BEAUTY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4812, 22 February 1936, Page 3

BEAUTY.

TRAINING YOUR CHILDREN. The foundations of beauty, like those of health and character, are laid in childhood. Careful washing and drying of the skin is most important. Rain water is the best to use, but if it is not available, hard water can be softened by the addition of oatmeal or bran. Insist that a proper face towel and pure soap is used. Children whose faces are constantly being scrubbed with unsuitable soap, and then dried roughly with a coarse towel, soon lose their youthful, peachlike bloom. An attractive complexion only comes as a result of good health, and this can be kept by a plain, well balanced diet, plenty of restful sleep and plenty of fresh air. See that the children do not have too many sweets and rich cakes, and substitute green vegetables and raw fruits. To keep the complexion really beautiful at least two pints of water should be drunk daily. A little lemon juice squeezed into the water is very beneficial, and will give it a pleasant flavour. The face and neck should be protected from over exposure to the sun and winds. On hot, sunny days a shady hat should always be worn, and in frosty weather a little good nourishing cream will protect the skin from dryness and roughness. A tendency to protruding ears, a most ugly disfigurement, is difficult to correct when children are growing up, but- can be checked in infancy by letting baby sleep in a cap that confines the ears, and taking care when laying her down that they are flat and are not pressed out of shap-j. Regular visits to the dentist should bo commenced in early childhood, before the first teeth are cut. the second teeth are coming the child’s mouth should be watched carefully, so that there is no danger of a second tooth coming in behind the first and making a crooked row. Uneven teeth can only be straightened satisfactorily during the early stages of their growth.