WATER THE BEST TONIC.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 276, 20 November 1926, Page 26

WATER THE BEST TONIC.

Cold water is one of the beat beauty tonics. Cold inside and out is tie only way to get started on the day 6 adventure. There's something about an early morning hour that makes a glass of water taste good. And it does wonders to the complexion. Plenty of water inside makes a clear skin and bright eye*. Plenty of water outside does the rest. After a cold shower many people feel like taking a walk on the top of the world. But most women seem to prefer hot baths. "It makes you feel cleaner," I have heard them say. I suppose so, but after a hot bath there comes a languid, let's-eit-down feeling. It takes a cold bath to actually awaken yoni mind and muscles. I

Our Empire Parliamentary visitors were treated to a special garden party in the Botanic Gardens, which was really a nice way to show them our beautiful gardens that we are so proud of, and which other eminent visitors have told us are the best in the world. Covering a stretcii nf many undulating acres that sweep right down to the water's edge, and planted with almost every tree, shrub and plant that has yet been made to grow, and coaxed to perfection by the many efficient gardeners that arduosuly work there, it is a place of great beauty and an everlasting delight to behold. Our visitors were enraptured with the gardens, and all thoroughly enjoyed the party. Public School Sports. We all wedged ourselves into the St. Kilda Sports Ground—Bo,ooo of us—to barrack for our favourite school. This is the big sports meeting of the year, so mothers and fathers, little sisters and brothers, all wend their way townwards to view with pride and joy the performance of their public school boy member of the family. The wonderful athletic performances that these public school boys achieve are among some of the best exhibitions yet given. Mothers' Club. Through the energetic work of the members of the Mothers' Club, £20,000 has been raised in the last two years, the use of which is to improve the schools, such as being able to procure more dental and medical work, forming parks and playgrounds, and helping to make the children's school life happier and healthier.

Charm and Yourself. What, indeed, is charm? Who can define it? The dictionary saye it is the "ability to please." Yet charm is far more than that. It is an indefinable, elusive sort of thing, for which everybody strives, yet which few really possess. The late Sarah Bernhardt whose charm was immortal, and about whom volumes have been written, once said that charm is the ability to be one's self and the best part of one's self at all times, and under all circumstances.. "When you are yourself," said the immortal Sarah, "then you are truly somebody, a personality with a raison d'etre, peculiar to no one else in the world. But when you try to be something else, then you are neither yourself nor the person you are imitating. The truly great are always simple. It is only to conceal the lack of some essential quality that one hides behind the mask of ostentation. Absorb and Reflect. Get outside, both ways, outdoors, and outside yourself. If you haven't time to go out just for pleasure, use the little moments when you are on business or on a shopping expedition. See something, don't ju?t hurry. There is beautr all around, and the more you see of ft the better chance there is of your becoming a part of it. The beauty "that you see, if it be a child, a bird or a flower, will be reflected in your countenance. "What is the matter with M—? She ought to be pretty, but she isn't. Yet she has regular features, a perfect complexion, large, clear eyee, wonderful

portion to the amount of dancing you do. Ordinary dancing is a favourite; recreation and one which should be j indulged in by everybody. You needn't I do a drawing rooni "stunt"—we leave ' that to professionals and those who make it a business. I would advise girls i to dance every night or every afternoon | in the week if there were not other j interesting things to do. In going about to dance one is bound to meet a great: many interesting people. This helps to I cultivate that elusive thing of tf'hieh we! have already spoken in this article— charm—without which a feautiful face and figure are as nothing. I am not in thorough accord with the gentleman who said something about going to bed parly. One misses so much life in bed. doesn't! one? Such a lot of interesting people' one might meet, so many interesting things one might do. Those who go to bed early miss much. But I am in' favour of early rising, although I am not \ sure that it has any special effect on j one's physical well-being. I do know,; though, that it gives a mental alertness. Haven't you noticed that when you get up earlier than usual in the morning that you have a feeling rli.it you are just a little ahead of the other girl and leel secretly gratified? That's a good mood with which to start the d;iv