FOR YOUR GUESTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 28 July 1928, Page 17

FOR YOUR GUESTS.

A WELL-EQUIPPED DRESSING TABLE. If you use your Own room as a dress, ing room and coat room for guests, you should have a special dressing table equipment for their wse. As ;a matter of convenience you may have one of the small drawers in the dressing table set aside to liolrj the “company ” kit when not needed. It should contain a good-sized covered glass jar of face powder, which should be of a good quailt.y without very definite scent, and of medium colouring, neither decidedly blonde nor too brunette. Another .glass jar sh’oul'd contain little balls of absorbent cotton which you may twist into shape yourself, to 'be used by .guests in place of powder puffs and then discarded. Then -possibly a third glass jar .in which the discarded puffs may be placed.

CLEAN BRUSH AND COMB. There should also be a brush and cOriib for the use of guests. These should be manifestly perfectly clean, so it is better to have a simple sort that may be cleaned quite easily and frequently than a more elaborate sort that cannot be cleaned so easily. One assumes that guests have done what make-up is necessary before arriving but after a motor trip or a journey by train guests -may need more than face powder, brush and c-omb. For the convenience of such guests there should be a jar of cleansing cream and some soft, paper tissue with which the ci earn may be removed. Nail file and nail scissors may be placed with a lipstick and orange wood stick on a dressing table tray, and there may be a small container of rouge —so that guests need not be embarrassed by having to ask for it. Of course, - most women who use make-ups usually carry 'it with them in their purses—but a surprisingly large number of women forget to bring Vanity bags or cases when they go to evening parties. PROTECT YOUR iSECRE'TS.

No wo mail likes to have her own toilet accessories dipped into by guests. There is something too personal about one’s powder, creams, perfumes and other aids to good looks. So if your guests are to be received in your own room be forewarned. » Have your own equipment carefully stowed away so that the se'erets of your own charm, the make of your own perfume and the tint of your "’face powder may still remain a "mystery.