I m PRACTICAL TALKS BY THE If I 1 HJ APRIL GRANDMOTHER HJ 1 MISS DIANA GREENYVAYS has just had her face peeled ' That youns girl!" The April Grandmother's tones expressed n mingling of surprise (distaste and a keen sense of the ridicu jlous. "And simply because her complex ion did not promptly recover from the effects of five months, devoted chiefly to tennis, golf and hunting. "Now, my dear child, do you remember a single occasion during the last summer and autumn when Miss Diana wore a veil? And did she not tell you that she never wore a hat if it were possible to go without one because both of those articles ure such a bother to put on? She did not realize then how her spotted dark face would look aliove an evening gown. I The April Grandmother repeated her 'youngest granddaughter's apologetic re-1 mark and continued: "The mischief being doue, she resorted to the get-bleached-quickly method, and now her! features are swollen beyond recogni- tion nnd she fears blood poisoning. Well.1 it Is not likely that any serious results will ensue though there's always a cer-' taiu risk about prolm? the face because Miss Diana is a perfectly healthy girl, but she might have saved herself no end of mental and physical pain had she been couteut to gradually bleach her complexion, complex-ion, j "I certainly do remember those freckles," roplied the April Grandmother with a shudder. "They were big and brown und disfiguring, but they were not of the pormaneiit sort. Lemon juice would have vanquished them not by eating round holes iu her face, but by gradually fading their color. And whilo the lemon juice was working upon tho sun kisses it would have been doing as much for i the tan coating which had made her face ; yellow-brown wherever it was not browu- , red. . -"Yes, lemou iH drying to most skins," P admitted the April Grandmother, "if tlie'. juice is allowed to dry on and nothing ls(I done to counteract its effect But to prc- : vent the cuticle from getting unduly dry, and also to aid iu the gradual bleaching rocess, there is a lotion made of gli'c-ine gli'c-ine diluted with enough roswater to prevent the skin from smarting. And I may remark in passing that any complexion complex-ion prcparatiou which causes pain to tho face should promptly be discontinued, for, no matter how beneficial it may have been in the case of some other person, iskln textures differ so radically that what is sauce for the cuticle of one little gooso of a girl is not sauce for the com- jplexion of her dearest friend. "Strained , fresh honey diluted with jorange flower water is a face bleach which might safely bo used on an iufant-J Sweet thick cream recently akimmed I i from a pan of puro milk is also a good. :r bleach and a softener of the skin rough- H ened by ntitumn winds, and so is the i H paste which can be made of white - Rf ulmonds. Any of these remedies mny be ' f used everj' flay, or twice a day, been use -, U they do not pull the skin off of the face, : B whereas peroxide of hydrogen one of tho t RJ( quickest of known bleachers is harmless r pt if sullicicntly diluted and is used iu mod- - LJJj crntlou, but will take off the cuticle if Ml used in too strong n condition and applied R5 too frequently. While a face Is peeling Ijta or recovering from a peeling brought mt about by unnatural means, there is ul- jlj& wayt duuger of a break occurring in tho IRS true skin and affording a lodgment for ' Mj 'malignant germs, and it would be difli- Wi cult to imagine," concluded the April KS Grandmother, "a more complete wreck tlffi. than a face so needlessly poisoned." kta