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the works of Robert Burns, the total value of which will reach $.i,000. At the left is shown
a fae-simile of a title page of Tam O’Shanter in Burns’ own handwriting. Below arc the title |
pa"es of two very rare editions.
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World for the Bard’s
Books.
A N Atlanta man ta the possessor
of the most valuable private
collection of the works of Rob
ert Burns and associated literature in
America. This collection, assembled
by literary agents and by a devoted
personal search in two continents, is
the property of Dr. Joseph Jacobs, of
Atlanta, known through the South as
the owner of an extensive chain of
drug stores.
Dr. Jacobs is a Robert Burns en
thusiast of the highest degree. So
completely has love for “Bobbie"
Burns and the human philosophy of
Bobble” Burns entered his life, that
he Is never without the soft-backed
volume of the poems. Yesterday,
when The Sunday American reporter
found him in his office on Marietta
Street., he was writing a business let
ter, and at one hand lay open a
volume of Burns' poems. In the
letter was transcribed a quotation
from the Scottish poet.
The soft-banked volume is rarely
missing from his pocket or his desk.
li has been with him around the
w orld.
All that Is why he has gathered
what Is probably the greatest private
collection of Burns in the United
States.
Dr. Jacobs modestly admits that t'ne
collection of the late William Smith,
botanist of the Smithsonian Institu
tion and protege of Andrew Carne
gie, far exceeds his in value and va
riety. But, with the death of Smith,
that surpassing collection found hs
way into a public library, leaving the
possessions of the Atlanta man prob
ably alone as a private collection.
Gets Ross Scrapbooks.
Last week, v. hen Dr. Jacobs,
through his literary broker, came into
the scrapbooks of the late Peter Ross,
of New York, he strengthened the po
sition of his collection in its claim
to be the first. Peter Ross. LL. D.,
and his brother, John D. Ross, of New
York, were Burns scholars and edi
tors of rare ability and energy. In
the scrapbooks which came to Dr.
Jacobs they kept clippings from news,
paper and magazine articles covering
every phase- of the Burns question.
One scrapbook, for instance, is full
of clippings regarding alleged Burns
forgeries. Another considers only ar
ticles concerning statues and por
traits of Burns. The clippings of an
other book deal only with the letters
and manuscripts of Burns. Another
only philological studies in the geog
raphy of Burns’ writings.
The scrapbooks are invaluable, is
are the other details of the Jacobs
collection. Dr. Jacobs would not at
tempt to estimate the value of his
Burnsiana.
The collection is stored in the
library of the Jacobs home at 713
Peachtree Street. Thither Dr. Jacobs
led The American reporter and
proudly revealed his literary treas
ures.
The corner of the library devoted
to the Burns collection is given a
distinctive air by a large bust of the
poet. The bust, fashioned from white
marble, was purchased in London by
Dr. Jacobs, in the course of a trig
abroad.
Spirit Pervades Library.
The spirit of Burns pervades the
entire librarv. The bookmark of Dr.
Jacobs, supplying the stamp of own
ership of every book in the consid
erable library, is of classic design,
showing the figure of Robert Burns
at the plow. In one hand of the
plowboy is a bunch of daisies, over
which Bobbie bends his head as if
in meditation. The other hand rest3
lightly and diffidently on the plow
handle. _ ,
So much for the stamp oT the avo-
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5 even the worst freckles have begun to
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cation of Dr. Jacobs. The remainder
of the design bespeaks his vocation.
In the upper corner of the design is
the representation of Aesculapius,
father of medicine, and below is the
picture of crucibles and retorts and
instruments of healing.
Love for Burns and for the things
pertaining to Burns has impelled the
Atlanta man to scour England and
Scotland, as well as the United States,
in the search for something, any
thing, concerning his literary idol.
Never does he stop day or two in a
city of any size or of promising an
tiquary shops, he confesses, but he
begins to look.
“America I find an easier field for
such work of collection,” he said yes
terday, “than the Old Country. There
the collectors have worked with an
energy and a thoroughness that has
well nigh exhausted the field. In
America it is different, and th e com
petition is not so keen. I find better
results in this country.”
And yet he has picked up treasures
in England and Scotland. He showed,
for example, a fat, short volume, its
back rusty brown leather, the edges of
its leaves discolored with generations
of unheeded dust—altogether one of
those volumes with a delicious air of
antiquity and value. On its fly leaf
was the date of publication, 1804.
Thousands Overlooked It.
“I found this in a London book stall,
in full display of ten thousand per
sons every day,” he said.
