The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-08-27
Marian Martineau's Beauty Answers.
(Cl1icago TrfbuneD

Marian Martlneau's Beauty Answers.
(Chicago Tribune)
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F. Grace G: My skin is oily. / would
! like something 10 dry it out a little.
! There are no wrinkles, but so much oil
You may be thankful for an oily
! skin. Oily skins do not wrinkle. W ash
your face every morning with lot
water, With a teaspoon or boraX to
soften it. Dust on little powder
Your skin will not be too oily.
Carrie: What viii make my hair
| curl? 1t is like a>string.
Shampoo it well. Before curling
moisten it with cologne water Do
not have the tongs too hot. Hold the
/ hair at least sixty seconds in the tongs
until it is thoroughly dry. This IS the
simplest way.
Western Woman: What will cleanse
my face from dust and dirt?
Use glycerin cut with rose water il
your face will bear the use of gly-
cerin.
Miss H: Can you recommend some
thing TO keep the lips from chapping!
Ny lips are always ragged and sore.
Rub your lips morning and night
with glycerin cut with rose water.
Sores on the lips win often leave deep
scars for life. Keep your lips red and
pretty.
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Miss 7: Do you believe. in the use
of cosmetics? l have never used face
powder in my life. but / think Of try
ing it. Is it wrong, do you think?
Please answer me candidly.
CandidIy, / do not think it is wrong.
A little powder keeps down the oili-
ness or shine from the skin and ADDS
much TO ones good looks. The best
people of the best society use it.
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H. G: When l was in London l no.
ticed Queen AleXandria's lovely skin.
Can you tell me what she uses to
make her face so nice? [ am told she
has special formulas.
There is A certain massage cream
which is said to be the one the queen
uses. To make it, take of cold cream
half an ounce. white vaseline Ealf an
ounce, almond oil a quarter of an
ounce, and piece of white wax The
size of walnut. Melt all together
and scent with perfume. This is
cheap substitute for the expensive IN
gradients used by her majesty.
Fl. G.: Will you give me the recipe
for a face wash which was used by the
southern bellies? 1t looked like milk.
1t was soft to the skin and. kept 1t
white.
You probably refer to what was call
ed milk of roses. To make 1T is simple:
Take an ounce of rose water and add
about five drops Of benzoin to the
water To this add as much powdered
borax as will go on dime Shake
we'll and use as often as three or four
times d day.
Miss G.: l have a beautiful conser-
vatory which is open in the summer.
1 love to work among the plants. But
my hands are ruined. What would
you do for them?
Take a scent bottle of red vaseline
and put it in a cup over hot water
When it is melted stir it thick with
powdered oatmeal Put into VIDE
mouthed bottle or cup and let cool. |
Put a tablespoon of the mixture in
the middle of your hand and scrub II
around as though it were so much
several minutes. Wash off with not
water and soap. This will much i'm
prove your hands.
Emma Y: 1 am trying vegetarian
ism Do you think l Should eat d
great many different kinds of fruit or
stick to one or two kinds?
A diet of raw fruit will make you
terribly i'll. Let your fruit be stewed
MANY Kinds as VDu nlnaSp. But
add vegetab les to your fruit diet. DO
not try to live on fruit alone. You can
also eat cereals.
H. c.: l have brown spots on my
Is thereeany way to get rid
of them?
They are liver spots and you must re-
form your diet Take spinach and other
green food every day. Stop eating
get coffee for a while. Each morning
before breakfast take a teaspoonful of
phosphate of soda in cup of hot wa
ter.
Mrs. B.: l am a widow, employed in
a big wholesale house as d bool1keeper. |
| have increased in weight until l now |
weigh nearly $50 pounds. l am about !
TO go away on my vacation. How can !
i reduce Mnlle L am gone.
Spend your vacation cross country /
walking. Take a trolley to the sub |
urbs. Then start walking. Cover three |
miles. then five, and keep on until you |
can walk twenty miles a day. This is !
pleasant. cheap and profitable. Take a |
if you can find a congenial |
one, and two pairs of shoes.
Mrs L.: You have promised me a
dietary for superfluous weight. l have
tried everything. but ! get fatter and |
fatter.
Drink nothing with your meals. And
if you really desire to get thin eat lit
lie. Take three light meals day with
cut meat. except at noon. Drink moth
ng at all in the evening.
Grace F.: What can be done for thin
.vebrows? Mine are so thin you can
scarcely see them, and they keep fall
Paint them every night with an eye
,row brush dipped in melted vaseline.
This wiss encourage the growth of the
lair
II. T.: / have tried your directions.
But l am sleepy all the time. You say
,ot 70 sleep more than seven hours yet
am sure / require more. am 20 years
I'D. and l want to reduce my weight
A woman of 20 needs fully eight
hours sleep. But women of 80 and
upward can get along with sever. hours.
TO reduce you Can diet judiciously. DO
rot eat a single mouthful except at
our meals. You are probably in the