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Show I M PRACTICAL TALKS BY THE fi - APRIL GRANDMOTHER m C i I F yon keep on having such iily ( arms, my dear child, I shall never muster courage to introduce you lo society when the time comes for you to go out." Tho April Grandmother's tones held a note of discouragement us sho od dressed her youngest granddaughter. 'When you were quite a li.ttlo girl your inns were considered particularly pretty, but now they aro razor sharp at the elbow and thiu above and below it. And their color suggests .Malay rather than a New York combination of Anglo-Saxon and Celtic lineage. "One of tho best means of developing arms above the elbow is to bathe them at night and morning. This stimulates circulation aud the amount of rubbing with a coarse towel necessary to getting them thoroughly dry Is tho sort of massage mas-sage which renders them delicately plump instead of muscular. A girl should not cultivate upper arms that are a mass of prominently defined muscles, and that is whyt muny of the physical culture excr-l c"ima produce. Such arms do not look' badly while the irossvor of them isl youwr, but with added years and fleghj tlu't become oimply enormous ti'iiieij tho shoulder and elbow and lend the entire figure a conrsu appearance. "To strive to improve a thin forearm by means of exorcises is only lo render it more bony nnd muscular. It should literally lit-erally be fed with oil nnd cream. Pure olho oil is one of tho best llesh rankers in the world, and at night, directly after the bath, it should be rubbed libarnlly on to the forearms and allowed to sink into the pores of the skin. Unless a girl is very sleopy she should sit up until the. oil has dried, otherwlso the arms must be protected with long gloves. "While the arms aro being plumped they may as well be bleached, aud for this purpose there arc few lluiigs better than puro lemon, juice, which,, however, is drying to tho cuticle, and consequently must bo followed by an application of cold cream. This, liko the olive oil, should be left on until it has dried or sunk into the pores. ' "Sharp elbows are usually caused by overwork," continued the April Grand- mother. "Nearly every school girl treats hcrseko galley 'slates. Sho makes them wUpport her Wad for hours at n Umo while sho pores over her books; she rest's tbi'iti upon bard tables uuu the amis uf chairs, and she dabs al them with a soft wash cloth' instead of rubbing, them briskly will! a llesh brush and then feeding feed-ing them with cold cream lo assuage their roughness and redness. . "A thick growth of dark hair on lhi arms is a ijcourge with which manyjjirls have to contend and one which only infinite in-finite patience can rectify. To have such a growth singed off Is merely to encourage encour-age it to grow heavier, darker and more annoying. A far ibetter phut is to keep it bleached with peroxide of hydrogen, which iu time will destroy the hair roots and prevent the growth from increasing. While the same lotioij will remove some kinds of freckles which appear upon the anna and wrists, it will not permanently obliterate the sort of spots which fre-qHeiitly fre-qHeiitly blemish tlm Hkin accompanying rvddUh brown hair. If after a leason-ably leason-ably trial a girl finds that such freckles aro only temporarily lemoved she would best be resigned to repeuiiug the bleaching bleach-ing treatment periodically aud to protecting pro-tecting her forearms as much ns possible from the sun's ray. Even if they ntub-Ibornly ntub-Ibornly refuse to grow plump,' concluded the April Grandmother, "they may be kept whits and smooth, aiid before the days of lady champions of gplf. teiiiilx and lowing those two attributed Srerc nlwavR associated with the anus of n k- ntlouomau." |
