Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-20

All outdoor exercises improve the complexion through strengthening the heart and deepening the breathing. Playing tennis, golf, rowing, and even skipping and running are good for the girl who has an inactive skin.
 Going up and down stairs is good exercise for indoor and so is walking about the room on tiptoes, morning and night, while dressing. Some ex- ercises especially develop the legs and at the same time reduce the size of the hips.
 The rheumatic pains girls who grow fast often feel are sometimes due to all over-abundance of tactic acid in the blood. Plain food, exercise and tepid bathing is the necessary regi- men for the cure.
 Exercise carried to excess-until one feels at times absolutely idiotic from fatigue-is as bad as none at all. Per- haps 1t is worse so far as active re- suits are concerned, for excessive use of muscles weakens the brain At the same time too much use of the mind wastes the muscular economy of the body. So the girl who wants to be well an fair to look upon must neith- CT play nor work too long. She must divide her time between the two, and judge for herself whether her health is being benefited or injured.
 The girl who is looking for bright. wholesome skin, clear eyes, slim, pretty figure, a merry heart and the ambition to do things" must never neglect the functions of nature. Slug gish bowels are responsible for horde of complexion defects and mental mis- cry, while an insufficient quantity of pure drinking water will harm the kid neys. Castor oil is a marvellous im- prover of the complexion, and for ordi- nary use mixture of figs and senna is excellent. Get five cents worth of the senna and pound of dried figs and stew the two together, adding sugar and bit of lemon peel for pal atable taste. Take teaspoonful of the mixture, on going to bed at night
 Freckles and sunburn can be treat. ed to advantage with sour milk, and the wash will be more efficacious if N holds a teaspoonful of benzoin or a few drops of peroxide. Fresh cucum- Der juice is also good for either blight. as we'll as lettuce water. Stew the vegetables in as little water as is pos sible, and. then use the strained liquid as lotion after the cleansing bath.
 It is no use to study the latest fash. ions in coiffures if girl does not keep her hair in neat and healthy condi. tion. In dusty districts the locks should be washed once a month, but the quality of the hair must decide upon what the constituents of the shampoo must be. Dry hair will re- spgnd badly to alkalies-hard soap, s4taa aud arpmonia-and after the most favorable washing the { scalp neeas to be massaged with a little qasyes oal.s Damp or oily hair and moist scalps will admit of little borax in the washing water, and 1t would be an advantage to massage the scalp when thA.hair is dry with little alcohol or bay rum Curling irons ruin the hair ins$time, and 90 will rough combing. Groom your hair as tenderly as if 1t wereva baby's, passing the comb down the locks with slow, even strokes and avoiding snapping 1t outward at the ends of the hair. Use kid curlers or soft rags for the crimping.
 Don't worry because you cannot buy an expensive face powder. Save up the pennies until you have ten cents and then get a little plain rice pow der. or several Jumps of magnesia, at the druggists: pound either of these mediums until 1t Is almost dust. sift 1t through coarse muslin, and then put the powder in box which can be covered. and spend your time thinking where you can get little bunch of sweet fresh flowers for nothing. Rose leaves. jessamine, gardenias. and every other richly-scented flower can be used for pertaining the face powder. Break oil the petals of the blooms -and shut them up in the box with the powder for two weeks, occasionally shaking 1t around, but never opening 1t. Atsthe end of the two weeks you will find a face powder Of the ex, Quisite baby variety.
 ' Cold cream of . very useful sort can he made Of fresh leaf lard in semA of the cold. filtered water you drink, re- newing the water several times, and keeping up the whipping until the lard Is feathery. Then wash 1t ofe in the coldest water you can procufe-still filtered-and perfume 1t with a few drops of extract. Keep in a cold place. Instead of the extract, rosewa- ter. which is excellent for the skin. may be used.
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