WOMENS NOTES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 68, 16 February 1935, Page 11

WOMENS NOTES.

i EXERCISE; r (By Aliss Alary Tallis.) AA 7 hat of your pillows: It’s no good 1 trying to cure a double chin or fat neck if you intend to sleep on two pillows and a bolster. Many people say they cannot sleep unless their head is higher than the rest of them, but actually it is much healthier to lie flat, and it s really only a matter of getting ; used to it. And, think of how those two pillows push your head forward, . thickening the line of your chin 1 Try ■ taking the bolster away first, and then ■ one pillow and let the remaining one be as thin as possible. If you can sleep without a pillow at all, so much the better. It sounds dreadfully uncomfortable, blit when you think of the Japanese, who sleep with their heads on boards which have a groove in them to accommodate the head, the idea of an ordinary mattress seems perfectly normal—and the Japanese women have no trouble with their chin-line 1 AA T hile you sleep on your low pillow, wear a chillstrap. This is merely a length of linen tied under the chin and over the top of the head; or you can buy an elaborate rubber one which straps round the back of the head as well as over the top. The chin-strap braces up all the back muscles which hold the flesh under the chin tain, and massages away that superfluous fat. If you use a reducing cream before you put on your chin-strap, that will improve matters, too. And don’t forget, whether you have a double chin already, or are just afraid of getting one, hold your head up, first, last and all the time! Give those lazy muscles something to do. And there’s one other tiling. A double chin can be just localised fat, or sometimes it may be just one of the troubles which come when you are too fat all over. If so, then you must reduce—and that’s not so very unpleasant, and the resultant health and energy, wonderful. GENERAL. How to knit.—AVhen working with two balls of wool: It sometimes happens that one uses two balls of wool (often of different colours) and when, for instance, , one ball is used for the border lip the front of a coat, and the other for the main part of the work, tile wools must always be wound round each other when changing from one ball to the other, otherwise a nasty hole will he left in tile work. Lace Stitches.—No beginner should ever attempt a lace-stitch of a really intricate pattern to start with, for until one is used to working them, one which entails-the constant reading of several rows of instructions will be found both bothersome and tiring. Here are two very simple lace-stitches which are exceedingly pretty and lacylooking, and any beginner will be able I to work them with ease and pleasure. The Fan Pattern: This pattern is divisible by 12 stitches. Ist row 7 : *Knit 2 stitches together twice. Then make 1 (by putting the wool forward over the needle), knit 1 four times then knit 2 stitches together twice, and repeat from * to end of row. 2nd. row: Purl all stitches. 3rd. row: Knit all stitches. 4th row: Purl all stitches. These four rotvs form the pattern and should be repeated for length required. Three stitch pattern : As its name implies this pattern is divisible by three stitches, and every row is worked tho same. Pattern row : Slip 1 stitch, knit 2 stitches, * make 1 stitch (by throw'ing wool over needle), knit 2 stitches together, knit 1, and repeat from * to end of row 7. After tea, the tea leaves and remaining ivater should be turned into a bowl and allow'ed to stand until cold. Bathing the eyes with this solution will prevent sties, sore eyes, etc., during summer and autumn.