THE WELL-GROOMED WOMAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19932, 28 April 1928, Page 6 (Supplement)

THE WELL-GROOMED WOMAN.

The well-groomed woman is particular about her clothes, but she is even more particular about herself. Her figure is kept as nearly as possible at its best, for its type. If extreme slenderness is obviously not what nature intended in her case, she does not try to attain it, because she knows it would mean a haggard face and a scrawny neck as well. But she does keep superfluous flesh at bay by diet and exercise, and she does keep herself graceful and supple by learning and practising tlni movements which make for rhythmic grace. If too great thinness is her enemy, she learns to subdue it by refusing to overdo exercise and excitement; by cultivating a calm philosophy and using judgment over her food. Her face and neck receive a gentler and more detailed treatment. At the end of the day slio dips a pad of cotton wool into eau-de-Cologne, astringent lotion or cold water and then into cold cream. She rubs this all over her face with an upward movement, then takes a fresh pad of cotton wool, treats it as before, and does the same thing for her neck.

After this a good soap and tepid water, softened with bi-carbonato of soda and a few drops of simple tincture of benzoin. After a thorough rinsing, she pats her skin dry and applies a light day cream or sopthing lotion before powdering with a fine powder and a clean puff. Her hair is thoroughly and frequently brushed with brushes that are kept meticulously clean, and chosen for the excellence of their bristles rather than for the beauty of their backs. A few minutes' massage often precedes the brushing; at least, one application of cleansing lotion intervenes between each shampoo; and the waves are kept in order by being sprayed with setting lotion and coaxed into place with the fingers. Her eyes have a bath at least once a day in an eye-cup filled with boracic lotion; and a few minutes' rest in a darkroom with pads of lint soaked in the boracic lotion over each eye, when they are especially tired.