Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1886 — WOMAN GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

WOMAN GOSSIP.

Jealousy, Thy Xante Is Woman. She —“So you think that hateful thing is pretty, do you ?” He —“Well, she certainly has a piquant and interesting face; and then, you know, she has such a saucy little retrousse nose.” She (contemptuously)—“A saucy little l’etrousse nose, indeed! Yes; so has the ordinary bull-pup, .1 believe. And, to my mind, one is about as handsome as the other.”— Somerville Journal. Not That Kind of a Star. Husband (whose wife is an actress; — “I see that by paying $225 you can have a star named alter you.” Wife—“ How nice! If we had the money now we could have a star named alter our boy.” H.—“ But our boy is not named yet.” W. —“But it is easy enough to give him a pretty name.” H.—“ However, as we cannot afford to have a star named after him we can name him after a star, which costs nothing. ” W.—“ That’s just as well.” H. —“Certainly. Now what star will we name him after?” W. —(reflectively)—“Let me see. How would Edwin Booth do?” , Husband goes out to the club. — Boston Courier.

Pretty Hands. Various causes combine to make the hands very coarse and rough. Curiously enough, less attention is given to the hands than to the face, although they really require more care on account of tho hard work they are called upon to do. And yet a white and delicate hand is very charming and worthy of quite as much attention as the face, if not more. Even a cook may have less coarse hands, if she wili, by always using glycerine or honey after washing her hands, and by never using coarse yellow soap, but a little bran or oatmeal, which will clean the hands quite as well a 3 soap and keep them soft at the same time, whatever may be the amount of work she may have to do and to whatever exposure to heat and cold the hands may be subjected. These same precautions maybe adopted by women who occupy themselves with any rough work in the house, and, moreover, they should always wear gloves, which will, more than anything, keep the hands soft and clean, and thus dispense with the necessity of too frequent washing.— Exchange.

Look to Your Comp exion. Ladies who are in the habit of using lotions to preserve their qomplexions and clear them may find in the following something of value on that subject: Lotions like pomades should be employed at night and always moderately. Lotions may be employed in the morning, especially if a pomade has been used the night previous. A pomade for pimples is made of bicarbonate of soda two scruples and glycerine one drachm. A means of preserving freshnesss of complexion is the use of pastes applied to the face in the form of a mask during the night. Use barley flour sifted three ounces, honey one ounce, white of egg one scruple; mix as a paste. To refine the skin take of blue skim-milk half a pint, slice into it as much cucumber as it will cover; let it stand one hour and bathe the face and hands, afterward washing them with clean water. This is an old English cosmetic and much prized. It is said to stimulate the growth of the hair also. A shiny polished skin is caused by an excess of fatty secretion beneath the skin. - Soap cannot remove it. A saturated solution of borax unites with the minute globules of fat and forms a soap, thus removing the trouble. The following is also excellent: Camphor water, one quart; glycerine (pure), one ounce; powdered borax, one-half ounce. Mix and bathe the face morning and night, letting it dry and remain on for several minutes, then wash in rain or filtered water.

Undervests and Skirts—Plain Talk for Women by a Woman. The advocates of silk underwear next to the skin have much to say in regard to the irritating effect of wool upon a sensitive cuticle. They admit the superior sanitary influence of wool, but assert that upon a fine and delicate skin the hair shirt of a penitent is not more intolerable than contact with ordinary wool. This is nonsense and creates bugbears where no bears exist. A silk skirt in summer is uncomfortable beoause non-absorbent, and it is so

expensive it is non-existent for the majority. It also rapidly deteri irates by being subjected to the washing process, so that it loses much of its beauty and softness before it begins to wear out. For these and other reasons silk underwear is not desirable in warn, weather, and the majority are to be congratulated upon not being tempted by it and on being provided of ate years with soft and line “gauze” woolen underwear, of which even the ordinary grades (fifty cents per \ est i will not irritate the finest and most sensitive skin. These vests are high and low neeked, long and short sleeved, with a narrow rim of silk embroidery around the neck. They absorb ail moisture, can bo changed twice or. thrice a week, or every dav if preferred, and keep the corset and cotton or . linen combination from contact with the skin. They are not so much to wash as a i pocket handkerchief, and add no ap- | preciable or unpleasant degree of i warmth to the clothing. They are, in fact, a boon to the majority, and should be so considered, for, though not an incumbrance, they are still protective, and preserve the chest and lungs from slight exposure and incidental changes of temperature. We do not sufficiently appreciate the modern tendency to adapt the best thing to the largest number. This availability genders the good thing a double blessing. It is quite lime that women understood that there are certain parts of their attire which should not bo subject to the law of fashion and change. Underwear, for example, should simply cover the body—not enlarge, depress or compress it. The finest French underwear, excepting skirts worn next the dress, follows this rule. Even hems aro not allowed, and there are no gathers. The garment is curved in at the sides and center, the edges are hand, embroidered, and the fit is perfect. Women who buy underwear made at slop-shops simply because it is cheap, without regard to its form or style, sometimes wearing it gathered in, sometimes loose, sometimes shaped, can never have their dresses fitted with precision or elegance. The corset is even more important; whatever it is, it ought to be of the same cut and style, the same depth over the hips, the same lines inclosing the bust. The modern corset is anything but an object of terror. It yields a necessary support to the fleshy part of a woman’s figure and serves as a flexible frame u; on which to build the dress. It is scientifically cut and carved to the body and supplied with elastic side or gores, which adapt it to delicate women ancl growing gi' ls. There are summer corsets of transparent lace-like fabric, traversed by slender, pliant lines of whalebone, forming the frame, which are a luxury even to look at and may be worn on the hottest day with ease and comfort. But there are still straight, shapeless, heavily weighted “stays” machine-made, coarsely corded, and charged with steel bars, that quite alter the figure of the wearer, who perhaps thinks she is improved because she is martyred in wearing them or selects them because they are a few cents cheaper. This is self-murder for less inducement than would be accepted by the commonest assassin and destroys tliejeffect of the finest costume. —New York letter, in Washington Star.