The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-12-02
ABOUT TOILET ACCESSORIES.


accessories, especially towels. combs
and hair brushes. There is much care
lessness from sanitary viewpoint in
spite OF the modern crusade for hygien-
ic conditions.
No matter how careful some women
are 10 prevent the taking of germs into
their mouths, they are woefully ig
norant or neglectful of the fact that
the skin IS quite capable OF absorbing
disease.
How many women, for instance. stop
to consider the fact that it is possible
to purchase for nominal sum q clean /
towel and a small cake of soap from
the janitress at the large terminal /
stations, so that it is unnecessary. when /
travelling, to use those put out for the !
general public
1t is surprising to see how many
who pride themselves on being cleanly /
think nothing of drying the hands and /
face upon towel. which shows IN /
mistakable evidence of having been
used many times.
| Nor does this happen only in case
of emergency as at an office or station.
1t occurs suu more often in the ordin-
airy home life. A guest comes in un-
! expeCtedly to a meal and wishing 10
avoid trouble and with thoughts of the
/ laundry bill exclaims cheerfully, oh.
don't bother TO get me a clean towel,
I will just use a corner of this one
1 sec hanging here"
With equal nonchalance she uses the
brushes. combs, powder puffs and mani
cure instruments of her unresisting
hostess.
OF course the excuse is that she
knows her hostess to be a good house
/ nd far " fS f
Aicted with any skin or scalp disease
This may be a compliment to the fam
lily but it certainly shows a lack Of
daintiness on the part of the guest.
1t is really hard to understand how
anyone can take the chance of using
a comb and brush in public toilet
rooms after the repeated warnings
given by the advocates of hygiene.
The powder pun is another article
for serious consideration. This should
never be borrowed nor loaned. A piece
of absorbent cotton should always be
provided by hostess in place of
powder puff. and discarded immedi-
ately after using.
The face powder can be kept in
fancy box with a perforated top. This
Will keep the powder perfectly pure
and free from foreign matter.
The traveller can always carry the
little pocket powder paper book or a
piece Of chamois full of powder to use
on the train.
If a comb is forgotten, a sidecomb
which most women wear, will answer
very well. and is much better than the
public combs.
1t is better to dispense with the use
of brush than to use other than
ones own.
) Liquid soap is being adopted in many
public waiting rooms and 1t is a great
protection to all who have occasion to
: use soap.
Nowadays small towels are provided
in homes we'll trains and hotels,
, which are meant TO be used once only
and then consigned to the laundry bag.
More than one bride known to the
writer has laid away a goodly supply
of these small towels for use IN her
guest chamber, and the idea is an eX-
J cellent one.
This subject of personal cleanliness
is not a pleasant one to discuss yet
it is one of the most common sources
of the spread Of skin and scalp
troubles.
The boarding school girl is often a
victim of skin and scalp diseases which
could have been avoided If she had been
taught the proper precaution of al
ways providing her own toilet necessi-
: ties.
; The training in this matter should
+ begin in earliest childhood.
}. If the small boy and girl are taught
, to have his or her own towel, comb
h brush, soap, tooth and nail brushes
and a certain place to keep them, they
would never in after life borrow OF
|. lend their combs any more than then
8 toothbrushes.
8 Early habits and Impressions arc Sc
4 lasting that every mother should rea.
t iize their Importance and try to insti
4 the dainty habits that are a mark o
good breeding.
, After all. the most efficient beaut!
culture in the world can avail moth
{ ing unless the rules of hygiene ar,
observed.
q I have seen children who never re
Y quired training in regard to thes
!, matters; they seemed born with
q natural aversion to using anything no
strictly their own. These dainty lit
. tie sould are rare, however, and as
II rule a child viii use any towel, COM
i or brush that comes its way.
u have been sent away from tn
breakfast table to clean my teeth, an
r now thank my mother for thei
y sound condition.
e Those who have had careful train
:. ing should be grateful. for they hav
= doubtless been saved many Of the i'll
y the face and scalp are heir TO.
> If the child's hair is earthly brushe
ie every day. and shampooed at regula
intervals, it will insure good hair an
E. dainty care in after years.
/.
- extreme in all these matters, but i
the longerun, is it not better TO err o
the side of daintiness than to give to
- little heed to what We use. when We US
it and how We use it?-Boston Her
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