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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 16, 1906
Page
7
A woman achieves a health giving life at home with a top floor room sunlit by southern exposure. She uses breathing, cold sponges, light meals, daily walks, and quiet sewing, avoiding visitors and letting sunshine reach her scalp.
The narrative describes a woman regaining vigor after careful grooming and facial care. Over a few weeks she returns to sociable life, maintains her room, and laughs about fleeing nervous weariness. the piece suggests women adopt the method to reduce hagard looks and restore vitality.
A home cure advises relieving stomach pain by applying a hot, folded cloth packed with a square of house channel soaked in boiling water, then sprinkled with a teaspoonful of turpentine and used as a hot pad. It also claims effectiveness for chest colds.
A column of beauty advice and home remedies answers readers on skin care, hair, and cosmetic routines. It covers peroxide use, bust remedies, facial treatments, hair dye cautions, and recipe formulations for lotions, tonics, and cleansers with names like Dr. Vaucaire's Remedy and lavender preparations.
A reader seeks guidance on strengthening facial muscles through massage and asks for a specialist referral. The writer mentions preparing a tooth powder and requests help for achieving a pleasant taste and odor, suggesting cloves or sassafras as additives.
Article recounts self treatment for forehead scarring from two months earlier using witch hazel and a homemade emulsion. It details ingredients such as white wax aper maceti almonds rosewater and instructions to melt, mix, and emulsify to apply on the skin.
Reader seeks general facial care tips. The suggested regimen includes an enlarged pore remedy and a cleansing treatment using two teaspoons of flowers of sulphur in a half pint of new milk, plus almond meal as a soap substitute for a sensitive oily complexion.
Out of town reader shares two talcum powder recipes for children. First mix rice flour 10 ounces talcum 10 ounces and zinc oxide 19 ounces? Mix sift twice for smoothness and scent with musk to taste. Hygienic option uses farina starch 50 grams talcum 50 grams lycopodium 9 grams boric acid 10 grams violet essence 20 grams.
A historic remedy claims oxide of zinc half a dram and subiodide of bismuth four drams with dextrin one and a half drams glycerine one and a half drams. Apply paste at night to freckles and wash away any residue with borax powder and sweet oil in the morning.
Historic beauty formulas discuss lightening blonde hair with chemical mixtures including potassium carbonate and cantharides along with bay rum and alcohol. Instructions detail mixing, applying to roots, rinsing, and drying. A separate eyebrow eyelash grower uses red vaseline tincture of cantharides lavender rosemary and a Chinese eyelash stain with indigo ink and rosewater.
A reader asks about using a face and seven lotion for eye prominence and follows a regimen of persistent massage and skin care. The guidance notes that daily lotion and massage help but deep lines may persist, though improvement is possible with consistent care.
The text offers instructions for obtaining almond meal from any drug agent and using it for cleansing and softening skin. It advises rinsing thoroughly after use and mentions a lack of a formal preparation recipe.
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