Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1929, Page 39

WOMA MILADY B BY LOIS Goose Pimples. Dear Miss Leeds—(1) What is & good | yemedy for small red gooss pimples on the legs and upper arms? (2) What is |a complexion brush? (3) What would revent the ankles and legs from swell- Pis on & hot day? (4) Is the daily |use of boracic acid solution good for the eyes? VAL AND LIL. Answer—(1) If you scrubbed your arms and legs every night when you take your warm cleansing bath you 'would not have these pimples. They show that the skin has not been stim- ulated enough. Use a bath brush and plenty of soap and warm water. Rinse well and dry by rubbing vigorously with s turkish towel. Now rub a little cold cream or olive oil into the skin. Next morning take & tepid or cold shower or sponge bath, followed by a hard rub- down with a coarse, dry towel. Rub on & lotion made of equal parts of ‘glycerine, lemon juice and witchhazel. (2) A complexion brush is a brush used to cleanse the face; it is much softer than a bath brush or a nail brush. It is usually made of camel’s 'hair. There are also some complexion brushes made of rubber; instead of bristies, they have rubber points that massage the skin when rubbed on. (3) Swelling of legs and ankles is often due to wearing tight or 1ll-fitting shoes, or tight, round garters. weather wear shoes that are a larger size than your Winter shoes and choose a style that has a cut-out design for ventilation across the toes and instep. ‘Wear soft kid or linen footwear. Dust your feet with an astringent foot powder before drawing on your stock- ings. Wear low heels. (4) Boracic acid solution is a good eye wash, but if you are having any trouble with your eyes vou should consult an oculist; per- haps you may need a different type of eye wash. LOIS LEEDS. Removing a Sty. Dear Miss Leeds—(1) How can I et rid of a sty (2) Please tell me ow to make a very broad nose narrow. (3) I have blue eyes and blond hair. ‘What are my colors? MARION. Answer—(1) Stles are a danger sis nal, and when they appear persist- ently their presence shows that there i something wrong with one's hy- During hot |. !glenic habits. For a local treatment pull out the nearest eyelash and ap- N'S PAGE EAUTIFUL LEEDS. ply a compress of boric acid solutien. Now rub on an ointment made of 1 per cent preparation of yellow oxide of mercury. Be sure that your hands are scrubbed before touching your eye- 1id. (2) You cannot radically change the shape of your nose, but you can make the end more pointed by gently massaging it every day with a pulling, ?lnehlnl movement between thumb and lorefinger. Do not bruise or irritate the skin, however. state the shade of your skin, whether very fair, medium or olive. again and I shall be glad to help you. LOIS LEEDS. Blackheadls and Pimples. Dear Miss Leeds—What is the quick- est method for taking out blackheads? Every other day I have a pimple. How can I cure it? What is a good reduc- ing diet for a girl? J. J. Answer—Soften the blackheads first by bathing the skin in hot water. Use a comedo extractor, a small instrument sold in drug stores for this purpose, and gently press out the blackheads. Bathe the spot in boric acid solution mare by dissolving a heaping teaspoonful of the boric acid in a pint of boiling water. ‘Treat the pimples in the same way, pricking them open with a sterilizéd needle after the hot application. Pim- ples are often caused by constipation or digestive troubles. Wash your face with soap and warm water twice a day, finishing with & cold rinse. Dry and pat on an acne lotion. I-eannot recom- mend a diet without knowing your age. S LEEDS. DIET AND HEALTH BY LULU HUNT PETERS, M. D. Infection From Handshaking. “Dear Doctor: A woman T know has consumption and has had it for years. | 4 The doctors say she cannot live long. A friend went to see her and of course shook hangs with her. She went to the bathroom and washed her hands. The patient became angry and said she was mean and must have the devil in her. The friend said the patient's hands were clammy and she was justfied in washing them. Who is right? “MISS J.” They are both right, Miss J. ‘The hands should be washed after shakirg hands with patients in ihe active i1age of tuberculosis. In fact, you shouldn’t shake hands with them. But the poor patient was also right, in that the scrub-up should not have been done so that she learned of it and was worrled and irritated by it. One of the reasons it is best for & tubercular patient to be in a sanita- rium, for at least part of the time, is that everything about the disease is explained to them and they are taught how to keep their infection from spread- ing to others. They wouldn't offer to shake hands during the active stage of the disease. Shaking hands is a business that ought to go out of practice, anyway. Colds and other infections ere often passed