WOMEN'S NOTES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 295, 10 November 1934, Page 11

WOMEN'S NOTES.

FASHIONS. (By Miss Mary Tallis.) For Blondes.—ln choosing clothes the blonde must be especially careful about colours. Many work by rule of contrast on the theory that dark (blue, green or black) backgrounds make their pale colourings seem even more delicate.. I think this is an idea that really works. For blondes with blue, green or grey eyes, cool greyish colours —blues, greens and violets—are more becoming than the warm brownish tones. But the brown-eyed, fair-hair-ed people whose, skins usually incline to the brunette tone look nicest in any of the range of browns. Vivid goldenhaired blondes with colour can wear brilliant shades, such as red and bright blue, but if you’re pale and thin they’re too strong a dose. For you, colours should have depth, but no harshness. Soft rose shades are a good example of colours you can wear. Pale blondes also should be careful to avoid colours which make them look dull or wishy-washy. And here I want to call your attention to one distinction in colours. There are some so-called pale shades which look as if the life had been diluted out of them. And there are others that, though pale, have a warmth that is very flattering. These are the colours that will befriend your face. If you are a plump healthy blonde with a good colour, you can wear almost any colours, provided they aro not so bright that they will make you look too fat, or so delicate that they are out of tune with your colouring. Barbaric jewellery, such as heavy slave bracelets and necklaces, are not very good for blondes. They should choose seed pearls, delicate crystals and semi-precious stones, such as topaz, amethysts, jade and turquoise, which are really colours which suit them.

BEAUTY. Make-up Tricks.—Matching your lips with your eyebrows is an important move to make in the cause of beauty. Heavy brows and thin lips are not becoming, neither are full lips and pencil-lino brows. Match your thin lips by plucking your brows to a more delicate line; and, if your lips are full, allow your eyebrows a little more license accordingly. An ugly habit that definitely shows its victim is not as clever with her make-up as she should be is that of applying lip-stick in a thin ridge round the outer side of the lips, so that when they are opened a pale colour shows inside. Lipstick should be worked right inside the lips —it won’t hurt. All good lipsticks are made of the purest ingredients. Here’s a trick which will improve thin eyelashes and cure eye-brows that are stiff and bristly. Brush them both every night with warm olive oil, using ' a fairly stiff eyelash brush. Coax the upper ones to curl upwards, and the eyebrows to lie in a smooth line. After a few nights the hairs will soften and can easily bo trained to follow the brush in whatever direction you wish them to go. ,

THE HOME. Useful Whiting.—A packet of whiting is invaluable in a household. There are many uses to which it can be put. Mirrors and windows cleaned with a little liquid metal polish and finished with a dry duster sprinkled with

powdered whiting get a better finish. Brass and plate are improved if dry whiting is used as a final polish. It removes all black smears which metal polish leaves, and gives more lustre. Plate does ruot tarnish so easily afterwards. If the bath is discoloured, use a damp cloth and a mixture if whiting and kerosene. A good scrubbing mixture for all white woods, especially unpolished wood floors, can be made from half a pound of whiting, half a pound of silver sand, half a pound of sort soap and one pint of cold water, tut whiting, soft soap and water on to boil and stir the sand in. Leave half an hour; then store in jars. NEEDLEWORK. A Tough Little Suit for Sonny. Materials: 1J yards crash, 18ins. wide'; 3yds. blue cotton binding; I small and 4 large buttons (bone); and 1 skein each of stranded cotton m gold, red and blue. Measurements: Blouse: Length, 13jins.; width all round, 24ins.; length of sleeve and shoulder from neck, 6Jins.; round sleeve edge, 9ins. Knickers: Length of side scam, llins.; round leg edge, 14£ins.; round upper edge, 24|ms. The blouse: Fold the crash to make a double piece measuring 14ins. by 18 ins—the fold measuring 18ins. across forming the top of the shoulder. Cut off from the material. Now fold this piece in half bring the four selvedge edges together and mark down the selvedge edges from the top of the shoulder a depth of 6Jins. This upper part is to form the sleeves. On the lower edges, mark from the centre fold towards the selvedge edges 6Jins. Now cut straight up from this mark as far as the sleeve part, then curve round to the selvedge edges, leaving the sleeve 4Jins. wide. Open out to see the shape of the bodice. Now cut a round neck 4jins. in width and 2ins. in depth in the front centre, then cut down the centre to a depth of about 3ins. for the front neck opening. Curve the back of the neck to the depth required. Cut out two pockets each 4ins. square. Curve the lower edges of these. It is best to cut the knickers from an old pair, or from a paper pattern. Backstitch all seams, taking about a third of an inch turnings. Press open flat and herringbone down on each side, then bind the lower edges of the legs and also waistline. Bind the neck and front opening and sleeve edges. Turn up the lower edge of the blouse and herring bone down, then turn in the edges of the pockets and tack. Fold down the upper edges of the pockets and herringbone down, then work some little crossstitch pattern on each side of the front opening and also on each pocket. You can either cross-stitch on the crash, counting the threads for the first few stitches, then work along with these as a guide, or place a piece of canvas on the crash and work over this. Draw out the canvas threads, when the work is completed. Stitch the pockets in position, buckstitching dose to the edges. - Press the work well with a hot iron over a damp cloth. Make two buttonholes on the front and the same on the back of the knickers. Sew buttons to meet these at the height required on the blouse. Make a tiny loop on one side of the front opening and sew the small button on the opposite side. HEALTH. To prevent indigestion.—The most common cause of indigestion at all ages is wrong food, or over-feeding. The digestive organs need regularity and moderation, and if you demand too much thev collapse. Acidity, heartburn, headaches and sickness are common symptoms. To prevent it eat your food at regular times and chew slowly and thoroughly. Don’t drink liquid with your meals, but always a glass of fresh water a few minutes before. This washes away all the excess of secretion and leaves a stomach fairly clean to receive the food. Don’t eat too much bread and butter; the combination is good in moderation, but deadly indigestible in excess. Butter has the highest caloric value and an excess of it will produce acidity and rheumatism. If you already suffer from acidity and heartburn the best remedy is to take, half-an-liour after meals, a teaspoonful of a mixture containing bicarbonate of soda, carbonate of magnesia, and carbonate of bismuth, in equal parts. This will neutralise the excess of your acidity and allow you to digest your meals normally. But remember that prevention is better than cure and that the stomach carries the feet.