The Ordway new era., 1907-10-25
AIDS TO BEAUTY
PRACTICAL LITTLE HINTS FOR
THE WOMAN WHO CARES.
Precipitation Helps to Keep the Skin
C'ear-How to Cure Dry
Skin - To Remove
BIackhea ads.

S'ear-How to Cure a Dry
Skin - To Remove
elackheads.
Keep Skin Clear - Perspiration
opens the pores lavishly, and hence
is prime beautifier. Damp air and
fog are kindly to the complexion and
are held to be largely responsible for
the fresh piQuancy of the young
English girls complexion. The fog
seems to lie close against the cheeks.
SOFT and luscious, like kisses from vel
vety lips. You will find that every one.
De IL man, woman, or child. who
drinks quantities of water will have a
clear and soft skin. as pink and white
as baby's. Water. If drunk in great
quantities. will cause perspiration.
which clears out the pores and makes
them healthy. 1t also bleaches the
skin. 1t prevents the skin from becom-
Ing hard, dry and close, and Is thus
indirectly preventive of wrinkles.
The stout woman need not fear to
drink water because she thinks 1t will
Increase her weight, for 1t will not un.
less. OF course. she drinks 1t with her
meals. 1t is a mystery why women do
not drink more water. for every doc
tor will advise his woman patients to
drink lots OF water. Ii Is such n sim
pie remedy and Is so much easier to
take than medicines. Still. 1t is almost
impossible 10 make many women be-
lieve that they will derive benefit
from anything but medicine.
To Remove Blackheads-Blackhe
are the result of the skin failing to
throw OFF all Its impurities. The per-
fectly cleaused face has no black
heads. Many who are afflicted with
blackheads deny this. as every one
likes to think they are clean. but few
OF us know how to cleanse our faces
properly and thoroughly. Not enough
can be said about the nightly scrub
with the flesh brush and soap and
about the morning wash. Wash the
face every night even II you are so
sleepy and tired that nothing matters,
so long as you get to bed. II the habit
Is formed. the task will soon become
mechanical one and will be part OF
the duty OF undressing. There is no
hope for the girl who is too indolen,
10 90 lnlS- one lluSl dtttpt hei o'
and the blaCkhcads with 1t.
Different skins need different treat
ments. but one knows no end ol
women who gayly go TO the nearest
drug store and buy cold cream. sim
ply because some OF her friends have
recommended II. Probably her frient
has dry skin, while she has an oil,
one. but that does not make any dif
fnrence: it's good cream, so she
uses IL.
Eat OH for Dry skin-Women who
suffer from dry skin will be wonder
fully benefited II they will take
tablespoonful OF olive oil after eacl
meal. Benzoin. which is far too as
tringent for many compilations. Is ex
cellcnt for a dry skin. Bran bags VII
have a wonderful effect upon the to'
dry skin. To make some fine meal 10
bran bags at home. mix four pound
of fine oatmeal and two quarts o
clean bran together and also one ant
n half pounds OF powdered orris root
one and half pounds OF almond meal
and one.half pound OF white casui'
soap ground up. Three ounces
sachet powder OF any kind to sui
ones taste may also be added.
These are simple luxuries and the.
make the skin eXquisitely soft AM
fresh. They are used exactly like soal
and make soft and funny lather
The bags must be stuffed so light!
that they may be rubbed over th'
, face lust like wash cloth. Each bal
!, NAV be used three times. After eacl
= using II should be thoroughly dried Ii
the sun. 1t Is best to make larg
ouantity of the meal and put 1t ava
v in closed jars. only filling five or si
hays at a time. The bags should b.
made OF soft cheese cloth.
u The almond meal is made as FOL
: lows: Powdered orris root. fou
:, ounces; wheat flour. four ounces: cas-
tile soap, finely powdered. one ounce
pure borax, one ounce. oil OF bitter a.
monds. ten drops: oil OF bergamon'
two drains; tincture of musk, on
s dram. Put into bottle or jar haVln
r a perforated top and shake well so
d to mix the ingredients. When read
j; for use first wet the hands and the
l. shake a quantity of the meal throug
the shaker top of the jar. Rub tn
hands together and also over the lace
and a delicious lather will FORM
$ Don't Have Rough Hands-WasI
5 your hands in sugar water; dry then
= with corn meal, night and morning.
a +. Il. GILL.