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Show if , )' Woman's World, J ; Specially' Prepared for Our feminine Reader. I i TAKING OUT WRINKLES I ; " By Marian. Martineau in the Chicago II Tribune. ; I What to do when the first wrinkle r: comes is the most puzzling of all f problems for the pretty girl to tackle. 3 i ' And the first wrinkle is so insidious, j j . It creeps Id to the forehead so unex- I pectedly and so early in life. No soon- I ; er does the mirror tell a woman that i - she is pretty than from the self-same source she learns that she has, in her face, a mark that is neither pretty I nor attractive. 1 . The wrinkles of 90 are more or less j beautiful because they are honorable ; t wrinkles. They come as marks of a j well spent life. They come as rewards J for having lived healthfully and tem- , ! perately. I ; But in the face oZ Hie young the - j' wrinkle is a different matter. It is ' i not attractive, this first wrinkle. But, . the problem is how to deal with it. If detected early it can be driven away. But the trouble is that one sel- i -dom does detect it early. It is usu- :, ally well seated before one has any ' i ? i idea that it is there. But even so j there is hope of its removal. t ; The plaster treatment for' wrinkles " ' is one that is gaining every day in favor. fa-vor. But it must be carefully man- ' aged. It, is a treatment to be taken J ; by those who are in the habit of scowl- i ; ing or by those who frown in their I ; j sleep. I , ' The j'oung woman who wakes up I scowling and who goes to her mirror f to find her face a mass of wrinkles is I . the one who can take the plaster I ; treatment successfully. .PREPARING THE FACE. i The plaster treatment begins with a note of face preparation. The skin ! ' nmst be prepared with a face scrub- j' , bing brush, with hot water. and soap, f ; . For this purpose the oatmeal bag is J best, for it contains soap, oatmeal, it and a little orris as a scent, making f it pleasant to handle. The face should be scrubbed with jh ' this bag until it is all a mass of hot 1 1 lather. Now, if the scrubbing brush . be soft, it is no harm to go over the ! ; skin with it. But if it be a stiff brush , it will take the skin off, and the sec- ond state of the face will be a thou- ; ; sand times worse than the first state. . After the skin has been cleansed of i Its soapy bath it should be lightly ; ,' cold cream not enough to make I i ; . it oily or the plaster will not stick. . It is now ready for the plaster, And j , for this one you can use any light, thin i plaster warranted harmless by the I I druggist. The plaster should not, how- i ver,be extremely 'delicate or it will I wrinkle. It should be of the adhe- -V ' " give sort, rather stiff and with suf- ? - ficient body to hold the skin in place after it has been applied. ! f The t next thing-is the application . , of the plaster. Let it be cut in nar- i row strips varying in length from one I to four inches. And, in applying it, be I ' seure to treat ' the wrinkles of the forehead first, for these are by far 1 the most obstinate of all known wrln- !J kles. With the thumb and forefinger go , over the forehead, smoothing it out carefully. Now, .while the skin Is. smooth and stretched, apply the plaster. plas-ter. Put it on in such a way that there are no wrinkles underneath it. Apply a short strip to the upper wrinkle wrin-kle and apply another strip to the low-er low-er wrinkle which comes across the . J forehead over , the eyebrows. It will be necessary to moisten the plaster and to hold it in place a few I seconds until it is perfectly firm. i -j Applying the Plaster. 1 Next apply the plaster to the fore- liead between the brows. Cut two ' small pieces, a quarter of an inch wide and a half an inch long, and apply ap-ply them to the forehead between the ' . yes. Moisten them well and press them flat until the forehead is smooth and fair underneath. The length of time for leaving on i ' the plaster depends upon the state of the skin. There are thin, fine skins that seem to "draw" underneath the plaster and where the skin is as tender ten-der as this, the plaster should be al-i" al-i" most immediately taken' off. An hour ' ! . or two is long enough.' And as much j good will result from this as, though j it were left on a long time. ! There are other skins that are i coarser in fiber, and these must be j differently treated. Certain beauty ; j doctors have been known to leave the j , plasters on over night with excellent jf S j effects. And others have advised the 1 ! ' patient to put them on daily and wear them as long as possible until the wrinkles were removed by repeated treatments. It all depends upon" the ' nature of the skin, and one can tell only by experimenting a little. But , the experiments do not . take long, and one can really be a pretty fair ' judge' of . the length of time required after one application. Removing the Laughing Wrinkles. The wrinkles at each side of the mouth, the laughing wrinkles, as they are called, can also be numbered I among the obstinate lines of one's face. When they are In a perfect state of development they form parenthesis at each side of the mouth, and they often make that feature look as though it were set deep in the face, instead of being prettily arched, like a Cupid's Cu-pid's bow. . To remedy the parenthesis, by the . plaster treatment, there Is nothing to do except to apply the . plaster by u working upon the lines precisely as ; one