The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-07-11
Improving the Appearance.

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tIdctlNe IN every way and helm greatly,
IN preserving her youth and heauty
Now tnere is no reason why a woman
IN ordinary health should not retain
Ier good looks until she is quite old
why should she not be as beautiful
III her way. when she is a grandmother
as when she was a girl of eighteen ,
She would certainly find that her nou,er
over The world in general would he
greatly increased if she had good looks
| TO back it up with. no
On rising in the morning. the first
thing to be done by the woman who
wishes to retain her beauty of Ace
ana inquire is to take a cold sponpe
| paln' Followed by brisk rubbing with
aIcohol, which puts the whole body in
q glow and tones up the nerves and
muscles. Then comes a ten minutes;
pracuee of some simple exercises. which
II persisted it will work wonders i'm
improving the general health and an
pearance 0iF
To keep the body clean it to keen
II healthy; more than that, it is to
Keep the mind bright, as circulation
is stimulated, muscles massaged and
1 the tissues hardened. The daily hath
! IS the finest method of beautifving
one thing you must strictly avoid in
! batnlng-neVer use hard water. 1t is
! impossible to create a cleansing suds
The addition of borax will remedy this
| trouble, so always keep a little china
or tin covered box with borax in IT
on your washstand.
To make the throat full and round
tne pest exercise is to bend the head
1 slowly forward until the chin touches
! the neck, and then slowly raise the
| mead to its normal position. Repeat
these movements until you are tired
Then bend the head as far backward
| as possible. Sitting erect in a chair.
! bend the head from one side to an
other and then roll the head to the
right. left and forward Another good
position is to let the arms hang loosely
at the sides; raise the shoulders as
high as possible, then forward, down
and backward until a circle is formed:
| continue this for time, then reverse
the motion. Do this every day for ten
minutes. If the neck needs development
and rounding out, so that it may be-
come full and pillar-like
Again, stand perfectly erect with the
arms at the sides. life them up YER
tically, initiating the lungs as the arms
ascend. At the same time rise I'D on
the tips of your toes and throw your
head back, at the same time touching
the backs of the hands over head AS
the arms slowly descend exhale from
the lungs.
To cure round shoulders, stretch the
arms out level. palms up, and rotate
arms in circles, we'll back. Throw
shoulders back, chest forward and
stand rigidly.
The wrinkles called "crow's feet
should be prevented by daily stroking
of the folds, or where they would
come. Keeping the blood in free circu-
lation under the skin is the sure
wrinkle preventive.
The following prescription is a very
good one for a skin food: Take half
an ounce of spermacet, half an ounce
of white wax, two ounces of sweet
almond oil, one ounce of lanoline, one
ounce of cocoanut oil, three drops of
tincture Of benZoin and one ounce of
orange-fower water. Melt the first
five ingredients and add the benzoin |
and the orange-fower water, beating |
the ingredients together until cold.
Plain. simple food; no fluids taken |
at meals, except the morning cup of |
coffee or chocolate; fresh air-lots of
it-quiet restful sleep. earned by out
of-door exercise; soap and water and |
a cheerful heart. that is the summing up |
of my guide to beauty" Mrs. Langtry, |
the actress, who has the most beauti-
full complexion in the world, informed |
an interviewer a short time ago.
If you want to make your hands |
soft and smooth very quickly, try |
washing them in this way: First soap |
them well. then pour into your hands |
a little pure glycerine. Wash your
hands well with this, rinse, dry thor
oughly and dust with oatmeal. Give a |
final rub with a piece of toilet chamois.
If you want your hands TO be always
white, keep tin box of oatmeal on
your washstand and rub some over
your hands every time after washing.
Lemon Juice rubbed in before using the |
oatmeal viii also help to whiten them.
little cotton wool, wrapped round
a stick and dipped into eau de cologne
or diluted alcohol mixed with glycerine.
should be passed round the cuticle OF
the nail after washing the hands at
night This gives the beautiful blanched
appearance to the surrounding skin,
which is one Of the chief aims of those
whose hands are regularly manicured.
Almost all remedies for the scalp
seem to be put together with the UNI
that the hair is too dry,
and therefore they contain oils of Yari-
Gus kinds. Now there are people, and
not a few. who are affected with the
opposite trouble-undue oiliness of the
hair For their benefit / give the fol-
lowing remedy, which will keep the
scalp cool and the hair dry and free
from OIL Spirit of ether, one and a
half ounces; tincture benzoin, two
drains: vaniline, on drop; helitropine,
three drops geranium oil, one drop.
Keep well corked and do not expose to
flame, as it is highly inf1ammable.
1t is far more important 10 brush the
teeth before going TO bed than 1t is on
rising. People who are endowed with
the fragile beauty of pearly teeth
should be careful not to drink very hot
LIQUIDS. An excellent means of preserv-
ing the teeth from decay is to pass
4 silk thread between them daily. III
This be made a practice, 1t will very
soon become as indispensable an item
h the toilet as the matutinal bath
MANY women are intensely annoyed
NV such profuse perspiration under the
rms that even dress shields do not
nrotect their waists. For this trouble
! lotion composed of chloride of lime
= often found most useful. haif an
1unce of the lime being dissolved III
tbree-ouarters of a pint Of soft wafer
This shotIld be mixed by shaking IN
bottle oc ,asionally every two or three
hours. then allowed to stand ana 10
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