As he handled it and fondled it—
he always fondles his hooks as he
touches them—there was a proud
smile on his face that made unneces
sary his attempted explanation of the
thrill that came to him when he found
it.
Other tokens of antiquity, priceless
tokens, in the collection of Dr. Ja
cobs, are replicas of the Kilmarnock
edition of 1786, the earliest publica
tion of Burns’ poems, edited by the
poet himself; replicas of the Creech
edition, also edited by Burns; the
Currie edition; the original of the
famous 1798 edition.
Then follow originals of editions
published in 1801, 1802, 1803, 1804, and
on until a gorgeous de luxe edition
of 1912.
Of the Kilmarnock and Creech edi
tions, faithful replicas of whiph Dr.
Jacobs owns, there are only few orig
inals extant. Proof of their rarity
exists in the valuation of $25,000 or
$30,000 that is set on each volume.
The replica possession of Dr.
Jacobs, of course, has nothing like
that value in money, but historically
is almost beyond appraisal.
Editions of Burns’ poetry and his
letters and other documents com
pose the smallest part the Burns
collection in the Jacobs library.
Everything that has any bearing on
the life or work of Robert Burns is
HOW BURNS WON DR.
JACOBS
H ERE is one verse from the
poem that made Dr. Jacobs
a Burns disciple, a verse typ
ical of the entire poem, which is
rather long:
“The fear of hell's a hangman’s
whip,
To haud the wretch in order;
But where ye feel your honour
grip,
Let that be aye your border:
Its slightest touches, instant
pause—
Debar a’ side pretences;
And resolutely keep its laws.
Uncaring consequences.”
there. Volumes tell about Burns and
his relation to the Masons, and take
up the dispute as to his station among
the Masons. Bums’ religion, his fa
ther’s religion, his ancestry, his con
troversies, his letters, his love affairs
—Dr. Jacobs has volume after volume
about them all.
In Twenty Languages.
He has editions of the Bums poetry
in 20 languages. He has the music
which lias been set to the songs of
Burns, and copies of paintings which
famous masters have made through
the inspiration of the Scottish bard.
In the collection of prints are repre
sented Landseer, Scott, Nasmyth,
Harvey and a dozen others. There
are etchings also.
Many of the pictures are on the
walls of the library, together with
framed facsimiles of actual manu
scripts of the poet. The spirit of
Burns is in the Jacobs library.
Among the most valuable posses
sions of the Atlanta enthusiast are a
number of copies of limited editions.
One, especially, Is valuable. It w’as
published by Gebbie, of Philadelphia,
at the instance of Andrew Carnegie,
who paid most of the cost of the edi
tion. Only 50 copies were issued.
There are Burns books in plaid
bindings, reminiscent of the Scottish
book stalls where they were bought.
There are big books and little books,
one tremendous volume weighing
nearly 20 pounds, and a tiny edition
measuring about an inch by an inch
and a half. The collection is complete.
Glossaries, concordances, geographies,
everything.
Dr. Jacobs has been collecting his
Burnclana for about fifteen years. He
was inspired to love for Burns through
a friend who was an enthusiast and
through that friend’s favorite poem.
It is Burns’ “Epistle to a Young
Friend.”
“That is one of the greatest ser
mons in the world!” exclaimed Dr.
Jacobs, enthusiastically, yesterday.
Formed a Burns Club.
Dr. Jacobs was the founder of the
Burns Club of Atlanta, 17 years ago.
The club is unique, being not a club
of Scotchmen, but of Burns lovers.
Its members have erected a replica
of the Burns cottage at Ayr, and,
standing in South Atlanta, the Burns
cottage is one of the city’s show
places.
In the hack of a favorite volume
of poems are the minutes of the first
meeting of the Burns Club of At
lanta, held In the Hotel Aragon in
1896. Present were W. L. Calhoun.
Donald M. Bain, Hamilton Douglas,
W. Geppert, R. H. Bell, Alex W.
Beeler, P. J. Mefford, John Stratton,
Joseph Jacobs, Amos Fox, James Mc
Whorter, Harry Silverman, Alex
Meyers, Robert Douglas.
It was love for Robert Burns, rather
than patriotism for Scotland, that in
spired the club. The Burns Club
exists, a flourishing organization
after 17 years, where strictly Scot
tish organizations have not survived
in Atlanta.
“We are not Scotchmen out there,”
said Dr. Jacobs. “We are lovers of
the most human poet, the most lova
ble figure in literature, and a man.”
