The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-25
BEAUTIFUL IN TWO HOURS.

I'm a SIGHT now" said a tired
woman shopper, to a representative
of the New York Sun, but within
two hours 1 shall be ready for the
opera. am homely at this moment.
Out py the time my maid has finish
ed with me l shall be a professional
beauty.
i have been shopping eight hours
and my eyes are dull. There is a
weary feeling in my bones. NY very
skin feels bruised. AS for my head. it
aches fit to split
Il am going to my room now and
my first step will be to loosen INV
clothing. 1 shall then lie down and
take a nap of fifteen minutes. 1 shall
use a herb pillow.
Never take a bath when you are
tired. 1t makes you nervous. Never
eat when you are very tired either. Do
not take off your clothing, for YOU
will catch cold too easily.
Simply loosen your collar and belt.
darken the room, put your head upon
an aromatic pillow and go off to
slumber. No matter how tired you are
the darkened room and the fragrant
pillow will put you to sleep. let my
hair down, braid it lightly, bank up
the pillows and fall off in that man.
ner.
AT the end of fifteen minutes I
wake up and then comes a bath in
bath in vinegar, which prepare COW
er spicy rose leaves with white wine
vinegar, and when it has stood two
weeks l pour it off and bottle it.
1T takes pint of vinegar to a heap
ing cup of the rose leaves. Use the
scent frugally, for a cupful will make
a whole tub of water spicy.
If l want to look my very best I
take a Cleo de Merode bath. This is
almost a milk bath. You take a tub
of water and make 1t milky with ben
zoin. 1t is very stimulating and
pleasant
Then. when feel very luxurious
and there are days when one has
rich feelings-I take perfumed bath.
/ use for this perfume which. in
Martha Washington's day, was called
the bath of aristocracy. Yet IL is not
so very expensive.
IF you want to make this take a
two-quart bottle and put into it one
grain Of musk. Add one pint of spirit
ounce Of the oil of rose geranium. Let
this stand two weeks, then add a
pint OF the best alcohol.
lit will be ready to use I'm three
weeks, but perfumers let IL stand two
months to get what they call the
bouquet. But in two weeks IL will
be strong and sweet, good and ready
for abe bath
Fiji your tub with hot water. Add
about ten drops of benzoin. Then add
as much OF the perfume as you can
afford. A few drops will make a nicely
scented bath for ordinary occasions.
In times Of luxury add half a teacup
OF IL.
After I have taken a bath in this
am massaged from head 10 foot
with a perfumed skin food. Very little
Of II II used. but there is enough to
take the stiffness out OF the bones
and make one feel sprightly again.
For this perfumed skin food take
the easiest and quickest method. I
purchase Of the druggist an ounce
Of cold cream which J heat IN a dou-
bic boiler then thin u with oil Of
almonds. Then comes the perfuming
of the 5ar
while the cream n cooling I take
" ~ the druggist on the corner aud
get him ~ drop into the creamy mass
one drop N fhe real altar ~ rose. n
costs considerable and che Fcfanium
90 IL almost af good. Iut that single
drop ~ aiiar ls NY pride, and ! al
ways ad1 N A. De- cream.
= Then bring z home. and while a
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