The Ladies Book of Useful Information, Anonymous [rocket ebook reader txt] 📗

youthful, natural appearance, with a pearly, rose-tinted complexion that is positively bewitching. It is without doubt the best face lotion ever discovered, being as it is a medicated lotion possessing healing qualities. Many ladies are troubled during cold weather with sore lips, rough, parched skin, and chapped hands upon the slightest exposure. By moistening at night with this wash the parts affected, all soreness and roughness will be completely cured and the face and hands will be as delicately soft and smooth as those of a little child.

No one need suffer any longer from any defect of the skin.

Recipe for Turkish Lotion: To one fluid ounce of tincture of gum benzoin add seven fluid ounces of distilled rose-water and one-half ounce of glycerine.

Directions for use: Bathe face, neck, and hands with Turkish Lotion at night, letting it dry on. Wash off in the morning with a very little pure white castile soap and soft water. If the water is hard, add a very little dissolved borax. This will prevent and cure greasy skin, freckles, tan, wrinkles, pimples, blackheads, crow's-feet, blotches, sunburn, chapped hands, sore lips, rough skin, etc.

To Cure Sallowness: Use as above directed, and ask your druggist for some good iron tablets. Take as directed. In a short time your complexion will be beautifully white and rose-tinted.

To Remove Hairy Moles and Superfluous Hair: Procure prepared pumice stone from your druggist; cut the hair as close as possible to the skin, dip the pumice in cold water and rub on the part on which the hairs grow, commencing gently at first (as it may cause slight irritation of the skin), then gradually increase the friction. After using the pumice stone, anoint freely each time with Turkish Lotion. Do this twice daily, and it will surely remove superfluous hair.

Always, after using Turkish Lotion, rub gently with the hands until the skin becomes dry. This will remove and prevent wrinkles and lines.

