Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners: A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And MarriageJefferis, B. G. (Benjamin Grant)
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Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners: A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
Jefferis, B. G. (Benjamin Grant)
Marriage; Medicine, Popular; Sexual ethics
2. FOR RED HANDS.--Keep your feet warm by soaking them often in hot water,
and keep your hands out of the water as much as possible. Rub your hands
with the skin of a lemon and it will whiten them. If your skin will bear
glycerine after you have washed, pour into the palm a little glycerine and
lemon juice mixed, and rub over the hands and wipe off.
3. NECK AND FACE.--Do not bathe the neck and face just before or after
being out of doors. It tends to wrinkle the skin.
4. SCOWLS.--Never allow yourself to scowl, even if the sun be in your eyes.
That scowl will soon leave its trace and no beauty will outlive it. {96}
5. WRINKLED FOREHEAD.--If you wrinkle your forehead when you talk or read,
visit an oculist and have your eyes tested, and then wear glasses to fit
them.
6. OLD LOOKS.--Sometimes your face looks old because it is tired. Then
apply the following wash and it will make you look younger: Put three drops
of ammonia, a little borax, a tablespoonful of bay rum, and a few drops of
camphor into warm water and apply to your face. Avoid getting it into your
eyes.
7. THE BEST COSMETIC.--Squeeze the juice of a lemon into a pint of sweet
milk. Wash the face with it every night and in the morning wash off with
warm rain water. This will produce a very beautiful effect upon the skin.
8. SPOTS ON THE FACE.--Moles and many other discolorations may be removed
from the face by a preparation composed of one part chemically pure
carbolic acid and two parts pure glycerine. Touch the spots with a
camel's-hair pencil, being careful that the preparation does not come in
contact with the adjacent skin. Five minutes after touching, bathe with
soft water and apply a little vaseline. It may be necessary to repeat the
operation, but if persisted in, the blemishes will be entirely removed.
9. WRINKLES.--This prescription is said to cure wrinkles: Take one ounce of
white wax and melt it to a gentle heat. Add two ounces of the juice of lily
bulbs, two ounces of honey, two drams of rose water, and a drop or two of
ottar of roses. Apply twice a day, rubbing the wrinkles the wrong way.
Always use tepid water for washing the face.
10. THE HAIR.--The hair must be kept free from dust or it will fall out.
One of the best things for cleaning it, is a raw egg rubbed into the roots
and then washed out in several waters. The egg furnishes material for the
hair to grow on, while keeping the scalp perfectly clean. Apply once a
month.
11. LOSS OF HAIR.--When through sickness or headache the hair falls out,
the following tonic may be applied with good effect: Use one ounce of
glycerine, one ounce of bay rum, one pint of strong sage tea, and apply
every other night, rubbing well into the scalp.
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How to Keep the Bloom and Grace of Youth.
THE SECRET OF ITS PRESERVATION.
[Illustration: MRS. WM. MCKINLEY.]
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