HINTS FOR HOUSEWIVES

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 12 November 1927, Page 17

HINTS FOR HOUSEWIVES

BEAUTY TREATMEN T. It is said by those who know, that of all women the housewife loses her Deauty first But lor most evils there is a remedy if not cure, and with a few helpiul suggestion the housewife should he able to protect her good looks turougli tho busy days and avoid the dangers that other women with leisure have to encounter. The trouble with housework is that the worker is apt to think too littie of herself. &he, who would trunk too of herself. She, who would never dream of letting her house “slide” 'when it needs her care, will overlook ner own appearance; so intent is she m the business of home-making. This is ail wrong, of course. Tiie housewife is her own mistress. She is able to. arrange her whole tlay as she Rites. With the business head that is required of all good housekeepers, she should make a definite timetable ol her days, separating the hours of work from those of leisure —and the care of ner personal appearance. Doctors all agree that the houseworkers should wear corsets, and light, dat-heeled shoes. Also they must take plenty of exercise. This last remark is not so silly as it •sounds, because though we know the housewife is .running about all day, •she is only using certain muscles, the others are left idle.

There is only one way of setting every muscle to work, and that is in practising religiously those daily dozei exercises that are so unpopular "witli

most of us—at least after the first three mornings.

The exercises I should recommend are the least dull ones. One is kicking as high as possible with each leg—

is you admire so much on the stage—he other is lying flat on the floor on our back and trying to swing your

iegs up so that the toes just touch the floor behind your head. After tins attempt sit up and rest a little, remembering to breathe deeply. A good exercise for relieving the strain of housework is the one in which you staiid and relax every muscle from the waist up, so that your head droops nearly to the knees; then you straighten up slowly, breathing deeply all the while.

This exercise gives the flabby nuscles a chance of toning up, and it Iso prevents the others from becoming over-worked.

It is a good plan to keep a beauty medicine cupboard in the kitchen, so that you have such things as rubber gloves for washing-up and cotton gloves for dusting always handy. Often women will neglect these obvious precautions while at Avork, simply because they can’t say just where they put the gloves, and are far too busy to stop , and look for them. In this beauty cuphoard there should he kept a piece of pumice-stone for smoothing roughened skin and lemon for removing stains. A pot of nourishing cream must he added, to counteract the bad effects in the skin of too much cooking and ironing. As some people find that vaseline has a. drying effect on their nails and cuticles, I Avould advise them

using olh*e oil instead. This should he rubbed into the skin round the base of the nails every night before sleeping. It is not necessary to near gloA 7 es in bed, unless your hands ha% T e been neglected, and in that case they must by ghcerined well before putting on the gloves