EVE’S Vanity Case

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2504, 22 August 1931, Page 2

EVE’S Vanity Case

TO CORRESPONDENTS The Lady Editor will be pleased to receive tor publication In the “Woman’s Realm” items of social or personal news. Such Items should be fully authenticated, and engagement notices must bear signatures. GENERAL NOTES Pancakes orp cooked and delivered to the purchaser piping hot On. a plate from a novel automatic machine recently installed in New York. Good manners and good business have quite a lot. to do with each other. Mr Clough Williams-Ellis. «**-*» There are 54,000 women civil servants in the British Post Office, but. only twenty of them arc getting salaries of £4OO a year and over. To many homemakers, says an exchange, efficient. lighting mereiv means overcoming darkness. to others it means overcoming income. * « * * Pyjamas have been barred as chis« attire for the girls of t-he Dilwortb worth (IT.S.A.) High School. Five students who arrived for classes clod in sleeveless pyjamas with flared it ousers were ordered by the principal, Tlbert Zech. to “go home and put some clothes on.” * * * * * James I.abden, of London recently celebrated his second silver wedding anniversary. Married at the age of 17, hi s wife died in 1904, after 27 years of wedded existence. In 1906 he married again, and hits second onion has lasted since. His ambition now tsi to reach his golden wedding anniversary, s.3o—Wet Evening. Xiglit—and the raindrops falling. Home calls . . . and lea. Somewhere a voijyp- is bawling “Blue Skies” at me. Crowds'bn: tlm pavement pouring. Home bound as well. Crowds round the tram cars warring: .love 1 this" Is -. Light on the Upturned faces, Glistening with wet. Patience a wondrous grace is, Home calls ’ns yet. A pipe, a seat and a paper Looks good. 1 vow. That—and the tram bound homeward—■ Is Paradise enow. A rush—and the ear is boarded; Seats there, are nono. But what does a trifle matter ? The home trip’s begun. Many wlio’ve not found places Out on the pavement fret—Light on tin- upturned faces. Glistening with wet. —A 11. ON YOUR DRESSING TABLE \\ hat do you have on your dressing tabled' Much, ol course, depends on whether you jiko it- to be ornamental or useful. The very feminine dress-ing-table may look very pretty, but it is often a. great dust-gatherer and. worse, a not too hygienic affair. Beautiful hair brushes and powderpuffs are laid, about invitingly ween, for health and beauty’s sake, they are far better kept in a special drawer, as free from dust a, possible. The very busy woman prefers a “utility” dresing table. Some even scorn, the time-honoured powder bond, preferring to keep their powder in the box rin which it was sold. For these a make-up drawer j s perhaps a good plan, and if the brushes and combs must he kept in this, drawer a s well, then see that they are treated to a brush-and-qomb bag. Line your make-up drawer with white pnpci, and keep in it powder, creams manicure requirements and all you need for personal adornment.

Few drawers will allow space for bottles, however, and thes u accordingly have to be kept on. the dressing table. Tho utility table will never ho without its sheet of plate glass. It does not matter how many bottles are put on this, and if the contents are spil’ed, the table is soon put right again. The same cannot be said of a polished wooden .surface. Bottles need not be uninteresting labelled affairs that one always associates with chemists’ shops. Vny fancy bottles are useful for holding lotions, particularly if the different designs can he identified with various con touts. If you have fancy scent

