EVE’S Vanity Case

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2401, 10 April 1931, Page 2

EVE’S Vanity Case

TO CORRESPONDENTS The Lady Editor will be pleased to receive f° r 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. Fowles is a visitor to Mew Plymouth. » * * - • Miss D. Worsfold lias returned from Napier. * * * * * Mr and Mrs 11. E. Hocken are spending a holiday at Foxton Beach. *-* -** * M-$s Dow nor returned to Auckland after spending Eastoi- with her parents in Feilding. * * * * * Mr D. R. Murray of Hawke's Bay ha s been v .sit jig Auckland to see bis daughter, Msis Sheila Murray, and is now sfcavintr w ill l Mr and Mrs J. E. Jenkinson at “Rukoora/’ Samion Road. HOW TO CHOOSE YOLli IACE POWDER Many women fail to make the best of Ihcir appoaranee simply because they use the wrong face powder, and usually this is due to I he fact that they have either chosen a box of powtler hurriedly or else become confused by looking at several different shades before making a selection • Sometimes, too, when powder is packu 1 into a particularly alluring I ox it is difficult to resist, and the fae‘ that the shade is not precisely the correct one is apt to vanish into insignificance. This' is a great, mistake. Powder should always be most carefully chosen and in most cases carefully applied. It should he of the very finest quality, and not too highly scented. The safest rule is always to avoid a. powder which has the least vestige of a violet tinge or a greenish hue, and to cling to something of a warm na'ui’al shade. A pale raohel to which a little pink and white lias been added is a very satisfactory shade. Always get a large box of racliel and a small box of each of the other so that you can mix them to tone with the colouring of your skin w hen you have plenty of time to give to this task, which from a beauty point of view is a most important one. The mixture of pink and white powder is invaluable for the neck, which is always inclimil to appear sallow in comparison with the face, and it is an improvement to use it on lie forehead and eyelids too if these arc darker than they should he. Brunettes will b u wise if they avoid all pale shades and use a warm, peachy tone of powder, neither too ochre nor too pink, but richly alive and full of colour. Item l colourless powders are only suitable for the woman w i‘h extremely unusual colouring or for use in certain kinds of artificial light. Different powder should be used in th, evening from that used during the day. A slightly deeper tone of bo!h powder and rouge is always more, attractive at night, and the ow.ler itself should be of a heavier qiialit.s. During the day a tine powder is to he preferred—especially in the morning oi for games—and the linest coaling of vanishing cream should he used with it. Any excess of makeup is uuliecoiuifig.il! broad daylight, hut a moderate amount, well chosen and applied, cannot fail to improve tlq appearance. The hunting lie Id alone is the only place where make-up is superfluous. And even 1 lie re . . . hut, of course, it depends oil how LI is done! DRIFTERS (By Eeonora Kyles) Mne of the biggest human problems, l think, is finding out one’s duty to friends, and dependants, especially when they are young. You are so mxious to surround them with an atmosphere* of happiness; you ar e so anxious to give them approbation, to foster their gout I points, to make excuses and allowances for weaknesses. You feel that, given entouragelent and help, and friendliness, they will show their best side to you. And

