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'J THE OREGON SUNDAY. JOURNAT.' PORTLAND. SUNDAY. 'MORNING, - TUNE ' 1903 JteAsuftBIOL; m 1 ONCE upon a time there was m girl who was pretty, but who grew fat and fatur till aha was the fattest girl in her set weighing 170 pounds at the age of 20. Now this state of affairs caused grief to the girl's father, who was a roan of csthetio taste and of sufficient sense to know that increased avoirdupois docs not always Insure Increased strength and health. The girl herself was not so troubled, for a dulled sensi bility and Indifference are characteristic of many fat people. However, this girl was suddenly aroused from her lethargy by her fath er's offer of ti for every pound she would lose. 6ho experimented with ways and means the unusual activity given her brain was helpful and Anally hit upon a method which proved most satisfying. She had once gloried In long walks and had been fond of sports, so walking and even Tunning were resumed, as was also tennis. When engaged in these ex ercises (and It was summer, too) she was always arrayed in a white wool sweater, which Induced profuse per spiration. The only caution necessary was to be prudent when, the exercise Mrs. Henry SyriAes' Advice to Correspondents OWING to the great amount of mail received and the limited pace given this department, It is absolutely impossible to an swer letters in the Sunday issue follow ing their receipt The letters must be' answered in turn, and this ofttlmes re quires three or four weeks. All correspondents who desire an im mediate answer must inclose a self addressed stamped envelope for a re ply. This rule must also be compiled with In regard to personal letters. JVitch Hazel Cold Cream MAT Bathe your hands three or four times a day in warm water, using a good brand of soap. Rinse them care fully and dry thoroughly; then apply the witch hasel cold cream. This treat ment if persistently followed will make the hands soft and white. Formula for cream Is: White wax, one ounce; spermaceti, one ounce; oil of almonds, one-fourth pint. Melt; pour into a mortar which has been heated by being immersed some time in boiling water. Very "grad ually add three ounces of rosewater and one ounce of witch hasel, and as siduously stir the mixture until an emul sion Is formed, and afterward until the mixture is nearly cold. Lotion to Whiten and Soften the Hands IRENE Put into a bottle two ounces of glycerine two ounces of water four tablespoonfuls of lemon Juice and a few drops ef carbolic acid. Shake welt. After washing and drying the hands, rub a little of this mixture into them. Spotted Nails FLO White spots on the nails some times indicate disturbed circulation of the blood, but more frequently they re sult from bruise or Injury by a mani curing instrument No application woultf avail. ' The lemon and glycerine formula gives makes a simple and pleasant bleach: Citric acid (lemon), three drama; hot . water, eleven ounces; borax, two drams; red rose petals, one ounce; glycerine, one ounce. Dissolve the acid and borax in the water; Infuse the petals for an hour; strain through a Jelly bag after twerwy- four hours; decant the clear portion and add the glycerine. Apply as often as agreeable. Rules for the Reduction of Flesh "FATTY" Avoid all starchy and sweetened food, all cereals and vegeta bles containing sugar or starch, such as peas; beans, corn, potatoes, etc. Have , your bread toasted; sprinkle It with salt Instead of using butter. Milk, I regret ' to say, if It be pure and good. Is fatten ing. - Skimmed milk may be drunk. . Hot I , ell'? " over, she sought rest and cool; to avoid draughts and Iced water. At the end of the season she weighed just forty pounds less, had regained all her grace and comeliness and had added $200 to her balance sheet wateris an excellent substitute for other liquids. Add a little of the Juice of limes or lemo&s to It if you choose. Limit your sleeping hours to seven at the out side; no naps. You must take exercise. To Develop the 'ust L. M. H. The following will be found very good for developing the bust: Lan olin, one ounce; cocoa butter, one ounce ; sweet almond oil, one ounce. Put in small bowl, set in hot water until melted. Beat together and cool. Each night after laying hot cloths on bust rub it in by massaging gently and thor oughly in a circular direction for fif teen minutes. Eyelash