The Beauty Experts.

Otago Witness, Issue 3112, 5 November 1913, Page 64

The Beauty Experts.

WHAT THE BEST OF THEM HAVE TO SAY ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS.— HOME RECIPES. Permanently Removing Superfluous hair. “Toilet Gossip,’’ How to permanently, not merely temporarily, remove a downy growth of disfiguring superfluous hair, is what many women wish to know. It is a pity that it is not more generally known that pure powdered pheminol, obtainable from the chemists, may be used for this purpose. It is applied directly to the objectionable hair. The recommended treatment not only instantly removes the hair, leaving no trace, but is designed also to kill the roots completely. * * * The natural allacite of orange -blossoms makes a capital greaseless face cream. It holds the powder perfectly, and the natural odour of this product is, of course, most delightful. Many of the smartest women are now using it exclusively because it does not encourage a growth of hair on the face. * * * ' The annoying body odour sometimes resulting from perspiration can be instantly neutralised by the occasional application of powdered (white) pergol. Renewing Complexions with Oxygen. “ Handy Recipes.” Everyone knows that oxygen consumes waste matter in the body. A poor complexion is merely the accumulation of half deadened, or waste matter, upon the surface of the skin. It sticks on stubbornly, showing in the form of sallowness, moth patches, and a generally lifeless appearance. Oxygen may be used with advantage in removing tnis disfiguration. Any chemist should be able to supply mercolized wax. This contains oxygen in a form that is released when it comes in contact with the skin. Naturally the oxygen attacks the deadened matter, but does not affect the healthy skin at all. Thus a few applications of this' perfectly harmless substance soon begins to clear the skin and reveal the beautiful complexion which every woman has just underneath the ugly one. The process is pleasant and harmless, and involves no inconvenience whatever. * * * To bring a natural red colour to the lips, rub them with a soft stick of prolactum. * * * For hot, tired, or perspiring feet, use a teaspoonful of powdered onaTite in a foot bath.

What Wcmen Hate. “ Helpful Gossip.” Every woman hates a shiny nose and a dull or greasy complexion. Few know that there is an instantaneous remedy at hand in the home, one that is absolutely harmless, and that defies detection even under the closest scrutiny. If you have no cleminite in the house get about an ounce fro.m your chemist, and add just sufficient water to dissolve it. A little of this lotion applied to the face will instant] v cause the greasiness to disappear, and the skin will have a perfectly natural velvety, youthful bloom that any woman might envy. The effect will last for many hours, and no powder is required, even under the most trying conditions, indoors or out. To prepare the face, neck, and arms for a long evening in a hot ballroom nothing can compare with this simple home-made lotion. * * - To make the eyelashes grow long, dark, and curling, apply a little mennaline with the finger tips occasionally. It is absolutely harmless, and beautifies the eyebrows as well. * * * Pilenta soap la the most satisfactory for all complexions. It even works well in cold or hard water. A Stiange Shampoo. “ Cosy Corner Chats.” , * * * I was much interested to learn from this young woman with the beautiful glossy hair that she never washes it with soap or artificial shampoo powders. Instead she makes her own shampoo by dissolving a teaspoonful of stallax granules in a cup of not water. “ I make my chemist get the stallax for me,” said she. “ It comes only in sealed packages, enough to make up twenty five or thirty individual shampoos, and it smells so good I could almost eat It.” Certainly this little lady’s hair did look wonderful even if she has strange ideas of a shampoo. I am tempted to try the plan myself. # * * For an actual hair grower nothing equals pure boranium. It is quite harmless, and sets the hair roots tingling with new life. • * * The use of rouge is almost always obvious, but powdered colliandum gives a perfectly natural colour and defies detection. 4

stomach, which they declared "was nothing but an idler subsisting on the fruits of their labour. Therefore the legs refused to go in search of food, the hands to convey it to the mouth, or the mouth to receive it. As a natural consequence, the whole body was reduced to a state of emaciation, and the different members discovered that the work of the stomach was as important as any, if not the most Important. The Senator's aim was to point out that different parts of the body politic were dependent upon one another, and that no part can do wrong without the whole being affected. His appeal was successful, and a reconciliation was brought about. The laws were amended, the people were allowed to elect tribunes as their representatives, and the army returned to its allegiance. The point of this ancient fable has been exemplified over and over again in this present only a question of temporarily limiting Johnny’s sugar supply; it means that the best of the foreign market has been missed by our produce, and the prosperity of the whole community suffers, including, naturally, the strikers themselves. It is a foretaste of what the rule of Syndicalism would be like, if Syndicalism means, as it appears to do, that each section of workers should exploit its own industry solely in its own interests. The thing is impossible. Suppose one’s right leg wanted to go one way and the left the other! The whole body would be rent in twain. That our economic conditions are not perfect only the blindest will deny ; but mutual hate and distrust are not the way to right them. Another besides Menenius Agrippa has pointed out that we are members one of another.

Meanwhile, the papers niake somewhat saddening reading. Unrest and turmoil everywhere, and if one went entirely by the cables one would suppose that there was nothing but robbery, murder, suicide, and accidents going on in the world. It always seems to me that the cable agents must"all have a most peculiar cast of mind. They evidently prefer to sup on horrors, and expect that we shall do the same. The tale of the stolen pearl necklace was no doubt very interesting, but one did get very tired of it (those who like that sort of thing can find all they want in the popular style of detective story), whereas the proceedings of the International Congress of Medicine in London, where problems were discussed that affect the wellbeing of the whole human race, had the scantiest attention paid to it. However, we may be thankful for our mercies, and rejoice that our daily papers are not as the American ones are, judging from the report of the gentleman accompanying the New Zealand football team in California. There they seem to invent horrors if they can’t get enough real ones to make things really exciting. We can depend on our papers for rather more of the truth than Jess. ELIZABETH.