The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-10
The Return of the Girl Feminine
How She Removes Tan and Keeps the Skin from Rough.
ening-Her Ways of Battling the Summer Sun
By ANNA S. RICHARDSON.
Special on Woman's Topics.

Most charming and withal practical
ia the girl feminine when she returns
m the household circle in the form of
the family beauty doctor.
Herself a picture of immaculate
5aintiness, she inspires love of per-
sonal daintiness in the younger MEM
hers of the family. The tomboy sister
submits gracefully to having her
hands done" in the cool shadows of
the porch or in the shelter of the
living room, when she would scorn
the suggestion of visiting a manicur-
ist. The growing brother, secretly
annoyed but openly Indifferent, to his
slight skin eruption, will try "Sis's"
remedy, when he would balk at the
order to consult the family physician.
So through the entire family the
beauty cult takes root and f1ourishes
extreme neatness of person becomes a
family maitland the mission of the
family beauty doctor is fulfilled.
The family beauty doctor is a crea-
ture of evolution. She rose to meet
the emergency. When the world fem
mine had paid the price of athletics
in tanned, largeknuckled hands, in
sun burned, rough cheeks, it cried
aloud for relict, and the professional
beauty doctor sprang UP in every city
in the land, ofttimes but lily prepared
for the work entrusted to his care.
Systems were hastily mastered, some
times to the betterment of women
patients, sometimes to their actual in
Jury, and then the world feminine be-
gan to think out beauty remedies for
itself
Enter then the family beauty doctor,
who began by learning to manicure
her own hands, to massage her own
face, and to shampoo her own hair.
She discovered that the work came
to her as natural as piano playing
to the unsteady inclined, and she
turned her attention to beauty culture
as a fad.
In New York alone there are to-
day scores of girls studying in beauty
parlors who never expect to take po-
sitions of any sort. They are merely
laying the ground work for beauty
culture. Some of them are even study
ing at schools of pharmacy the art
of compounding lotions, emollients,
bleaches, etc, so that their own COM
plexions and those of the entire fam
lily circle may not be sacrificed to
Incompetent, irresponsible beauty doc
tors ana patent lOIlOnS.
In the art of manicuring the family
beautifier learns that the nails must
be filed, not cut; that they must be
gracefully rounded, not filed to exag-
gerated points, and that the well-bred
woman does not polish the nail to
lustre which is conspicuous. When a
younger member of the household has
acquired the unfortunate habit of bit
ing the nails, it is the family beauty
doctor. whose patient care of the
abused hands-pinching the finger tips
gently into shape and restoring the
curve of the nail-helps to break the
habit by arousing the pride of the lit
tie sinner.
Particularly does this gifted mem
her of the family circle teach the
growing sons not to abuse the nails
BY the use of a sharp lknife or cuti-
Gle knife. She buys for each member
a file, an orange stick and buffer for
the daily care of the hands and once
a week she gives the hands a thor
ough treatment, polishing the nails
with rosaline or powder, using bleach
if necessary, and watching carefully
that all the young people keep their
nails in good condition betimes.
For discolored or badly tanned
hands she uses this bleach: Sweet and
bitter almonds, blanched and pounded
into a paste. $50 grams each; lemon
juice so grams; sweet milk, 30 grams;
sweet almond oil, 80 grams; brandy,
$50 grams.