Topics for Women

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19666, 25 June 1938, Page 13

Topics for Women

Shoe Saver pRESH orange peel is-excellent for restoring black shoes. Rub them well with the inside ol' the peel and polish them with a soft, cloth. “Lengthening” a Room LARGE mirror adds width, height, and length to any room. It is particularly good used on an unbroken wall. If you have a long narrow room, and a large, blank wall on one side, put a full-length, rectangular mirror on that wall. It will make your ceding appear higher and your room wider. Beauty Secrets JTALIAN girls have beautiful foot. This is because they arc taught from infancy to bathe Ihcir feet in warm olive oil, and then to massage vigorously. Now and then the average well-groomed Italian woman likes to soak her elbows in small earlhern jars that contain warm olive oil mixed with almond oil. She likes a facial pack made from whipped olive oil and beaten egg whites, too.

The Victorian Era Is Coming Back To Favour ‘“po catch up with reality—somehow to seize the stuff of experience and pin it down—almost since the dawning of personal consciousness has been one of the chief preoccupations' of fiie human race. If only the escalator could be temporarily halted! “Hurried in this direction we see moving rapidly, inevitably the opposite way, all kinds of landscapes which are' a part of us yet which we are , doomed, after a very brief acquaintance, to say good-bye to. The moment is real: yet the moment, lasts only sixty seconds: and. rooted to the escalator, smoothly descending towards our goal, we begin to doubt if it had any valid existence. “Hence the fascination of modern photography. A shutter clicks; and there, caught and registered by the camera’s inquisitive but impartial eye. is at any rate the appearance—the outward simulacrum —of such-and- . such an occasion, such-and-such per- . sonages. such-and-such a now vanish -

Scone-Making gCONES should always be made with sour milk, but this is rather difficult to get in colder days, it can be turned sour, however, in a minute by adding a few -drops of vinegar to it. Beauty Hints JF your skin is always pale, and you desire io give the cheeks a faint natural colouring, try dabbing the following lotion on them each night and morning: Rose-water, loz; tincture of benzoin. 20 drops, eau de Cologne, 10 drops. First wash the face and dry the cheeks thoroughly before applying the lotion. A Knitting Tip W HEN you are knitting this winteruse a pin-cushion to help you automatically count the decreases, increases. and number of rows in the garment you are making. Have a stated number of pins to tally with the increases, etc., to be worked, and just remove the pins one by one at the end of each row.