Eve’s Vanity Case

Feilding Star, Volume 11, Issue 4179, 28 February 1934, Page 2

Eve’s Vanity Case

FRONT DOOR MIRROR

Lad j* Annesley’s ground-floor flat in Eccleston Square, London, lias a bright green front door with lien- full name painted on it in gold letters. A square of mirror glass let into tlie centre, too, is an admirable idea for women friends. They can make sure that their noses are powdered, and their hats at the right angle before the door is opened and they enter the cheerful hall.

OATMEAL FOR THE SKIN

A cheap but excellent beauty aid is to he found in oatmeal. Only tlie finest quality of oatmeal must be used, and then it should be sifted through fine white muslin. Oatmeal dusted on the* skin after the bath will absorb all traces of moisture and prevent roughness and redness on the legs and arms. Oatmeal added to the bath will soften the hardest water. A good way to us e it is to fill a small muslin bag with oatmeal, and let the bag soak in the bath for a few minutes. To soften the water, add two or three tablespoonfuls of oatmeal to each quart of water. Stir well, and allow to stand for a, few hours, giving an occasional stir. Pour off the water from the oatmeal and use it for washing the hands and face. An oatmeal paste, applied to the face and neck and allowed to dry on, then rinsed off, and the skin, patted dry has a wonderfully whitening and softening effect on the skin.

CULTURE IN GLASSES

Hyacinths grown in glasses are very ornamental in the home. The treatment is quite simple. Firm, wellripened bulbs should be chosen. Tlie glasses having been filled with rain water, the bulbs should be placed so that the water just touches them. The glasses should then be placed for a few weeks in an ordinary cupboard or similar dark place and removed into the light again, when the roots are four inches in length. A few days afterward they should have all the light and air possible. # Otherwise the foliage and flower stem will he drawn and weakly. When the leaves are produced, the glasses may be kept filled with water as required. Fresh water should be supplied whenever that in the glass becomes impure, but when given it should be a.t the same temperature as the air in which the plants are growing. A few pieces of charcoal placed in the glasses • when the bulbs are set in them will greatly assist in keeping the water pure.

TO CORRESPONDENTS

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SOCIAL NOTES

ENGAGEMENT

BLUNDELL—JOHNSTON

Tlie engagement is announced between Percy Warwick, second son of Mr and Mrs H. P. F. Blundell, Heretaunga, and Caroline Margaret Featlierston, only daughter of tlie Hon. Mr Justice Johnston and Mrs Johnston.

BACK TO ADORNMENT

Jewellery is definitely coming into its own again. Well dressed designers are taking it up and women move soli'ly in the wake of fashion. The woman of means is now wealing jewellery and tli e further we get into the winter season the more popular it becomes. For a time fashion eschewed jewellery almost completely and in some extraordinary manner it came to he regarded as slightly ostentatious. That day is passing. The severe figure, unadorned is falling from favour the. long frock for evening wear has proved no fleeting whim of fancy. It lias come to stay and this is the type of frock that jewellery enhances.

HEAD BANDS ARE W ORN

One of the new fasnions, as irejuently happens iun old friend in lisguise. Hair ornaments have sudlenly jumped into popularity. Some manufacturers are waiting to ce which way the cat will jump but :here is n belief in well informed juarters that the fashion will init;iSo. in popularity. Precisely what form it will take is doubtful but let us again invoke tilt Times which says: “livening diadems in metal or two colours and jewelled bandeaux are worn off the forehead,” and reporting a fashionable gathering: “Bands of tortoise shell brilliants silver aiyli gilt were common on elaborately dressed heads.” And a I.ondon newspaper published recently a picture of the Duchess ol York wearing a headband.

