Chemists are wonderful people! They lock themselves int laboratories, pour coloured powders Uguids from one glass tube nto another, create extraordinary odours, and then some time later there emerges a marvellous variis ing!eream, or a healing medicine, or a now rubber roller for reducing says the "Daily News "Don't Cut That Towel"
At the Chemists' Exhibition Which has just been hold in London were many little items of- espe {interest to women. How often ave you had cause to scold your fay he tears good when cleaning and drying razor blades? A' solution has now een put on the market. that will do away with this trial to housewives. All that the man of the house need do in future is to place. his razor straight into the solution after he has finished shriving, leave it there overlight and the next morning it will be ready for use again, clean and keen-edged Powder That Won't Rub Of Mang" and varied are the new creams, powders and. perfumes now on sale. Glycerine and rose-water, Ghat standby. for chapped and roughened, hands usually sold in liquid, form; is now being manufac ured? in, a cream, packed into a stopper through which the drops come singly thus avoiding waste), cuticle cream and a polishing stone.
Perfumes for Blonde and Brunette Elderflower perfume, so much favoured in grandmother's day, is 1 revived by one firm, and a other quite new (and very expensiver) scent from Pu be introduced. It is variations, one for the blonde and the other, slightly more exotic as befits the darker beauty, for the brunette.
No woman this summer need suffer from the stings of mosquitoes and gnats, for there are many new "autisting" solutions prepared in convenient form for carrying in the handbag. They include a small tube containing solid iodine, which is equally good for insect bites, or for cuts and bruises, and a slender glass tube three inches in length which holds sufficient tincture of iodic for 200 applications. A similar tube contains a verbena-scented mixture just as obnoxious to winged pests.
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