Making warm kids sleepwear and rooms safe for cold weather
Advice on home comfort for ill or fragile children stresses roomy yet draft free beds and breathable rooms. It recommends long flannel nightgowns and drawers for freedom of movement, sleeping bags for babies, blankets under and over beds, and securing covers with safety pins to prevent drafts. It warns against chilling and urges starting cold-weather preparations now to avoid pneumonia or other illnesses.
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Sret
API
Hair care query about lightening a homemade switch
A reader asks how hydrogen peroxide bleaching would affect a switch made from their own hair. The item is described as silver white with a light yellow tinge and is created from hair combings. Guidance requested on whitening the switch safely.
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Beverly
Cure the Face and Hair Troubles Advice Column
Readers seek help for red skin blush and blackheads on arms and upper lip. The columnist suggests treating blackheads before pores, uses tincture of green soap, cold cream, and pumice for hair removal, and warns that facial redness may be a nervous disorder.
Advice Column Fragments On Health And Teething Remedies
Letter excerpts discuss Job's Tears for teething and weight loss tips, eye irritation, and eye care. Drifts include teething beads sold by jewelers, weight reduction routines with neck and shoulder baths, and a suggested eye lotion recipe with boric acid and cataphor.
Healthy tips for beauty and leg care from MD Rising
The text offers advice on improving fashion and physique. It suggests tiptoeing about twenty five times daily to develop the calves and keep ankles slender. It also recommends rubbing in a butter or skin food to aid skin development and appearance.
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Pleere
Digestion and Purifier Advice for Complexion
A reader asks for a sure cure for complexion issues from disordered digestion. The response attributes the problem to digestive imbalance and impure blood and recommends a blood purifier recipe with Sediem sulphorinate, syrup of orange, iron extract, and water to make six fluid ounces, plus fruit guidance and suitable clothing tones.
Reader Seeks Leg Lengthening Remedy For Publication
A reader asks if a leg lengthening remedy exists and requests future coverage. They claim no method is proven but suggest consulting specialists and try massage with orange flower cream, as previously advised in the column.
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Avice
Henna Hair Tint Advice for Light Brown Hair
A subscriber asks about using henna as a vegetable dye for a light brown shade with a light temple streak. The reply notes henna creates a reddish tint and some darkening depending on hair base, and mentions walnut stain as an alternative.
Remedy for thin hair with tonic and scalp massage
Advice suggests a home remedy to stop hair thinning using a tonic made from cologne, tincture of cantharides, lavender oil, rosemary oil, and glycerin. Apply to roots twice daily and keep the scalp clean with weekly shampooing. consult a masseur if desired, but a specialist is not deemed necessary.
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Cologne
Dandruff After Fever and Measles Seek Hair Cure
A reader recovering from measles and a high fever reports a dandruffy dry scalp with hair shedding. They describe using a home formula and ask if it is safe and effective, noting high local treatment costs. The note mentions alternating with a tonic claimed to aid dry scalps and hints at remedy ingredients.
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Mr & C
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