HINTS FOR THE TOILET.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8239, 18 September 1906, Page 7

HINTS FOR THE TOILET.

Buttermilk or sour milk is soothing to a burned akin. If your feet are tender or footsore, bathe them in warm water, iu whioh has been soaked an ounoe packet of carbonate of soda. Remove all out flowers from the bedroom over night, it leaves the air of the room pure, while the flowers themselves stay fresher. f To obtain a lasting and refreshing odour of sweet violets, put half an ounce of orrisroot, broken in small pieces, in a bottle with two ounces of aloohol; cork it tight and shake •well; then leave four or five days. A glass of hot water taken every murning on unempty stomach thirty minutes before breakfast cleanses the system, aids digestion, and is an enemy to blackheads and sallow complexions. The water must be taken hot; if taken only warm it is nauseating. Put into a quart bottle one ounoe of essential oil of lavender, ooe drop of rnuak, and one and a half pints of spirits of wine. Shake the mixture •well, then leave it for s few days to settle, after which it should be shaken again, and then poured inlo bottles, which must be hermetically sealed. Powder must not be used in any quantity to hide spots on the face, bb it dries and clogs up the pores, thus preventing a healthy action of tne skin. Another reason why girls Bhould abstain from an excessive use of powder ia that they mußt suffer sooner or later for this temporary bloom. WEDDING SUPERSTITIONS. The bridegroom who carries a miniature horseshoe in his pocket will always be lucky. The bride who dreams of fairies on the night before ner wedding will be thrice blessed. Never give a telegram to a bride or bridegroom on the way to church. It is a sure omen of evil. The finding of a spider on the wedding-gown by the bride is considered a sure token of happiness to oome.