Grower E. M. O. Apply the following lotion to the eyelashes with a tiny camel's halr paint brush. The brush must be free from any drop and passed lightly along the edge of the eyelids, exercis ing extreme care that not the minutest fiortion of the lotion touches the eye tself: Cologne, two and one-half ounces: glycerine, one and one-half ounces; fluid extract of Jaborandi. two drams. Consuh a Physician ANXIOUS MOTHER As the trouble is undoubtedly due to cold, it would b wiser to consult your doctor about ?our daughter. I would advise you' not o use any special treatment for devel oping the bust Lack of circulation Is the cause of cold feet. Bathing the feet with al cohol or rubbing them briskly with salt stimulates the blood to flow more rap idly, thus making the feet warm. Ex ercise, too, is often a very good rem edy for cold feet Rise on the toes, count five; lower the body until the heels almost touch the floor: repeat eight times, touching the floor with the heels Only on the eighth count - Repeat the same exercise, rising on the heels. . . Sage Tea A. M. A. Sometimes the turning of the color of the hair is caused by ex cessive dryness of its roots. J. think this must be your trouble, for you are too young for your hair to, turn gray yet ine recipe i am giving you will prove an efficacious tonic, and will give new life to your hair: Three drams of re sorcin. one ounce of tincture of canthar ldes, four drams of oil recini. ten drops of oil rosemary. Add sufficient bay rum to make eight ounces. ... , To EraTelVrinkles 1 , L. L. L. Wrinkles- that are caused by much laughing are not at all objection able, but if you wjsh to drive them away, massage with the following cream: Lanolin two and a half ounce; sper maceti, six, drams; white vaseline, two and a half ounces; coooanut oil, two ounces; sweet almond oil, twocunoesj This little story goes merely to show that with proper Incentive and syste matic perseverance, proportionate and tincture of benioln, half a dram. Melt the first five ingredients together, beat until the mass concretes, adding the benioln, drop by drop, during this process. Extract of violet or any perfume may be added If agreeable. To help to reduce a double chin prac tice the following exercise: L Stand erect in military position. Place the hands lightly on the hips, fingers for ward. Drop the chin slowly on the collarbone; then throw the head back with a quick, even movement that Is not a jerk, but yet puts all the muscles into quick play. Repeat ten time. 1 . Turn the head quickly to the right till the chin Is Just over the right shoulder; then back again. Repeat ten times; then turn the head to the left in the same way. Repeat ten times. Do not tire the muscles of the neck, but gradually in crease the number of exercises dally, until you can practice each one about fifty times without after discomfort Ingrown Toe Nail CONSTANT READER Loosen the flesh, cut the nail, moisten the affected part with a camel's-halr brush soaked in perchlorate of iron. The flesh Is thus made insensible and hard. This remedy is infallible. Milk of White Roses CONSTANT READER This is an ex cellent cure for wrinkles; One-half pint rosewater, one-quarter ounce simple tincture of benzoin, three drops of attar ' of roses. Put the rosewater In a basin. Add the tincture of bensoin a drop at a time. Add attar of roses, and bottle. Here is a recipe for a good hair tonlo: Cologne, eight ounces; tincture of can tharldes, one ounce; oil of English lav ender, one-half dram; oil of rosemary, one-half dram. Apply to the roots of ' the hair once or twice a day. It is positively necessary that the scalp should be kept clean. Shampoo at least once week. Lotion for Dry Scalp ANXIOTJS-fApply this lotion to the scalp every night; Glycerine, one ounce; eau de cologne, one-quarter pint; liquid 1 ammonia, one dram; oil of origanum, one-half dram; oil of rosemary, one-half dram; tincture of cantharldes, one ounce. Briskly agitate for ten min utes, then add camphor Julep, one-half pint nd again mix well and stir. A. few drops of essence of musk or other perfume can be added.