Girls’ High School Year Ends

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 297, 16 December 1939, Page 11

Girls’ High School Year Ends

BREAKING-UP CEREMONY The Palmerston Jforth Girls’ High School year concluded yesterday with tho customary breaking-up ceremony and presentation of prizes. The speaker for the occasion was Mr. H. C. D. Somerset, Director of the Community Centre, Feilding. Mr. Somerset was welcomed by Mr. M. H. Oram, chairman of the High School Board of Governors, who spoke of the valuable work he was accomplishing in the realm of adult education. Mr. Oram also congratulated Miss E. E. Stephens, principal, and her staff, on the work of the school during the year, and paid tribute to the activities, of the Parents’ Association. Finally, he expressed the hope that next year would see tho establishment of the long-needed art rooms at tho school. Mrs. Oram and Miss Stephens were each presented with bouquets while the latter was also cheered at tho call of one of the pupils. There was also very lino carol and choral singing, including “Jerusalem’’ with orchestral accompaniment under the baton of Miss Mona Dean, and items by the choir. Mrs. Oram presented tho cups and prizes and Miss Stephens took opportunity to refer to particular portions of her published review of tho school year. She returned thanks to the Parents’ Association for tho interest taken in the school. Mr. Somerset’s theme in an addross to the assembled scholars, was that happiness lay in what one did and not what one possessed. Most people found joy in doing things and it Was learniug how to do things at school that brought the greatest pleasures. But to do things took time and diligence, he warned them. Look after your time and regard it as precious, he urged. Go on after school with learning and map out your time to make the most of it, ho added. There were always fresh avenues to tread in the realms of education and age, ho had discovered, was no

RESTORING WEATHER-DAMAGED HAIR TO NEW LIFE

Women have repeatedly been advised that they shouldn't expose their hair to the bleaching and drying effects of a blazing summer sun. If they value the life and luster of their tresses they should also make it a point never to swim without wearing a water-tight cap, because such swimming will dissipate the natural oil of the hair, leaving it dry and lifeless. Regularly, however, I am confronted by women who were careiessiy forgetful about taking such precautions, so their hair has consequently become seriously damaged. Joan Woodbury Such a case as this was provided, for instance, when that pretty and talented starlet, Joan Woodbury, first came to Hollywood. During her first weeks in the film capital she enthusiastically spent most of her spare moments on the sands of nearby Malibu Beach. As the weeks went by, Joan became careless about hair protection. Finally this neglect started to obviously detract from the attractiveness of her coiffure, and restorative steps had to be taken. A close examination of the streaked and brittle strands or weatherDeaten hair will disclose that these strands are not only ugly but that they are actually in an unhealthy condition as well. Tho hair will further show a myriad of split ends; an undue quantity of it will come out when the hair is brushed and combed; and the scalp will probably be very dry, with a great deal ox scale apparent. Showering The sensible steps which must be taken in order to restore life and luster to weather-damaged hair will preserve the natural oils which still remain in the hair, and, as much as is possible, replace the quantity of oil which has been dried out by the sun and wind. For the continued preservation of the natural hair lubrication which has survived a weather-beating, a first and important requirement is that the hair must bo shielded with a waterproof cap or hood while showering. The shampooing routine must be cut down to an absolute minimum of not more than once every ten days, as long .as the hair still has to recover its life and luster. During this recovery period the curling iron must not be used. The heat of this operation would definitely retard the recuperating process by further drying out the essential natural oils. Oil Treatment In dampening the hair, preparatory to putting it up on curlers for the night, water, astringents or colognes should be

I bar to learning. He instanced the class in the study of the German language at Feilding where one of the most progressive pupils was a man of 70. There had been a philosophy 100 years ago called utilitarianism which proclaimed the greatest happiness for the greatest number but unfortunately many inter- : preted that to mean that when everybody had everything all would be happy. To-day that philosophy had to be altered to one of the greatest skill to the greatest number. Mr. Somerset urged the girls to search for the things that were significant, lovely and of good report and weave them into their lives. He warned them against the sin of apathy. “After you leave school continuo with the good things you have started,” Mr. Somerset concluded. Col. J. H. Whyte returned thanks to • the speaker.

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Application, of the oil to both the hair and the scalp can be accomplished effectively, and with a minimum of discomfort, by using a small pad of folded bandage gauze which has been dipped in the warm oiL After the oil has been patted on, it should be steamed through the hair and into the scalp by swathing the head in heavy towels which have been, immersed in very hot water and then wrung nearly dry. The towel should remain . draped around the hair until it has I started to 0001, at which time it should Ibe replaced with another not one. This should be repeated until six or seven towels have been applie«. Hair Cutting 1 For those whose hair has been sun-bur.ned-aud-baked into an extreme degree of drynees and brittleness, it is advisable to cut the hair to as great a degree of shortness as the individual’s type of fajee will attractively allow. This shortening will not only serve to remove the split hair ends, but will also make the remaining hair much easier to condition for a final new growth of soft | and lustrous tresses.