GUARD YOUR GOOD LOOKS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 30 March 1929, Page 9

GUARD YOUR GOOD LOOKS

LESSONS FROM JAPAN (By Cynthia Rayne) Travellers in Japan cannot fail to notice how youthful are the faces of the old women. This is due to the'freedom of the Japanese from facial tricks. Girls are tnugh from childhood not to frown or to 'make faces.' ' Certain tricks produce disastrous results. Raising the eyebrows continually is, perhaps, the most common of all. Wrinkles in the forehead, once firmly established, arc almost impossible to rub away. Some people raise one eyebrow, only, when speaking, With a young and ingenuous face, this is very attractive, but about ten years of it will produce an unpleasant crisscross wrinkle on that side of the forehead. DON'T BIT YOUR LIPS Biting the lips coarsens them and spoils their shape, yet this is a frequent habit among women. Some nervous women have a habit of catching a corner of the lower lip in the teeth and slightly biting it. This will disfigure the mouth, and will bring a long unhappy-looking line down from the corner of the nose, It will be easier to refrain from,biting the lips if you never allow them to become rough. Put a soothing cream on them at night, and keep a white lip salve always in your handbag to use before going out. GUARD YOUR EYES Drawing the mouth down at the corners while thinking will end in setting the feature in that uncompromising and unpleasing position. Many a woman who looks stern is as gentle as a lamb, but has allowed herself, earlier in life, to fall into a bad muscular habit. Squinting when looking at anything is common to a great many people, and is mainly responsible for the tiny little wrinkles which come around the eyes and give women a tired and faded look. It may come from some defeet in vision, in which case have, the eyes tested at once. .MOMENTARY MTTSJNGS Just now and then—not too often! —try patting yourself on the back when you're feeling blue. Only under severe provocation, mind you, and when you're in desperate need of a tonic that no one else seems inclined to administer. There is all the difference in the world between maudlin selfpity and a little healthy self-approval that fights back the tears and recaptures, lost self-confidence. Don't dwell on your sense of injury at the hands of a malign fate. Concentrate on the little successes you've had in happier days. And make yourself believe there are more where they came from, so to speak! That is, from right inside your innermost self. Your fighting self, that knows how to put its back to the wall. Don't worry yourself into inefficiency and an inferiority complex. Bank on those modest but most encouraging past successes, and determine to better them I M. de F. ADHESIVE TAPE TO THE RESCUE Sometimes you liappen across a match-bead that flies off with an angry little glow, and leaves a hole in n, pretty frock you have donned for a special occasion. If you stick a square of adhesive tape over the back of the hole, and rub the "scorch" gently with a piece of material, the

damage will be almost invisible in a very little while. '1 he same convenient "first-aid" medium is very handy in the kitchen. Adhesive tape bound round a panhandle, for instance, that is usually too hot to hold, will prevent burnt lingers. Then there are those wonderfully attractive and becoming little rubber aprons housewives have fallen in love with. They are easily torn, alas, in the wear-and-tear of life At the first symtom of impending disaster cut off a piece of adhesive tape about an inch longer than the split part, and stick it carefully over the wrong side. On the right side the "mend" will be invisible. It is likewise an excellent plan to strengthen simps by re-inforeing them with the tape where they most take the strain. Often a tin that in very useful for storing some kitchen commodity or other lias the drawback of a dangerously sharp edv'. Bind this edge with another little length from your spool of adhesive plaster-tape. Do not press it down too tightly over the actual edge.

"SPECIAL CHEESE STRAWS" Mix together one cupful of grated cheese, one cupful of flour, one teaspoonful of baking powder, quarter of a teaspoonful of paprika, a pinch each of cayenne-pepper and salt. When well blended, pour in one beaten egg and mix again; now add sufficient milk to make a stiff dough,, which must be rolled out to a thickness of a quarter of an inch on a floured board. Cut into "straws," and bake for fifteen minutes in a hot oven.

The practical vogue for the two-in-one toilette is beautifully illustrated in this model of old-rose crepe satin and lace. The sleeveless frock, cut with an inset cascading flare at one side and a broad swathed sash at waist, is perfectly suitable for informa, dinner or dance wear. With the addition of the lace coatee, made with long sleeves and bound with the satin, it immediately takes on the guise of a very smart afternoon gown for more or less formal occasions.

CORN BREAD WITHOUT YEAST AN AMERICAN RECIPE Cream toirether thrce-uuiirtcrs ol r cupful of granulated sugar and a quarter of a cupful of butter. Beat two eggs until very light and frothy, and add these to the sugar find butter, with one cupful of milk. Mix well, and add one cupful of flour and one cupful of cornineal, sifted together witli two teasiioonsful of baking powder and half ;: teasponnful of suit. Beat lightly and quickly, turn into a, shallow pan, and bake. The oven should be hot when the bread goes in, but the temperature should be lowered as it cooks.