on to handshakers, largely be- cause we all have the habit of putting our fingers round our mouth snd ncse. |1 we learned not to do this and alwayvs to wash our hands thoroughly before eating anything, there wouldn't be 50 much danger. “When I turn my head I hear a| eracking noise in the back of My neck. I have impaired hearing. Could this have anything to do with it? My jaws faint it cannot normally be heard, of the joint movement, but the trouble with “your ears transmits it to the ear rum.” Frequently people who suffer from catarrh have this neck cracking. There may, of course, be scme low grade .of inflammation in the joints which causes them to crack. Other cracking noises may be causcd hy uver- flexible - joint ligaments. Perhaps 1if ybu get your ear condition cleared up those noises will cease. You should visit an ear and nose spe- cialist, Mrs. A, and see that your gen- eral hygiene is right. The wrong diet l: probably the most frequent hygienic Tror, “Can you tell me what is wrong with my breathing? I bregthe in an enor- mous amount of air and then I just have to hold it and it is such an effort to breathe it out again. I know it is not natural and it takes all my stiength and tires me out so. I am very nervous and the least bit of excitement ¢r worry starts my breathing in that way. “MRS. T. Any of the functions that are auto- matic—that is, under the contrcl of the will, such as breathing or beating of the heart—can be upset by thinking about them too much, Mrs. T., and be for a time slightly abnormal. Those who suffer from hysterla—a functional not an organic disorder of the nervous system—very frequently suffer from up- sets of these automatic functions be- cause of concentration upon them. Your symptoms strongly point to hys: terla, Mrs, T., and you should see a psychiatrist, There is probably nothing organically wrong with you. However, frequent and shallow breathing may e an indication of air hunger and it is one of the symptoms of anemia, ihe blood being so low in hemoglobin (the M. also crack when chewing food and this 4 embarrassing. MRS. A" That cracking sound in the neck may | have nothing to do with the neck at | all; that is, it may be the sound, S0 BEAUTY CHATS Hair Rejuvenation. l | Hair often looks badly, not because 4t is in bad health, but merely because | no one has bothered to bring out its hidden beauty. There are so many lit- tle things that can be done to make the hair pretty. For instance, why should you go about with dull, mousey-looking hair when a properly done henna shampoo will bring out brilliant lights and make your hair rich in color? Henna will give drab | brown hair golden high lights, and dark brown hair bronze tints. It will make \pale, anemic-looking blonde “hair a rich blonde. It will cover up the first y hairs, and by making them gold et them lose themselves in the brown hair without being noticeable. 5 Some persons make the paste of henna and hot water, which is all right, and then, after the hair has been, washed clean, they run the thin paste through the hair and immediately rinse it off. This does no good. The paste must be hot and as thin as cream. It must be run through the hair after a shampoo, but then it must be left on from three to five minutes, As it stains the hands, use rubber gloves for this. Then rinse off and the henna has done some good. Lemon rinses for blonde hair or per- oxide rinses are good. These bleach and are only for blonde hair that must be lightened. They are drying, but blonde hair should be a little dry. If| | they are too drying, the scalp should be | rubbed now and then with olive oil, | pe = I The Travelers < < 1 wonder why men like to travel, to Jeave their homes, which should be dear, and kick up 50 kinds of gravel in ,distant corners of the sphere. They go to meet a million strangers in Munic Leningrad and Rome, and inconven- jences and dangers that they avoid who | stay at home. They go away from | chairs that fit them, to sit in chaits that break their backs, to stop at inns | whose landlords hit them so hard they | rumble at the tax. They go away from | riends and nieghbors who know their virtue and their worth and who appre- | clate their labors, to see far portions | of the earth, where no one cares a hoot about them, where brigands rob them of thier rocks, and cheap ofticials rudely flout them and strive to back them off the walks. They go away and take the | chances of shipwreck and & thousand lls, that they may cast some fleeting glances upon _cheap European hills; | that they may squint at lakes and rivers ior paddle on & storied bay, or wander | where the moonlight quivers upon a well known glen or brae. And here at | home they might be resting, and read hin yubber] | red knees. Each vear we ’::eda{:"t?:;m legions -gnflldo.r;s:u:n:lmg X I homeland's, ShOTCE 1@ they are looked 'foreign regions where the tour- 1In every land he Y oelling me the gods there is no w compe! og 12 "ta make a journey ngyul‘rrcm det o " (Copyrisht, 1928 | red coloring matter which carries the oxygen) that frequent breathing s ap- parently an effort to get more oXygen. So have your physical check-up. BY EDNA KENT FORBES preferably just before the shampoo. Dark hair or red hair looks best if a tonic containing resorcin is used. Cas- tor ofl darkens and should not be used on blonde hair. Castile soap is best for all shampoos, though tar soap is good for dark hair. Hair can be washed once a week. It should always be kept sleek and well brushed. H. L. W.