WOMAN'S WORLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14587, 25 January 1911, Page 10

WOMAN'S WORLD.

THE WRINKLE CROP,

Youth is the time when a woman should begin her fight against that enemy to beauty, the wrinkle. If she waits until she is middle-aged to combat this stealthy foo it is too late ; the wrinkle has established its cobweb of lines across the face. It has a spider-like cunning and persistence that will require all the self-control a woman, can muster to outwit it.

Few women realise how early this enemy begins its work of undermining beauty. The child who is encouraged to make an ugly face because it is amusing soon develops a funny trick into an ugly habit, and the first foothold in given to the wrinkle. The woman who uses her face to give emphasis to a sarcastic remark is lessening her beauty. The girl who i-miles spasmodically and acquires facial affectations is writing lines upon her face.

The woman who makes no effort to change a sullen disposition will soon possess a countenance that has long lines carved upon it. The quick temper and the melancholy temper are both aids to the wrinkle. It is possible to suffer deeply anil yet show a serene face to the world if women will only practise selfcontrol.

Many wrinkles arc produced by nervousness or bad eyesight, and in children are formed from fitting in an incorrect position, and sometimes from the hair being allowed to hang loose and blow into the eyes. THE ART OF DRESSING. The well-dressed woman is not the one who spends the most on her dress, but she who knows her own type and satisfies it. There is a great art in wearing what is becoming, and it is the secret of many a woman's beauty as well as of her reputation for smart dressing. The woman who studies her type knows better than to follow fashion slavishly. Remember that clothes count quite as much as features and colouring in making a beautiful woman, and she who does not choose apparel to suit her special style will fall short of her full measure of good looks. Thus a girl with a piquant face and bright expression may wear a turn-down collar to perfection, but a woman of rugged features and sallow colouring will look ridiculous in this distinctly youthful item 01 dress. It is folly for a woman with a receding chin and dull, small eyes, to adopt a severely simple stylo of dress. What she* needs is fluifiness, something to soften her face and conceal her defects. A CURB FOR SHYNESS. Some people take refuge from shyness in assuming- a manner of extreme hauteur. They affect a coldness which, they do not feel. Within they may be filled with sympathy, love, and a feeling of friendship, but it is impossible for them to express their aorrtiments or to show them in any way. _ These people suffer, for they long to give out the sympathy and love that they feel, and they also long for the affection and sympathy of others. Rut shyness prevents their being able to express it to others, and their coldness of manner prevents others from showing the interest they may feel in them. <To forget self is the best cure for shyness. AN UNSATISFACTORY POSITION. The engaged girl's aim should be to win the liking and confidence of her future relations-in-law, no matter how little congenial she may chance to find them, and it must be admitted that it does not always follow that because a -woman loves a-man she finds his family lovable too. She should make up her mind, however, to put up with much if need be, to endure, to be patient, and to overlook that which jars on her. She must realise that from henceforth her husband's people are to, be her own people, and that if she- is not prepared to take the rough with the smooth in that relation she had better give her engagement up, for of, a certainty eh© will have to put up with more-trying conditions than relations built on a pattern of which she does not approve during the course of her married life. ON "GOSSIP." An American professor declared recently that " without the reaction of gossip", women would become insane." This is rather a startling statement. If he had said some women would have become insane he would probably have been nearer the truth. To certain types of women gossip is the spice of life. They could as soon do without it- as they could do without food or drink. , It imparts a zest and joyousness to life which nothing elsecould give them. Gossip often acts as a deterrent to wrong-doing. Prison walls have fewer terrors for the feminine mind than other women's tongues. It is the thought of " what people will say" that keeps many in the straight and narrow path. Those who do not wish to bo gossipped about should so comport themselves as to entirely disarm criticism. About whom are the tongues of the talkative most continuously busy? Assuredly about the backsliders. That is why the criminal, the adventuress, the crooked members of society generally are voted " so interesting" by the law-abiding section of the community. They are interesting because they provide food; for conversation. How often does one hear the exclamation, " I hate good people," or, "I hate perfect people," on the lips of the highly respectable ? Why do they cherish this- hatred ? Simply because the "good" and "perfect" people provide no suitable material for gossip. It is certainly annoying to those with a genius for gossip, and the hatred is perhaps justifiable from their point of view. Many people confuse gossip with scandal, but" the two things are quit© different. The scandal-monger is usually detested, while the gossip is often universally popular. In fact, the popularity which it brings in its train is one of the I strongest, incentives to gossip. A really j accomplished gossip is a social acquisi- ' tion. Thousands of people who do not j gossip themselves, like to listen to- it. It i saves them the trouble of talking. The ! gossip is generally good-natured. The scandal-monger seldom is. After all, what is more interesting than human nature ? That is the stock-in-trade of the gossip, as it is of the novelist and dramatist.— The - Gentlewoman. IMPROVING THE THROAT. Tho throat is such an index of age if neglected, and so beautiful if properly cared for, that its culture, and development claim much of the time and thought of the woman who wishes to preserve her comeliness. Good general exercises are throwing tho neck from side to side, and bending the neck and head, first over one shoulder and then over tho other. These are easy movements, and if the body is not swayed during the process are very beneficial. The woman with the fat chin needs more specific exercises, and so does tho one who is afflicted about her attenuated neck.

To get rid of superfluous flesh on the chin every night, before going to bed give the throat repeated dashes of cold water. Then with the lips of the lingers, standing before the glass, gently massage the chin, starting near the top of the neck and working the skin up to ho cheek bones a little at a. time. Ten or twelve times at once will be sufficient, after which the neck should be dabbed with eau do Cologne. .Another treatment is to hold the head back as far as possible, and while still in this position to move it swiftly from shoulder to shoulder ; a fatiguing exercise which should be done, carefully and for a few minutes at a time. After a few nights of this treatment, which must bo done in a loose robe, with nothing round the neck, the exercise can be changed by allowing the head to droop heavily in front to strengthen tho muscles. The same exercise helps a thin neck to become rounder. The only chances that jiecd take- place is that hot water should be^

used at night instead of cold,; 5 nd the neck be thoroughly rubbed with a rough towel A dash of cold water at the ias I proves an. incentive to sleep and a protection against j cold. As an adjunct to these <-.\-j 'rcises'EiasI sage can be used. With a basin of hot water no ir at hand the neck should be bathed ltrei 1 the skin ■j in red. Then, with plenty 01 cold cream rubbed on the hands, the throstt should 'bo j stroked firtt with the right hind and then j with the left. The stroking most he kept up vigorously, and more cream applied when the hand** got dry. This !;r««tmenl is j very effectual, and must be repealed at in. j tervals after (ho neck has as-alined good 1 proportions.