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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 16, 1908
Page
3
Mrs Symes offers beauty guidance on chin care, posture, and dressing to mask a double chin. She prescribes facial cleansing, massage to move fat from chin to neck, sleeping without a pillow, keeping chin up at a right angle, and avoiding a tight collar. She stresses straight posture, vision checks, and early instruction for daughters, noting time spent on correct habits.
The column offers home tips from milk substitutes to tonics for hair and skin care. Advice covers wart removal, complexion brushes, acne care, oily skin, corns, eye care, and nasal improvement with various salves, lotions, and exercises. It notes response delays to mail and instructs on responding with stamped envelopes.
The passage links forehead curves and breadth to temperament and abilities. A curved Forehead suggests poetic taste and arts talent. A straight forehead implies severity and tenacity. A high broad forehead signals strength. combined eyebrow bulge indicates calm, deliberate thinking. Broad foreheads imply broad character, though may accompany a weak face.
A guide urges thinness to appear taller with tips on posture, dress, and hair. It recommends head up, long skirts, elongated neck through styling, broad shouldered bows, and wider sleeves. Exercises to improve suppleness are described to enhance tall appearance.
A 19th century guide explains that a small hand signals grace and character, while a large hand implies strength. It suggests using tulle to shadow a large hand, brown or black shades to match hair, five undersized thimbles to taper fingers, and selecting rings for morning wear. It also covers wrist bands in black velvet or a black enamel bracelet, and a strip of black court plaster for whiteness, stressing nail care.
A historical home remedy instructs applying after shampooing. Mix one half ounce oil of bay fifteen minims oil of orange peel fifteen minims oil of pimenta with thirty nine ounces of alcohol then add water to make sixty four fluid ounces.
A vintage home treatment lists freckle causes as wind sun and organic disorder and offers a paste recipe with oxide of zinc subiodide of bismuth dextrine glycerine to apply nightly and wash off with borax and sweet oil each morning.
A collection of period cosmetic tips includes a facial wash using alum almond milk and rosewater, a brow growth tonic with lavender rosemary cantharides and vaseline, a perspirant hand lotion with bella donna and cologne water, and a henna hair coloring and care routine with scalp stain caution and split end prevention.
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