IRISH GIRLS

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 July 1931, Page 2

IRISH GIRLS

SIMPLE BEAUTY CARE. The Irish girl makes the most ol her climate as a beauty cure. On the wet days where there is a soft westerly wind she goes out bareheaded for a good walk in the gentle rain. The skin thus gets a thorough “spraying” witii soft water and soft air, and nothing will better bring permanent roses to the cheeks. The hair benefits, too, by the wetting with soft water. The diet of the Irish girl is often conducive to beauty, for many take very little meat, plenty of butter and green vegetables, and after all these are the chief factors in a home “beauty diet.” Cabbage, for instance, is one of the best green vegetables to take for the sake of the complexion, as well as for the general health. It contains such a quantity of valuable mineral salts. Irish girls use milk (sour milk) and buttermilk to beautify their rkln. The latter makes an excellent aid and is said to be a cure for freckles and sunburn.

One Irish girl makes a beauty pack from tho whites of two eggs beaten to a foam. She adds a few drops of lemon juice and spreads this over her face before she is going to a party. She washes it off with cold rain water. This is a valuable antiwrinkle pack. Irish girls do not, as a rule, shampoo their hair as often as English.ones. The natural oils are not dried up, and the hair retains its gloss. In between shampoos (which are airways carried out with a pure superfatted soap and soft water) the hair Is kept scrupulously clean by means of an extra combing with a fine steel comb after careful use of the ordinary one.