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Show I ANSWERS TO LETTER WRITERS. Miss Lou. I am much distressed over the only wrinkle I have. It is a laughing wrinkle, and extends from the corners of my mouth to my nose. I have tried many things for it "Will you kindly give me a recipe for a skin food? Where there is just one wrinkle, at one side of the mouth, It is usually due to a missing tooth. Is this your case? For a skin food, take an ounce of mutton oil, add to It two ounces of oil of sweet almonds and ten drops of! oil of geranium. Miss X. Is there any way of developing devel-oping the bust? If you will massage your chest with skin food and leave it on, and if you will practice standing with your shoulders shoul-ders back and your chest forward, and will walk in this manner, you will find I that the bust will increase several inches in three months' time. Mrs. Longwood. Will you have appear ap-pear in your interesting column the lotion which Mrs. A. used successfully for blackheads? The skin was steamed and the blackheads were scrubbed, literally scrubbed out A lotion consisting of benzoinated cold cream was then applied. ap-plied. Mrs. X. Is there any way to make ; the mouth smaller? The mouth can be made apparently smaller by fattening the face. Mrs. Anonymous. Is there any way to whiten a poor skin and to take away freckles and dark spots? They can be partially removed by an internal course of 'treatment. Begin Be-gin with the old-fashioned remedy of sulphur and molasses. Your liver is out of order. Letter Writer complains that her hands are not as pretty as she would like to have them. Try bleaching them with white vinegar. vine-gar. Sleep in gloves spread with glove paste three nights a week. Every Ev-ery evening soak them for five minutes in warm olive oil. Mabel. Would you please tell me if there is anything as a cure for a red nose? I have had it for a long time, so I don't suppose I will get rid of it That red nose is certainly curable. Don't eat sweets; don't massage your nose; don't scrub it with a towel; don't wear tight collars; don't get indigestion; in-digestion; try these don'ts and vour red nose will disappear. Margery. Do you know an exercise for weak ankles? There Is nothing as good as walking. walk-ing. Be careful that your ankles are properly supported or they will turn. Many persons cannot wear low shoes on this account "A Constant Reader." I am a constant con-stant reader of your helpful talks, and would ask If you would kindly help me also. I am a young girl, 17 years of age, arid have large hips, so large, in fact, that, I always imagine I look conspicuous, and I would do almost anything to get rid of them. Now, would you be kind enough to tell me what kind of calisthenic exercises or diet would help mer educe them? Do not try to reduce your hips for two years, at least At 17 all girls look nice. Nice hips make a nice figure, fig-ure, usually, so your hips are really a mark of great beauty. Mrs. K. and 'others. The brown spots on your face and neck can be taken off by this formula; Take of bay rum, two ounces, and of sallicylic acid fifteen grains. Apply to the skin with a soft cloth. "Use cold cream afterwards. after-wards. To Poor Skin. For blackheads try keeping the skin perfectly clear with soap and water. This may be difficult if your face has a thin, poor skin. But you can lightly massage It every night with a thin face cream, and this will tend to strengthen your skin and make its texture tougher and more able to stand the weather. Mrs. E. J. Will you kindly tell me how to take away the lines from underneath un-derneath the eyes? I do not know the cause of them, but have two close to me iasnes, ana also have a small line at each corner of the mouth. What can be done for them? I have down on the face, quite thick on the jaw, also hair or down on the upper lip. Will you kindly tell me how to take it off? Will you also please answer if cream on the face before be-fore usingpowder in the evening at any time will cause a growth of hair on the face? What is a good cream for that purpose? To answer your last question first Cream will not make hair grow on the face. If your skin is delicate use pure olive oil of warm sweet oil. Massage ( ( the lines according to diagrams given in this column. To remove superfluous superflu-ous hair try the Vienna remedy recently re-cently explained It has proved effective effec-tive in thousands of cases and costs almost nothing. E. M. J. After reading your writings writ-ings for more than one year, and being benefited by' putting some of your suggestions sug-gestions into practice, I take the liberty lib-erty of asking two questions, which I have searched for in vain from week to week. Is there any way of making a nose smaller by shrinking or other process? What shall I do to turn my eyebrows dark? My nose has been the sorrow of my life, and I fear always will be, but I have so much faith In your ability to answer all questions I shall be hopefully watching for an answer. You can darken and thicken your eyebrows by washing them every night with a camel's hair, brush dipped in the oil of sweet almonds. This is the simplest of all methods. About your nose that is a difflcult task to perform. I have recently succeeded in reducing the apparent size of a man's nose. The man, a reader of this column, col-umn, was afflicted with a nose that seemed twice too large. It is now of normal size. Perhaps you can be treated treat-ed with similar success. Be sure that you have no catarrh and no trouble with our breathing apparatus. The nostrils will dilate if they are stopped up. Now treat your cheeks by massaging mas-saging them with cold cream. Try to plump them out. As soon as your cheeks grow fat your nose will apparently ap-parently shrink in size, and be of normal nor-mal growth. This has been successfully success-fully tried by hundreds of readers of readers of this column. Mrs. Y. Please, in a corner of your most delightful page, tell me what to do for distressingly high collar bones and a thin neck. The rest of my figure fig-ure is good; even my arms are not thin. (But my neck and out to my shoulders is scrawny. Please repeat the formula for cucumber cream. I - r "v. sujx? uiaivc a, "Martineau Scrap Eook," but have lost that one. Pardon the length of my letter, for I have an idea of the dozens of letters which you receivfi. They are hut a tribute to the popularity of your department I believe every womanly reader of the paper turns to that page first. Rub the high collar bones with cucumber cu-cumber cream. Make it by taking two ripe cucumbers and cutting them into dice. Place them in three ounces of the oil of sweet almonds. Let simmer an hour in a double boiler. Strain. Add once ounce of melted spermaceti and one ounce of lanolin. Take off the stove and let cool, beating all the time with an egg beater. Let your diet during the summer consist largely of chocolate, cocoa, and milk. A. Will you kindly tell me what motions of massage other than kneading knead-ing and rolling tend to reduce flesh? Will a firm, rapid, vigorous movement move-ment develop or reduce? Thanking you, in advance. A SlOW P!1SV mnfinn to .1 x t J xiiv.vuu 10 ouppuSBH LO develop; a quick, heavy motion to reduce. re-duce. For the latter there'is nothing better than kneading. A Young Widow. Will you kindly advise me, through your "beauty" column col-umn in next Sunday's edition of a recipe for removing wrinkles under the eyes? Wrinkles under the eyes come from dissipation or from worry. Occasionally, Occasion-ally, but not often, from illness. They quickly disappear when the cause is removed. j |