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Show Hints For the Toilet. This is very soothing to the skin, and helps to 'make it white and soft. Take one ounce of sweet almonds and blanch them. Pound them into a smooth paste. Then gradually add half a pint of distilled water. If, after aft-er being out in a rough wind, the face is gently wiped over with this lotion, lo-tion, the dry. burning senation that so often follows such an experience will be avoided. To Perfume the Breath. Dissolve one drachm of borax in two ounces of rosewater or pure distilled water. Bottle, and gradually add half an ounce of tincture of myrrh, shaking well between the additions. If the mouth is rinsed with this occasionally a delicious faint scent is given to the breath. To Keep the Hair In Curl. Simmer thirty crushed quince seeds in a pint of distilled water for two hours. Let cool, and then add one gill of alcohol, refined spirits of wine or brandy, a teaspoonful of alum water, and a teaspoonful of rosewater or eu-de-Cologne. Bottle and use for dampening damp-ening the hair before putting it in curlers. . An East Wind Hint If you have to go out in an east wind, wash your face afterward in warm milk, or equal parts of milk and water, rubbing it well in. To any one with a delicate skin, milk for bathing the face is invaluable in winter time, as it keeps It soft, and prevents that dried up feeling that causes so much discomfort. Always dry your face very thoroughly, as if left ever so slightly damp it is sure to get rough. A Lotion For Blackheads. Dissolve five grains of tannic acid, ten drops of simple tincture of benzoin ben-zoin and five drops each of essential |