you. have a natural mo.lesty that makes you hate to criticise, since criticism almost always implies a feeling of superiority. After all. is this fair? if you give praise amt encouragement for every good points, doesn’t a youngster begin to preen himself with the feeling that he is perfect? If you disregard slackness, won’t lie either think you are so unobservant that you are not noticing i:. or else that his slack and lazy way of doing things is quite good enough? 1 still feel a sense of remorse for my way of treating a rough young servant once: she was so untaught, so really useless, but so tragically territied at her own incompetence when she came that 1 had to praise her a great deal to try to put some pride into her. After a tiniy. she became quite good at her work ami still I praised, never scolding her for her faults, until she grew not only lazy but impertinent, and when dually 1 had to send her away 1 know she was completely puzzled, and felt that I had treated her unfairly—as i think 1 had. I think i( is up to. grown people to keep young folks very liiinly to their job. So many of us older peple lack the fiower of teaching-ami training; cither we scold or else We expect of people things their age uni exprince cannot possibly produce. If a young person is allowed to get slack, to do small evasive (lungs that arc not quite straight. lie lias a perfect right to turn round oil you later and say : "You let me get. likg this.*’ Tlie mother o** father, teacher or mployer, wlio, out of a weak desire not to hurt, or a slackdesire* not to be bothered, lets faults slide by, is incurring a terrible responsibility for the possible* future of a youthful life, vhieh. with a little more tonic treatment. might have* been a fine success. \Y 11 EX AVOlhl Nth MON (>T< ‘X V — : ~¥ One of the most obvious advantages of the we*ek-c*nd is the opportunity which it gives* to many people to have a complete, if only a short, change of their immediate surroundings. The value of. change is enormous to flier man a pel woman who work. .Monotony of environment is one of llu* things that make* office life of all kinds most hard to endure. However much the work may hold ami occupy you, you get to hate tlie sight, of the* same desks in the same; places, tin* same chairs, the same ledgers, the* same earel indices, the same- faces of the some, colleagues. The; escape* from all this is the most p. iec*s gift of tlie* weekend,, hut tlie*re is no need necessarily to leave home in order (o get. the required change*. The esse*use of true eliange aftei* all is eliange* of lh<* mind’s occupation. Therefore one should he aide to get a perfect eliange at the weekend from everyday life*, even without going away from home. What we must do is lo make* an absolute operation of daily habits and interests during the week-end. In some ways the change* is all the more beneficial and noticeable for faking place at home and not away. There is a special joy and benefit in lying abed as long as you feel inclined in that very rooiji wlie*re you are accustomed to rush through your morning toilet, in lounging along the \cr.v street which sees your lius'le in the other days of the week, ami in taking at home the* oiq< meal which yon always have to take in tin* city. our associates, your books, your games all can be different, from the < •dinary wiMiout your going away at all. This is one of the .ways to get the benefits of - change without overdoing it. Many a man discounts tlie bench's of change by the violent cxe.tions lie makes to secure them. F I*; EL IX G AHtfIXLE-A LED (Dy Leoriiora. Eyles.) There is, of course, such a tiling m'ddle age of the body; when you pass th e forties it is only natural that you cannot feel the zest you mice iVIt for physical things; dancing, walking, work, eat'ng and drinking, all these have not the. same thrill they once had. Hut as the pleasures of bodily life lose a little of tlieir vigour, does not I something deeper seem to take their place? I)i<l you appreciate friendship, for instance, when you were twenty, as keenly as you do at forty? Didn’t you lose friends rather easily then, questing others,'’ expecting a great deal from them? Haven’t you

found’, as you grow older, that even a lifetime is hot lung enough to spend on finding out all the hidden thiug s in even one person you uro fond of and in sympathy with? Hasn’t noddle age, too. brought you more tolerance and understanding so that people now conic to you sure of a-u impartial generosity and sympathy-,, whereas, when you were young, you liad not very much to give, being; so eager to gather for yourself? Isn’t there a dignity , too, and a security in your altitude now that you never had before? You sc*e, after forty it is'difficult for you to bo caught unawares by any situation, any emotion. Jxive. friendship, lin-inc nl difficulties, disappointments have all been yours m the past, a .rid now the problems they arouse cannot crush you as they once did ; you see, you have probably been crushed to the earth a muulicp.of l iiKS.ajready and found that it \va.s not nearly so bad as you had expected; you have found, too, that one gets up- alter the most crushing blow', and so when blows come they last only a short while ; you rise above them quickly. M any women regret midd'o age because they think they are no longer attractive to the opposite sex. but that i s the biggest mistake of all. ft may be true ihat you don’t arouse any longer the possess l ve instincts, the hunting instincts in men, but w hat you do a.rousc is someth’ng much more lasting and serene, the.' realisation that you have in you something that will feed tlieir very hunger of the* in-'iid ajid soul. A man in trouble seldom runs to- a young girl to get comfort and peace ; it i s to a middle-aged woman lie turns in bis need. While you wore a girl you were run after by men in love with love and romance; now you are a, woman of forty you arc* sought out by both men and women who arc in love with you. DO YOU 'KNOW?— That paper used for storing fabrics and. clothes should be cither blue or yellowish. There is a certain amount of chloride of lime in white paper, which may destroy the colours of the articles stored. That paint splashes which have dr?ed on to windows alter redecoration eau be easily removed by rubbing the affected surface with the edge ol a penny , then cleaning the windows in the ordinary way. That tumblers that have become fixed together can easily be taken apart if the outside one- <s tapped gently all -round with another tumb'er. Flower-pots can bo “unstuck” in the same way with another pot, and a glass stopper that K fixed in a bottle will often y’cld if tapped with another stopper. HEALTH HUNTS ON EATING AND DRINKING Over-eating is definitely harm tub Excess of food .imposes a constant strain upon the stomach, Tver, and excretory organs. The best forms of f :l ts to cat are butter a.nd olive oil. Substitute fish and eggs for meat five days in the week. Drink two oi three glasses of warm water between meals every day—this will promote internal cleanliness.