—As you intend having a fine scalp specialist to touch up the white hairs, I think you are going to have de- pendable work done for you, and there will be no risk of injuring the rest of your hair. After you have tested the work out, as you will be able to do with this one treatment before your vaca- tion, you will be able to see whether or not the coloring has any deteriorating "efféct upon your hair. You need not repeat the treatment then if your hair appears to be. less healthy than it is now. One way to know if you should not continue is whether or not-there is a natural gloss to the hair, and it should not tend to pack; in fact, the hair should be just as it was formerly. Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILAND. An unusual tea table and one which is richly decorative is shown in the accompanying illustration. The style, of course, might be adapted to a simple wood without the inlay, but for a for- mally furnishad living room this is one of the most delightful tables which could be selected for the tea hour. Constructed of walnut with inlays of satinwood, & table such as this not only lends a decorative touch to the room, f | but is practical as well. With the leaves dropped, the table might be used at the end of a sofa or at the side of a chair, being just the right height for a reading lamp. But when tea is to be served the table leaves are raised, and the surface of two table tops requires only the room taken up by a single table. On the top might be the teapot, cream pitcher, sugar bowl, tea cups and plates, and below those plates of tempting sandwiches and cakes that no logm'hwr is Please try | OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRL A Professional Manner. The atmosphere of the home ought to be warm and friendly. The grim manner of the stern parent should have no place there because children thrive best in & surrounding of love and af- fection. 'Phis love and affection must be demonstrated again and again through- out the day: so that the child feels him- self wrapped in it. But ‘there are times when a purelx (3) You forgot to |professional manner is needed. mother will find it very convenient if she can ctultivate it. “When a child is frightened or hurt or very ill, when & tantrum is on full force, when a burst of anger is imminent, in family crises, the professional manuer, the profes- sional calm and the steady hand and eye are beyond price. ‘When the little one throws himself down on the floor and kicks and yells it 1s no time for kisses. Wipe out every sign of feeling from your face no matter your heart is jumping. Once‘ou can steady your face your hand fill steady itsclf. Pick the screamer up and carry him, in silence as far as you are concerned, to the bathroom and undress him, bathe him, splash his face with cool water, lave his arms and wrist with it, and put him to bed. this in j.ur best professional manner and the tantrum will subside and the next one be delayed in the coming. Children crave excitement. When they get into trouble they enjoy a cer- tain feeling of importance. If they can make you stand around and wring your hands and cry aloud, if they can pro- voke you to temper, or to tears, they enjoy it immensely. They are not to have that excitement. They are to be met each time by a calmly professional manner. They don't enjoy that at all but it will do them a world of good and save the mother and nurse an enormcus amount of encrgy. 1t is not alone for the children that a mother should have the power of the professional manner. The emotional wear and tear of a family is very hard on a mother. If she enters into every childish mood, shares every childish fear and every childish ciisis she is worn to the raw edge before long. 