When It's No Use Pretending.

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 117, 11 February 1920, Page 3

When It's No Use Pretending.

THE PRACTICAL WOMAN AND THE DESERT ISLAND.

npHE gayest of ub hare our momonla ol hoi loir depression. Mr. George JJobey probably has moods of black melancholy. Sooner or later wo all have to give up pretending, even to ourselves, and relnpso into unhappy candour. ■ At no time, if one is a woman, docs one feel more acutely miserable than when one faces one's mirror in e. clear cold IjSht and marks tho first signs of tho ' going off" of one's charms. I know a very charming and sophisticated woman whose nightmare is that she- nidy one day find herself in tho nituntion beloved by j novelists—that is, nlono or nearlT alone ■ on a desert island. "Just rani,)-" she wads, "having no comb or lookinr e'nw or hairpins and, worst of all, no tammahto. Because, do you realise, that I ehould actually be grey?" To seo her i soft brown hair ono would suspect her ! of porverting the truth. But she frankly I assures her friends that her hair would i bo nothing without an oocasioml timely application of a tonic, made of hay rum ; and pure tammalite. "It brine* back all i the colour/' she affirms, "besides making ! one's hair beautifully healthy Why, I j wus in despair a year or two "ago, because i ray hair was growing grey in streaks. ; But since i discovered tammalite I haven't the slightest difficulty in keeping i Jny hair its normal shade." And whnt a difference beautiful hair makes to any woman. It excises plainnpss, it enhances beauty. What man piotures the woman of his dreams with anything but soft, abundant hair? Prom ftapunzel to Melissnnde. there is some- • thinj: romantio about lovely locks. It k

)f dcplorablo now-a-days to see naturally > B beautiful hair ruined by neglect, curling |. irons, harmful shampoos and the like. ■o Many girls, otherwise careful of their i, good looks, think nothing of going to bed without brushing their hair. Without constant brushing the hair can never « attain to that glossy "sheeny" look that j} ie so delightful. A good brushing for 11 fifteen minutes night and morning should » be includod in tho discipline of every n woman, plain and pretty. A sfiffish brush * should bo used, and it should bo always T scrupulously clean. a It is not good enough to use just any 9 shampoo when washing the hair. Care , should bo takon to find the very best . one, and then to keep to it. A really [ excellent idea is to use only stallax r granules which are obtainable at nil r good chemists. A teaspoonful of stallax r is sufficient for each shampoo, so a 41b. ( package will lost for a long time. , This very simple shampoo gives splenl did results. Tho delicious foaming lather I it makes not only cloanscs tho hair thor- , oughly but brings out every atom of its [ latent colour and brightness. Tho hair , dries quickly, and though beautifully soft, it is quite manageable. : When tho scalp is inclined to be dry, ; and the hair brittle, it is a good plan to ' massago it with olive oil before giving it a ntallax 9hampoo. Thero are few things which increase • one's self-respect so much as tho possesi sion of lovelv hair. It is a perpetual . joy to oneself and others, and with a . little care, one can defy hairpin-«catter» ■ ing winds and even trying, if romantie» i situations on an uninhabited island, ,