MADAME PATH'S COMPLEXION.
In an article ' How to be Pretty Though plain,' an The Young Woman, Mrs Humphrey deals with the care of the complexion. She quotes Madame Pat (i. The secret of my complexion is — lard,' said Adeline P.itti to a friend who asked her how she hepfc her roses. ' 1 call it cold cr t eam but it is lard just the same. Hoy do I make it. Ah, hero h a recipe. J never go far with out it, for foar forget, and m\ maid not remember exactly. I giH lib of fat mutton. It is hard like suet. Upon a little alcohol sto\e in my room I ivy it out. Slowly tht grease sitmnprs^n mydittle white dibli until there is; a warm Swimming cupful of fat. This I, tun through a little hair scive whioh I carry with me Once fneJ out take the fat, now the purest mutton tallow, and stir into it as much glycerine as there is fat In to this I pu;fc.jiJ;ew drops of perfuma I koep stirring geutlv until it begins to harden. Whenit is done I put it into little stone jars.' ]&vory night I mas sa#e with this cream". It .there arcwrinkles, my maid rubs them with it. In the morning 1 1 rub it off.'
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 5, 8 June 1899, Page 2
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217MADAME PATH'S COMPLEXION. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 5, 8 June 1899, Page 2
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