Eve's Vanity Case

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3996, 10 April 1933, Page 2

Eve's Vanity Case

TO CORRESPONDENTS The Lady Editor will be pleased to receive for publication in the Women’s Realm items of social or per sonal news. Such items should be duly authenticated and engagements must bear the Big na tur«s of the parties SOCIAL NOTES Miss Margaret Alcorn and Mrs Jack Alcorn -of Wellington are visiting Mrs Arnold Shannon. at “Mahon/’ Waituna West. LET IN THE FRESH AIR Dry. cold weather is a severe setback to germs and is a guarantee of good health provided you take advantage of it. Catarrhal conditions are eneouragerd by ill-ventilated rooms. Therefore, even if your work takes you into the fresh air during the day, do not counteract tile good it lias done you by spending the evening in an atmosphere that you could “cut; with a knife.*’* There is no n v<> to sit in a draught in order to get a sufficiency of pure air. Draughts can he excluded- It is possible to oi»eii the window in the sitting room a little without a definite current playing on one’s back. The best way to do this is to tit a board under the bottom part of tlie window and allow the air to come in through the space between the upper and lower sections. A good lire encourages ventilation hut it needs a continuous supply of fresh air. tut plants in the house Pot plants in a small room are often a mistake. An exquisitely line maidenhair fern, o; some attractive flowering plant justifies iis existence, but aspidistras should be banished, and. palms are often more effective in the ha 1.1 than in the. living room. Pan.u at the best of times, are cold, mtiieV stiff' things, and ta room is happier without them, while aspidistras are out of fashion and frankly ugly. They should never be> put in a room, but are better left out in the garden, or at least on tlie verandah. There is a fashion for putting a pot plant in tlie fire place, Imt liowevei lovely the pot plant it always, looks unnatural in a fireplace. It is far better to leave the fire place empty. WASHING TIES Many people are afraid to wash ties at home, but if care is taken the opei at.ion may be porlurmed with every success. Silk ties should not be washed in ordinary water, but • always in brail water. Obtain the bran water by boiling two good baud, iuls of bran in a large saucepan ol water for several hoars. Then strain a,lid immerse the tics. ash them thoroughly and keep the ties as liar as posible in older to av oid crumpling the lining. Finally rinse carefully, and iron the ties under a damp cloth with a, fairly liot iron. TIRED FEET In growing toe-nail*; are loi turing things if you have to be on your teCo a great deal. Cut a \ -shaped wedge out of tlie 'centre of the naii tlii.i will draw it up from the sides—but remember the cause ol it is a too narrow shoe. Corns are caused by pressure. .Rubbing vaseline in every night and wealing lcose white socks will get rid of these. Tired, swollen feet 'need eau-de-Cologne. This can he bought so cheaply now. and there is nothing more refreshing. Rub it well m, right a.nd morning. Aching insteps are probably caused l'v a badly-balanced shoe or crooked heels. Remedy the si me fault, Then, during the day when you aire sitting down, ooint the toes as though you were ballot dancing. This tightens up the muscles and strengthens the arch. HERBALIST REALTY SHOPS A revival from mediaeval times is indicated hy the sudden crop of ecr ironed and attractive

looking herbalists 4 shops which are opening in. the. West End. One is in the neighbourhood of Bond Street, another near Victoria, a third close to the Marble Arch, a fourth near Grosvcnor Square, and so on. We all -remember hearing of the simples of our grandmothers—dandelion tea and elder flower water, and many other beauty lotions. Uj to-date herbalists offer a. wide \nr;ety of wares, and their popularity justifies their sale rn at least one of our great stores writes an Englishwoman. CAN'T BE MOVED Pneumonia sometimes complicates an attack of influenza. It is one of those illnesses which depend largely on goo.l*nursing for a cure- As in a great many cases it may be risky to move tin* patient to hospital, a few hints on home nursing will be useful. The sick room should he as large as possible, with a good fire and be well ventilated, without draughts. The patient, who. of course, must remain in bed. will breathe more easily if he is propped up with pillows. Always keep a plentiful supply of hot water on hand for hot sponging or i poultices. Give the patient as much to drink as he likes. Fruit juices make the best drinks- Home-made lemonade or barley water with lemon are excellent, hut, to lie of any value, they must be freshly made each day. Tin* diet during the acute stage shoul I be mainly milk, or milk with lUU X Ft Hi IN FAX TS Famous baby physicians have for some time ordered for babies only a few months old bone-broth in which green vegetables, carrots and liver (all. rich in iron) have been cooked. Diets are more frequently deficient in vitamin I) (the one found in col live:' oil. fat, fish and fresh milk, butter and egg-yolk) than in tlie other essentials, lime and phosphates. Milk is an almost perfect food, is rich in lime and phosphates, and provides infection-resisting and teethproducing vitamins. HO USE-HUNTING Prince George has ueeu doing a little house-hunting. Not for himself, however, but for the f>uk e of Gloucester, who, wh.cn he comes home from th© Sudan, i* thinking of having a home of his own in London H > is the only prince who still has a suite at Buckingham Palace now that Princes George shares York House with the Prince of \Yal©s. SEEKING MUSK Airs Julia Henshaw' ,a well-known Canadian botanist, has gone to, a little island, in the Mexican. Gull, in search of the old-time fragrant musk in which our grandmothers delighted, but which, early in tii e present century; seems to have lost its perfume at least as far as th© cultivated varieties popular in are concerned. iMusk was brought lo England from British Columbia in 1830 by a famous botanistj named .David Douglas. Julia 11 oils haw lias made up her mind to outdo men scientists in solving the problem of the vanished aroma. FRIED SCONES Cu t strips from bread dough before it J s put into tiik-i for loaves. Let stand far a few minutes, and then fry in very hot butter. They make delicious scones, especially if broken when hot and spread with honey. TO PRESER VE TEETH Rub the teeth and. gums two or three times a day with a baa'd brush dipped in flowers of sulphur. This is an excellent preservative, and has no i npleatant smell.