'The profes- sional manner is a shield between her and this worrying wastc and pain. The -children lose nothing of her afféction, but they gain from her poise and strength. Father knows the use of the profes- slonal manner. He uses it all day in association with his fellows. ~His em- ployes are kept on an impersonal plane. Their woes and their aspirations and their emotional lives are not re- vealed to him. They cannot touch him unless he lets down his shield. In the home this is impossible. eveu were it profitable, which it would not be. But a touch of the right manner will save a mother much fatigue and help her children establish self-control. Next time the little one runs across the street instead of shrieking, steady up, go after him calmly and surely, and lead him to where you want him. That is a good place tn begin. (Copyright, 1929.) BRAIN TESTS Each number that appears in this test is followed by several spellings of the same word. Only one spelling 1s correct in each case. Underline the correct one. ‘Time limit, three minutes. 1. Misaprehension, misapprehension, missapprehension, misapprehenson, missappreahension missaprehension. 2. Sepperated, separated, seperated, seperrated, separrated, separatted. 3. Cincinati, Cinncinnati, Cinnein- atti, Cincinnati, Cincinatti, Cincinnatti. Exgelent, excellent, eccellent, ex- llent, excellant, excallant. ippi, Misisipi. Missisipl, Mis- issippl, Mississipi, Misisippi. 6. Regalaton, reguletion, regulation, regaletion. 7. Dimminish, diminnish, diminish, deminish, demminish, dimminnish. 8. Cateract, catarict, cataract, cater- ract, caterract, catteract. 9. Anecdote, anacdote, &nicdote, an- necdote, anecdotte, anecadote. 10. Huricane, hurracane, hurricine, hurricane, harricane, huriccane. Should none of the spellings be cor- rect, do not underline a word in that group. regulition, Answers. Correct spelling: 1, misapprehension: 2, separated; 3, Cincinnati; 4, exceller 5, Mississippi; 6, regulation: 7. dimin- ish: 8, cataract; 9, anecdote; 10, hurri- can: The Professional Beauty Touch Give your complexion the same seductive attractlveness that many stars of Stage and Screen enjoy. A soft, entrancing, pearly beauty that keeps its appearance under the strain of professional work. Astrin- gent and antiseptic, relieves blem- ishes, freckles,"etc. Made in White, , Rachel and Sun-Tan. have you heard it ? THE new cereal that speaks for itself—have you heard it tell the world how good each toasted bubble is? Pour milk or cream in a bowl of golden Rice Krispies s—then listen to it snap and crackle. Crisp. Delicious. Orderapack- age from your grocer today. Made by Kellogg in Bat- tle Creek. " RICE KRISPIES PARIS—SKkirts are no more regular than they were, in the new collection of Philippe et Gaston where I sketched a lace afternoon dress with mother of pearl ornaments at the draped waist. Currant Jelly. Select firm fruit, wash it thoroughly and remove the leaves,’ but not the stems. Crush the fruit to start the juice and then heat it quickly. Cook, stirring constantly, from five to eight minutes until the skins of the fruit are white, Strain through a thick cloth or three or four thicknesses of cheese- cloth. Do not squeeze the bag, but press lightly to start the flow of juice as it cools. To each cupful of currant juice add one and one-fourth cupfuls of sugar. Stir until the sugar is dis- solved, then bring quickly to the boil- ing point in a pan large enough to allow the juice to boil rapidly. Currants have so much pectin that, as a rule, just boiling up once will give the jelly test— Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS, “Sleep Over It.” _The difference between night think- ing and day thinking is very largely a question of “figures on a dial” And just as there are various kinds of day thinking, so there are various kinds of night thinking, ‘There are two types of sleep thoughts or dreams—the light and the heavy. The light sleep thoughts more closely resemble the ordinary waking thoughts. The heavy sleep thoughts are the real dreams. No one is entirely awake at any time; no one is entirely asleep this side of the grave. When you are just at the threshold of sleep, either upon falling to sleep or upon emerging from it you are in the proper frame of mind to do your best thinking, to solve your most' urgent groblems. The more urgent your problem is, the more reason you have for suspending your judgment, for thinking all around the problem, for sleepjng on it. The advantage of light sleep thoughts over ordinary waking thoughts is not hard to explain. Hundreds of things in the ordinary waking state of conscious- ness are clamoring for attention. You are hard put to keep these irritations out of your mind. Concentration is well nigh impossible unless the problem is unusually urgent or unless you have acquired that valuable habit of ignor- ing your secondary surroundings. ‘When you are just on the threshold of sleep the frritations that infest the waking moments are less active. The mere act of going to bed is in itself a withdrawal from them. As you fall to sleep these fringes of irritations become less and less noticeable. This gives you a chance to draw upon your storehouse of assoclations connected with your problem. You arrange these associa- tions in their proper order and turn them to some real account in solving your problem. (Copyright. 