worked upon those of the fore- --' head. The plaster must be cut in --s strips, and must be put on as though , it were a lattice work, the pieces be ing placed some little distance apart ' The laughing wrinkles are the soon- jr est to return, but one must keep at '', ' them. Fortunately they give the face ! a pleasant expression, and in this re- '";.' spect they are superior to the wrink- les of the forehead, which give the J j . face such a sinister loos. The laugh- ing wrinkles can be massaged away daily, and, though they come back, they do not grow deep as though they were left in to form furrows. After Removing the Plaster. The treatment after the plaster comes off is important, for, unless the skin be properly treated now, it will be rough and red. , Go over the surface with a sponge or soft cloth dipped in hot water, and then quickly and lightly massage a little cold cream into the skin. Let the cream be not heavy, and put on little of "it, for it is there to stay. It is hot to be washed off, but must remain as a permanent healing agency for the skin. Now, when the cold cream' has been rubbed in, comes the last touch in the makeup. With some powder go over the skin, having been treated and massaged with cream, is in good condition, con-dition, and the powder acts as a preservative pre-servative from the dust of the house-and house-and the dust of the street. The application of the cream and the touch of face powder might, with propriety, form part of the toilet every ev-ery day. Face powder, used in this way, is beneficial to the skin 'and is sure to be in the best of taste, for it is not used in sufficient abundance to be apparent to the eye, and thus it becomes a skin food. Answers to Correspondents. C: Can anything be done to plump the arms? 1 do so long to wear short sleeves. Ilf the arms are scrawny, they can be made fuller, but not by exercise. Exercise, if the arms -are excessively thin, will develop them muscularly, but will not add flesh. Take fattening fatten-ing foods and live upon chocolate and cocoa preparations. . Miss M.: Will you please tell me if it is injurious to use glycerin and lemon juice upon the hair? My hair is almost white, and I am only 22 years of age. If your hair is white at the age of 22, you will probably not be able to turn it back to its natural color without with-out the use of dye. If it is a snow white, or a silver white, it is probably pretty and, if ' you take good care of it, there is no doubt that it will give you a certain beauty all your own. Mrs. Aurora: Please advise me what to do for freckles. I have a pink and white skin which would be pretty, except for the many freckles on my face. Treat the freckles daily to a bath of witch hazel and a few grains of borax thrown in. Apply at night. If this irritates the skin, substitute soft water wa-ter for the witch hazel. Do not wet the face for at least an hour before going out in the sun. To take off a sudden crop of freckles, apply lemon juice and wash off with boracic acid. Margaret: I wish a good wrinkle cream. An ounce each of white wax and spermaceti. To this add six ounces of -almond oil. Take two ounces of rose water ana aaq to tne rose water half a teaspoonful of powdered borax. Melt the other ingredients together and add the rose water. In mixing, use an egg beater to make the cream smooth, and add five ounces of oil of geranium. Girl of 26: Please tell me how to make my face full. I have no missing teeth, yet my chops are thin too thin for a girl of my age. Drink three pints of water daily. Eat as heartily, as your stomach finds agreeable. Take a light luncheon before be-fore going to bed. Edith: Please tell me how to rid my eyes of those tired looking lines that appear around them. I sleep sufficiently, suf-ficiently, but cannot get ride of the lines. Every night go over .the creased portions with a little warm oil, massaging mas-saging the lines gently with the tips of the fingers. Leave on over night. Reader: Please tell me how to wave my hair so that it will stay in beautiful beauti-ful waves all day.- Shampoo the hair with egg shampoo. sham-poo. Before waving, moisten it with diluded cologne water. Do not make it wet, but only damp. Hold the tongs steadily while you count sixty. Mrs. J. J.: I am only 42,, yet my hair is coming out fast. Would you advise the use of kerosene? This is the time of year for the hair to fall. But I would massage the roots with the tips of the fingers wet in castor oil. Do not use more than a few drops. Mrs. Jennie: Will vaseline make hair grow on the face? I have been told that it will. Any kind of cold cream or oil has a tendency to promote the growth of hair. Still, unless you are afflicted with superfluous hair anyway, you will not find that it will be apparent to the eye. If you're Inclined to have superfluous hair upon the face .you must rid yourself of it at once. Cold creams are so good for the skin that one is willing to run the risk of the hair. Maud: I am a constant reader of your articles, and notice that you mention men-tion a hand bleach. PJease give it to me. Try this cosmetic for the hands: Gum tragacanth, one teaspoonful; glycerin, two ounces; water, twelve ounces; alcohol, one ounce; borax, one teaspoonful. " Dissolve the gum in the water. Dissolve the borax in the glycerin. Add the alcohol last Mrs. V.: I have a pimply skin which nothing seems to cure. I am thin. Your pimples are nervous pimples. Live out of doors and try to fatten up by drinking