CULT OF BEAUTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 242, 12 October 1929, Page 4 (Supplement)

CULT OF BEAUTY.

VALUE OF FRESH AIR. A FACE WITHOUT WRINKLES. (By A PARIS BEAUTY SPECIALIST.) It is very easy to be healthy and •well It is only a matter of having the ambition to follow out certain riilee. To begin with, masticate your food properly. This is very important. Watch the teeth. Eat proper things. Drink at least two qutvrts of water a day. Do not worry if you want to keep young, because worry becomes a dangerous habit. To keep young bne must be happy and contented. If you go out for a long walk, don't stroll along. Take a good brisk walk. If you are going to do any bending exercises, don't take two or three minutes of it, because that will do you little good. The very least should be fifteen minutes, which you can do in your own home in the morning and at night retiring. Don't forget to have the doctor look you over once a year to check up. Useful Exercises. By the way, some useful evercisee may here be mentioned. The daily dozen is not enough. Arm waving, knee bending and the rest may suffice to keep the figure straight in one's teens, but in the late twenties and afterwards such simple exercises should be supplemented by others more vigorous. Now is the time for the new type of exercises done by every woman who likes to have a lovely figure and a pretty face. Before your early tea is sipped you must be on the mat. Lie flat on your back, then first one leg is raised till it its perpendicular. Try to touch your forehead with your toes. Really this does uot eecm so difficult as it seems. Practice and peieverance are all that are needed. A really good mueele-stretcher this one.

Then a hundred kicks to arch the back, loosen the ankles, give grace to the walk. Bending and touching the floor, without bending the kuees, with, the tips, or, if possible, the palms of. your bands is another excellent exercise and a real beauty-giver. To make the hips, slight and. firm, rolling over and over on a rug on the floor as often at> possible will soon reduce them. ■ Ventilation. Here is another beauty liint and "one that costs nothing. Generally speaking,

"giving the air" to anyone or anything is rather a mean trick, but giving the house an airing, a proper clean and fresh air, h becoming more and more the aim of housekeepers. It is more than foolish to have good things stored in the house and yet have bad air. There are many ways of having good air, from the insulations of walls, the electric fan, elementary, humidifiers, to the great plants costing hundreds Of pounds. Every house has its own little problem. But the one simple, cheap way of airing your house- is to have the windows open everywhere it is possible, and to have a constant rush of fresh air cleaning out every particle of dust from your home. I need not speak of sleeping with your window wide open in summer and ajar in winter. This fact is so well known that it is useless to enlarge upon it. For women who want to keep their youth and their beauty sleeping in a well-aired room helps wonderfully. Some Beauty Hints. Your face gets so dried up—almost burnt up—with the cold or with the heat. Here is a simple, healthy remedy used very successfully for years. Ge*t a bottle of olive oil. When you go to bed warm it and then rub it gently into the skin, on the neck> the arms, the face and the hands. The mere act of gently rubbing in the oil will help to give colour, firmness and freshness to the face. Sarah Benihardt's beauty and youthfulness didn't "just happen." They were the result of systematic beauty culture, exercise, diet, the use of penetrating oil and lotions, and, most of all, to her beauty baths. Sometimes she threw three handfuls of dried cowslips into warm water, sometimes it was di'iwl rosemary, sometimes a decoction of barley, oatmeal and bran. She has left to her granddaughter the following formula for a lotion which, kept her face free from wrinkles almost to the last, and, as everyone knows, Sarah Bernhardt lived to fi, ripe old age. Here it is: Sixty grains of alum, one and. a half ounces of almond milk, six ounces of rosewater.