OTHER DAYS, OTHER WAYS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 165, 14 July 1928, Page 4 (Supplement)

OTHER DAYS, OTHER WAYS.

FACIAL BEAUTY.

i Tt is difficult enough to be the wonderful beauty that modern days demand, but in the time of our greatest grandmothers it was even more a task of magnitude. Here are from- "The Toilet of Flora: or a collection of the most simple and approved receipts for cosmetics of every kind, that can smooth and brighten the skin, give force to beauty, and take off the appearance of old age and decay." Published in 1775. A Secret to Take Away Wrinkles. "Heat an iron fir© shovel red hot, throw thereon some powder of myrrh, teceive the smoke on your face, covering the head with a napkin to collect the smoke. Repeat this operation three times, then heat the shovel again, and when fiery hot spirt on it a mouthful of white wine. Receive the vapour of the wine also on your face, and repeat it three times. Continue this proceeding every night and morning as long as you find occasion." Personally, I think the red-hot shovel sounds worse than the wrinkles! Celestial Water. . Take the best cinnamon, nutmegs, ginger, zedoary, galangals and white pepper, of each an ounce; six lemon peels; two handfuls of Damascene grapes; as much jujebs; a handful of pith of dwarf elder; four handfuls of juniper berries; fennel seeds, flowers of sweet basil, St. John's wort, rosemary, marjoram, penny royal, etechas, musk roses, rue, scabious, centawry, funitory and agrimony, of each a handful; spikenard, aloes wood, grains of paradise, calamus aromaticus, mace, gum olibanum and yellow sanders, of each two ounces; hepatica aloes, fine amber and rhubarb, of each two drachms. Cover with orandy at least three fingers' depth above the ingredients." Well then, after you're procured all this, and treated it to a most elaborate amount of attention, which I can omit here, as you won't be likely to need it; you next add: "Half a pound each of best treacle, Venice turpentine, and oil of almonds." More elaborate treatment, and then at last it resembles clarified honey. Now listen to the virtues which were supposed to attach to thi?: — "If a person rubs himself in the morning with this on forehead, eyelids and nape of neck, i*. renders him quick and strengthens the memory, enlivens the spirits, and marvellously comforts the sight. If a tablespoouful is drunk every third day, it preserves the body in its full vigour, and in such good case that beauty lasts, even to decrepit old age. It is a noble remedy against shortness of breath and possesses seve|ral other virtues which we have not ! room to mention at present." To Clear a Tanned Skin. > "Take unripe grapes, soak, them in water, sprinkle them with alum and salt, then wrap them up in pap-j and roast them in hot ashes; squeeze out the juice and wash the face with it every morning, it will soon remove the tan.*' -