HOUSE WORK AS AN AID TO BEAUTY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3143, 13 November 1922, Page 8

HOUSE WORK AS AN AID TO BEAUTY.

■ +m » (My Caroline Chit.) "House work is an infallible euro for neurasthenic and hysterical women." — l)r (famines at the Paris Congress of Medical Hygiene. All those harassed husbands and distracted lathers who have for their sins to deal with the erratic whims and | fancies of the discontented wives and (laughters of to-day should note, memorise, and inwardly reflect on the worthy doctor's startlinglv original '. phrase. " ( Unfortunately, however. husband* and fathers may note and menionse, , hut so seldom inwardly rolled. Their idea cf applying their infill- | lil)Je cure to the nervous females will ' probably be to rush out. order a brand , new sot of brooms and brushes from the stores, bid the patient tsot to. and . watch the wonderful results t This if- not the way. gentlemen, to , reap the reward of the prescription gra- ( tuitously given you by the eminent specialist. Xo one will deny that scrubbing is good lor tlie soul. Hut the perverse feminine soul does not always '< lind goodness in itself sufficiently at- J 1 tractive. <'■ When you come home to dinner to- <•' night adopt a mysterious and porten- p tons air. During the course of the meal you will hint thai a new beauty culturist of infallible remedies has arisen in \ Paris. It has come to your knowledge |. I hat the women of the gay capital are ii Hocking to his consulting-rooms to learn p his secret. <» The ladies, you tell her. after sub- a mitting in deadly secrecy to the doctor's gruelling care, emerged after p< three months' treatment radiant, K ready to be worshipped anew. . di Incidentally you *ay that Mrs ol Smith, the wife of your senior part- pi nor, has learned the secret, which has tl been conimunicaeted to you in strict O confidence by her husband. You have, ie of course, no secrets from your wife, w and after dinner you proceed to de- h< monstrate the remedy. You take her, <'o stealthily, to a top back.bedroom, lock hi

the door, place a pail of soapsuds by her side, a scrubbing brush in her hand, and bid her set to. "While she bends her back to the unwonted task you stand by, murmuring softly of her beauty as you knew it when you, first met her. There is no doubt that the cure will be effective. The above, believe me, is neither mere phantasy nor fooling. The average modern woman, whether normal or neurasthenic, needs no medical man to tell her that scrubbing is good for the soul. But centuries of scrubbing have produced in the feminine mind a not unnatural loathing of house work. Every woman knows the home is her sphere; most of them would not shirk it, would cook and sew and scrub all day long, if only they could, be convinced that by so doing they were not tied to the grey prose of life and missing all it's poetry.

bends her back to the unwonted task you stand by, murmuring softly of her beauty as you knew it when you, first met her. There is no doubt that the cure will be effective. The above, believe me, is neither mere phantasy nor fooling. The average modern woman, whether normal or neurasthenic, needs no medical man to tell her that scrubbing is good for the soul. But centuries of scrubbing have produced in the feminine mind a not unnatural loathing of house work. Every woman knows the home is her sphere; most of them would not shirk it, would cook and sew and scrub all day long, if only they could, be convinced that by so doing they were not tied to the grey prose of life and missing all it's poetry.