bottle.', or any coloured or cut-glass bottles, why not use them tor your glycerine and rosewater; or your face lotion, if you use oner 1 These at least will make the dressing table look not quite so useful as it is. So, you see you can be original over your dre-sing table if you will, even if you wish it to be a strictly useful affair. Finally, never forgot to keep a waste-paper basket by the side of your dressing-table ; you will always be needing it, and its presence there ensures a tidy bedroom as well. JL AIX DliltJ X G PLEATS AAD HULLS SOME POINTS’'TO BE •RFMFIMBFPFD / It is common impression that pleat'd Bills. and rufiles never look the same alter they have been laundered This is really a mistake, because with a little trouble l pleats may be laundered without impairing the pleating. Fairly wide pleating is easier to do than narrow pleats. Before putting them in the wash water, run a- thread across the pleats lj tin* pleating is narrow, one thread is enough and this, should l>e run through the lower edge. If the pleating is more than five or six inches deep, you will need two threads, one at the edge and another half-way up. Take a stitch through each pleat and draw the thread up so that th<* pleated frill or ruffle lies Bat. Take care in wringing not to disturb the pleats. If a roller wringer is used put the pleats through lengthwise, not crosswise. Lot the garment become partly dry, and’press at once, f it is dried thoroughly and then boned, the pleats will be more diffi cult to manage. Circular flounces and ruffles do not go through the laundry so well as those cut on the straight of the goods unless care 1.3 taken in the ironing. The important thing to remember is that tiny material must Ix> ironed up and down with the ruffle, but at an angle, so that the material is not made to sag. Prose iirst lengthwise of Clio weave and then crosswise. If a circular skirt is pressed in thin way, it should he hung upon a hanger for a day or so, and the circular portions will hang down in their original forms.. If they are ironed on the bias, they will be s uro to sag. , . * DIET AND EXERCISE Although the very slim figure is not as fashionable <x< it was, women who are not naturaly thin arc an anxious as ever not to put on weight Diet and exercise can do much to reduce one s weight, but it is not advisable t# go to extremes in either of these eases. While tatty and starchy foods can l*o avoided without detriment to one’s health, it is very important that proper and sufficient nourishment should be taken. Exercise must not be overdone. A lew simple physical exercises should taken. Exercise must not be overdone. A few simple physical exercises should Ik performed in the bed room or bathroom early in the morning, and as much walking as possible should be done during the day, but fatigue must b„ guarded against, if you are unaccustomed to walking, begin by taking only a short brisk walk every day, and gradually increase the distance until you can walk throe or four miles without becoming very tired. Riding, golf tennis and badminton' are also splendid means of keeping the body fit and the figure slim and housework as an aid to figure must not be overlooked. Sweeping, scrubbing, dusting, polishing and bed-making all call different muscles into play and lu lp t > keep the limbs supple. The

women who is not so thin as .-ho would like to be should avoid rich cakes, creain-fllled pastries, chocolate, sweets, wines, and other alcoholic drinks, fat meat and bacon, pies, potatoes, cocoa, and all starchy food. She should drink her coffee and tea sugarless and the tea should be quite weak. Toast a.ud biscuits are better for her than broad, and she should eat meat but .sparingly. Butler, milk and eggs must be included for the sake of the nourishment they contain. and she should also eat liberally of fruit, raw and cooked, green vegetables and salads. The woman who is dieting should not drink at meal times but about an hours <>r two before she should certainly drink s» glass* of hot or cold water on rising in the morning, another last thing at night, and two more, if possible, during tlie day. To add to the

water and to increase it s benefit to ilie health, unsweetened' lemon or orange, juice may be added to the water. Lemon juice is wonderfully “slimming,” and orange juice purities the blood and improves the complexion marvellously. Home-made cukes are better than bought ones, as for one thing, one can use just the ingredients one requires. When dieting, lx* sure the cakes are nourishing by using fresh butter and eggs, and the be«t currants, to give iron to the- system. BEAUTY BATHS Perhaps the simplest and cheapest of all beauty baths is the bran hath. A pint of bran, tied in bag made ot butter muslin, is placed in two quarts ot cold water, winch i s brought t<> the boil. Next the bag j s well squeezed m the water, which is then added to the bath. A simpler method is to put a little bran into a bag, so-ak. it in the bath water for about five minutes, and squeeze it bard before removing it. For women with greasy skins the oatmeal and orris root bath i - preferable. For this, two bags are needed, one containing two tablespoonsful of fine oatmeal, and tlm other half this amount of powdered erris root, together with a little finely shredded dried lemon and orange peel. The bags, tied up, are soaked for a quarter of an bom* in cold water, then squeezed until all the white, milky liquid is ox " traetod. Both water and bags arc added to the bath, the bags being used in place of flesh gloves.