soms. By making her own rouge a lady can graduate her pallet — that is to say, her cheeks — at pleasure. The following preparations have the virtue, at least, of being harmless, which can not be said of most paints and powders. Red-lead, bismuth, arsenic, and poisonous vegetable compounds are used in the common cosmetics. Bismuth is most frequent; and its least effect is to give the cheeks it has whitened a crop of purplish pimples, which would indicate that the wearer was freely "dispoged" to the same tastes as Sairey Gamp. The hideously coarse complexion of many public singers is partly due to their use of bismath powder. An old dispensatory gives the following formula for a harmless cosmetic under the name of Almond Bloom:
Take of Brazil dust, one ounce; water, three pints; boil, strain, and add six drachms of isinglass, two of cochineal, three of borax, and an ounce of alum; boil again, and strain through a fine cloth. Use as a liquid cosmetic.