water. Abstain from pie and candy for the present. D. O.: What do 'you consider the best cream for the skin? - For the skin I think any good cream is beneficial. Surely you can find a good one on the market. If you prefer pre-fer to make your own, you can get up an easy one by taking white vaseline and treating it ot a few drops of tincture tinc-ture of benzoin. Benzoinated vase line, while a little heavy for the face, is good for the neck and shoulders. It removes the stain left by the high collar about the throat. Helen S.: Will you please give me a cream for chapped face and hands? I want a cream that will not cause a growth of hair. I have, tiny red spots on my nose and cheeks. Please tell me how to remove them. A cream which will not cause the hair to grow is made by melting a thimbleful of mutton tallow with a thimbleful each of almond oil, olive oil, and pure sweet oil. Scent with lavender. This makes a small quantity quan-tity of good cream. Mrs. No-Name: Kindly tell me how I can improve a muddy spring complexion. com-plexion. Take of pure spermaceti and white wax one-half an ounce each. To this add half a pound of almond oil and two ounces of lanolin. If you desire a soft cream, add to. this four drams of orange flower water. A. L.: I have several brown spots on my forehead that look like warts. Some people tell me that they are moles. I have never tried anything for them, as I am afraid to. 'They are near . my eyes. What would you advise? If they are warts I would shave them off, or get a physician to shave them off with a razor, made perfectly antiseptic. If they are moles they can be burnt off with the sulphur of a match. The spot will be sore for a few days. Or you can use a tiny blister blis-ter upon them, just enough to remove the dark spot; Perhaps it would be better to let a physician cut them for you, for fear they may bleed too much. Mrs.. E. L. R.: Some time ago I read directions for removing superfluous superflu-ous hair from the lip. Will you kindly repeat your advice? I am stout and have drunk mineral waters and dieted, diet-ed, but withous success. What shall I do? Directions for removing superfluous hair are given aboye. As for stoutness stout-ness there is nothing but dieting. Follow Fol-low directions given in a previous issue. is-sue. ' Mrs. Antipose: I am delighted that you reduced your weight so rapidly. You say you cannot wear your last season's gowns? That is a good sign that .you are growing thinner. Mrs. J.: Give me a remedy for a hard, rough skin. My skin gets worse every day, although I massage -it and use plenty of soap' and water. Take of almond oil and lanolin half an ounce each. Add a teaspoonful of tincture of benzoin. Use as a face cream. Do not go out into the air for at least two hours after you have washed your face in water. Mrs. Y.:. My hair is in many colors. Please give me a good shampoo to restore it to its natural tone. ' Here is a shampoo which is highly recommended: White castile soap pulverized, half an ounce; water, twenty-four ounces; borax, one table-spoonful; table-spoonful; toilet water, one ounce; bay rum, three ounces. Mix together and use as a shampoo, then rinse the hair thoroughly. Anonymous: The hot milk treatment treat-ment is good for emaciation. It also restores the contour to the bus,t. You can take a sponge bath in warm skim milk and follow it with a light massage mas-sage of warm oil. This will add to your weight perceptibly. Mrs., Q.: To strengthen a flabby bust you can take daily baths and walks in the open air.' Be sure that you wear your clothing loose and that j'our corset is cut low enough to give the bust a chance to grow. Some of the finest, most erect figures are corseted cor-seted with a low corset that is little more tnan a girdle. To J. Y.: Soak the feet in hot water wa-ter and massage with vaseline. ' Wear clean undarned stockings and have two pairs of shoes, which you can alter from day to day. Laura: To cure blackheads you must keep up the treatment. You can not take out blackheads and expect them to stay away. You must steam-the steam-the face by applying hot cloths. Then you must wash it in soap and water. After you have rinsed it a dozen times you will find that there are few blackheads left in the skin. But you will have to do this two or three times a week, according to the nature and texture of your skin. There are skins that will gather blackheads in a day. ( Dry Cleaning. . A girl who saves heaps of money by doing her own dry cleaning tells her friends that she washes her thiag in gasoline and soap. "Soap do you use water with it?" and I'What kind?" are some of the questions they always ask, to which the answer is: "No, nothing but gasoline; gas-oline; only you use it just like water, and as to the soap, any common kind will do." This eirl heard the stfmne-mnhpr from a dyehouse say that cleaners use soap with gasoline, and began to experiment. ex-periment. Now she is sure of being pretty near a "trade secret." The dyer for the most part has kept his so well hidden that amateur cleaning isn't usually a great .success. Milady buys some gasoline and swishes things about in It. But what she succeeds in best is getting the smell of it through the house and bringing down upon herself the condemnation con-demnation of the men of the family when they get home in the .evening. And she usually . goes to the cleaner with half the things at last. But the soap makes all the difference differ-ence in the