- . This cream for pimples has been help ful to many: Salicylic acid, ten grains; calomel, one dram; lard, one oynce. . Two Hair Stains ' KATIE Either one of the following recipes will darken the hair: Green wal nut shells, two ounces; alum, one-quar-U- ou&ce-.ur oil. four ounces. Beat to youthful figures may be retained. The fat girl should guard against be coming Indulgent in her habits. Seven hours is quite long enough for sleep, and the luxurious little day hap should be dropped from her program. She should acquire active interests; her brain as well as her body needs stimulation. Let her pursuits be varied, In order to gether In a water bath until the water has been completely evaporated. Then express, filter and perfume. Sage tea may be used to darken the hair. Make a strong brew of dried THERE Js at the present moment a French marquis who lives In ter ror of a draught His house, in the environs of Paris, is furnished throughout with double windows and doors bound in baize to exclude every "courant d'alr," while even his veranda la Inclosed In glass. This for a while satisfied him, but soon he found that even when he drove around the country In his phaeton he was exposed to the most annoying breezes. As he passed a meadow there would be no wall to prevent the wind.' "yes. without doubt, the wind itself," from blowing upon his noble brow, so he had to give up driv ing entirely and remain la hip hermet Icslly sealed domicile. . This attitude lasted for ev time, till at in p fj M Xs:sIi ! : - :::: " 1 , ; wihvm --rN T it Kerala allh muscles, and -to tool ta in terest s" ' Long walks no matter what the weather are of ' benefit. All outdoor ports which will quicken the perception ; and indue 'quicker movement should be practiced. 'Jumping rope, if not over done, and the heart IS good and sound, is good exercise, and it is fun. too. Two zeroises pictured mre simple, and may be performed each morning upon rising. One tends to reduoe the abdo men and lengthen the waist: Raise the hands above the head; with knees and elbows stiff, bend forward from the waist and try to touch the floor with the fingertips. Inhale a deep breath as you stand erect with raised arms; expel it as you bend toward the floor. The other exereise reduces the hips: Stand with hands on hips and enco ders level; raise the leg. with the knee flexed, and make a quick side kick as high as may be; then bring the foot back to the floor and perform the ac tion with the other leg. Seep breathing Is an exercise tor the fat girl, because many stout girls have little chest development. In the matter of diet she should be very careful and abstain from many goodies that girls' dearly love Ice cream sodas and candles, and, in fact, all sweets; soups and milk and starch foods. The fat girl is not so likely to over eat as she is to be injudicious in her selection of food. The fat girl Is in clined to be Indulgent, and it is hard to Impress on her so many "don'ts" but we do it all in love. Avoid that delicious little habit of between-meal eating. leaves, strain the liquid carefully through muslin, and to each pint add two teaspoonfula of alcohol. This should be rubbed on the hair every night before retiring. To Remove IF arts M. A. G. I think you will find this recipe better than the one you men tioned: Mix one grain of paraform with nine parts of flexible collodion, and apply to wart three times a" day. After two or three days the epidermis peels off and the wart will come with it. Lemon Juice, too, will cause some warts to disappear. Touch them two or three times daily with a camel's-halr brush soaked in the juice. To Reduce Fat NELLIE F. Instead of trying the W TO II isi es .Ji isjliasiBsTMlMiCii r,ii iitn iiiihiWimi imbj w t mm ' a w- n Wt m . mm . 1 y)Vy f 1 SW- ... . -.- 1 last madame, his wife, tired of seeing nothing but the four walls of the house, protested, and Monsieur le Marquis bit upon a plan. It was exalted H was sublime; he was an Inventor) He bad made - a -carriage inclosed entirely in : stiff leather wiy glass windows, some- ' thing on the plan of what Americans ' call a carryall or German town.