Dr. Jacobs makes occasional Jour
neys to the many Burns shrines in
Scotland. Anri he always observes
the birthday of his poet. This year
he was in Honolulu on the day when
the Burns Club of Atlanta was hav
ing a jubilant celebration. His cable
to them in Atlanta did not satisfy his
desire to observe the day. He trav
eled 200 miles, lie said, to find a par
ty of kindred souls who could talk
Burns and recite Burns, and adore
Burns as the lovers of no other lit
erary men can.
Army Tyranny in
Russia
Russia like Germany is suffering
from the fact that its army officers
consider themselves a privileged
class whom mere civilians dare not
answer hack if it suits an officer to
insult them and in Russia as well as
In Germany the Government Invar
iably takes ideas with the officer.
Recently, an intoxicated army offi
cer of St. Petersburg called a medi
cal student a loafer and a hoodlum
and the student quickly replied by
knocking down the offender, who, fu
rious at the laughing remarks of the
passers-by, drew his sword and killed
the student. For this murder he was
simply punished by a few weeks' im
prisonment in quarters, which means
that instead of drilling soldiers at the
barracks he may now spend all day
smoking, drinking and gambling in
his comfortable apartments, while o"
course receiving :ull pay.
The only other result of the inci
dent was that the minister of war
General Houkhamlinoff issued an or
der that all medical students must
salute officers, as if they were pri
vates in the army.
The f.ludents tore up the order
when it was pasted at the Medical
Academy and thereupon went out and
deliberately disobeyed the order. As
a result the Medical Academy of St.
Petersburg is now closed.
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There Should Be Noj
Continued
Misfortune
By MARY CHAMPION.
A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY.
The tender word unspoken,
The letters never sent.
The long-forgotten messages.
The wealth of love unspent—
For these some hearts are breaking
For these some loved ones wait,
So show them that you care for
them
Before it id too late.
There should be no such thing as
continued misfortune.
You will think that, as it stands
the wildest of statements, but let me
explain, though I do not mean to qual
ify my assertion.
As pain Is a warning signal that
all is not well with our bodies, so
misfortune (so-called) signifies un
mistakably that something has gone
wrong with our inner selves, and ir.
both cases we must at once find a
cure.
At the first shock of finding some
apparently Insurmountable obstacle in
the path where w r e believed all was
clear, let us take stock of ourselves
and our surroundings, draw a deep
breath, and make up our minds to
conquer our troubles.
That we,—or you (to make my re
marks more direct, without dissociat
ing myself in any way from my read
ers)—what you plainly and emphati
cally must not do is to shut your
eyes to the changed course of your
life, and pretend there is no stone in
your way, when there it lies plain
for all the world to sec.
Obstacles are meant for us to over
come, not to overcome us. You can
roil that stone from your path if you
set your shoulder against it and give
It a mighty heave.
You can climb over It if you take
the hatchet of perseverance and hack
away at the hard stone until you
have made footholds whereby to sur
mount it.
In plain words, you can always “find
a way,” like Barrie’s “Tommy,” If you
set your hands and your wits to work
hard enough.
And when you have vanquished
“misfortune,” what a triumph is
yours! How much stronger you are—
how much better you understand your
own powers—how much sarer and
saner the world seems!
"The worst has happened,” you
say.
Well, is there not comfort in that?
You know the worst—it is not in
death,— it is not a dark, unexplained,
vague-looming possibility.
It is a thing you feel you can weigh
and handle; it has no more terrors
for you; nothing more painful or dis
astrous ban ever happen. You have
touched bottom—and must rise up
again.
It is stupid, craven and cowardly
to lie flat on your face beaten and
“don.” You cannot wonder if pas
sers-by shrug their shoulders when
they see you malting no effort to
move.
They, too, have suffered, they, too,
have fallen, but they got up-slowly,
painfully. They crawled a little way,
then struggled to their knees, and at
last rose to their feet and walked
erect like men.
It is useless to cry out in denial,
and complain, “Woe is me! No one
ever suffered as I do!
How do you know? The cherriest
soul you meet may have passed
through the fire and come out
strengthened and purified long before
your own time of trial. Even the
scars of her burning have vanished,
but in her heart she remembers the
pain of the ordeal, and it 1h in sym
pathy, not in scorn, she bide you
arise and walk upright.
One begin to think of your difficul
ties and trials as "misfortunes”—that
Is to say, as evil chances beyond your
self, past your power to prevent and
overcome—and you will find strength
has gone from you—you are content
to remain where you lie.
