The best wash for the complexion given is cascarilla powder, two grains; muriate of ammonia, two grains; emulsion of almonds, eight ounces: apply with fine linen. The frightful discoloration known as _mask_ is removed by a wash made from thirty grains of the chlorate of potash in eight ounces of rose-water. Wrinkles are less apparent under a kind of varnish containing thirty-six grains of turpentine in three drachms of alcohol, allowed to dry on the face. The black worms called comedones call forth the simple specific of thirty-six grains of subcarbonate of soda in eight ounces of distilled water, perfumed with six drachms of essence of roses. But I prefer the advice of a clever home physician, who lately told me that he removed comedones from the faces of girls who applied to him for the purpose by touching the head of each with a fine hair-pencil dipped in acetic acid--a nice operation, as the acid must only touch the black spot, or it will eat the skin. Remembering that Lady Mary Wortley Montagu quoted the habit of Italian ladies to renew and refine their complexions by a wash of vitriol, I begged to know how such a heroic application could safely be made. The answer was that muriatic acid, sixty per cent. strong, diluted in twelve parts of water, might be used as a wash, and gradually eat away the coarse outer envelope of the skin, if any one had fortitude to bear a slow cautery like this. Lady Mary records that she had to shut herself up most of a week, and her face meantime was blistered shockingly; but afterward the Italian ladies assured her that her complexion was vastly improved. On the whole, the typhoid fever is preferable as an agent for clearing the complexion, being perhaps less dangerous and more effective. CHAPTER VII. Shining Pallor.--Lustrous Faces.--Golden Freckles.--Tiger-Lily Spots.--Sun Photographs.--Nitre Removes Freckles.--Old English Prescription.--For Yachting.--Almond-Oil.--Buttermilk as a Cosmetic.--Rosemary and Glycerine.--Lotion for Prickly Heat.--For Musquitoes.--Protecting Hair from Sea Air.--Fashionable Gray Hair.--Dark Eyes and Silver Hair.--To Restore Dark Hair.--Bandoline.--Cold Cream.--Almond Pomade.--For Skin Diseases.--Sulphurous Acid.