INDEX.   PAGE. Almond paste for the hands, 48 Apt to be hasty, 80 All is fair in love and war, 81 Age to marry, the best, 99 Age of puberty to marriage, from the, 107 A happy marriage, the basis of, 118 Abortion, 128 Abortion, the cause of, 129 Abortion, means of preventing, 133 Amenorrhœa—suppression of the menses, 140 Alterative, or liver powder, 147 Anti-dyspeptic pills, 147 Ague pills, 148 Ague drops, 149 Anodyne headache pills, 149 Arrowroot jelly, 157 Arrowroot gruel, 159 Autumn leaves and ferns, to prepare, 181 Articles of white zephyr, to clean, 184 Artificial honey, 205 Breath, to purify the, 31 Bleach and purify the skin, to, 31 Bloom rose, 34 Brilliant, beautiful eyes, how to have, 35 Beautiful eyelashes, how to have, 36 Beautiful mouth and lips, to have a, 39 Bleaching lotion, 47 Baldness, to cure, 61 Bleach the hair, to, 63 Boston Burnet powder, 65 Birth of the first child, 89 Bleeding at the lungs, 151 Barley water, 157 Bread jelly, 159 Beef liquid, 159 Beef tea, 160 Bedbugs, to get rid of, 166 Bleach the leaves, to, 181 Bluing, 183 Blue powder, to make, 188 Brush, the, 189 Bronze work, 191 Bronzing, directions for, 193 Bronzing statuettes, 194 Begonia stemming, to make, 195 Brilliant self-shining stove polish, 202 Cleopatra's freckle balm, 29 Cure profuse perspiration, to, 31 Cleopatra's enamel, 31 Cure freckles, to, 31 Cosmetic bath, a, 32 Certain cure for eruptions, 34 Clear the complexion, to, 34 Cure and refine a blotched skin, to, 34 Cure and prevent wrinkles, to, 34 Cure weak eyes, to, 36 Cure watery and inflamed eyes, to, 37 Care of the teeth, the, 40 Cure foul breath, to, 44 Cure toothache, to, 44 Camphorated chalk, 45 Camphor paste, 45 Cure red hands, to, 48 Coarse hands, to whiten, 49 Chapped hands, 51 Cause the skin to become satin-smooth, to, 51 Cause the bloom of youth to return, 52 Cause the hair to grow, to, 60 Charm those whom you meet, to, 72 Courtship a momentous matter, 83 Conception, 121 Change, a remarkable, 121 Changes in the breast, 122 Childbirth a natural process, 123 Cramps of the legs, etc., 126 Chlorosis, or green sickness, 137 Cessation of the menses—change of life, 141 Cathartic and liver pills, 147 Certain remedy for ague, 148 Consumption, for, 151 Cough syrup, 152 Cough mixture, 152 Compound tincture of myrrh, 152 Cordial for summer complaints, 153 Coffee milk, 160 Crust, coffee, 161 Cranberry water, 161 Chicken broth, 161 Calves'-foot jelly, 162 Chambers, 176 Coffee starch, 183 Copper bronze, 194 Decayed teeth, for, 44 Decayed teeth, mixture for, 46 Dye the hair flaxen, to, 63 Days of the week—their importance, 68 Duration of pregnancy, 123 Diet, the, 124 Detection of pregnancy, sure test for the, 127 Delayed menstruation, 135 Duty of mothers, 135 Dyspeptic ley, 148 Dr. Jordan's cholera remedy, 154 Deafness, 155 Drink in dysentery, 161 Drunkenness, to cure, 168 Different kinds of perfume, to make, 169 Dining-room, 177 Do your own stamping, how to, 187 Dry stamping, 188 Distributor, to make a, 188 Dark blue powder, 189 Decalcomania, 196 Eruptions, 24 Extreme paleness, 26 Excoriations, 28 Eyes, to cure weak, 36 Eyes, to care watery and inflamed, 37 Eyes, general care of, 37 Eyelashes, to improve the, 36 Eyelashes, to have beautiful, 36 Elegant hair, to have, 60 Electrical psychology, 69 Early marriage, 99 Everything for love, 111 Expectorant tincture, 152 Eggs, 165 Extract the essential oil from flowers, to, 168 Enamel for shirt bosoms, 184 Exotic leaves, 194 Electric powder, 205 Freckles, 25 Freckles, to remove, 29 Flesh-worms, to remove, 30 French face wash, 32 French lip salve, 40 Fine tooth powder, 44 Finger nails, the, 49 French remedy for baldness, 63 Fortunate and unfortunate days, 67 Fondness for cousins, 95 Flirtation, 96 False sense of duty, 112 Falling of the womb, 143 Fever powder, 149 French milk porridge, 160 Fluid, No. 1, 2, and 3, 163 Fresh-blown flowers in winter, 166 Flour starch, 184 Fine starch, 184 Fruit stains, 185 Flannels, to wash, 186 Floral basket in bronze, 193 French polish for leather, 205 German lip salve, 41 Golden hair secret, the, 62 Gestation, period of, 122 Gum acacia restorative, 164 Get rid of bedbugs and mosquitoes, how to, 166 Gall soap, 183 Grease, to take out, 185 Green bronze, 193 Geranium leaves, 196 Hands, chapped, 51 Hair, the, 52 Hair restorative, 61 Hair, to bleach, 63 Hair, to dye flaxen, 63 Hair, keeping curled and crimped, 63 Hair, powder for preserving, 64 Hair to make grow quickly, 64 Hair falling out, to prevent, 65 Human temperaments, the, 66 How to charm those whom you meet, 72 Hop bitters, 146 Home decoration, 171 House plants, to care for, 179 Healing salve, 200 Itch, the, 17 Improve the skin, to, 33 Improving the hair, for, 63 Important advice to females, 68 Inverted toe-nail, 156 Irish moss jelly, 158 Isinglass jelly, 158 Iron rust, to remove, 185 I X L baking powder, 204 Kalydor for the complexion, 33 Lemon cream, 29 Lip salve, white, No. 1, 40 Lip salve, No. 2, 40 Love and respect, 77 Love and marriage, 94 Leucorrhœa, whites, flour albus, 144 Laziness, to cure, 168 Milk of roses, 33 Mouth pastilles, 44 Mixture for shampoo, 64 Mesmerism, 70 Marriage, 73 Married people, 102 Monogamy, 116 Marriage customs, 117 Morning sickness, 126 Menstruation, 134 Malt infusion, 164 Milk for infants, 165 Magnetic croup cure, 201 Magic annihilator, 203 Necessary evils, 109 Nutritive fluids, 162 Preparation for whitening the skin, 30 Pimples, to remove, 32 Pomade d'Hebe, 34 Preservative tincture for the teeth, 45 Powder for preserving the hair, 64 Polygamy, 125 Polyandry, 117 Pregnancy, labor, parturition, 121 Parturient balm, 128 Premature labor, 128 Pills for asthma, 151 Pills for chronic bronchitis, 151 Pills for neuralgia, 151 Pills for dysentery, 150 Pile ointment, 155 Panado, 160 Prevent horses being