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Show To Clean Marble. First and foremost in importance, never wash marble with soap and water. It is sure to yellow it. Make a paste of good whiting and lemon juice, spread It upon the marble, and lot it alone for five or six hours. Then wash off with pure water and wipe dry with soft linen. Set in the air to dry thoroughly, but not in the sun shine. If the marble be badly discolored, discol-ored, leave the paste on for 24 hours, washing then with pure, soft water. If the marble be not quite white, repeat re-peat the process, leave the paste alone for a da' and a night, and when the surface has been washed and dried, sponge with peroxide of hydrogen. For Dry Hair. If the hair is dry and brittle and you have abused it by getting it wet with salt water and then drying it in the sun, you must take immediate steps to keep it 'from falling out, The hair should be shampooed with an egg mixture No ammonia, borax or any sort of alkali must be used on hair that has been thus abused. This egg shampoo is worthy of recommendation-Yolk of one egg, one pint of rainwater rain-water (.lukewarm), ounce of rosemary spirits. Beat the mixture up thoroughly and use it warm, rubbing well into the skin of the head. Kinse in several waters. The scalp should be massaged every night, moistening the finger tips with olive oil. and the following lotion may be applied: Glycerine, 1 ounce; eau de cologne 1-4 pint, liquid ammonia, 1 drachm; oil of origanum, oil of rosemary, 1-2 drachm of each; tincture of canthar-Ides, canthar-Ides, 1 ounce. Briskly agitate for ten minutes, then add camphor julep, 1-2 pint, and again mix well and stir. A few drops' of essence of musk or other perfume can be added. nn |
