LOOK YOUR BEST

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 111, 13 May 1939, Page 19

LOOK YOUR BEST

CONQUERING A COLD

SOME HINTS ABOUT MAKE-UP

There are two aspects of a cold in the head—the annoying and the pathetic, comments Jane Gordon in the London '"Daily Telegraph." Other people's colds are annoying, yours and mine are pathetic. When we are stricken down we are Spartan and will not give in, but struggle on bravely with our daily business. Other people are curiously selfish in the matter of colds and influenza. Instead nt isolating themselves in one room, they go round sneezing and exposing to their own ailment everyone with whom they come in contact. It is stated that "every year in the British Isles approximately 25,000,000 people are stricken with influenza." No wonder Sir Kingsley Wood has described influenza as Public Enemy No. 1 of the British people, and it is hard to dyaw the line between a bad cold and influenza. One day influenza and any cold in the head, accompanied by a sore throat or a temperature, will be included as a notifiable disease; people will be forced to treat themselves 'as acutely infectious in this condition, and will not be permitted to spread the infection by going to work. ALTER YOUR DIET. From a beauty point of view nothing could be more disastrous than ? bad cold in the head, and the best way of dealing with this affliction is to prevent its occurrence. During the summer months we acquire immunity from the sunshine. During the winter you can get this immunity, to ;a certain extent, by increasing your intake of vitamins A and D. One of the easiest ways of doing this is to take halibut oil, which you can get in capsules. Plenty of milk, butter, cream, carrots, tomatoes, orange juice,

egg yolk, and fat fish such as herring, should be included in winter meals. If, in spite of everything you find yourself becoming a cold victim, do not give way to a scarlet nose and streaming eyes. A day in bed taken in time will 'save at least nine days' loss of good looks. Light a fire, collect books, papers, and magazines around you, get into your prettiest pyjamas or nightgown and dressing jacket, and find a yard of pink or blue ribbon to tie up your hair. DO NOT GIVE WAr. Fill up the bath and take a pine and mustard bath. If you wish to feel more luxurious and less full of cold, choose lime, marigold, English thyme, or orange flower. You can buy herb bags of rosemary or thyme quite cheaply. Before you get into the bath all make-up should be removed from the face with a cleansing cream, and a layer of soothing skin food spread over the face, with an extra generous portion to the nose. After the bath, a body friction oi eau de Cologne will close the pores. It should be sprayed or rubbed oh while the body is still wet, and the skin dried with a warm, rough bath towel. Avoid talc or dusting powder, as this is apt to cause a paroxysm of sneezing. Wipe all cream off the face with cleansing tissues. Splash the face with cold water to which a few drops of eau de Cologne have been added. Pill an eye bath full of lotion and bathe one eye. Wash out the eyebath, fill again, and bathe the second eye. Smear on a very small quantity of liquid powder foundation. This leaves a powdery surface on the skin, which can be blotted off with cleansing tissues and does away with the necessity of powdering the nose. Avoid rouge and eyeshadow, which will give a hectic effect if you have a cold in the head. Use rose pink lipstick. Brush your hair back smoothly and tie on the ribbon. This keeps the hair in place and is becoming. Do not forget to have a carton of. cleansing tissues or special cold handkerchiefs near at hand, with a wastepaper basket, or, better, still, a covered tin into which used handkerchiefs can be thrown and afterwards burnt. PANDER TO YOUR HANDS. If your eyes are feeling too inflamed to enjoy reading, smear hand cream on your hands and give them a good massage from the tips of the fingers towards the wrists. Later give yourself a really luxurious manicure in bed. Two days' cold and your hair will become lank and flattened. The best treatment for this is a dry shampoo. One of the best after-cold tonics is a thoroughly good face treatment to recondition the complexion. , If the teeth on one side of your head begin to ache as far as the centre teeth, and at the same time your head aches, the chances are that you are having antrum trouble. Avoid bending down and walking on hard pavements in high-heeled shoes. Stay as quiet as possible. Take plenty of fruit drinks and avoid heavy, rich food. Should the headache and toothache continue for three days consult an ear, nose, and throat specialist. When noaching eggs, if the yolks are liable to break put the eggs in boil- j ing water for a few seconds before • cracking the shells. i