Have Many Interests

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 136, 11 June 1938, Page 4 (Supplement)

Have Many Interests

ByA Specialist

Health And Beauty

pHILDREN have a game I think Vα we grown-ups could play to our advantage. It is "makebelieve." They make-believe they are someone else. That is the secret of an actress' youth. She is a dweller in the kingdom of make-believe. In this way she is never bored with herself, and being bored with oneself leaves marks that oceans of cold cream can never efface. There is a lot in sunshine and fresh air. There is a lot in having interests in life. Interest yourself in anything you can, have a hobby. Tennis, dancing, golf, riding, all help and prevent one from being bored. A woman must have happy thoughts, she must have so many interests in life that she hasn't time to be selfish.. Well then, to sum up, reader, if you would be beautiful, have lots of interests in life. Books, plays, walks, trees, clubs, children, oh—life is full of interesting things.

Cold Cream There is no genie in a pot of cold cream, no fairies hiding under the cover of a box of rouge. There is no mystery in a lipstick. Women have a way of alluding to the "secrets" of a dressing table, as if the lotions and the pots of cold cream and boxes of powder contained some mysterious powers that just ordinary people can't understand. That

is because they do not become weil acquainted with ordinary aids to beauty. A woman will buy a jar of cold cream. She rubs it on once, twice, three times. There is no perceptible change, so she decides there is no virtue in it and hands the jar over to her maid. She has forgotten one word in the English language — perseverance — there is no word that equals it in doing good team work with cold cream. Actresses have usually good skins, and they take a pride in leaving powders, rouge, lipsticks and eye pencils for the stage. Why have all actresses good skins and fine "complexions? They have, I know. I have seen thousands of them. It is because they are wildly extravagant with cold cream. TheV know the value of cold cream to retain good looks. An actress appears before her public seven times a week and twice on Saturdays and Sundays—at least she doee in France. Seven times a week and twice on Saturdays and Sundays, she puts cold «team on before her "makeup," and seven times a week, plus the two days just mentioned, she has to put on more cold cream to take the stage make-up off. She doesn't use modest little dabs, she puts, it on generously, she fairly plas-

ters it on. And at night, before going to bed, having taken the habit, she puts it on again. She can't forget cold cream any more than a business man forgets his business appointments. It would lie just as fatal to her job. So, readers, don't forget cold creap.i! Care of Feet Tlie great majority of women do not realise the fact that the shapely, neatlyshod foot is a great help in the ensemble of beauty. If the shoes do not fit. thenis more or less discomfort. This discomlit leads to a stilted care in locomotion which is destructive to grace and freedom of stride. It further causes a reflection of the discomfort in the face, leading to facial distortion, wrinkles and grey hairs. Beauty in tight, painful footgear ie a ludicrous spectacle. It draws from the epectator a smile in which there i* combined pity and condemnation. A heel too high is not practical for general wear, but if wellfitting it may not be particularly uncomfortable. A flat heel may be made to look dressy and is the correct thing for street wear. It seems we cannot be exactly proper in all things and yet obtain the effect of what we are pleased to call beauty, so let's keep to the moderate and obtain the best effect possible with the-least penalisation. The happy medium is the thing. Many serious health breakdowns may be directly the result of foot trouble. Sore or tender feet ae a result of illfitting shoe**, dispose you to avoid exer-

cise, which, ip turn, brings all sorte of body and nerve ailments, contributing considerably and leading, eventually, to a complete breakdown of the health. If the feet be not in perfect health visit the chiropodist and have the defects corrected, and then, with reasonable care, avoid all future foot ailments. It is not beyond the mean* of anv to visit the chiropodist a few times a" year and have the feet cared for. We are too apt to neglect our visit to the ocelliists. the dentist, the chiropodist and such agencies for our well-being, deferring such visits until actual distress overtakes ua. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. If von are on your feet a great deal, remove your shoes and stockings as soon a* you return home. Rub your feet with alcohol, or with oil, and don a pair of soft shoes. If you dance a lot a good plan is to have a' hot foot bath before going out and an alcohol rub, followed by a ma-age with oil. Wipe all the oil off carefully and powder the feet. Some people who dance a lot soap the soles of their shoes, but this is a plan I don't advise anv more than soaping your saddle in order to stick on. It is essential that stockings fit. If loose, they wrinkle, or bunch up, and cause undue pressure o*l restricted areas and irritation and tenderness ensue. The oreas<? may not cause any actual discomfoi: and you may be inclined to disregard them. But do not forget that where undue pressure is exerted Xature is going to grow a horny callosity as a protection for the delicate nerve," veins and arteries, beneath. Tender feet may be benefited and soothed by rubbing" with with hazel and spirHs of camphor in proportions as follows: — vTitrh hazel 4o« Spirits of camphor loi