A “SENSIBLE” BEAUTY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3525, 4 October 1921, Page 55

A “SENSIBLE” BEAUTY.

Beauty, said Elizalx-th, “is n. talent. Cultn ate it, and it increases tenfold ; bury it m a napkin, and it dies. In other words, she addbd for the benefit of her puzzled little friend, if you ch*n t taKe care of your looks, you soon won't have any left tu take care of.” looked sad. She was a pretty thing, very dependent on her colouring for her charm. In the strong hght her email face was revealed as being a shad© too powdered, the eyelashes darkened artificially; the soft hair a trifle too obviously ‘ waved.” J ler strong-minded friend R'izabeth sat with the late afternoon sun pouring over her face and hair, and revealing no flaw in her exquisite skin. I ler sober dress was a foil to the whiteness of her neck and the smooth forehead, from which the golden hair rippled back. Dark eyebrows and i long curling lashes emphasised the clearness I her eyes. She v.us good to look at. [ Yet Elizabeth was apparently scornful of ! y cr own good looks, cared little about pretty j frocks, and ran a Government Department i Wl “* greatest efficiency and common sense. Kiizabeth, ’ said the Bride, “it’s all very wed for you to be so sneering about powder and things, but you’ve got a perfect skin and gorgeous hair. I have to make up a bit. My dear child, ’ said Elizabeth, “of Jours© I take reasonable care of my looks, just- as 1 wash my hands and shine my shoes. You can’t leave everything to nature; we all start well enough—look at ; babies’ skins—but we don’t wear well. All this powder has a good enough effect—for j a time but sooner or later vour skin gets coarse and there’s no biding'it.” i -J said iho Bride, “that instead I of lecturing you would tell me what to ! «°- , You say ‘take care of your looks' and | ‘don’t powder,’ but what shall I do?” I .V our common sense,” said Elizabeth. ! ‘lf you thought deeply, you would soon see that making a mask of cream and powder over your face blocks up the pores and makes your skin rough and spotty. What you want is to peel off the soiled outer skin and give the new one underneath a chance to snow itself. Get some ordinary tnercolised wax from your chemist, rub it on i at night, and wash it off with good soap j and water in the morning i Or if you are in a hurry, wash your face first, and before : it is quite dry, rub the wax on. and dry your face with a towel. Either of these processes absorbs the old soiled outer skin and leaves the new clean complexion underneath revealed in all its beauty.” But, objected the Bride, “my nose gets So shiny. I must powder.” “There are other ways of preventing a shiny nose,” said Elizabeth, “my secret is a homely one. Just get some cleminite, j dissolve it in water, and use it as a lotion I for your face and nock. It wants to be ■ rubbed into the skin until it is quite dry, I ami then it leaves a nice, even bloom, and I prevents all ‘shininess.’ Besides it doesn’t I look a bit like ‘make-up,’ it just gives your j face a kind of peach-like bloom which is a j distinct asset.” “I suppose,” said the Bride, “there ig no home-made substitute for rouge, is there? ) Because, you know, I look dreadful when j I'm pale.” Elizabeth thought a minute. “I don’t know why powdered colliandum [ wouldn’t he an excellent thing. It is a soft j dull pink, and it tends to deepen a. little lin a warm room. I should be inclined to j try that. Of eour-e, prolactum is the cnlv | thing for keeping your lips smooth anil ! healthily red. You know that of course.” “One more problem,” said the Bride, j “before I married, I used to put rriy hair in curlers. Now I leave it loose at night, because Jack likes to see it down, and of course I have to wave it with tongs nearly • every day. I'm so worried because all the ; colour’s going—I actually found some grey hairs the other day. filial] I use hernia or | what to make it bright again?” "Henna, of course not,” said the emphatio Elizabeth, “you don’t want to dye your i hair at twenty-two —or at sixty-two if you’re sensible. You must get some tammalita at once —plain, ordinary tammalite, and make it up yourself with bay rum. That will soon bring back the lost colour. Do you shampoo with stallax? Oh, but you should ! That makes your hair so silky and bright. Of course von must drop waving your hair with hot irons. It’s suicide for your hair—makes it dry up and 1 fall out.” “But, Elizabeth, my hair is quite straight,” moaned the Bride. “That’s all right.” smiled Elizabeth, “all you want is silmerine. Just comb your hair down the way you want it to go, damp it a little with silmerine, put a slido or two in, and fluff your hair up on each side of the slide. Til the morning you will find a nice kink where the slide was. \ T our hair ought to look naturally wavy, not a series of hard furrows like a ploughed field. You won’t need to put the slides in more than once or twice a week. . . . You’ll find | that your ItrT, with a lit tie patience and | perseverance, will develop a wave of its | own. so that -iter your stallax shampoo, if you comb it before it’s quite dry. the wave | will return of ii« own accord. Two ounces i of silmerine will la--t yon for at least six j months. Besides, you will bo superior to | the coal shortage, for it is criminal waste jof gas to use it to heat tongs. Enough !of your looks! Let’s pass to bright tr subjects.” Tiie Bride smiled. “Silmerine—silmerii » ! —T won’t forget that. All right, talk away, i Elizabeth.”

