The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-11-19
MARIAN MARTINEAG
TO BEAUTY SEEKERS
Chicago Tribune.)

Chicago Tribune.)
i. L.: Please tell me how that old
fashioned remedy was prepared for
the gums 1t was called gum myrrh
and was to stop gums from. bleeding
ard receding.
Get tincture Of myrrh and apply it
TO the gums around the roots of the
teeth with a Gamers hair brush.
Miss. T.: I am troubled with bad
breath. but 1 do not know how to use
the lotions that cure it.
After each meal take a tablespoonful
OF Uterine and add a tablespoonful Of
water. Rinse the mouth well with it.
Mrs. T: The French take peppermint
after dinner for the breath. Tell me
the best way to take it.
You might put few drops of pepper
mint in a tiny glass of water and drink
after eating. 1t is still better TO gargle
the mouth with it.
Miss H: l like to use cold cream. but
1t gets thick. like lard, so soon. Is there
no cold cream that will stay thin? a
friend of mine once made a nice skin
food from one Of your formulas but
she has lots it.
Try this: Take half an ounce of
mutton tallow and put it in a double
boiler. Add an ounce of the oil Of
sweet almonds and half an ounce Of
white vaseline. Melt all together. Stir
as it is cooling.
Miss H: My skin is as rough as
crater. Kindly give me a food to rub
into il.
You need a massage cream. Take as
much melted mutton tallow as Will fill
an empty eggshell, Put it itno double
boiler and add an ounce of the oil of
sweet almonds. Beat together. This
makes a nice massage cream.
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Miss G.: I want something to use on
my hands and neck. TO keep on the
dressing table 1t must be inexpensive,
as / want 10 use great deal Of it.
You probably need something as
skin food and a bleach. Take two
ounces Of almond oil. Heat and add
lump Of white wax as big as a big wal
uut Now add lump of speTmaceu as
big as q walnut To this add ten drops
of the oil of beranium. Beat we'll as il
is cooking. If TOO thick, melt again
and add more almond oil. i should be
a little thicker than cream Oh milk.
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Mrs. T: Brown spots are the bane
Of my life l always have a few on my
forehead What can L do for them?
Eat spinach every day of your life
and celery as often as YOU can. Live
on simple foods. Eat 10 pastry. Three
mornings in the week take a spoonful
OF phosphate OF soda in half a cup Of
hot water before breakfast.
Miss T; / would like an egg sham
poo.
There arc various ways Of using the
egg shampoo Here is a simple one:
Wet the head with hot water using a
bath spray for the purpose. Break an
egg i'm the bowl and rub it into the hair.
Now wash off with . dozen hot waters.
Rinse thoroughly and in the last water
put a teaspoouful Of boraX powder.
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G. X: / want shampoo with lit
Tie ammonia i'm it. as ammonia makes
my hair red. and l like red hair.
Here it is. but l do not recommend
st. Be careful. for ammonia Injuries
the roots OF the hair. Make heavy
lather of kitchen soap with few drops
OF ammonia added to the water. Five
drops ought TO be enough. But do not
get il in the eyes. Rub into the hair
and wash off i'm great many waters.
Dry i'm the sun.
N. c.: NY little girl has dark hair.
want TO tighten 1t with bleach.
Kindly advise ne
DO not. dear madam. do anything OF
the kind. The pure peroxide of hydro
gen viii bleach her hair and will not
a., r.1-i1d will certainly
looked bleached. and it is certainly not
a good plan, you know.
Mrs. T.: You cure everything. Now
please cure my stiff joints, 1 am both
cred almost to death with joints so stiff
7 cannot walk Is there anything in the
world that can be done for them?
You might take calomel and soda tab
lets oue-tentr grain once an hour until
you have taken four grains Next
morning take laxative water. Eat
no acids for forty-eight hours after TAX
ing calomel
B..F. Z: / have told my daughter
she can make all your beauty specifics,
FOR know they would never hurt her.
She has heard of carbolized cold cream.
Please tell me how to make it?
Carbolized cold cream is difficult TO
made. Take an ounce of cold cream
and work few drops of carbolic acid
into it, Better let the druggist do it
for you, and be careful how you apply
it.
G.. Y: Name the best exercise you
know for the reduction of the hips.
Tbebest outdoor exercise is bicycling.
Then comes golfing. Then comes walk
ing tennis and the other society
games.
NJ. G.: How can make camphorated
cold cream? 1t was one of the RENE
dies of my youth.
a reader of this column recently
recently made a camphorated cold
cream for the lips by taking an ounce
z,,.a~fe Fa+ aud melting IL over hot