THIS WEEK'S FASHION DISPLAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 85, 11 April 1931, Page 4 (Supplement)

THIS WEEK'S FASHION DISPLAY.

of a box of rouge. There is no mystery in a lip-stick. If a woman will take down some of the tiresome sunshiny mottoes from their walls and put up instead, just one word, they will find proof of what I am telling you. And that word is "perseverance." There is no word in the English language that equals it in doing good team-work with cold cream. All Actresses Have Fine Complexions. Do you know why all actresses have good skins and fine complexions? They have, I know it. I have seen thousands of them. It is because they are wildly extravagant with cold cream. A debutante on the stage may have to make a bun and a cup of tee do for a full meal, but, bless your heart, if she reaches the bottom of her cold cream jar, she cheerfully gives up the bun to replenish it. She knows she must have cold cream to retain her good looks. An actress appears before her public eijrht times a week. Eight times a week she puts cold cream on before making her appearance, and eight times she lias to put on more cold cream to get the stage make-up off. She does not use modest little dabs, as a thrifty soul measures out tea, she fairly plasters it on. And that night, before going to bed, having got into the habit of it, she puts it on again. She can't forget cold cream any more than a school "ma-am" may forget a day's lessons. It would be just as fatal to her job.

Every woman needs all the beautyaids she can get, but cold cream is one of the most important. Physical culture plays an immense role as a beauty aid. It is more important than cold cream. And that's saying a great deal! I haee spoken so often in these articles of mine of the importance of physical culture, that I will not touch upon this subject again to-day. But remember all I have told you, readers! Body culture, neck exercises and facial gymnastics .... there you are! Cleanliness, a daily cold bath and a weekly warm one. Follow the cold bath with a hot foot bath and a dry rub, lots of interests in life. Books, plays, walks, trees, clubs, children, dance as much as you can—oh, life's full of interesting things. But don't forget the cold cream. A Wosfofnl Gift is the Lemon. What a perfect gift Is the lemon from an all-wise Providence! It promotes health and heals in sickness. But first of all we have to banish from our minds the teaching of ignorant nurses and governesses, which, learnt at that most impressionable age, has the habit of popping up in one's memory, and if one is not particularly strong-minded, engender a doubt. And a doubt about a thing undoes all the good that thing might do, whether mental or physical.

How many, many years is it going to take before people will learn to live on natural healthy lines and discard that old axiom, "What was good enough for our parents is good enough for me?" In nine cases out of ten look at one's parents! Gout, nerves, liver, rheumatism, most of them dwelling in a miserable, pain-sodden old age. They never had parents who studied health, beauty and physical culture. ' We should eat and drink the things, which are best for us, too, and we should live as near Nature as our complicated existence will permit us. Then we may escape their dismal fate. . -

The latest society dame to enter commerce is Lady Malcolm, the charming wife of Sir lan Malcolm, the former if.P. who acted as Lord Balfour's private secretary at the Versailles Peace Conference (writes our London correspondent). Lady Malcolm is the daughter of the famous Mrs. Langtry who was known in King Edward's day as "the Jersey Lily," and she inherits much of her mother's good looks. She is embarking on quite an original enterprise as director of a popular West End restaurant. Her husband, who used to be regarded as one of handsomest and best-tailored men in the House of Commons, is now on holiday in Ceylon. He possesses considerable literary ability, and used to be keenly interested in a good many forms of outdoor sport. Nowadays, I believe, Ms activities are more or less limited to golf.