HEALTH BY SIMPLE MEANS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 31 May 1930, Page 12

HEALTH BY SIMPLE MEANS

■ ;* rest kin> exercise (By H. C. Aylen) Every woman needs the right kind of ..rest and the right kind of exercise. if you can only 4, devote a few minute's a day to these important things, it is better than nothing, for it will help you to gain in health and appearance. ,-,. .; The best time for rest is after lunch. Op tint sloop, for the digestive organs work more rapidly when you are awake. Loosen your clothes, lie flat oil a mattress and prop your feet slightly on a pillow or footstool. Put your hand*} with elbows bent, just above your head, and rest for ten rairi,utes»,'.-'---. -;>.--.-.• •■•'.•■•- :"- '•' •*>'..-' Before rising, stretch your body to its utmost. Do this three or four times to;work! jj* '.^ : :;EXe|OISES : ;FOR HEALTH :.■ \ ICever say you have iio time for healthful exercising. Make time !• Get ,upv,halfi an hour or go to bed earlier, so" as to allow for the exercises. mjfc;dforget to begin- every period Of Wat .or exercise with deep breathing ■"before an open window.

Here are several movements that "will, benefit you enormously, if you continue,them regularly:—

■•FOR THE SPINE AND NECK-

Lie flat on the floor. Then rise to a sitting position, legs together; stretch both aims to the full over your head; swing them down, touching the toes. Up again, down to the toes, and so on. . Stretch yourself on the floor. Breathe deeply in and out. Clasp your hands, 'with fingers interlaced, beneath the head. Raise the head slowly from tho floor until the chin touched the chest. Let the hands move the head alternately to right and left, then to, the chest again, and slowly bring the head back to the floor. Again breathe in' and out.

JUST-BEFORE-DINNER % /APPETISERS '

, We are all agreed that the cocktail habit is one that might be ruled but without any hardship. But the custom of taking an "appetiser" before a party meal has grown to such an extent that 4 we m.ust needs devise some means of tickling the palate. Here are suggestions on the subject. ,

The juice of a couple of.grape.fruit, mixed with that of two tangerines, and served with crushed ice and an olive impaled on a little stick, makes an excellent appetiser. If something in the way of bitters is needed, orange bitters may be added, or a little Italian vermouth.

Most women like the appetising little "eats" that accompany the cocktail, so that a dish of cipsp "crackers," warme*& and .spread with butter, and boned anchovies, will amply make up for the lack of the more potent form of ap-Home-made liqueurs, such as sloe gin and cherry-brandy make good, appetisers if mixed with a little. lemoii and orange juice. With such drinks is served.a dish of potato-crisps, heated

for ii few minutes in the oven and Sprinkled with salt and a little cayenne pepper.

Maiiy hostesses arc* now trying to reduce the quantity of the cocktail, offering appetising little "eats" in its place. For the growth of the cocktail fetish is causing some anxiety in the hearts of women who recognise its dangers and disadvantages. Some hostesses are following the practice of serving the hors d'oeuvrcs in the Rus-sian'-'mariner in the room in which the guests assemble before going in to dinner.—-F.F.