The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-10-08
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MARIAN 8GARTINEAU,s
BEAUTY LETTERS
(Chicago T'ribuneA

Chicago Tribune.l
correspondent: Your letter was mis-.
laid. To remove superiuous hair tbe
electric needle is best. Next best is tht
fweczers. Apply a little weak ammo.
MIA afterward. The salve stick is good
but painful You apply it hot to the
upper lip. When 1t gets cold you pul
ID off, bringing the hair with it.
Reader: Here is the Vaucaire rem.
cdy. Ten grams of extract of galega
400 grams simple strip, 10 grams tine
ture of fennel and 10 grams lacto phos.
phate of lime. Let your druggist put il
up for you to be sure there is no mis-
take 1t is easy TO make mistakes. and
your druggist is Your best friend where
prescriptions are concerned.
B. H.: have written to you twice
10 know how to make my hair grow
thicker What can you do for me?
letter was lost, blown by the wind
rom my window, but l do not think it
was yours. To make the hair grow
thicker apply a little pure olive oil to
the roots with a medicine dropper.
Then massage the scalp with the finger
Ups.
Mrs. P: / am so anxious to reduce
my weight. l worry night and day
about my size. I am only feet 5, and
weigh over 200 pounds. What do you
advise?
Join a golf club. That is the quick
est way 10 reduce the weight If this
is cut of the question then write to this
department and u dietary will be sent
10 YOU OF you viii be given d series OF
exercise for use at home. You can east
Iy reduce your weight There is no
manner Of doubt about it.
Miss T: Ny nails have white spots
on them. Is there any way to cure
these spots!
The spots are scars caused by injury
to The matriX or the part below the
nail Use the orange wood stick care
fully or these spots will always pc
there.
j. T.: My lips are always sore. I
have big blisters which they call fever
bheters. I would like TO know how to
cure them.
Rub your lips every night with vase
line before going to bed. If YOU prefer
TO do so you can make an excellent lip
water half and half. If a fever sore
starts cover it with powdered alum. 1t
VIII soon disappear.
Miss F.: DO you consider powder in
furious TO The skin? My face IS bad
and ] have used powder all my life.
Powder does not injure the skin. But,
before going TO bed, You must wash il
off with a good cold cream. The cream
must be thin and it is A good thing to
heat it a little before using it.
II. F.: l am troubled with tired feet
and CoTnS. ] don't know how to get
lid Ct them.
Try soaking your feet every night in
not water. Then rub them with vase
line or sweet oil Massage them until
it is all rubbed into the skin.
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Mrs. H: I was not situated so
could join golf club. So ] wrote you
Tor dietary. I have taken it carefully
and with splendid results. 1 think L
must have lost forty pounds. have
had 10 take IN all my seams. But
am willing to spend my whole life TAX
ing in seams il can only get thin.
a,7l still a little more than normal.
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Florence: Try eating a great deal OF
celery. This is. next to potatoes, one
of the best foods there is. AS for po-
tatoes. they are healthy and excellent
for the complexion if well cooked. Ihe
rosy cheeks OF The Irish girl VIII bear
testimony that potatoes arc gooa for
the complexion.
O. :. Do You think I can cure
bad complexion by exercise in the open
Hardl4. You must eat the right
foods. Then at night before going to
bed YOU must cover your face With a
good complexion cream. Massage it in.
That is the only way to do.
N. G. Y: Ny complexion is bad and
] despair Of ever being able to cure 1t.
] spend all I earn on medicines
stop YOUR medicines for awhile ana
trv Washing your face every night in
a carbolized face bath, directions Tor
which have been given. few drops
OF carbolic. about five, and stirred INTO
a gallon Of water. and the face is gent
ly bathed with this lotion Follow with
good skin food. This viii in short
tire clear your skin. Eat no pie ana
no candy Live Oh plenty of vegetables.
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Mrs. T: ] am stout and all the time
getting stouter. ] eat little. what
makes me SO fat?
Perhaps you eat more than you sup
pos. Try for lie stinting yourself
JUS, a little. a cej \ fat woman re-
sorted to TIE cApea. IT of eating just
what her thin sister ate, but no more.
She was terribly hungry at first, Out
after awhile she uI used TO snort ra-
tons. OF course She got thin.
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II. K.-You took the superfuous hair
of the face Of a friend OF mine, so IL
is as smooth az il was when she was a
child. Now. can you take the hair oil
my ace?
Yes. and easily. But you must de-
scribe the growth. is it down upon
the checks. or is ii bristly growth
on the upper lip? There is great
difference. and what will take the nalr
Off one persons face viii not remove
ii from tie face Of another. Describe
Tho growth fully. You VIII be an
severed I'm these columns or privately
JUS as you prefer.
How to Take Care of Gas Stoves.
IT the asbestos of stoves or fireplaces
becomes discolored or blackened from
tie gas smoking. as il frequently does
ihc thing TO do Is TO sprinkle the feath-
cry fiber with common table salt, then
light the gas and let it burn the same
as usual The sooty appearance OF
The asbestos departs like magic ana
Tie mineral soon resumes its natural