WOMEN’S NOTES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 158, 5 June 1937, Page 12

WOMEN’S NOTES.

HEALTH. (By Miss Mary Tallis.) Small Blemishes. —Seborrhoea is a greasy red rash, chiefly affecting the forehead and nose, and is always accompanied by dandruff. It is impossible to cure it unless the dandruff is treated. This is treated by shampoos once or twice a week, and by rubbing into the scalp 20 grains of salycilic acid to an ounce of spirit, every night. Sulphur ointment is used for the rash on the forehead and nose. The red nose that is ascribed to indigestion or over-indulgence in alcohol is another form of acne. It will often disappear like magic if 20 drops of dilute hydrochloric acid are taken before each meal in a tumbler of water or orange juice. Freckles are not always a blemish. The best treatment is prevention by avoiding exposure to the sun. Peroxide of hydrogen can he employed with safetv. The use of mercurial ointments is far from safe, and should be avoided. COOKING. Three novelties for dinner. —Of course, a simple hors-d'oeuvres is easily prepared, but to begin the meal with iced melon cubes gives, it a more novel touch. Cut the slices of melon into -5-in. cubes, lightly dust with castor sugar- and pile roughly into longstemmed glasses; chop a little iireserved ginger very small, enough to make 1 dessertspoonful (flat) lor each glass, and 1 teaspoonful of lemon juice to each, and place in the refrigerator until a/few minutes before required. It isn’t imperative that these should be put into the refrigerator, but. being so cold they give a delightful freshness to the appetite. Blackberry bells are just the right cold sweet after rich food. Hull l£lb. black-, berries, place them in a howl and coven with 6oz. castor sugar; leave for 12 hours, then remove the berries from the liquid which has formed, and rub theih through a sieve. Put i gill of the liquid aside, and add the puree to the remainder. If there is 2-pt. of juice and puree, add \ oz. powdered gelatine to the i gill of juice, heat a little, then add to the puree. Turn into small bell-sliaped wetted moulds,

and unmould in the usual way. Decorate round the edges with stifflywhipped cream forced through a rose icing tube. For a cooked sweet plum charlotte is excellent. Take lib. plums, 0 oz. breadcrumbs, 2oz. suet, 4oz. sugar. Stone plums, grease piedish and put in a layer ol breadcrumbs, then some of the plums, suet, breadcrumbs and sugar until the dish is full: breadcrumbs to be the final layer. Put a nut o’l butter hero and there and cook for 1 hour in a moderate oven and serve with custard. EXERCISE. Dancing and skating.—The three outstanding things menfolk dislike in a dancing partner are stiffness, - . unsteadiness, and heaviness, and if you err a trifle, or a great, deal, in these directions, here is an exercise that will train you out of all three. A tinv jump goes with tlie movement, so Tightly done that it will not inconvenience anyone ejse. Stand feet together, the arms held lightly and gracefully out sideways, and rise to your toes. Give a slight jump and come down with the hands curving above the head, the spine curved backwards, the weight mostly oil the left foot, the knee of which leg is bent and the right leg extending straight backwards, the toes just touching the ground. The exercise is taken in this way. Jump feet together, jump again to the left ' foot, bending the left knee as the right foot is swung back as far as possible and lightly put to the ground. Immediately bring the feet together and jump- again, then on the right foot as the left is stretched backwards. Try it to fox-trot music, repeating , the movement a number of times without stopping. Here is a splendid exercise for strengthening the knees and ankles and improving the shape of the legs in general; it will help you greatly with your skating. The seat of a chair or stool will do for finger-tip support. Squaff down on your heels at full arm-length from the chair. Now. with a little jump stretch your left leg forward, straight

out beside tlie chair. Bring your left leg- back and stretch your right leg out in a similar manner. Go through these movements to waltz time several times, counting 1-2-3 for each movement as you make it. Be very particular to keep your back straight and head up throughout the exercises GENERAL. Colours for comfort.—AVlien Piccard made his first journey into the stratosphere, where the temperature is about 75 below zero, the gondola of his balloon reached the sweltering temperature of 100 degrees above zero. The •black paint of his little ark caught the sun’s rays and converted them into heat. On his second visit lie painted his gondola white, and as white deflects the sun’s rays, lie shivered in a temperature bordering on freezing point. For the same reason you feel wanner when snow is on the ground than when it isn’t, temperature being the same. The white spreads the heat around ! and doesn’t let it sink into the ground. When people wear white in summer—or light tints of yellow, blue or green—the sun’s attack is thwarted like rain against a pane of glass. Water tanks, tents and summer dwellings should also be of some light colours. We are learning many now ways to use colour for our greater comfort. safety and even health. “Mood conditioning” is coming into vogue in room illumination. Blue-green in now common in hospital operating rooms. It rests the surgeon’s eyes. One hospital recently had a whole floor of rooms finished in colour. So popular was this move that nurses as well as patients were keen to be assigned to this floor. An. asylum in Illinois uses red to perk up cases of melancholia. People with shattered nerves have found comfort in a room bizarrely decorated with gaudy checks and stripes of colour; it gives their minds a sensory release. Green light has been tried oil criminals in a mirrored room to make their guilt seem written on their faces and therefore obvious to the world. In the new coloured movies, blue and red, foremost sensation colours, are going make you feel as the director wants you to feel.