- In the front there was a window of plate glass, with two rectangular . holes through ' which to pass the reins, and even these were covered by flaps of leather. ' So' he -went forth in, his airproof carnage, absolutely sure that he was) secure from , any vagrant breeze and positive that he - 'would "live forever or, at least, until j Trance became again a monarchy. -The martinis of the glass carriage waa - most jlesddedly peculiar: -from the r to method you describe use the following pomade: Iodide of potassium, forty-six grains; vaseline, one and three-fourth ounces; lanolin, one and three-fourth ounces; tincture of benzoin, twenty drops. Make into a pomade and rub over the fatty parts twice a day. You should ab stain from food that is especially fat forming cereals, potatoes, corn, beans, etc. You should avoid sweets of all kinds. Sage tea is the most harmless of rem edies for darkening the hair. Make a strong brew of dried leaves, strain the liquid carefully through muslin, and to each pint add two teaspoonfula of' alco hol. This should be rubbed on the hair every night before retiring. For Rough Skin MRS. C The best thing to do for rough skin on the arms is to bathe the arms every night in alcohol. Rub them briskly, as this will Improve the circu lation of the blood. This recipe will harden the bust and make It more firm. This pomade should not be used as a massage cream, but should be applied after massage to restore shrunken or flabby skin: Oil of sweet almonds, six ounces; white wax. three ounces; tinc ture benzoin, one and one-half ounces; rosewater, one and one-half ounces; pulverised tannin, six drams. Wash for the Skin BLANCHE Cucumber wash is moat excellent for the skin at all seasons of the year. To make It take one or two cucumbers, cut them into rather small chunks without peeling. Put these Into a mortar and pound with AQID pSUMMJERGQIDS """ tVyH I I hWWBMftSmw j. Tl American viewpoint crazy; but perhaps there was some reason in his fear of a draught Americans, as a rule, are a little too indifferent to the possibilities of catching a coldv and, as a result, they are usually afflicted with one; indeed, throat affections are very common among us. - v -,. A people take cold not when Inhaling food, fresh air, but When sitting in a draught even when not overheated,. or when sitting In the direct line with all electric fan. Others will rush Into the house after playing tennis or otherwise exercising, drink several glasses of Iced . water and then rest on the cold stone steps until they are thoroughly chilled. .. Later, she who has been reading in a draught and she who has been catch Ins a cold by the aid of stones and iced : IX1 a pestle (or use a heavy wooden po tato masher and a heavy earthen ware bowl) until the mass is pulp like in consistency. Now filter this through a piece of cheesecloth or very coarse muslin, squeezing out as much of the Juice as you can from the rcuse. Now put the refuse and filtered Juice into a clean enameled saucepan and simmer (don't boil) for ten minutes. Then strain and when cold add at cohol to the proportion of one table spoonful to half a pint of the strained liquid. Bottle and use to sponge your; face Instead of washing it during the day. The alcohol should preserve the juice. ; -.' To Develop the Bust ; IVA The following may be tried ta Increase the else of the bust: Lanolin, one ounce; cocoa butter, one ounces sweet almond oil, one ounce. Put la mall bowl, set In hot water until melted. Beat together and cooL Each, night after laying hot cloths on bust, rub it in by massaging gently and thoroughly in a circular direction fofi fifteen minutes. V : ' -.'':' I can give you a formula which will fade the brown spots somewhat, but they are almost invariably evidenced of liver trouble. If you do not get bet ter of them shortly after using the) recipe, I should advise you to conautt your own physician In regard to the trouble. - - , , . im. - Bichloride of mercury in ; coarnsj rowder, eight grains; witch hazel, wo ounces; rosewater, two ounces. Agitate until a solution is obtained. Mop over the affected parts. , Keep the lotion out of the way of Ignorant -persons and children, , (; j . I., V " drinks will meet and complain- shout the "sudden change in the wwuiti-r." snd thereafter foe a week or two Hi- will inflict their friends Willi thHr s"" -ing and couching, for summer cui.; ; iast a long time. Those who J not n-t - the usual coryza frequently wind vj with neuralgia, whii-h is far rnma jiiiu ful and even more dUiiuit to cure. During the summer lie careful. ) -. cause you are very warm, 1i iit i -mediately try t trmw to dwiin;'i.--. cause you are thlrm v, do ir,t ti 'i. gallons tif k-eil watt-r, ') h t ( . nutrquis,- - like iiher :urnn i!, . , i faint at even thi ihouKht ut Ihl luf-t-r AmeriosiiUn), anrl itiil tb.,i l t n diculouit, Juxt ths mmp It J una ! drink it all the Um aiid unUur s.l .' -dltlons. - , '.' ' '
