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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1908
Page
23
A 1908 beauty column offers tips on weight gain through meals, hair lightening methods with caution, lip color recipes using orange flower water and glysesine, and the piazza girl’s ideal grooming. It emphasizes natural daytime makeup, color schemes, foot care, and posture to cultivate a fashionable, sunlit presence.
Inquiries on thickening and lengthening hair, and curling techniques. Tonic use advised, monthly shampoo with soap jelly, quince seed lotion for curling, and glycerine mist. Also skin care tips include washing, tepid benzoin bath, and weekly hot soap suds borax scrub.
A reader asks if hands can be made smaller. The answer notes you cannot reduce size but can improve color and shape. Suggestions include bleaching for lighter color and tapering at the fingertips to enhance appearance, with friends forgiving size.
The column answers reader questions about Taft’s religion, steamer chairs on voyages, color blindness prevalence, the Dartmouth College case and its contract law implications, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition dates and site, biblical dispensations, and origins of the tar and feather punishment. It cites Dartmouth, Seattle 1909 expo, and Richard the Lionheart era practices.
A historical note lists convention chairmen and locations from 1831 to 1908. It records names such as James Barbour Ambrose Spencer John Moorehead Henry Lane George Ashman William Denison Joseph Hawley Thomas Settle Edward McPherson George F Hoar John Henderson Martin Estes William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt Henry Lodge Joseph Cannon and venues like Baltimore Harrisburg Philadelphia Chicago Cincinnati Minneapolis St Louis and Philadelphia.
A discussion on female manners argues that overflattering and exaggerated praise repel others. It urges simple courteous behavior, noting that genuine interest, kindness, and thoughtful speech win friends. A poised tone with a soft voice is emphasized as the key to lasting appeal.
The article offers methods to refresh straw hats and trimings during summer. It suggests stale bread crumbs to dirty exposed straw, washing with alcohol for rough straw, and a chemical mix of precipitated sulfur and oxalic acid to renew Panama or leghorn trims. Drying in the sun restores a professional-clean look.
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