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VOL XXH N O <i»>
VIENNA. «A. • TIIUUSDAY, MAY, .0 UI04
of interest ,;ro women.
PERSONAL CHARMS
Cure o, the Hair and Hands.
. Letter No. it) or a aeries of 20.
Oop) i igineu lUUt by Christine Herrick,
No woman who wishes to be
attractive in appearance can aiforct
to neglect uetai An-1 every
woman .-houid wish to bo attractive.
She fails of part of her mission in
life when sue ceases to please the
eye. She may be tiselul,—she
should be useful,—but she should
also be ornamental if she can com
pass it. ...
*Eveu it a woman cannot make of
'herself a radiant beauty, she can see
to it that tlie minor pquits oi' charm
are not neglected. .She can be abso
lutely neat, and that is a charm in;
Hseil...,6>nc can take such pains
with her hair that if it u is not
naturally beautiful it eau yet u look
well. She may nut be able to aiter
the shape ot her hands or to keep
them always soft a.<d while. But
thp skiu may Ӥ Btnootli,, ftiitT tue
uaiis well cared for. All those
little items tuh.o tune, but they v are
like some Other things of which we
have spoken iii these papers, It is
a tedious business to get them into
goou ccnuiiion after they have been
sulicied to become neglected, but It
is a trilling mallor to keep them in
good order, when they once look
well.
There ai'e many causes for care
lessness oi uetaii. We all know
what they are and some yield to olkJ
variety, Homo to another. ...One
woman, who does herownhousework,
will tell you that her hair gets rough
ai’ I unkempt because she has to
sweep an uubt and .;■■■ oar.' of
fires. Even if she protects her
hair with a cap, pi becomes damp
Ukiii jiieapirulion mid. tho dust
.1- u i makes i harsh
an I unmanageable. Ilex hands
must go ii >all sorts of work, and
show the marks of it. Using a
• bun in spreads them out of shape,
washing dishes and peeling
vegetables soils and discolours
them. ;
1 he girl vvUo indtUge: in outdoor
‘spuria arrives at tiie same results,
>b’ui by a different method. After'a
•day spent she wily concede nothing
to the housekeeping woman for the
dampness and dustiness of her hair,
and she will claim that the effect of
the sun and the wind, is as deleterious)
do the whiteness anil shapeliness of
her hands as any anlodnl of domestic
twork.
We may grant the argfirrieiit in
'either case. That is, we will allow
that there is suflicient cause for the
ihair and hands getting into bad
shape. But is there any good
reason why they should be allowed
to remain so?
Take first the case of the
uhiS'2. Hcr arguments to the con-
Hictry notwithstanding, sne is very
icolia'n When she does not make
practice of wearing a cap about her
dusty Work. -It should be of some
thin wash material, which can
easily laundered, and it should be
made in a way that is pleasiug.
She owes that to the people *bou
her as well as to herself.. the
worn by babies’ nurses is a
model, as it covers the lc
completely, and when finished v
a little frill at the edge - is not
becoming.
This cap, while it may prote
the hair from dust does not, of
course, save it froiii the effeot~e?
I perspiration. v ,l’o avoid luo 'cvi!
effects of this, so far as may hie, the
; nair should lie loosely put up when
it is dressed and should Im. shaken
out and allowed to dry at nigtt
time,---not done up iu a hard knot,
it should be wa hed at least twice a
month, except in very cold
weather-and tdionle not be sub
mitted to the harsh dicipliue of hot
curling irons. This may seem a
hard saying, t> ihe woman wliote
hair grows stringy from heat,
whether she rides u wheel, plays an
outdoor game or wields a broom or
a fiat iron,—autt perhaps it would
be a mistake to insist too strongly
upon it. If a woman thinks she
gels enough attractiveness from the
curling tongs to make up for the
damage she probably docs by the
process it ill bucomos any woman
whose hair curls naturally to ex
postulate with hor, And it must
bo owned that in many oases the
difference in appearance between
straight and waved locks is enough
to make up for the trouble and time
expended in achieving the latter.
