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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 20, 1908
Page
7
A discussion on how perfumes and sachets should be used artfully rather than cloyingly. It emphasizes subtlety, fresh florals, and an unobtrusive aroma that blends with personal belongings and surroundings.
A historical column offers at night routines for complexion care with a rose infusion lotion, then cautions on applying fragrance via sachets and hats. It covers sachet materials like violet and orris, thumb bags, and lavender as a safe scent, plus methods for storing or restocking scented items. Also includes formulas for removing moth patches and remedies for skin brightening and bust massage creams.
Instruction describes a chest expansion drill using oil of rose mix. It advises depress the chest to bring shoulders forward with head up and back, then raise the chest by muscular effort to full expansion, and repeat eight times.
The formula lists ingredients including potassium carbonate one grain, ammonia water, a fluid drum, alcohol, twelve fluid drams, rosewater to yield sixteen fluid ounces. It instructs to moisten the hair, adjust loosely, and let it curl as it dries.
A compendium of home remedies includes a hair dye formula with sugar, sal ammoniac, bergamot essence, alcohol, glycerine, tincture, and easy application steps. It also lists a browning skin lotion using bichloride mercury, hazel, and rosewater, plus advice on eye care with boric acid solution and a note that simple remedies from doctors may be unsafe without professional guidance.
A historical dermatology note recommends Olivia as advised by Erasmus Wilson. It describes mixing elderflower ointment one ounce with sulphate of zinc twenty grains and rubbing the affected skin, suggesting a preparation for stubborn skin conditions.
An expressed cucumber juice based lotion with de odorized alcohol almond oil and shaving cream. It is described as a suave whitening, softening and cleansing preparation.
A recipe fragment instructs on whitening hands using lanolin paraffine vanilla extract and related measures. The text lists one hundred grains of lanolin twenty five grains of paraffine ten drops of vanilla extract.
A humorous guide on dining manners covers corn on the cob and spaghetti handling. It advises halving corn, cutting ends, and eating stalks with fingers, warns against sword swallows, notes chicken frictions, and praises a proper forked winding method for pasta. It ends by recommending careful orange peeling to protect attire.
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