Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1912 — Helpful Beauty Hints [ARTICLE]

Helpful Beauty Hints

Care of the Ears to Enhance Their Beauty—Pomade For Callous Finger Ends—Remedy For Freckles — Hair Tonic .aid Dye—Orange flower Sun Food for Massage.

It Is a pity more women have, noi vanity about their ears such as led the Empress Josephine to maketheircare one of the chief parts of her toilet. Her ears were her best feature; she knew it and did everything to enhance their beauty. Most women will not even take the trouble to hide ear defects. Is the shape bad? Use ear caps of the right shape and use them coo l Btantly; spasmodic beauty doctoring Is almost worse than none. Childhood even babyhood is the best time for the use of these caps, but they have done wonders of flattening when vanity awoke late. An ear cap that can be easily fashioned at home consists of three strips of muslin. One is bound round the head to hold the ears in place, the second is fasten ad around the forehead to secure the first strip, and the third is bound diagonally across the ears. Such a contrivance is much less heating than the nightcap affairs formerly worn as ear-flatteners. Another defect in ears is that they ars lifeless dull and colorless. For this there is a sort of ear massage. If the lobes are pinched daily they Should become plumper and pink instead of a sickly bluish tint. Lightly pinching the- rims will overcome their dead, lifeless look, and frequent pressure of the ear against the head will give them a better set. Some women make up their ears, as well as their faces. It must be carefully and artistically done, as there is nothing more unsightly than a rim of powder on the edge of the ear. While pink lobes are considered marks of beauty, red ears are distinctly ugly and should be hidden either by the arrangement of the hair or by making up. Sometimes slight bleaching with peroxide has a whitening e.Ject; more often ?a little flesh-tinted powder Is rubbed in while the lobes are rouged i brilliant pink. A rosy lobe is thought to make the face younger and :o add color to the cheeks. If the hair is pulled out loosely iround the ears even slightly concealing the tips, it will do much to correct ugliness. This does not mean he tight slicked bands of hair that nake women look not only earless, jut old.