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Show Try Cucumbers To Cure Sunburn IF you aro sunburned try tho cucumber cu-cumber cure. Go, as It wero, to nature, for a euro for tho Ills caused by nature. Our grandmothers used to make ' their cucumber cream In this fashion and thero are not wanting thoso who today say thcro Is no other emollient j so good: Cucumber Cream Put six ounces of almond oil In a double boiler, tho ; outer vessel of which Is filled with cold wator. Wash twe- largo or three small cucumbers and cut them Into small cubes without paring and add theso to tho oil. Now placo on tho stove until tho water In tho outer vessel ves-sel bolls then romovo to a cooler part of tho stovo and allow tho mixture to simmer for four or five hours. Cool and struln, pressing the cucumbers hard, and to six ounces of tho stralnod mixture add ono ounco of white wax and ono ounco of lanolin. Heat again, stirring all tho time, and whon all is melted remove from tho flro and beat with an egg-boater, adding add-ing the while two tcaspoonfuls of tlnc-turo tlnc-turo of benzoin. And by the byo our grandmothers did not allow themselves to become sunburned sun-burned In tho way In-which their descendants de-scendants do. They had too much respect for their complexions. They knew what tho girl of the day does not seem to know that a skin once badly tanned never regains Its prlstlno dollcacy of texturo, never again Is as soft as of yore, never again so pliable, never so responsive to emollients. Our ancestresses powdered their faces thickly before they went out Into tho sunshino and woro bonnets to boot. |