the face. Several of my
friends nave protited by your directions.
but they do not DO me any good at all. !
am out of patience and fear I can never
have the hair removed.
A most interesting htter is at hand
about the removal of, superf1uous hair.
besides the above letter. Why not enew
your patience and pun out the hairs.
using either Il silve stick or the tweez-
ers? Apply a very weak solution of am
monia. Meanwhile. bleach the hairs Il
light color. so that they will not be so
visible. Hairs. if very faint in color. are
not half 50 Objectionable
B.: What do you charge for a complete
set of your recipes?
They have never been put into book
form. Why do you not cut them out from
week to week and make a book of them?
Here is u letter from a eader which
offers a solution of the subject of preserv-
ing the recipes and which may re of in
terest to all the readers Of the beauty
column
Mrs. H. writes: I bought a blank book
and lettered N the cover Beauty Book"
in gold letters. l divided the book into
five parts and every week I cut out the
recipes and formulas and paste them in
just where they should go.
1 am getting slightly gray and would
like something for that.
If not very gray. just-a few hairs, rub
three drops of'isweet oil into the scalp
every night. taking care not to get the
hair oily.
Brandy and water. used as a massage,
will 'invigorate the roots Of the bair, as
will suuinine and water.
II. X: / need something for rittle I'm
Ger nails. What dosyou advise?