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THE UGLY-GIRL PAPERS.
CHAPTER XIX.
- A Talk about Complexions.
- Delicate Lotion.
- Cause of Rough Faces.
- Sun Painting and Bleaching.
- Court Ladies Refusing to Wash their Faces.
- Experiments with Olive-tar.
- Consumption and Clear Faces.
- Rev. W. H. H. Murray on Olive-tar.
- Porcelain Women.
- Drawing Humors to the Surface.
- What is to be Done for the Weak Women?
A Southern lady sends the following recipe for glycerine lotion, which is refined and pleasant as well as useful. The pain of sunburned and freckled skin, so troublesome to many of our fair readers, can be relieved, and the shining morning face of youth restored, by this application: Take one ounce of sweet almonds, or of pistachio-nuts, half a pint of elder or rose water, and one ounce of pure glycerine; grate the nuts, put the powder in a little bag of linen, and squeeze it for several minutes in the rose-water; then add glycerine and a little
