EYEBROW INDICATIONS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19203, 20 June 1924, Page 8

EYEBROW INDICATIONS.

It is possible to .estimate, to some extent, the character of a person by a study of the eyebrows (says a writer in “Home Chat”). If they aro thick and bushy tho owner is an active person, more a man or woman of action than a thinker, more practical than imaginative. Overhanging eyebrows, close over the eyes, indicate discernment and good power of analysis, keen judgment, and close observation. " Such persons are most interesting to know, because they notice so much more than people whose eyebrows aro placed high above the eyes. Should these also be lightly marked they denote a tendency towards indolence. Colour is important. If lighter in tint than the hair, they show delicacy of health, or, at least, a lack of stamina. Dark eyebrow's denote patience, and most clever people have these. Perpendicular wrinkles between tho eyebrow's are an indication of honesty. Eyebrows that meet show a sincere but often jealous disposition, while those that aro red belong to a person of great ambition. CARE OF THE DRESSING TABLE. It is not a bit of use having nice brushes and dressing table fittings if they aro kept untidy and (dare I say it ?) not scrupulously clean (writes “H.G.” in the Daily Chronicle). Silver-backed brushes and mirror certainly do take a good deal_ of looking after, but if you keep a chamois leather in tho dressing-table drawer it is a small matter to give them a rub up in odd moments. Tortoiseshell very soon loses its polish, and, if left in the sun, gets horrible marks on it, and looks like horn. _ Tho shell may he kept in good condition by polishing occasionally with a drop of linseed oil. Don’t wait until the shell has lost its pristine beauty, but keen it polisher! from the time it comes into your possession. Ebony is best treated with a little sw'eet oil and polished with a soft. cloth. Ivory can he kept white by giving it an infrequent, dressing with a paste made of whiting and lemon juice Tin's will tend to bleach it. It is then finished with the tiniest drop of sw’eet oil and a soft cloth. When washing hair brushes u.se a shallow lather. Keep the banks out of it. and cleanse the bristles by beating them up and down in the water. Afterwards rinse the brushes in cold water to which a little alum has been added, and dry them in the open air. AH brashes should lie kept scrupulously clean both for tho sake of your hair and for the appearance of yonr dressing-table. A hair tidy is not as a rule a. thing of beauty Most people have adopted tho plan of having a wastepaper basket to match the bedroom ns a receptacle for combings, soiled pieces of cotton wool, etc. I saw, in a very dainty room, an oldfashioned mahogany tea caddy put to a novel use. it was one of those winch had two side containers for tea and a cut-glass bow! in the centre, presumably for sugar. One of tho containers now held powder and the other hid the face lotion and cream ; wiiile the centre hold the cotton wool, without which no modern woman’s toilet table is complete.