Hair care tips from a bygone era promoting daily maintenance
The article outlines practical hair care routines emphasizing regular brushing, washing brushes in hot water with ammonia, keeping tools clean, and trimming split ends. It stresses smooth hairpins, lint-free brushes, sun or heat drying, and careful handling to improve appearance and health.
Excessive Oiliness Skin and Baby Layette Trends
Reader shares a home lotion recipe to combat oily skin and a cleansing cream. The piece then surveys baby layette guides noting cost ranges from 5 to 75 dollars, listing required garments, including slips, shirts, bands, socks, and diapers, and describing handmade fine gowns with French embroidery and lace details.
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Beauty Tips and Home Remedies From Readers
A collage of reader advice on facial care and cosmetics. Do it yourself guides cover skin cleansing with almond meal and warm water, eyelash stain formulas, wart treatments, hair lightening cautions, hand care lotions, and general skin health tips.
Eyebrow and Eyelash Grower and Freckle Lotion Formulaes
A transcription of early beauty formulas describes Eyebrow and Eyelash Grower with glycerine and jaborandi extract and a Lemon and Glycerine Lotion for light freckles. The text cautions careful application away from the eye and notes other skin tightening remedies and questions about treating flabby skin.
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Layette 6 HH and the virtue of skilled sewing
An opinion piece argues that modern women overlook sewing yet many still value and take pride in handmade lingerie and wedding garments. It defends transfer of sewing skills from mothers to daughters and notes the joy of a bride or friend receiving handmade work.
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