THE CARE OF THE TEETH

VALUE OF MILK AND EGGS Correct diet and the regular use ol a toothbrush and such dentifrice as your dentist may recommend are essential adjuncts to his work of preserving good teeth. It is well known that as a rule breast-fed babies have, better teeth than bottle-fed children, though the artificial food may b e apparently identical chemically with natural food. This is because dried foods and cows’ milk preparations must necessarily be cooked a little. Apart from the vitamins which are destroyed during ■ sterilisation, ifresh milk and other animal fats appear to contain some other factor essential to the formation of good teeth which will not decay early. Most of us give our children co 1 liver oil or something similar to compensate for the vitamins lost in sterilised milk. Nevertheless, in order that your children may have good second as well as first teeth, it, is important to give them a little, fresh milk, 'butter or dripping every day throughout childhood. Gradually accustom them to fresh raw milk by adding small quantities, such as tablespoonful at first, to the three quarters of a pint ration of sterilised milk which toddlers usually take.. Milk is rich in calcium or lime, an essential for good hones®' or teeth. Eggs are invaluable. Fresh fruits and salads are important for the salads they contain, the vitamins in which they are rich, and the mechanical quality they possess of requiring good mastication. Nowhere is the truth of the old saying that disuse leads to atrophy better shown than in the teeth.

It may seem impossible to arrange for the “ample sugar’’ ordered by your doctor and the “far fewer” sweets insisted upon bv your dentist, hut a little ingenuity will enable you to arrange for sugar, in the form of treacle or honey, with meals and sweets such as barley sugar immediately after dinner, followed by an apple. Give your children crisp toast or hard biscuits instead of bread and butter. Oatbrea l 1 is very good for them and they will probably love it. If you like you may give them a tablet of calcium once or twice a week your doctor or dentist will tell you what to give. plenty of lime or calcium, fresh milk, butter or dripping, fresh vegetables and fruit afid plenty of hard work for the teeth will prove invaluable aids to your dentist’s work an.) help your children to keep the beautiful teeth they have obtained with so much pain and trouble to all.

-MAGIC FOR AIIRRORS

Of course you love mirrors? Every woman does, mirrors are so enchanting. 1 hope you make the most of tliam ? Do you, for instance, treat them to a. special cleaning on occasions, or do you merely dust them casually and hope for the best? The strategic position of your mirror is certainly terribly important, but so also is absolute, cleanliness. To keep your mirror bright and happy dust thoroughly each day, and om.e a week go over the surface with a leather wrung out of tepid water to which you have added just a little methylated spirits. Grannie’s mjethod to keep her mirrors bright was to polish with a piece of flannel dipped in powdered blue, veu ran still do this with good results, and your minors will look "ell for a long time. During a spell of foggy weather mirrors eiteri go a little cloudy arid dull. Forestall them by this simple treatment. Wring a cloth, out in warm, water, sprinkle it with glycerine, and then apply it gently to the surface of the mirror. Tlie glycerine forms a tine film over the glass which keeps it unbelievably bright and clear. Mirrors are temperamental be careful where you place them. They loathe damp, and suspended on a damp wall for instance would most certainly spoil, but this danger can be averted by fixing a piece of cork to the bottom of the frame at the back, large enough to prevent the mirror actually touching the wall. You can’t ignore a mirror either! If you find that the one in your spare room has become stained and smeared through being allowed to lead its own carefree, existence, treat it like this. _Malce a face pack of ordinary washing blue and methylated spirits, apply w ith a soft rag and rub well in. At hen it is quite dry you can wipe it off with a duster, and polish briskly. Spirits of wine is also effective in dealing with very obstinate marks. Sponge the mirror with this and then sprinkle the damp surface with French chalk, wipe off, and give a final polish. The. results "ill be gratifying. To remove fly marks from a mirror rub it with a rag moistened with lemon juice and dipped in salt. Dry newspapers crumpled until they are soft will give jour mirrors a marvellous polish.

A YOUNG AVIATRIX

Ladj- Alary Stewart, the twelve-year-old daughter of Lord Londonderry, British Secretary of State for Air is learning to fly. She had latelj' had three hours’ instruction, and her tutor said she was “a horn pilot.” Tlie pupil is to learn slowly—five hours’ instruction a jear, until she is 17, when she is permitted to qualifj- as a pilot. Lady Mary became air-minded through her father’s example. AA’hen he became Air Minister, lie could not flj' an aeroplane. He became an A certificate pilot a few months ago. He is 55. His daughter watched him learning. She insisted that Captain Baker, wdio taught her father, should teach, her too.