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Show PREPARE TOR SUMMER BV EDNA EG AN. THE midsummer heat seems to bring light every latent skiu ailment ail-ment and particularly to emphasize em-phasize complexion defects Perhaps the most common affliction of the summer plrl is freckles In this case one ounce of prevention is worth two GOBI: A I f.'TOAN 1 1 1 1 U sWT f -JB I pounds of a cure and her first aid is veiling the skin The woman with a tendency to freckle should never go .bare headed or bare handed, because I the more sensitive her skin, the more I deepl) Will the freckles be rooted For driving, motoring and long walks she should add to the brbad shade hat a veil, brown or red preferred. The new geranium or cerise colored veils break the r;is of Hunt admirably and are most useful for this purpose To keep light freckles in subjection subjec-tion there arc various home-made lo-tons, lo-tons, all within reach of the summer girl Oue of these ls fresh buttermilk, Which should be used Dlght ajid morning morn-ing and allowed to dry on. The best method of applying It Is to dip an old piece of linen into a bowl of milk and then pat the face with it gently This ls equally a good remedy for tan and sunburn. Another homemade lotion consists of a teaspoonful of horse- radish, grated and mixed with a cup of sour milk. Let the mixture stand for six hours and apply two or three limes daily. When freckles are deep set, a more vigorous treatment must ! be used. Every night before retiring bathe the face in water as hot as It can be borne, then apply a pomade as i . follows: Oxide of zinc, ten grams; talcum ten grams; powdered soap, sixty grams; lanolin, eight grams, tincture of benzoin, ten grams; rain water, ninety-two grams; glycerin, ten g-ams! The soap, powder for this pomade should be one of the plain white soaps, which contains no free alkali and does not bite when touched with the tongue Allow this pomade to remain re-main on overnight- The girl who is not accustomed to outdoor life and who wakes up n th night with a Btinging sensation In the face and arms ls likely to seek relief Id cold water. If she only realized that she had an Incipient case of sunburn sun-burn shr would flee from the water basin and ueo a remedy that will not increase her suffering, as water does A mild solution of witch hazel applied ap-plied to the affected parts will give 1 temiorary relief in the morning bath the face, arms and neck with wa- j ter as hot as can be borne, repeating the. applications for ten or fifteen mln- utes. Then pat tho face with old lin-1 en, or antiseptic gauze, dipped Into cucumber cream, made from the fol- lowing formula: Oil of sweet almonds,, al-monds,, four ounces; fresh cucumber Juice, ten ounces: Essence of cucumbers, cucum-bers, three ounces; white castlle soap (powdered); one-half ounce; tincture of benzoin, two-thirds of a dram. Many girls are annoyed by tho heaviness and sourness of their hair in midsummer when it Is apt to emit' a somewhat unpleasant odor For this. Of course, tho one cure Is cleanliness. I Tho hair must bo shampooed, rinsed j thoroughly, then dried and ventilated' In tho 6onllght Never braid tho halrj or dress It when It ls a little damp next to the scalp This ls the most common cause for tho 8our odor Shako the hair In tho sunlight until it Is dry to the roots. Unless it Is dry and likely to break, there Is really real-ly no harm lu washing the hair once a week In summer Between sham- poos, moisture, perspiration and oil can be absorbed by ventilating the I hair at night, shaking orris root into tho 6calp and brushing It out carefully careful-ly u V morning. |