world, according "to the girl who cleans her lace, waists and gowns, and jackets with light satin trimmings. In fact, she has tried it on everything she has except organdies, and she is the possessor of a fashionable fashion-able wardrobe. It is the fashionable person who most needs to escape from the drp cleaner, and just now the ladies' maid who understands something of this art is much in demand, and gets the highest wages. Mrs. Howard Gould is said to boast of the proficiency of her maid in this respect, and Miss Lillian Gillette is also fortunate enough to have one who can perform this service serv-ice for her. In Chicago, where prices for this work are not as high as in New York, the price for cleaning a gown is anywhere any-where from ?3 to $15. The monthly account of any one family at the highest high-est priced place is not apt to exceed 5150. . At a large downtown shop $300 is the daily average of the sum taken in for dry cleaning. The proprietor estimated esti-mated that the smallest shop couldn't make expenses on. less than $10 a day. As there are 200 dye shops in Chicago, Chica-go, the. whole sum taken In' for this kind of work may be estimated at $31,-000 $31,-000 in a day, or $11,315,000 in a year. This is outside the amount spent in glove cleaning, which is nearly all done through the department stores, and also outside of the small tailor shops who do their own work in cleaning clean-ing men's clothing. . These figures show that there is no branch of household economics which can show the same results for the time spent as dry cleaning. For example, it would cost $1.25 to have the little matinee in the picture done at the cleaner's, and it costs 15 cents for a gallon of gasoline to do it at home. First wet the soiled places in tne gasoline and rub soap over them. Then put it into the bowl and souse it. Next, scrub the places that were soaped with a soft brush, keeping it wet all the time. Rinse it in fresh gasoline and drain. The Summer Girl's Gowns. , It will be a great silk summer this year, Pongees, foulards, and taffetas will all be much worn, not only for shirt waist suits, but for much more elaborate costumes, and separate silk and lace short jackets will also be in particular favor with the coquettish summergirl. Many of the smartest gowns will be made of pongee silk. An exclusive model, made up in pongee in its natural natu-ral color, but with a dainty embroidered embroid-ered design worked in delicate blue, shows much Cluny lace as the trimming trim-ming and many rows of shirring. The shirring is of the old fashioned sort, done over feather bone piping, and is arranged as a frame for the broad lace insets which trim the skirt. The blouse body is of the Cluny lace insertion, inser-tion, joined 'with band of pongee, embroidered em-broidered in pale blue silk Frencn knots. A pretty effect .is given the blouse by a jacket of lace worn over it, bound with a "broad band of the pongee, from which silk ornaments in the same shade as the silk dangle. The sleeve of this gown is one of the new extreme models,, small and close fitting at the upper part of the arm and extremely wide and flowing at the wrist. It is with a gown of this sort that a flower trimmed hat is worn with afrill of lace falling over the brim. Another new and pretty way of introducing-rows of shirring on a gown is to have the yoke of the skirt shirred and the lower part of the bodice treated treat-ed in the same fashion and snugly feather boned to the figure, in this way giving a princess effect to the gown. For the girl who is tired of the pouch effect this style of dress Is sure to appeal. A frock .made in this way was a lovely creation of white etamine almost fine enough to be mistaken for a voile. The bodice was made with a finely shirred yoke, of white chiffon and worn with a pretty little sleeveless sleeve-less jacket of white Irish lace. The same lace decorated the graceful skirt, the' lower part of which was accordion ac-cordion plaited. When the summer girl wishes to look the most captivating in the morning morn-ing she will appear in either a fresh hand embroidered linen shirt waist suit or- in a crisp looking shirt waist costume of taffeta. The stvllsh wv of making' a taffeta shirt waist dress is to trim it with medallions of Irish or Paraguay lace, with French knots in some' striking contrasting color outlining out-lining each medallion. Two medallions medal-lions are sufficient to use on the shirt waist, which will look smart if fastened fast-ened with pearl buttons, which are so much the fashion this season. The summer coquette, whether she be mountain maid or seashore nymph, will look carefully to her most attractive attrac-tive feature, her hair; low coiffure will be popular, as the continual curling curl-ing which takes up so much of, the summer coquette's time will be practically prac-tically eliminated, for with her low coiffure she will wear her dainty hair nets which now come in a variety of pretty forms and figures. This bewitching summer girl depends de-pends much upon her' sunshade. And perhaps it is because of this that the sunshades are made of chiffon with lace appliques and flowered ribbons alternating with bands of lace insertion. inser-tion. They come in bright shades of silk with borders of a contrasting color, or they are scattered with diamonds dia-monds or crescents of black velvet And as for their handles, they make you think you have arrived at a menagerie. me-nagerie. 'MARIE TOURS. |