Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-16
TIPS FOR BATHERS
GOOD HINTS TO GUARD THE COM
PLEXION.
Wear Goggles and Use a Parasol
Screen During Sand
Bath.

The bathing season brings many pleas
ures, not few dangers an dquite frequent
ly freckles
The girl who spends her vacation at some
watering place should not forget that for
all aquatic pleasures there is a day of
reckoning. 1t Is great fun to lie in the
sand and let sea air and sunglare do their
work, but when she returns to town she
must appeal to beauty doctor to remedy
the wrinkles baked in her face.
For several seasons, the summer girl has
been a hatless, needless, upturned-sleeved
creature She plunged into the water with
her hair uncovered and dried it after the
bath, while lying on the sand.
All this is now changed. The up-to-date
summer girl is guarding her complexion
Before bathing she takes a sand BATH Don
ming her bathing suit and a pair of smoked
glasses, she disposes herself on the dry
sand and induces her friends to bury her
in the sand up to the neck. A green para
sol Is SO adjusted as to screen her face.
The smoked glasses are to prevent the
wrinkles, which form between the eyes,
from the sun glare. After baking in the
sun for one-half hour, she takes a brisk
run on the beach. and is then ready for her
plunge. A second run after she leaves the
water puts her in fine condition.
Sea water fades and streaks the hair.
An oilskin cap may not be becoming, but
1t is preferable to green streaks In chest
nut locks. The oilcloth caps are now COW
cred with colors to match suits or with
gay plaids; or they are built turban fash
ion of plaid or bandanna, shirred and fin
ished with bow in the front. A bathing
cap will stick better to the head If the hair
is braided in two plaits, crossed and wound
around the head, Dutch FASHION. This is
the way actresses fix their hair before they
put on wigs.
IF by any chance the hair gets soaked
with water, do not dry it without giving
n,a
beaten with four tablespoonful Of tepid
water and then strained makes an excel
lent shampoo, and the hair should be rinsed
repeatedly.
For Their Skin.
If the skin is very delicate and becomes
painful from the combined effects of sun
and wind, use the following wash two or
three times day: Boracic acid, 1 drachm;
distilled witchhazel, 2-ounces; rose water,
ounces
If. after a day on the water. you feel
that vour face is burned to the point of
tenderness, do not apply water, but use a
healing toilet preparation Immediately
cold cream and almond paste or prepara-
ton of glycerine and lemon, as foliows:
Citric acid Qemon), B drachms; not water,
IL ounces borax. drachms; red rose
petals, 1 ounce; glycerine, 1 ounce. Dis
solve the acid and borax in the water; in
fuse the petals for an hour; strain through
a ielIy bag: after twenty-four hours decant
the clear portion and add the glycerine
If YOU are about to yield to the fasci-
nations of a white bathing suit learn first
the regulations governing the beach at
which you expect to stay. AT many or the
resorts white suits are not permitted.
A Chicago girl started the monogram
craze at an eastern resort. She wore Il
bathing suit with short sleeves, and on her
left arm above the elbow she placed her
initials cut from black court plaster. When
her arms had become beautifully tanned,
she removed the court plaster and her In
itiaIs stood out in pink and white flesh.