Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1911 — Milady’s Mirror [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Milady’s Mirror

Sonic people show a strange indifference and lack of care for the nose, which has been correctly termed the drawing room of the lungs, for in this drawing room many visitors are ushered. some sweet and fresh and clean and others soiled and bedraggled, leaving their dusty footprints clogged with germs behind them. It would be an untidy housekeeper Indeed who neglected her drawing room. Let the rest of her house be ever so immaculate, if dirt is allowed to accumulate there the whole house will feel its ill efforts. But how many people ever think of spraying the nose? It is astonishing when one considers what harm such carelessness works thiit any person should fail to do this. Specialists will tell you that it is absolutely essential to good health that the nose should be kept clean. Yet few noses are really clean. The use of a pocket handkerchief is about all the care the average person ever gives the nose. They then consider that they have’ done their duty by it. Yet they could not sleep if they had forgotten to brush their teethe Many people do not realize the absolute necessity for cleanliness in the nose, but once they comprehend it it is an easy matter to purchase an atomizer, get a prescription from a doctor and see that the nose is daily washed out. If one does not care to go to a physician for a regular jfrescription one can get a small glass nose douche shaped like a duck and use warm water with a solution of salt in it.

To Avoid Winter Colds. Air baths are the latest prescription for the seeker after health. These are positively recommended as a magic preventive for avoiding winter colds. At first they may seem too difficult of accomplishment, but if one will only try one will see how astonishing the results are. - And the beauty of this magic air bath is that it is simplicity itself. There is no cumbersome, apparatus, no tiresome! visits of the masseuse, no pounding and punching of an inoffensive body. One merely has to lie still and allow gentle breezes to blow upon the body. One - need only expose the skin, so the enthusiasts say. to the air for fifteen or twenty minutes, a half hour or an hour night and morning to annihilate the horrid cold germs which are everywhere ready to seize upon any one who gets a chill and so lays herself open to attack. Hence the danger of drafts and wet feet. . Our usual habits give the skin no opportunity of itself. If one would indulge in the beneficial air bath one must spend twenty minutes before retiring without one’s clothing. Then in the morning bathe and do up the hair before covering the skin with the day’s clothing. These measures alone constitute an effective air bath and will lessen the sensibility of the skin and liability to cold in a few’ days’ time. • A more elaborate way for taking the air bath is recommended by a noted physician. Select the sunniest room iu the house. If the window is overlooked by neighboring houses place a low screen before it. Then undress, wrap yourself in a sheet and blanket and lie on the floor in the sunshine. The Beauty Waltz. You have heard of the old English custom of walzing with pennies carried on the head? Try that in the privacy of your own room. Remove corsets and shoes, then, putting a coin on a smooth head and humming a gay waltz, glide to its measures. Practice this tjll you know how smoothly you must be gliding by the cessation of the necessity to stoop # and pick up your penny. The gain in health that follows the steady practice of these “stunts” will equal the gain in grace. An excellent thing it is in a loose, freely flowing lightweight garment To waltz with the arms raised, hands held over the head; with the finger tips lightly touching. If you have friends desirous of making the best of themselves ask them to meet with you once a week. Banish ail persons not in the secret. Remove restricting garments. Including shoes. Let one of the number play for three minutes, while the rest do the dancing above described. - When a second member takes tbe piano the dance for a change may be done with hands locked behind the “back. When a third turns musician clasp the hands, but stretch the arms forward in ,a curve and dance, alternately letting the head droop forward in this curve and then, after a moment in which It is held erect, fall back. Another exercise can be made by clasping the hands at the hack of the head and waltzing round the room irt that-, jiose. Do the last dance with the upstreluhed arms and finger tips lightly touching. “ ‘ , Your Comb. Combs should not be washed with water. This is apt to split the teeth. A' stiff nailbrush Is a good thing to keep for cleaning them. After using the brush take a damp cloth and wipe between each tooth with this. ■