At the Dressing Table.

Otago Witness, Issue 3418, 19 September 1919, Page 55

At the Dressing Table.

By Mimosa,

How Milisent Cheated Father Time. I hadn't seen Milicent for over throe years, when I called on her a few days ago. I knew she had taken up munition work at the beginning of the war, and from what I had heard of her from time to time, hard work, early rising, and late to bed, I quite expected to find iier looking older and very .much the worse for her three years' work. But far from looking jaded and tired, I found her younger and fresher than when I had last seen her. Her complexion wasßsmooth and clear, and her hair brighter and more glossy than before, while the few wrinkles which I remember had entirely disappeared. How She Preserved Her Complexion. After a little persuasion she told me the secret of how sue had not only kept, but improved, her looks during the three years in which we had not met, in spite ot her hard work and late hours. She told me she owed the freshness of her complexion to the . regular use every night of a little plain mercolised wax. This she rubbed gently into the face and neck, leaving it on all night, and washing it oif in the morning with warm water. She had entirely given up the use of powder, which she told me she felt sure caused wrinkles, and was using instead a lotion made by mixing an ounpe of cleminite in about two ounces of water. Th<s lotion gives a most natural appearance, and is beneficial to the skin, and judging by her complexion I can well believe it. Removing the Wrinkles. When I asked what she had dene to remove the little wrinkle's which I had remembered round her eyes and mouth she told me nothing. The use of the mercolised wax had done the trick without any effort on her part. This wax, it seems, gently peels oft' all the dead outer skin, slowly and imperceptibly while one sleeps, and with the dead skin all lines and wrinkles, leaving the fresh young complexion beneath clear and smooth. A Slight Growth of Superfluous Hair. There was another point upon which I was very curiors. Milicent used to have a slight growth of hair on her upper lip, whicn, I am forced to admit; entirely spoilt her claim to being considered a pretty girl, and this too had entirely disappeared, owing to the use, she told me, of a littlo powdered phcminol. After two applications, she said, all traces of the growth had disappeared, but as a precaution she had used some tekko paste for a couple of weeks afterwards. How She Kept Her Hair Bright and Glossy. To keep her hair in good condition she had shampooed it regularly every fortnight with a dessertspoonful of stallax idissolved in hot water, then dried it without rising (as this is not necessary when using stallax) and given it a good brushing. Every month she gave it a stimulant in the form of a simple tonic. For one week in every four she massaged into the roots every night a tonic made by mixing an ounce of boranium with four ounces of Bay Rum or Eau de Cologne. A Perfectly Natural Colour. Milicent had always been naturally pale, and I remarked on the pretty flush which had come into her checks. This, she confessed, was not natural (although it had deceived even an expert like myself), but was brought about by using a little pure which she applied to her checks with a. piece of cotton wool. The beauty of this colour was that it appeared absolutely natural, for it deepened as the atmosphere became warmer, just as u natural colour would.