BEAUTY HINTS FROM MANY NATIONS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19197, 13 June 1924, Page 10

BEAUTY HINTS FROM MANY NATIONS.

Every nation has its beautiful women, and catch nation has some special feature for which its women are renowned (says a writer in the World’s News). By studying tho treatment that these nations give to their own particular “beauty,” many useful toilet secrets can be learnt. The Irish colleen owes the transparency of her matchless complexion to the use of raw potato. A large potato is peeled, cut into slices about an inch (hick, and rubbed over the face and throat. The potato juice acts as a slight astringent on the skin, and has a most wonderful bleaching effect, making it clear and transparent. The beauties of Jersey use a ripe tomato for the same purpose, with very excellent results. FROM SPAIN. The Spanish woman, who is noted for the luxuriance of her hair, attributes its beauty, and the fact that she so seldom possesses a single grey hair till she is, comparatively speaking, quite old. to the regular uso of pp.ro olive oil. Not only does she take oil at any and every meal, hpt almost all her food is cooked in oil. and she gives her scalp regular massage with olive oil, brushing a little into the hair after the scalp massage is finished. ITALIAN EYE!*. Beautiful eyes are the great attraction jf the Italian woman, and, to make and keep • them clear and bright, every alternoon. when she takes her “siesta” or “afternoon nap,” she wrings a cloth out in very hot water sprinkles it with a few drops of eau de Cologne, folds it like a handkerchief, and lays it across her closed eyes. The secret of the French woman’s attraction is her “chic,’ and this is a secret which is not easily learned, for “chic” is a gift and cannot he acquired. From (he Trench woman, however, the would-be beauty can learn to adapt her dress, her coiffure, and all the little accessories of her toilette to suit her own personality, for it is on that so much of the French woman’s smartness depends. Another secret of a french woman's beauty is the way she holds herself—rarely allowing lierseh to walk badly, shoulders 'forward, hips twisting beneath a tight, dress, and arms at awkward angles.