straw ribbon, such as is used for the rnade hat. lliis was ornamented freely with "knots ’ or wee flowerets and leaves lhe effect was “sweetly pretty,” to use a young fill's term of praise. The now shades o, reds and pinks are charming—almost a blend of the two colours. Iloisery also features floral effects—embroidered, of course. The coloured silks show to advantage on cream white sky blue, greys—in fact all pastel shades. ’ The embroidered sprays commence just below the instep and continue upwards to just below the calf, so that the whole front ■ showing beneath the skirt is floral. Everything that possibly admits of being embroidered this season is so treated a charming idea if carried out with artistic moderation. Anything overdone is bad taste. LADIES’ GOSSIP. WOMEN'S POLITICAL PROGRESS. Cablegrams have just informed us of the election of a second woman to the 1 British House of Commons, Mrs Wintringham, returned at the Lowth by-election. Similarly to Lady Astor, who stood for the seat vacated by her husband, Mrs Wintringham succeeds her husband, Mr T Wintringham, late Liberal member for Lowth, who died recently. Mrs Wintrirmham was a schoolmistress before her marriage, and is stated to be a fluent speaker, but owing to her bereavement she has made only two or three speeches durum the election campaign. ° In India the suffrage has been conferred ! on women in the Bombay district. The Madras women were enfranchised in April, and probably other districts will soon follow suit. On the other hand, in Belgium a Bill to give women the right to vote at provincial elections has been thrown out. In Germany the question of making women ! eligible as jurors is under discussion. j FASHIONS REGULATED IN BULGARIA. In Sofia the police authorities recently issued orders prohibiting the wearing of silk stockings by women, also the wear ing of gloves during the summer months. ' and the carrying of canes. These prohibitions are presumably made in the interests <f economy. On the other band

decorum rather than economy is studied in a regulation forbidding skirts to be shorter than one foot from the ground. PRINCESS MARY AND THE DERBY. Princess Mary, though she has witnessed many of the great British races, does not make a study of the details of racing, as the following anecdote shows: Once at Buckingham Palace Lord Derby was looking through his Majesty’s collection of prints of famous horses/ “Why is it,” asked the Princess of him ‘ that rio horso seems to have won the Derby twice? After the laughter that greeted the question subsided, Lord Derby ex plained, Because, your Koval Higliness, horses, like hum-in beings, * cannot have the same birthday twice.” I'or the Derby is a no :'' for tin ee-vear olds.

I | NEW OPENINGS FOR WOMEN. J Great Britain’s “odd women” now mun j ber nearly two million, so the question of satisfactory means of livelihood foi single women is more than ever pressing. A Home magazine enumerates the following as promising openings for properly qualified women Architecture, house decoration, house property management, infant welfare work (which includes the management of creches and positions in cniluren s hospitals or district nursing)) Ghmestic science (which leads up to good positions as managers or cooks for chibs, hostels, etc., as well as to teaching appointments), the teaching of physical' culture and of dancing and eurythmics, and finally the humbler department of laundry voi'k. Many educated girls are stated to he now training for positions as managers of big laundries, these carryino- a very good salary. AN INDIAN WOMEN’S UNI VERS! T Y. A imn ersity for Indian <drls was opened about live years ago at Poonah, and has an increasing number of students. \ few have now completed the course' successfully, taking degrees. While the usual European subjects are taught, a large nlaco is given to Sanscrit, the ancient j language of India, and its literature. On me modern side, domestic science is made a compulsory subject throughout the course. HINTS AND "uiCCFSTIOMS. When cleaning brass with metal polish a more brilliant polish will result if the* polishing cloth is sprinkled with dry whiting. If you wash a pan in which fish has been fried with strong salt and water it Vi ill remove the fishy smell more quickly t.ian if soda-water is used. Rusty curtain hooks should be placed in a bowl and covered with cloudy ammonia Leave for half an hour, and then stir them round with a stick. Drain away the ammonia, dry the hooks, and they will look like now. Although every woman does not possess valuable jewellery, most of us have some trinkets which are worth all the world to us, but in many cases not, nearly sufficient care is taken of such things, 'jeweliGi v of any kind must bo Given royubir care and attention if it is" to look Its oest and not become shabby and dull and quite simple methods can be followed. Any trinkets of plain metals, not sot with. stones, can he kept nice simply by washing the trinkets in smooth soapsuds, to winch has been added a few spots of liquid ammonia. Brush the things in the suds with a jeweller’s brush, and. when they, are quite clean, dry with crumpled blotting paper. Polish up after with boxwood sawdust and a chamois. Gold and silver thipo-s can be wonderfully brightened this way. ' ” lor most hits of jewellery set with precious stones—any sort except pear’s—it is a good plan to brush with eau de ( omgne. The simolest method is to put a little eau de Cologne into a saucer and brush the article in it till it is clean 1 hen .rub up with boxwood sawdust and soft tissue paper until bright. Pearls are strange stones, and contact pith any sort of acid or soanv water will immediately turn them a " bad colour Once pearls become a bad colour it ri? almost impossible to change them again I he only sure way of kooninn* these stones m good condition is to wear them regularly and to bring them into the sunshine as much as possible, for they love sun baths. Tf pearls are kent “put a wav” lor any length of time they will log--* ' K their sheen, while to wash the hands v liih* wearing a pearl-set ring is to court disaster. M ashing the hands while wearing vine's does not hurt some stones, except that the friction and water may loosen the setting, but it should never be done wit "earls opals, and turquoises. One dose of sonpv water will change a turquoise from n beautiful blue to a dirty grey colour, and dirty grey it will remain for the rest of ! tune. With opals caro should be taken j not to subject the stones to sudden changes of temperature, as they have often been known to crack when taken suddenly from a very warm room into a .strikingly cold atmosphere.