elasticity, through age or ill-health, wrinkles come more and more easily.  The best remedy for wrinkles is a light heart and a contented mind.  Assist these with good, wholesome food that makes pure blood to feed the body, and render external aid through gentle massage and some good face cream and you have done the best you can.  It is a good plan to some day take your hand-mirror with you as you go about your daily duties and watch the process of wrinkle-making.  Say you are sewing and note the glass.  Without changing your expression, take a look at yourself.  The chance is it will be a revelation.  You will realize why wrinkles come.

Massage.—­Unless properly done, massage may do more harm than good.  If one can afford a few treatments by a scientific masseur and study her methods, it is a great help.  The thing is not to rub in more than you rub out, by improper manipulation.  Rub the face up, not down.  This is because of the tendency of the muscles to sag.

Rub across, not with, the lines.  Rub the “parentheses” around the month up and out, and give a rotary motion to the rubs given the checks, gently pinching and pulling them out.

But after all, there’s nothing like good temper and steady nerves to prevent the tell-tale lines.

Wrinkled hands.—­Wrinkled hands belong to age, and are due to loss of oil in the skin.  After washing and wiping them, rub with a little cold cream or olive oil.  Rub well into the skin.  At night, use the cream or oil freely and put on a pair of old gloves.

Camphor is a good whitening agent for the hands, and a teaspoonful of spirits of camphor beaten into any greasy, cold cream will be beneficial.  A piece of the gum camphor melted with the ointment blends more readily.  A piece of camphor size of a walnut to two tablespoonfuls of the cream is about right proportions.

Red hands and nose.—­Sometimes a too tight corset, impeding the circulation of the blood, is responsible for the blemishes; sometimes poor circulation due to poor health.  Cold feet may send the blood to the nose.  Find out what is the cause and remove it.  Local applications are ineffective.

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Cold or fever sores.—­These unpleasant afflictions may be cured if taken at the first indication of what is coming—­a smarting or burning sensation—­by frequent applications of dilute spirits of camphor.

Face powders.—­There are few women who do not at times have occasion to use face powder.  A woman once remarked:  “It isn’t decent not to in summer—­one looks so greasy without.”  There are many face powders on the market, some of which are comparatively harmless, while others are deleterious.  The injury done by powder is that it fills the pores, stopping them up and thus clogging the skin.  Many powders contain lead or bismuth,