The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-21
HEALTH HINTS AT THE TOILET TABLE Suggestions That Every Woman Will Find Some
 Use For.


 Rlngworms will soon disappear if painted few times with iodine.
 If you wish to draw boil to a head quickly peel the skin from boil ed egg, wet and apply at once.
 For burns and scalds bind the white of an egg over the injured part. It will form a coating like Yarnish and give instant relief.
 An excellent powder for tender skins can be easily made from cornstarch moistened with enough pure alcohol to make a stiff paste. When hard it may be powdered easily.
 For infiammatory rheumatism, if not of long standing bathe the affected parts with sweet oil and saltpeter-an ounce of the latter to a pint of oil.
 When giving castor oil take a small tumbler and squeeze Into 1t table, spoonful of orange juice; next pour in the oil, then add more juice. The oil will form a globule in the center of the juice and can be swallowed without being detected
 If unlucky enough to suffer from poison ivy try covering the irrltated parts with poultice of bread soaked in a paste of baking powder and wa ter. Renew After fifteen minutes re- move the poultice and let the skin dry off for a quarter of an hour, after which soak the bread again and ap- ply, repeating the process till relieved. Keep the soda solution from garments, rugs, etc, as 1t is very caustlc and will damage any fabric.
 Stretching exercises of the throat and neck will reduce double chin permanently. Hold the chin as far up as it will go and with your finger tips massage it with 8 downward motion. Pushing the lower jaw in and out is also good, Once or twice week is often enough for such heroic treat ment.
 The girl with unusual hips--the com monest of afflictlons--may cure them, If the inequality be not to far advane- ed, by a ten-mlnute exercise daily. Bring the knee on the larger side up to the chest and lower it again, all the while standing as nearly erect as possible. Do this twenty or thirty times each day.
 Ten minutes manicurlng does not promise very much, In that time, how ever, something may be done to keep the hands in good condition. The nails may be filed and the skin around the base pushed in with an orange wood stick-never cut. Then a final polish may be given and a whitening and softening lotion rubbed into the hands
 Pale, colorless lips are so dlsagurlng that women will resort to all sorts of means to get ride of them Chiefly these means take the form of rcuges or liquid paints. This Is usually a mis- take, as the skin on the lips Is very | sensitive and paint only succeeds in making the skin hard and wrinkled and leaving them stiff and unpliant. Look for the cause instead Almost in- variably it will be found to be from a rundown physical condition, which causes anaemia. Get rid of this by | healthful diet and the color Is apt to come back to your lips without arti- | ficial means.
 A wart Is essentially an outgrowth l cf the scarf skin. It may be brought about by friction. Hence it may be found on the quite healthy skin of a healthy person, just as a corn may be l found. But warts sometimes come without friction and they come numer- ously. so proving that there must be | some internal cause. Wart crops are 1 specially apt to appear between early | childhood and the sixteenth year. They are found most usually in children of poor physique. They have been Known to make a sudden appearance when the child has fallen into poor health and | go away when the health has improv> ed. Small doses of calcipqd mlgnosia in water taken daily during many weeks or months have been found ef- fectual in getting rid of these warts. !