“1 would gladly give ton years of
my life to get curly hair,” announced
a woman, and when some one
protested, she - wont on caimij,
“That would probably b# Ibss thi n
I shall give first and last to curling
it with the tongs.”
The girl who does outdoor things
does not have iho'way made as o.i
for her so fur as her hair is concerned.
No •• that me OiSioin has arisen of
going bareheaded, tho ha.r is said
to be more luxuriant than when, it
wasTep: under a close hat. i’nio
is probably true. But wiiilo one
may pardon dishevelled tresses iu a
girl flying down against the win l
oil a wheel or on horscbacx, or
driving her ball across the golf
course or over a tennis net, tnat
does not excuse her appearing in tue
same trim,—or lack of trim, in the
house. Wheu she comes back from I
her outdoor sports she snould get I
h6i self-in to tb# .guise of a well j
brought up young womah and uot of
a'houlcii.
The outdoor girl, too, should wash
her hair twnio a month. Not with
strong detergeuts but with a rational
shampoo,—an egg shampoo is the
best. Tlie egg,•••tlie white and yelk
mixed together,—is to be applied to
the scalp and the hair, amt then
washed off with a little green soap
dUolvcd in warm water. This
process oyey, fresh water must be
used and hot, until the water runs
clear from tho hair, proving that all
other applications have (men rinsed
out, are tho tresses ill a stale to bo
dried.
The care of the hands consists in
prevention moro than inquire. The
housekeeper may declare that it Js
impossible to wash dishes, sweep
and do similar tasks with j'lovea on.
In that case it is well to quote to
her the remark of tho French lover,
when his well beloved had demanded
a difficult act from him. 1 * Madame,
the thing 's impossible,—therefore
it shall be dono, ” A little practice
will prove to her that it is by no
means impossible, if sue shruid
from- wearing tho rubber gloves
that come for such use, tako TTitl
gloves belonging to a mail of the
house, cut off tue finger ,ips, stitou
the ends of the seams so ( tLat (they
■will not ravel out ami put ,those
gloves into service ao protect ^her
hands. Tlie worst soil will ho kept
from them, as will be the chapping
that is tho result of plunging tlie
bauds first into hot water and (then
into eold. j
.j But there are other means of
taking care of tho bauds- Always
there should bo close by the wash
basin a bottle of glycerine and rose
water or of some other preparation
which will whiten and soften the
skiu und this should be usod when
ever tho h;indB are washed. There
should bo a lemon, with which to
take stains from tho lingers. jTho
housekeeper should know that the
Inigos of n .lighted sulphur match
will take pm the *uva9 by
hulling strawberries, and that one
pan restore ban iy that are sodden
after holding them in hot water by
putting them iff vinegar for a few
minutes. Tko woman who stays in
tho house, has really an ’easier time
keeping her hands in order than
does the outdoor woman,—although
tho latter wins so muuh by nor fresh
air habits that she should be willing
to liavo more trouble for tno sake of
them. She, too, may wear glove*—
but she does uot, as a rule. On the
coutrary tho ambition of the present
day woman seems to bo to get not
only her hands but her" arms and
neck as brown as tho circumstances
will permit, it may be,,a sonsiolo
fad, outfit dues net add chamT.
There scorns to bo no good reason
why a woman Bl.ould uot keep her
complexion and her health at tho
same time. ^It is.net much of a
bondage to put a little cold cream
and powder on one’s face before olio
goes out for a spin or a game, ami
to make an application of the £sumo
sort after one returns. It is oortainly
better than j.aj pooled ^ noso jitul
blistered checks. 'S*33jiij
“There isn’t a complexion in.ijtho
state of Texas,3 I heard stated one
day. The harsh winds, the,hot sun
accounts for that. But there iB no
reason why girls in other parts of
the Union should impose Texas
conditions upon thomsolvos. ; _j£j
Suggestions have already been
given as to the protection that ‘ may
06 accorded the (complexion it tno
gli'l who is going to expose horsoTf
to the sun and wind will apply a
little,—a very little,—cold ordain to
tiie face aud then dust it with
(Continued on pngo‘2)
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