redness, using a coarse crash towel at the finish.  If sufficient friction can not be given, a small amount of bay rum applied with the palm of the hand will be found efficacious.  Ladies who have ample leisure and who lead methodical lives, take a plunge or sponge bath three times a week, and a vapor or sun bath every day.  To facilitate this very beneficial practice, a south or east apartment is desirable.  The lady denudes herself, takes a seat near the window, and takes in the warm rays of the sun.  The effect is both beneficial and delightful.  If, however, she be of a restless disposition, she may dance, instead of basking, in the sunlight.  Or, if she be not fond of dancing, she may improve the shining hours by taking down her hair and brushing it, using sulphur water, pulverized borax dissolved in alcohol, or some similar dressing.  It would be surprising to many ladies to see her carefully wiping the separate locks on a clean, white towel until the dust of the previous day is entirely removed.  With such care it is not necessary to wash the head, and the hair under this treatment is invariably good.

One of the most useful articles of the toilet is a bottle of ammonia, and any lady who has once learned its value will never be without it.  A few drops in the water takes the place of the usual amount of soap, and cleans out the pores of the skin as well as a bleach will do.  Wash the face with a flesh-brush, and rub the lips well to tone their color.  It is well to bathe the eyes before putting in the spirits, and if it is desirable to increase their brightness, this may be done by dashing soapsuds into them.  Always rub the eyes, in washing, toward the nose.  If the eyebrows are inclined to spread irregularly, pinch the hairs together where thickest.  If they show a tendency to meet, this contact may be avoided by pulling out the hairs every morning before the toilet.

The dash of Orientalism in costume and lace now turns a lady’s attention to her eyelashes, which are worthless if not long and drooping.  Indeed, so prevalent is the desire for this beautiful feature that hair-dressers and ladies’ artists have scores of customers under treatment for invigorating their stunted eyelashes and eyebrows.  To obtain these fringed curtains, anoint the roots with a balsam made of two drachms of nitric oxid of mercury mixed with one of leaf lard.  After an application wash the roots with a camel’s hair brush dipped in warm milk.  Tiny scissors are used, with which the lashes are carefully but slightly trimmed every other day.  When obtained, refrain from rubbing or even touching the lids with the finger-nails.  There is more beauty in a pair of well-kept eyebrows and full, sweeping eyelashes than people are aware of, and a very inattractive and lusterless eye assumes new beauty when it looks out from beneath elongated fringes.  Many ladies have a habit of rubbing the corners of their eyes to remove the dust that will frequently accumulate there.  Unless this operation is done with little friction it will be found that the growth of hair is very spare, and in that case it will become necessary to pencil the barren corners.  Instead of putting cologne water on the handkerchief, which has come to be considered a vulgarism among ladies of correct tastes, the perfume is spent on the eyebrows and lobes of the ears.