THE WOMAN'S WORLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12072, 16 September 1902, Page 3

THE WOMAN'S WORLD.

«. GLOVES GOING- OUT. Gloves appear to be gradually going out of fashion. They are seldom seen on the river, and we have noticed at the opera that many ladies wear none, though, of course, the great majority do so. Long sleeves are much more becoming than long gloves to pretty arms.—London Truth. THE GERMAN WAY. It is a common practice in Berlin for the wife to stay at home when the husband and family go to the seaside. In this way the wife enjoys her own holiday. For there is no housekeeping to be done; she foregathers with friends" grass widows," like herself and they take their meals at restaurants, spend their afternoons and evenings at popular places of entertainment, and thoroughly enjoy themselves. TOILET SECRETS. A generation or two ago oils and pomades for the hair were all the vogue." Macassar oil and bear's grease were things to conjure with, but they went out of fashion with Elegant Extracts, and are now rarely to bo encountered. Indeed there is a general prejudice against fats of all kinds as dressings for the hair, and the one thing which now reminds us most vividly of a once popular favourite is the antimacassar, invented by careful housewives to protect their chairs and sofas from the greasy heads of our ancestors. This prejudice against fats is perhaps a little overdone. There are cases where a small quantity of grease would really bo helpful, but when this is so it is only necessary to apply it to the roots and not to the hair itself. When the scalp is very dry a little pomade may be rubbed in before dressing the hair. The following will be found a suitable preparation: —Lanoline pomade: Lanoline, 2oz; rose water, ioz; fresh lard, sroz; otto of rose, 4- drops. Any other perfume may, of course, be used instead of rose, say, lavender or rosemary. This should be made in a mortar, but if no mortar be handy, a slab of some kind, or a large dish, may be used, and the mixing done with a rather flexible table-knife. First, blend the rosewater into the lanoline, then add the lard, and lastly the perfume. For washing the hair a little borax should be added to the water, or an egg-julep, made as follows, may be used: Egg julep: White of one egg; water. 7oz; hard soap, shaved very fine or powdered, 1 dram; eau de cologne or spirit of rosemary, ioz; carbonate of potash, half dram. The last is generally called salts-of-tartar. Dissolve the potash in a little of the water, beat the egg white, and whisk into the remainder; then add the dissolved potash, cologne, and powdered soap, and shake or stir, well together. Where the hair is falling and there is scurf, one of the best things to use is the dry shampoo. It is made thus: — Dry shampoo : Tincture of cantharides, loz ; rum, loz; glycerine, -goz; carbonate of amnionic 1 drain: oil of thyme, 8 drops; oil of rosemary, 8 drops; water to make Boz. Dissolve the ammonia in a little water (cold) in an eight-ounce bottle, add the other ingredients and fill up with water. Shake all together, and it is ready. This should he poured -over the head and thoroughly shampooed. If there be much scurf it will lather like soap and when it fails to do this it is an indication that the scalp is free from scurf. The hair is then rubbed dry with a towel and dressed as usual. This is delightfully refreshing. WELL-KEPT HANDS. FOB the rare of the hands a certain toilet outfit is indispensable. This consists of a pair of nail-scissors, a file, some orange-wood sticks, some tiny emery-boards, a pot of cold cream, a little"'borax, a polishing chamois, and a piece of pumice-stone. . Once file the nails the proper shape, oblong, not too pointed, and following the line of the finger, and they will easily be kept so. It is better to file'them than to cat them. Be careful, if you use any kind of polishing powder, not to overdo it. Nothing is so grossly out of taste as to cultivate nails that shine enough to attract attention. They should not be too long or too pointed or too highly polished. Cultivate a happy medium in the art of manicuring, as in the art of dress. It is a very bad plan to wash the hands a dozen times a day. A woman whose household duties comprise practical work, oi whoso occupation obliges her tc handle dusty objects, should as much as possible wear loose gloves while working. These will servo to keep her hands clean, and do away with the necessity for too frequent washing. The hands should never be washed in cold water. Tepid water foi this purpose is best. In case the hands should be very grimy and dirty, the best way to clean them is first to rub them with vaseline or cold cream. Then wipe off with a dry towel every particle of the grease, and rub lemon-juice upon them. Wash this off with a pure soap. Kiuse in clear water, to which a pinch of refined borax has been added, and wipo dry. After the hands have been thus cleansed, and always tfter washing, an emollient cream should be rubbed upon them. -The cream should bo well worked into the skin until there is little oi none,of it left to wipe off. In case you have no lemon, at your disposal, a teaspoonfu) of ammonia in a full basin of water will do almost as well.

When washing the hands, the nails should lie thoroughly brushed with a nail-brush, and the dirt which remains after brushing should bo removed while the nails are yet moist with the end of the orange stick prepared fOi this purpose, or an ivory or celluloid nail-oleaner. Never, under any circumstances, iwo a pointed or edged thing for cleaning the nails. The skin around the nail, and especially at its base, shouuld always, after washing the hands, be gently pushed away with the stick or the rounded end of tiie nail-cleaner.

Never cut the skin around the base of the nail if you can possibly avoid it. Cutting tends to thicken, and you will find that after repeated use of the scissors there are constant little hangnails that demand your attention. .

A hand that is too thin can be filled out by' massage and the wearing at night of glove' - between which arid the skin there should he a thick coating of specially-prc* pared cream. But the cream, however nourishing to the flesh tissue* it may be, is not sufficient without massage to change the shape of the hand. An over-fat baud may be reduced to graceful proportions by massage with air astringent prepa.ra.tion in which there is a good amount of emollient cream. People with red hands should avoid putting them into cold water, and when washing them should use hot waters