Get up and go on! Try to under
stand the lesson life wants to teach
you. Accept the fact that you are a
child in a stern school who is pun
ished sternly until you endeavor to
master the task set before you. —
Accept the fact that the world is
not—and rightly—a bed of roses. Can
you think of anything more enervat
ing than a life of perfect smoothness
and ease? If from the very first you
could discern a choice of two ways—
one rough and stormy, the either per
fectly smooth and tranquil—should
you not decide upon walking the
stormy road which makes you strong?
Would you hot feel yourself likely to
develop into a better specimen of man
end woman than If you were treated
as a pampered child?
Oh, we are making a dreadfully
fatal mistake 1f we sit clown and idly
bewail our misfortunes Instead of
fighting against them.
If misfortune has come your way,
reader, and threatens to overwhelm
yo.u, take three rules to heart, and
let me know if before long they do
not whisper of hope *n the darkness:
1. Look facts in the face.
2. Decide what it Is you have done
wrong.
3. No matter what sacrifice It in
volves, take the shortest and straight-
est way out of it.
A Scrambled Novel
M. Anatole France has confided to
an interviewer that he finds the pub
lic by no means critical of form In
novel. “Soon after ‘Sur la Pierre
Blanche’ began to appear In serial
form, I v ent on a long holiday,” says
M. France.” and before leaving Paris
I split my manuscript Into a num
ber of portions, each exactly the
right length for a daily instalment.
I bore those to the newspaper office,
and saw them carefully arranged in
separate pigeon-holes. Unfortunate
ly, the printer who had to extract
the instalments day by day took them
In vertical instead of horizontal or
der, so that they appeared without
any suggestion of sequence. Appar
ently, incoherent writing shocks few
people nowadays, for only a small
proportion of my readers protested
rgalnat the disjointed form of publi
cation.”
5 E
Champerty and Barratry
By ELBERT HUBBARD
(Copyright, 1913, International News Service )
C HAMPERTY is Ti partnership
between a lawyer and his i
’llent as to the final result
of a suit.
Barratry is the act of bringing
groundless actions at law In order
to coerce, embarrass, annoy and fi
nally compel the defendant to dis
gorge rather than suffer publicity
in matters often innocent and Ir
relevant.
Lawyers are nominal attaches of
the court.
The original business of the law
yer was to inform the Court of the
truth of the situation, so that the
actual facts in the case could be
gotten at quickly and accurately.
There was a time when lawyers
were paid exactly as Judges are
paid -by the State.
The business of the Court is to
see that justice 1* administered and
that the rights of the people arc
protected.
To tills end the Court appointed
an attorney for the plaintiff and
one for the defense, and these in
dividuals explained the circum
stances to the Court and put the
matter in the simplest, plainest
way possible.
Meaning of Tip.
In the course of time it was dis
covered that litigants, in order to
secure the zealous and undivided
services of the lawyer, resorted to
u fee or “tip”—T. 1. P., meaning
“To Insure Progress.”
This, at first, was regarded as
much «i misdemeanor as to fee a
Judge. It was tampering with the
Court.
Then came the custom of having
a pocket or poor box on the buck of
every lawyer, in a place that he
could not reach. This rudiment- |
ary pocket still survives on the J
i robes worn by th lawyers in Eng-
I lish courts. It is a little like the
i buttons on a Prince Albert, that
j once served to hold the sword belt,
or the buttons or. your coat sleeve
that held your gauntlets in place.
The client had the privilege of
! showing his goodwill and apprecia
tion by slipping something in the
| pocket “unbeknownst” to the law-
yor.
However, when everybody does a
thing It Is impossible to punish for
it. In fact, If we were all guilty
of ( rime, we could not all be sent
to the penitentiary, otherwise there
would be nobody to run the busi
ness of the world; and, In fact, no
body to run the courts.
So when a thing becomes univer
sal it is legal.
And gradually it became legal for
the client to fee his lawyer. Then
the State quit paying lawyers, and
now we get the universal plan of
the lawyer being paid by the man
who hires him.
Forbidden Practise*.
However, when this custom was
legalized, there were two practises
that a lawyer was forbidden to in
dulge in. One of them was cham
perty and the other was barratry.
If a lawyer begins a trumped-up
action in order to force somebody
into paying damages he is guilty
of- barratry. I
Champerty and barratry were
both once punished exactly on a
par with bribery, conspiracy and
blackmail.
Occasionally there is a lawyer
who becomes offensive, even to his
colleagues. Barratry then becomes
grounds for disburment.
