Mother's Down-home Country Lore

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As another natural, inexpensive health and beauty aid, Cindy Wagner recommends her own homemade facials for toning the skin and treating acne. The Denver, Colorado reader mixes one cake of yeast with enough lemon juice to produce a paste that has the consistency of cold cream. She applies the mixture evenly over her face (being careful to avoid the eyes) and lets it dry for 20 minutes, after which she merely washes the mask off with warm water. Cindy advises that the facial is best done when no one else is around, though, as some folks do consider the odor offensive!

"I enjoy reading in bed at night, but because I turn the heat down low when I retire, my arms sometimes suffer from the cold," writes reader Polly Cooper of Barrington Hills, Illinois.

"Wearing a sweater works, of course, but it's often a struggle to get it off when I'm ready to put out the light. One day, however, I bought a pair of ballerina's leg warmers—which are little more than wool tubes—and I now slip those on my arms at night. They keep me cozy, and I don't have to wrestle to remove them, either!"

OK. Now it's YOUR turn! We've all come up with some practical, down-home, time-tested solutions to the frustrating little problems that bug us every day. Let's hear YOUR best "horse sense" ideas so we can share 'em and all benefit.

Send your pointers to Down-Home Country Lore, P.O. Box 70, Hendersonville, North Carolina 28791, and I'll make sure that the most useful of the suggestions will appear in upcoming editions. A one-year subscription—or a one-year extension of an existing subscription-will then be sent to each contributor whose tip does get printed in this column.—MOTHER.

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