WOMEN’S NOTES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 82, 5 March 1938, Page 12

WOMEN’S NOTES.

FASHIONS.

(By Miss Diary Tallis.) Screwy hats.—lt doesn't matter how fantastic our fiats arc, and designers are certainly doing their best this season to make us look startling and different. Here are a few hats I have recently seen: A pirate hat in black rice straw-, decorated with a pigtail of carpet wool tied with a taffeta bow. Flat hats like plates and high hats like dunces’, caps. Mexican hats with disappearing crowns, and tiny matadors’ caps secured with ribbon chinstraps. A fabric hat in sailor shape, decorated by running sealing-wax in various colours over very stiff taffeta. It is called “Summer lightning.” A silk cap in candy pink with a strap meeting in two points under the chin. It is trimmed witli a huge hunch of dark blue violets lined witli scarlet. To wear with it is a matching muff with a Victorian pattern picked out in flowers. “Back to Nature” hats from Paris, featuring decorations of crab-apple, corn and even vegetables, such as carrots and turnips. Paris is also sponsoring hats with pockets. I saw a black felt beret with a slit pocket at each side for tiny coloured handkerchiefs. BEAUTY, Good-bye, summer.—Summer is passing, and with it will go tho suntan you have acquired during the past months. Your trouble now is that witli tne passing of the suntan, and the use of suntan powders, which have a tendency to stain the skin, your face may show signs of sallowness. To prevent this you must be particular with your cleansing and general treatment of the skin, and witli your make-up Sour milk is a- soothing and whitening treatment for any type of skin. Simply strain it through butter muslin, then either hatlie your face and neck with it, letting it dry on, or else saturate a square of muslin in it, first having cut breathing Jioles for mouth and nose. It is the til in part of the milk that you use, but there is no 'need to waste the solid remainder. Squeeze it well while still in the muslin, mix it with an equal amount of cold cream, and keep it in a jar to use for deep cleansing massage. Powder needs careful choosing in the autumn. You are probably mixing a pale powder in with the remains of tho suntan colour, adding a little more every few days as ,ou get fairer. The exact reverse, in fact, of springtime powder blending. If you are the least inclined to be sallow, or pallid, choose a pinkish tone of powder, whether you arc buying a new box specially for this in-between season, or blending your own shade. A clever make-up hint for this time of the year is to use two powders; first a pale one to hide any patchy traces of sunburn, then either a light shade of suntan or one of the deeper all-the-year-round colours, like apricot or rose cream dark. The light powder should be put on thickly, then brushed with a complexion brush. The darker powder is fluffed on lightly so as not to disturb the first coating. LAUNDRY. Making washing easy. —Rubber wringers should have the tension relieved'immediately after use. Otherwise, if severe pressure is Jolt on the rollers for a time there is a tendney for a “flat” to develop, and the rollers will lose their circular shape. It is important to wash the metal parts. A piece of lemon-peel boiled with towels or teaclotlis makes them beautifully white. Fresh orange-peel is very good for restoring black shoes to their original smartness. Rub well with the inside of the rind and polish with the inside of a cloth. When washing chamois gloves, add a few drops of olive oil to the last rinsing water. This will make them dry withoput harshness and they will wear better. An easy and well-reeommenrded way to dry-clean is as follows: —Warm a block of salt in the oven break off a piece and rub the soiled fabric. As soon as the piece of salt becomes discoloured, discard it and use another. Shake the garment well, brush, and hang up in the air. HOUSEKEEPING. Around your house.- —Inkstains on wood may be removed with oxalic acid. Put it on with a brush. Electroplate ware will not tarnish if packed in perfectly dry flour, and will retain its first brilliance even after long periods of storage. A pinch of salt put into the 'vase with African marigolds will prevent the water from smelling offensively and help the flowers to keep fresh longer. Do the daily dusting with a chamois leather wrung out tightly in warm water. It is suitable for any, except French-polished furniture, and gives amazing results. Uso a typewriter brush (with long flexible bristles) for removing dust from carved, or seagrass, furniture.