Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-31
THE CHILD AND BEAUTY.
Nose Can Be Shaped and Hair Trained
to Grow Differently and Skin
Kept Nice.

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There are severa. rules that should
be observed for the health and beauty
of any child. The first is to give it
something to do. No child can play
| all day. There should be some kind
of regular task. This will make the
child beautiful as well as healthy. 1t
Will cultivate its mind and it's BODY.
healthy .child should also have
something to occupy it's mind. 1t can,
in Japanese fashion, paste pictures on
the wall or play with handsome en-
broideries or train the eye by doing
a little light carving and painting
These are matters for the individual
to decide. But a child should keep
itself occupied if it is going to be
healthy and handsome
The little girl who is going to grow
up to be a handsome woman should
know, early, how to take care of her
beauty.
She should know how to keep her
allowed to drop out; they should never
be drawn. Then the new teeth should
be carefully attended with the brush
or with soft cloth. A child should
be told not to use a toothbrush Wig
orously. Nothing so Injuries the teeth.
A little girl should early be taught
not to make grimaces. The little girl
who pulls down one side of her mouth,
as child, will be very certain to do so
as woman. She must learn not to
draw down one eye nor to pull her
mouth askew.
The mOlding of the nose is some
thing for every child to learn. If the
little girl viii pinch her nose, striv-
ing to keep it upright and slightly
Grecian she will be rewarded with
handsome nose one of these days.
The nose is made of soft material and,
by plnching it, she can keep it straight
and noble in shape.
The mouth of the little girl is gen.
orally too large. This can be remedied
to great extent by curving it and
shrinking it. To shrink mouth try
the habit of pickering it little;
then lift the corners; then make the
mouth DOW; then try to make it a lit
tie more expressive. You can accom-
plish miracles with your mouth ii you
only try. But-never forget-don't
twist it or pull 1t down at one cor
ner. This is fatal to beauty.
The little girl whose hair grows
awkwardly upon her forehead can
easily mold it to grow right. If the
forehead is too low the hair can be
pulled sharply back until it comes
down in pretty point as desired.
Remember that the hair grows readily
and that it can almost be shaped to
your will.
The skin of the little girl can be
kept young by a very little massage.
1t should be rubbed with the finger
tips softly and lightly as though it
were down. 1t should not be touched
unless 1t is rough or pimpled But, at
the first sign of trouble, there should
be a very little cream nodded into it.
The pure sweet cream is best: and
next to this comes sweet milk; Their
sour milk and buttermilk. These are
the best cosmetics known.
The hair of the little girl must he
washed once a week. But not with
soap nor with any heavy shampoo
mixture. 1t should be gone over with
a special shampoo which is made by
beating an egg until it is foamy. A
cup OF tepid water is then added TO
1t and pinch of borax stirred in.
with this the hair is wet thoroughly.
Then 1t is washed with plenty of warm
water. No soap is needed ordinarily.
Inc shoes of the little girl should be
very large. The larger the better is a
good rule for any persons shoes. It
may be that big shoes wear rough
places on the Ieet, but as rule it is
the little. tight shoe that does the
damage. The little girls shoes should
be very long and just a trife mar
rover than the foot as it rests upon
the ground.