GLYCERINE FOR OILET USE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 138, 7 December 1907, Page 15

GLYCERINE FOR OILET USE.

As many people uso pure glycerine for tho skin, a word of caution and explanation may be useful. If you apply a little glyecrino to the tip of the tongue you find that, although it has sv pleasant, swcot taste, the firot sensation that is folt is ono of burning. This is caused by the fact that glycerine has a strong affinity for wator, and thai it absorbs all tho moisture from Iho surface which iL touches, thus drying up and parching tho nerves. Ignorant of this fact, nurfes and mothers havo sometimes applied pure glyecrino to the qnafed skin of infants, and caused much pain. The glyeerino ought to havo boon mixed firstt with an equal bulk of water. This boinfj done, it may generally bo applied to even a lender skin without causing pain. For toiloi purposes glycerine should bo mixed with rose water or eldcrflowcr wator. ,

A lady visitor to Devon who walked hntless into Exeter Cathedral was promptly pounced upon , by the verger and requested lo leave immediately. Tho musical portion of the service had just begun, and the lady expressed reJiichince to leave. Tho verger was firm, however. Seeing a gentleman's bowler near, the lady took it up and placed it on her head. Tho verger then moved away, apparently satisfied. ■ In Hungary they do not eat fresh bread. Whether it is because tho Hungarians believe in hygiene more than we do in this country is to be doubled, but tho Magyar is partial to stale bread, and tho staler the better. Jib "rozskenyer," or ordinary black bread, as it is eaten 'by tho very large majority of the Magyar population, is carefully laid away on a shelf and brought out for consumption months and months after it has come out of the gicat ovens. if ilio huge loaf, weighing something' like Ihe poundh, has c.uofuliy been hidden away for two years, it is considered all the better. Uung.nian immigrants take -.nth them many of these loaves. They aie combeisomo affairs and of lipe old age.