Walnut stain will not color the scalp if you apply it carefully to the hair alone. Gray hair cannot be restored to its original color.  

Unless there exists a genuine intimacy between a visitor and the bereaved family, it is not etiquette to ask to see the afflicted ones.  Simply call at the door, make inquiries for the household, and leave your card.

It is not advisable for a girl of eleven years to take vocal lessons.  In fact, it might permanently injure her voice.

A good composition with which to clean kid and other leather gloves is made of curd soap (in small shavings) one part, water, three parts, essence of citron  one part, mix with heat, stirring in the citron last.

It is not frivolous for a woman of mature years to wish to preserve her good looks---in fact, it is commendable.

The form, in introducing is generally "Miss Dash, allow me to present my friend, Mr. Blank".  Gloves are not removed in paying formal calls.

If your friend is a gentleman, there is no reason why he should be slighted because his relatives are not all they should be.

Under all circumstances, any lady at table is to be served before the gentlemen present.

A guest should not fold her napkin, simply lay it loosely upon the table.

For a bride in moderate circumstances the first stock of linen may include three pairs of sheets for each bed, three cases for each pillow, six hand and three bath towels for each person, three cloths for each table for everyday use, and finer ones for company dinners, three napkins apiece and extra ones to match the extra covers. Such articles as toilet covers, sideboard covers, roller towels, dusters, glass and tea cloths are also to be included in the list.

Your hair is golden.  The growth of the brows and lashes is said to be increased by the use of inodorous castor oil.

Simple  cologne water applied to the hair with an atomizer is said to keep it in curl.

Three ounces of clean powdered gum arabic dissolved in half a pint of rosewater makes an excellent and brilliant curling fluid.

Curtains of Irish point lace may be used at your windows, but we would not advise them for Summer.  Heavy lace curtains are generally taken down and put away until Autumn.

Benzine or gasoline will kill bedbugs.  As this fluid is highly inflammable, no fire must be allowed in the room during its use or for sometime afterwards.  The room should be well aired and ventilated until the gases pass away.

It is merely a supposition that the trying on of a wedding ring before the ceremony brings bad luck---a fancy unworthy the belief of enlightened people.

A cape is preferable to a jacket for a middle aged woman.

As much rubbing causes waste of the bodily tissues, you might try the effects of thorough massage in reducing the superfluous flesh at your waist.

The dresses of a girl of four years of age may extend to just below her knees or a trifle longer, as may be becoming. The dress of a miss of sixteen reaches to her ankles.

A lady always precedes a gentleman in walking up the aisle of a church.

Pretty gifts for gentlemen are drinking horns, hunting knives, hair brushes, blotter rolls, tooth powder boxes, watch-stands, and shoe-horns.