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 red hose had extended, there was a marked inflammation of the skin.

Any decided color should be rejected. Our recommendation is to avoid all dyed garments whatever next the skin, and if we do yield to the charms of delicate flesh tints in gloves and stockings, it is with some disturbance of our professional conscience. Skin gloves, be it remembered, dyed on the outer side, do not come within the ban.

POWDERS TO PROTECT THE SKIN.

We hardly know whether to call powder a legitimate aid to the toilet in health, or not. But, on mature reflection, we venture to do so. Every mother knows how essential it is, in the care of infants, to prevent chafing and cracking. Many retain this same cutaneous delicacy all their lives, and for such, a good toilet powder is a necessity.

Its use might with propriety be extended. Many a woman would be improved if she were to dust a little over the surface after every bath and every ablution. Dr. Veron, in his Mémoires, tells an incident which aptly illustrates its preservative effects.

"I know a woman," says the old bourgeois de Paris, "of some sixty years, whose physiognomy is remarkable. Her gray hairs betray her age, but there is not the least wrinkle upon her face. This woman has told me her secret. It is this: All her life she has had re