There are lawyers w ho keep clear
of both champerty and barratry but
they are comparatively rare. On
the other hand, there are lawyers
whose entire business is based on
contingent fees. Such men actual
ly and technically belong to the
criminal class.
Suits by the score are brought
where the plaintiff does not verify
the complaint.
Three-fourths of the time of most
of the higher trial courts is taken
up with damage suits. And most
of yiese damage suits are taken on
contingent fees.
Champerty and barratry are very
difficult offenses to prove.
A Great Discovery.
The greatest discovery of mod-
ern timer Is the fact that honesty
In business pays.
In the practice of law few' law
yers comparatively are alive to the
ethical proposition that truth is an
asset and a lie a liability.
Men v ill do anything that it is to
their Interest to do, and they will
continue doing it as long as they
think it pays.
This tendency is fixed in the hu
man heart as a part of the great
law of preservation. And as long
as lawyers are allowed to make
money through champerty and bar
ratry they will continue violating
the oath they took when they were
admitted to the bar.
You Can Easily N
Marvel of A
Complexion
Secrets Which Give Startling Results and
Which You Will Never Find in Books.
By VALES KA SUR ATT. the Wonderful Actress,
Famed for Her Self-Made Beauty.
U TITHIN the past two months, sines
W 1 began to unravel my beauty
secrets in these columns, I have
marveled at the things that many wom
en resort to in their anxious quest for
beauty. The inquiries 1 have received
have literally been moving pictures of
every conceivable kind of theory and
method, from lemon-juice to buttermilk
and diet. Another part of my mail
gives me proof that my efforts to put
my sisters right upon the question of
beauty have not been In vain. I cer
tainly must have exploded many
wrong and foolish ideas. Among the
articles 1 have received is a book
of Lessons on Beauty, printed wav
hack in the eighties My inquirer asked
me to read it and tell her whether or
not the suggestions If contained would
he proper to follow. Shades of Coquelin!
There staring me in the face were al
most identical, sometimes impossible
suggestions one sees so generally set
down nowadays by those who know
least about this intricate art. And so
it goes. Threadbare, rancid recipes of
old, a thousand times repeated down
through the modem, backward years.
Small wonder it is that as one prome
nades the street, hundreds of faces of
miserable hue and of stubborn blemish
S lare. at you as though trying to snatch
espalringly from the clear ruby of your
rosy cheek some beauty hint for them
selves. Why, you would think every
woman should be beautiful by this time.
I say every woman can and I have cer
tainly proved It. But it surely is Im
possible by the use of many of the old-
fashioned present-day preparations. I
cannot make public hero all the letters
I receive in commendation of the sug
gestions I have given so far. but It gives
my heart a thrill of pleasure to read
them and makes me feel like living
forever just to make every woman beau
tiful.
Pour half a pint of
water in a granite-ware
pan, and let It come al
most but not to a boll.
Add two tableepoon-
fuln of glycerine.
KeAp stirring, while
adding little by lit
tle one ounce of zln-
tone, until it is all dis
solved. Then let It cool.
If the cream is too thick
to pour easily from a
bottle, thin it down a
little wMth more hot
water. When cool pour
into a bottle. The cream
will be white and satiny.
After bathing in the
morning, hold a wet, hot
towel to the face several times
for several minutes. Rub this cream
on the entire face liberally, at
the same time pinching the
skin all over. The trouble with most
users la, that they use too little of the
cream. Plaster It on thick and rub It. In
well. That is one of the secrets too.
Let the cream dry and apply your com
plexion powder. Repeat this again sev
eral times a day If possible, but again
at night anyway. You will soon see the
result Any good drug store will sell you
the zlntone for about fifty cents.
m n «
HAZEL.—You can use the zlntone
cream in connection with the eptol
cream I gave you, hut use the eptol
cream first then the zlntone cream.
* * *
T received a great number of Inquiries
in regard to bust devel
opment. I cannot at
tempt to answer all In
dividually and will give
my formula here. There
seems to bo a general
doubt that It can be
done. But if this sim
ple formula Is faithfully
followed, success sure
and surprising Is hound
to result. Electricity,
vacuum Instruments,
etc., are of no \’alne
whatever. I tried them
out several years ago
mvself, and know.
In a half-pint of cold
water, dissolve a half
cup of sugar and two
ounces of what Is called
ruetone. Mix well to
gether. Then pour Into
a bottle Of this take
two teaspoonfuls three
or four times a day In a
wine glass of water aft
er meals. The ruetone
you can get at the drug
store for one dollar. This
formula is safe or I
would not give It to you.
of course It gives very
remarkable results in a
few weeks’ time.
