EVE'S VANITY CASE

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 553, 30 December 1925, Page 2

EVE'S VANITY CASE

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The Lady Editor will be pleased to receive lor publication in the “Woman’s Realm” items of social or personal news. Such items should be fully authenticated, and engagement notices must bear signatures.

SOCIAL NOTES.

Mrs Pirani and her son left today 6n a visit to Auckland.

IN WAIOI WEATHER

If you are inclined to get a pink nose an application of yellow ochre powder before your usual powder will do much to remedy matters. But be sure there is only a iaint dusting ot each; otherwise the, ellect is overdone.

With the advent of the sunny days some girls like the sunburnt effect. It is certainly becoming to brunettes and to creamy or olive-skinned girls, but beware of a very brown powder unless you wish to bo mistaken for a sufferer from jaundice. , And if you have a, real pink and white com-? plexion never bo . persuaded to use anything but® a cream-coloured powder.

Take advantage of any warm, windy weather if you want to wash vour eiderdowns at home. first shake IJiem well, and then prepare water with soap jelly (as for blankets) in the largest tub you have. Put the quilts in, one or two at a time, move them up and down, squeezing and pressing tliem uyuinst the sides. Jf the colour runs, use tepid Mater. Rinse in plenty oi warm water, adding a little salt to the laslf to brighten the colour. Wring carefully, shake out and hang up out of doors. While drying, the suilts should be taken down and shaken from time to time, otherwise they get lumpy.

If mosquitoes have a liking lor you, dab your arms and legs with oil of lavender before you go out lor the day; hut, should you forget, directly you feel the slightest irritation - mix two teaspoonluls ol pine oil with four teaspoons’ ol vinegar and dab this on the bite. In a few minutes all the inflammation' and painful itching will subside.

Witch hazel is worth its weight in gold! Did you know? It’s invaluable for hundred© of things, if you are going to spend the day in the open and the sun or wind is strong, pat some into the face and neck, before cream and powder, and then you can defy the .weather!

Face packs sound expensive and elaborate, things, hut here is a cheap one which works wonders with lined or tired-looking skins. You just buy a now-laid egg—make the dairymaid swear with, her hands on her heart that it is new laid —and after you have given your face a thorough cleansing smear the yolk of the egg all over your face and leave it on all night. Bathe it off in the morning with, with cukl water, and then write' and fell mo how pleased you are with the 1 result.

A SIM BEE LA AIBS U A DE. The very last word in lamp shades is a gaily-coloured silk , hundkerehiol —the gayer the better. You should first buy. a round cage, the kind that are generally placed over naked lights in theatre passages and doorways, and put your lamp hi. this. Out n round hole in the centre of the, handkerchief to allow the neck of the lamp to go through, then put the handkerchief over the cage. f l lie result will he most effective.

OIJ INE3E CUSTOMS. The Chinese visitors in London, remarks a correspondent in an exchange, like least the cold food that is served in summer time.

Most things to eat must he warm in China, according Lo a Chinese bride who has spent her honeymoon in London. It made her shiver lo think of drinking cold water I In ,China people always have tea. Even the children drink tea, although sometimes only little more than coloured water.

Another strange .English custom is the taking of sweets with every meal. In China sweets are only added on occasions when there is a long menu. An. ordinary Chinese meal seems long enough ! It consists of I or G bowls containing soup, chicken, an egg dish, pork, a vegetable, and always rice.

“Klvery -Chinese girl cun cools,” said the little bride, .“because she sees lier mother or her mother-in-law 'cookiug. When tile-mother is too old to looK

after the family a son’s wile takes her place, never a daughter, because she would not always be there. “In China we have the threat Family. Theic arc the'- parents, the brothers, the sifters,..and sisters-in-law. They all live together, and the women make the dresses at home. But because such a great family cannot arrange things every well; little by little it is changing. : “After tho brothers marry sometimes they live in another place, but one,,'son must always live with, the parents, and the parents choose the son they like best; to live with them.

“Chinese weddings* are on the whole simpler and. freer than those in this country. Even in more conservative families where the parents have much, to. say in the choice of a husband, they usually have to get the daughter’s consent. “Not all Chinese girls marry. Some earn their own, living. They live with the Croat Family, or by themselves, near itheir work. Women’s social clubs., are being started also where they can. live. The girls who arc studying'at the Chinese universities intend to enter the professions, where there is practically no prejudice against them.

FELLOW TRAVELLERS. i Women are uot always considerate when travelling. , Indeed, a railway carriage provides many of us with wonderful apportunitios lor the' display of selfishness-, and bad manners. Wo want u.carriage for ourselves, or for our party, and an “intruder” is received With a haughty stare or au indignant glare. On; the other hand, when wo’ enter a carriage already occupied we are filled with resentment at the selfishness of the first-corners in “taking up” more than their share? of accommodation on seat and rack. Our fellow-travellers always seem unreasonable and selfish about opening or .shutting,, windows, talking 'when we want to read and rest, and sj forth. The fact that "we notice and resent their ahorteominv is Droof that wc ourselves are giving undue attention to matters of small importance.

Natural reserve will probably keep us from establishing cordial relations with our fellow-travellers, and perhaps easy friendliness between strangers would he as undesirable as the cold aloofness which, is our usual attitude. JJut this watchful hostility Jfi merely a pose, which ae r .»rgoi to adopt when any rea.l trouble arises. A breakdown on the line makes os feel that we arc companions in misfortune, and overthrows all barriers of reserve. Real kindness and sympathy are shown in cas'e of illness or accident, and a hurt child or a fainting woman is tended’‘with genuine solicitude by total strangers. A railway journey-''brings new scenes, now faces,' new ideas, and should be a welcome change in a quiet life. J.Jut too many women who are “quite charming 1 in their owned role, disguise themselves effectively as fretful porcupines as soon [as they enter a railway carriage. If they would only be themselves—kind, intelligent, and humourous —they would probably tiinl llie- journey one of the pleasantest parts of a pleasant holiday.

THE INDEPENDENT WOMAN. "Woman has, on the whole, deliberately chosen her dependent and captive rank in life because it gave her

more security and because it was the, easy 'way. The more or less sol Supporting, voting, independently-minded woman of to-day has probably much dess chosen than been forced by economic pressure into a life far grimmer than that of the muslined beauty who swooned at will and whose bills were paid by her papa or husband, writes Iris Barry in ail exchange. But because the * new woman’s life-' is one which brings full responsibility and care as well as autonomy, because it makes her face the problems of life which lie outside as well as inside the is already an insistence on the burealm of sex, it is also nobler. It is already an insistence on the humanity rather than the feminity of her beingTO BKAipVE ill OX MOULD

MARKS

If a thin table cloth, has been badly marked with iron moulds stretch the stained part over a basin and pour boiling water through! Then apply a very little salts of lemon, using a bone spoon and gently rub it in. Bour on more Water. Bin sc the stained part in a solution of carbonate of soda, and when the linen has been washed in the usual way the disfigurement will have vanished.