The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-31

The woman who works away from home has to make a fight for her beauty, ur- less she happens to be one of those. rare and foftunatd- beings who ara pretty as, easily and as naturally as. birds are tune. full.
 r. In the first place, she is 50 busy that she falls into the chronic whine that she had no time, In the, second place, her work lies where she cannot look after the details Of her toilette as conveniently as the. woman who works at home. Tho teacher, -bookkeeper, shop girl, are all day away from the warm water and manicure implements and rice powder that the housekeeper can touch up' with every now and then.
 Offices and schools are usually supplied with poor soap and haZy mirrors. The first thing for you to do Is to provide yourself with a few inexpensive articles that will do wonders toward. keeping yoil, fresh and dainty in appeaEance.,a s's 6
 White oastiie soap Gan De hads fof. $ cents $ cake, apd there is 1io soap Ssafer. for the skin:' There are otfrsrs soaps .tliat are good .forf the skin, but unless s ypIj know them thoroughly yous are on the safe side in sticking to this:f fey. <
 If you lind that. your place of businesss does not furnish enough towels flor, you to have a dry one whenever you need 1ti buy a few Yourself. A;2o-cent 'huekaB Batk is all5 yotfs need for the lhands. (Wipfnt. them upon q moist towel clauses them to chap. ... -.
 If you are using ink or handling smulty goods in a; shop, provide, yourself. with 1T lemon and clean off the spot Of ink with the lemon juice immediately. Ink left- on is hard to rout, but easily handlcd, if one is prompt. Any kind of spot should be treated as soon as possible. If bEiGlS' stain accumulates about the tips of. the fingers and the mails. it works its. way: into the kin so thoroughly that 1t soon requires a long hot-water soaking ana a manicure's most skillful endeavers to lid you of it.
 Provide yourself with an orange-wood stick and sharpen the end to a tiny, flat, rounded blade. Whittle fiat with pen. knife, then make a smoothly rounded up by using the emory board that comes for rubbing down the skin about the nails. Clean your nails with this after washing the hands. The soil or stain is then moist ened and can be removed easily.
 Good soap, dry towels and the stick should keep your hands in good condi- tion while you are at work. Beyond this, you must find time for the regular tweok- ly manicure at home, just as other wo- men do. Don't let yourself feel that be- cause you work there Is no time to be dainty. Don't form the habit of saying. ''Oh, anything; is good enough for the of= flee" Nothing but your best is good enough for yourself, at any rate. You think nobody in your workaday life nc- tices your hands. Certainly nobody Will unless you make them attractive
 1 once heard of a wealthy man who fell in love with his bookkeeper after having been attracted to her by her beautiful hand, which he used to watch while 1t made entries of his big sales. The moral of that is not meant for you to read as an encouragement to capture your etrI- ployer by the aid of manicure tools. but the fact shows that womanly daintiness is valued in every phase of.life.
 If you are teaching, you are annoyed by the chalk dust. which seems to par2h the skin as it grinds into it, leaving it harsh and. dark. Some softening lotion must be used to counteract this. Glyce~- inc and rose water is a safe prescription for general use. Perhaps you have. dis |. covered a lotion that agrees with your individual case better. Those preparations which have benzoin as a basis alS fasu- ally harmless and healing. In most c3ses it is enough to use the lotion atSiiiEht, but if you are suffering q great deal from the chalk. take little bottle of the prep aration to school and use it there.
 Be sure. wherever you arc at york that you have a mirror within reach, one in which you can sec yourself as 9theis see you-and be sure to do so. If, as the long days work proceeds, your face grows tired and dropping and the complexion dark. as often comes from weariness. smuggle out d tiny jar of cold cream | from some hidden nook and give the tired l face a light rubbing with 1t, wiping it off quickly with soft cloth. Dust a fresh | coating of powder over the skin and you | will come out to work again entirely re- | juvenated. In applying the cream, be | sure that all the rubbing is upward. , Have. your own comb and brush at hand | for rearranging disordered locks. Other | people may use all kinds of hair oils and | tonics that you won't care to apply to | your own hair.
 When you find yourself in front of that | mirror. by the way. look critically to see whether your face Is just as restful as it 1 can be. Is there a pucker in the fore | head? Can't you unpucker it.. Sonss- 1 times a frown comes from trouble with l. the eyes. and only an oculist can drive | it away. But it generally results from | hard work petty irritation, or the ner- vous habit of squinting. While you are | still in front of the mirror, watch your self turn up the corners of your mouth. | You will find the whole face smooths out | as you do this. |
 This beautifying process. tho one that 1 comes from within and is of more im- | portance than all the cosmetics ever bot tied. is one that the teacher should fol- l low unfiinchingly. The well-worn jokes |