CULT OF BEAUTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 209, 3 September 1932, Page 4 (Supplement)

CULT OF BEAUTY.

VALUE OF FRESH AIR. RESTORING AID OF SLEEP. (By A BEAUTY SPECIALIST.) No one Las been able as yet to tell us definitely just what sleep is. Real sleep means loss of consciousness, and yet tliat it is different from the kind of sleep that is caused by drugs, is well known. In awakening a person from a natural sleep, he is conscious and alert immediately. When a person is in a sleep caused by medicine and you attempt to waken him, it is often a considerable time before this is possible.

Further, in natural sleep, all the processes of the body go on as usual.. The muscles are in complete repose or relaxation, the pulse is steady, the breathing natural and regular. All the processes arc going on in the body, must go on, if you are to live, nevertheless, they are going on at a rate just fast enough to keep things going, but at a rate sufficiently less to give all the processes and tissues a rest. They all need a rest. If they don't get rest, then you are wearing them out, and if you wear them out, you simply get old, whether you are old or whether you are not. To sleep comfortably get into' a position that allows you to feel comfortable, just imar gine that you are so tired that you cannot move. Arrange the room, bed and bedclothes so that the air can get at them and at your body.

It is an excellent thing to sleep in a well-aired but it is dangerous to sleep with your head too close to the open window. By having a window open all night in your bedroom, you ensure yourself ample ventilation while you are asleep and unconscious. You must never, however, sleep in a draught. A draught consists of moving air which takes the heat out of the body at an uncomfortable and dangerous rate. It is safest to place the bed in such a position that the sleeper is protected from a possible draught. You must take into account

liiHiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiimiimiuiiiimiiiiicaiiiiiiiiiiiiH the temperature of the air and the rapidity with which your body loses its heat. Have a bed. that yields, yet supports your body evenly. A good bed is as necessary as good food. Nature expects you to spend more time sleeping than eating. Some Practical Face Facts. Youthful beauty needs to be safeguarded, else it may quickly vanish, but the less it has the assistance of art to cultivate good looks, the better. A practical toilet is what is really necessary, with just a small amount of attention devoted to "finishing", aids, such as powder. Very hot water is the enemy of a youthful skin. An excess of cream is another failing, as it can make the skin delicate. Use cream by all means, and use it twice a day, but don't overdo things. Steaming the face is a treatment that has its use, but it is frequently overused. The gir) with a perfectly healthy skin would never need to steam hers, were it not for the impurities of the atmosphere. It is best to leave steaming alone. Frequent steaming is apt to age the face, it is taking the work that Nature should do too much into one's own hands. Massage is a treatment that even youth can freely indulge in, with the certainty of satisfactory results for both the face and the roots of the hair. When the hair shows a tendency to fall out, if massage is immediately applied, there may be jio need to resort to lotions, the scalp will probably quickly respond to the rubbing, because in youth a remedy acts very quickly,

It is a - mistake to ttiink tliat because tlie hair has been shingled, it needs no care. Short locks are far more attractive, when thick and healthy and full of vitality, than when thin and listless. Keep a happy disposition. Find something to laugh at. Laughter stimulates the general activity of the body. It helps us to make the heart beat faster and enables us to breathe more deeply. What is called a liver squeezer exercis-e should be done regularly. This exercise is simple •bending from side to side, extending the right arm down to the right side, as far as possible, with knees straight, curling the left under the armpit. Twenty times each side, night and morning should be suflicient.