1929.) —_— spoon. Remove the juice from the fire as soon as the jelly test is reached. Have ready hot sterilized jelly glasses, and after removing the scum pour the jelly carefully into the glasses, taking care that the jelly does not drop on the inside of the glass near the top. Cover the glasses with cheesecloth. When the jelly has set, cover with paraffin, ro- tating the glass so that a rim of the paraffin reaches the "’K of the glass. When this layer has hardened, pour over it another layer of paraffin. Cover | with the jelly glass tops or with paper. that js, the juice will sheet from the Label and store in a cool place. EATURES.,’ Straight Talks to Women About Money BY MARY EL!ZASETH ALLEN. Buying a Car on Time. “As a matter of plain business sense,” inquires a reader, “is it wise to buy a car on time?” Our inclination is to reply that buying a car is*seldom a matter of business. Folks who buy cars, and there are cars now for every fourth person in this country, buy them for convenience, rec- reation and transportation. Buying a car on time is one way to realize the use of a car as one earns the money to pay for it. Another way, of course, is to borrow the money. Of the two the latter method might be the cheaper. Few women ever stop to question the cost of buying a car on time. A rate of interest up to 9 per cenc is not uncommon. Of course, it would be silly to state that women buying cars on time pay almost 10 per cent more for them than cash buyers. They are paying that much more for the use of the money advanced to them, not for the car. actically, however, it does raise the price of the car. The point is that few women buying cars on time have the collateral to ad< vance as security on loans. Their their only security. Because lc:l;r’f' 3:1@0"-3(‘03 m':y rs‘enuusly lower its , 8 fair rate of inf must be expected. B e e The last figures we saw showed that four out of five persons buy their cars on time payments. In other words they Ppay for their cars out of income. Among the advantages claimed are the facts that one does not dig into her savings or investments; one does not raise her cost of living but rather makes sacrifices; and the installment buyer enjoys her purchase as she pays for it The c.sh buyer in this instance, as in all others, reaps a benefit when she pays cash for her car. The buying problem resolves itself into a question of whether one prefers to save and pay cash or buy on installments and pay nominally for the privilege. The lary the “down payment” the lower the financing charge will be, and this fact ! should receive serious consideration. Free your home from Bugs DETHOL destroys pests—all kinds. Quickly—surely— without the slightest trouble. Sxmplx spray Dethol where they . hide. They:can’t get away from]its deadly mist. Penetrates fwhere brush or broom can’t reach. Finds them. Drives them out. An- other spray or two. They die. Ask for Dethol by name at your store. Say “No!” tosub- stitutes. The Dethol money- back guarantee contains no “ifs” or “buts.” Dethol Mfg, Co,, Inc, Richmond, Va, - & .- Det hol Beneath the rustling shade of Eucalyptus trees at. el Monte BEFORE you lies the blue Pacific—the Bay of Monterey—with its everlasting, never-wearying lure...cool trade-winds blow, making the leaves whisper... green lawns are at your feet . . . across the terrace a waiter brings you a bottle of “Canada Dry"—as refreshing as the breeze from the ocean . ON THE TERRACE AT DEL MONTE . Pebble Beach, the golf course nearby, is the scene of the 1929 National Amateur Golf Tournament as mellow as the California sunlight. It may be polo trap-shooting in the afternoon . . . per- haps a sail on the bay...or eighteen holes over Pebble Beach golf course. . . but it always ends up at the hotel or club- house, and there awaiting you in cool refreshment is this fine old ginger ale. NADA DRY” in the morning and Not only in California is “Canada Dry” drunk by those who frequent fashion- able resorts. But at Hot Springs, Vir- ginia, at country and hunt clubs on Long Island, at famous hotels the world over, the distinction of “Canada Dry” has won the approving nod of connoisseurs, The popularity of “Canada Dry” is nation-wide Countless homes throughout this coun- try and Canada serve it too. Countless people know it as a distinctive ginger ale. And “Canada Dry” has the right to be known because it is a real ginger ale of rare quality. Absolutely pure in- gredients and Jamaica ginger of the Reg. U. 8. Pat. OF. The Champagne of : Ginger Ales highest quality give ing contribute to the secret process, helps tain its sparkle long it basic excellence. Exact methods of blending and balanc- result. Daily lab- oratory tests assure purity. Delicate and uniform carbonation, achieved by a “Canada Dry” re- after the bottle is opened. What subtlety it has! I . 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