* * *
MRS. F. L. T. and
several others complain
of falling hair. This
condition undoubtedly
can be stopped af once
by the following mixture,
and the hair made to
grow most luxuriantly.
With a half-pint of
water mix half a pint
There is no question about it, you of alcohol. To this add one ounce of
can easily have a marvel of a com- beta-quinol. Shake thoroughly, and it
p’.exion, if you will only follow out the will then be ready for use If you pre-
simple common-sense plan I give you fer. you can use Imported hay rum in
here stead of the water and alcohol.
Suppose you have a spotty or a muddy The beta-quinol vou can get at almost
skin, or you arc sallow; you’re dissatls- any drug store for not more than fifty
fled because your skin hasn’t that In- cents. The ordinary prepared hair tonics
VIVIAN asks what is a good superflu
ous hair-remover. In this regard I must
say there are very few good ones. They
nearly all irritate the skin. This one
will positively not. f use it constantly
with the greatest satisfaction, always
with instant success, leaving the skin
soft and clean.
Apply ‘with the finger tips on your
arms, face or on any hair you want
removed what is railed eulfo solution.
Keep the hair moist with it for a few
moments until you see the hair actually
dissolved. Then wipe off with a warm,
damp cloth and wash with warm water.
I then apply my zlntone cream men
tioned above. I get the sulfo solution
at almost any drug store for one dollar.
Nothing could be better.
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Especially at this time of year T re
ceive many anxious inquiries about get
ting rid of pimples Some have them
on the back, some on the forehead,
cheeks, shoulders. Some years ago I
w r as attacked with these disagreeable
blemishes and worked out my own salva
tion This formula acted like a charm.
I dissolved twelve ounces of granu
lated sugar In one-half pint of water,
added one ounce of sarsene, and mixed
the whole together thoroughly, then
added more water to make a pint. Sar
sene is a liquid which you can get at
the drug store by the ounce. Get !t in
the original package. I took one or two
teaspoonfuls of this mixture three or
four times a day, with a little water.
In a few weeks all these eruptions had
disappeared, and I have not been trou
bled since It is a remarkable formula
indeed, and it is safe.
"One of the mott Important teereta b t® plaeter th®
cream thick and liberally on hand* and face.
which you which you buy in the stores usually
so much ad- cost you one dollar. But this formula
makes one full pint of the best .hair-
grower and it costs you much less than
definable rose-petal purity
see only occasionally, and
mire.
The formula I give you has had
most remarkable result in taking al- a dollar,
most ary skin and making It bloom This formula should be applied very
out In the most angelic tint and purity, freely after brushing the scalp gener-
Of course It takes a little time, but you ously for a few minutes all over. Rub
can most assuredly do it, If you keep the tonic thoroughly Into the scalp with
at it. the finger tips. j
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GRACE S.—You wfil never get rid of
blackheads by using a blood tonio.
Blackheads are purely local and you
need a local treatment. I have tried
various things for this stubborn beauty-
destroyer, but my following formula la
the only one which has proved suc
cessful, and that in a startling way:
First wash the face with hot water
and soap. Then sprinkle some neroxia
generously upon a sponge made wet with
not water. Then rub well for a few
minutes on the parts of the skin which
are affected with blackheads. This done,
bathe the face with warm water, and
dry. You should be able to secure the
neroxln at any druggist’s for fifty cents.
* * *
VICTORIA F.—A few minute* a daT
with the following formula will mak*
those deep wrinkles and those “thou
sand little cob-webby lines’’ you speata
of disappear in marvelous fashion:
Pour one-half pint of very het water,
not boiling, in a large bowl. Place this
howl in a pan of water on a slow fire.,
In a few minutes add two ounoee of
eptol and continue stirring until all is*
dissolved. At first it will look like Jelly.,
then it will start to cream. When it]
does this, remove It from the fire, add.,
slowly two tablespoonfuls of glycerine;
and stir constantly until cold. Then i
keep it In an air-tight jar.
You should he able to get eptol at anTj
good drug store and it should not coe*-
you more than fifty cents. i
Apply this cream every morning wlthw
the tip* of the fingers. Plaster your :
face very liberally all over with it. Take v
up the flesh in your fingers and pinch It.
squeeze it, roll It. Do this for a few
minute*, until the cream disappears*
Then apply your oomplexiontjpowder.
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