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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 22, 1908
Page
3
A Newport article recalls a trend where women used thick veils to shield the complexion from harsh sun, sparing freckles but cutting air and a rosy look. It notes blondes and light hair may suffer less but warns against misuse of veils and suggests moderation with the sun’s brightness.
A historical guide lists facial skin care routines and remedies including sun protection with diluted alcohol soft touch, buttermilk baths for complexion, cold cream massage with gentle technique, and powder use. It offers a sunburn antidote, a whitening cream for freckles, tanning guidance, and several tonics and lotions for oily hair dry skin wrinkles and facial blemishes. It also describes hands care lotions and cheeks plumpers with detailed ingredient lists and application steps.
This column notes the impossibility of immediate replies to correspondence and advises readers to include self addressed stamped envelopes. It then collects various hair care tonics and teeth powders, detailing formulas with gum arabic, sugar, essential oils, bay rum, tea infusion, listerine, and preparatory steps for scalp and breath treatments.
An 19th or early 20th century home remedy outlines a hair tonic using phenol tinctures and almond oil. It directs applying to scalp daily or twice for root nourishment and dry scalp relief, noting widespread usefulness.
A vintage recipe for an orange flower cream to improve skin condition. It lists ingredients such as almonds, white wax, spermaceti, borax, glycerine, orange flower water, neroli oil, bigarade oil, and pest grain oil with melting and mixing steps to create a smooth, clear skin product.
The text advises polishing nails by placing powder in the palm and rubbing nails briskly to achieve a pretty pink shine. It presents a brief home care tip attributed to Mrs W Ill and uses a recipe style for CP Gaw.
A late text describes care for summer hands including belladonna wash, lemon juice to whiten, oatmeal wraps for hard skin, and homemade gloves with barley paste. It warns belladonna is poisonous and to keep the solution away from children. It also suggests sea bathing to combat brittle nails and a lemon borax rose remedy for freckles.
Wash the neck and face with warm water to remove dust. Then rub the neck with equal parts cream and lemon juice to whiten and smooth the skin. The cream nourishes while lemon juice lightens and brightens the area.
The article advises improving skin condition with a regular blood tonic and consistent dosing, plus external care. It recommends facial steaming over hot water, drying, then applying a quality cream. A recipe begins with a splendid face cream made from a substance described as White.
Chest weights on pulleys are used to develop chest muscles. They hang from floor or wall attachments and are adjusted heavier as strength grows. They can be purchased at the athletic department of any store.
A dated fitness routine describes neck and chin exercises to reduce a double chin. It prescribes standing upright, hands on hips, dropping the chin to the collarbone, then lifting the head quickly, repeating ten times. It adds rapid head turns right and left, ten reps each, then gradually increasing to fifty reps per exercise.
Instructions advise rubbing vaseline into hair roots to soften dandruff and avoid combing. Moisten scalp with olive oil, wash with tincture of green soap when crusts soften, rinse, apply almond oil, then nightly ammonia muriate with glyceryne and racewater lotion for ten days, ending with a shampoo.
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