WOMEN AND HOME

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 63, 24 October 1928, Page 2

WOMEN AND HOME

NOTES OF INTEREST

COLOUR IN THE KITCHEN.

WHERE THE SPACE IS LIMITED,

In these days of limited• space.and the shortage of domestic help the kitchen-dining room has come into fashion, writes a lady in a London paper. When furnishing tins room always remember that it is primarily a work-room, where the business of preparing meals, etc., is earned on, and it .should bo furnished adequately but simply. I recently saw a charming example of this carried out in distempered pale leaf green, with the woodwork a dark shade. On the floor was a dark green linoleum and fibre matting in browns and blues. Blue and white check gingham and 1 pale blue were, used for the attractive curtains and pelmet, and the chairs had loose cushions covered in blue.

Besides these cushions touches of fox-glove pink were to be seen in the pottery and other accessories. Ihe furniture was of beech and the coloured woodcut had narrow black frames. It was a truly delightful kitchen-dining room.

protect the skin.

THE EYES TOO

Home women think that if their skin is| of the tougher sort, it will not be affected by weather conditions. They don’t feel any discomfort after being all day in the open air, and forget that they will sooner or later feel the effects of neglect. It may take some time, certainly, hut gradually the skin will coarsen and get duller, the reason being that it has l° s t some of its vitality. This is the toll continuous exposure exacts. On the days that you are going to do a l°t ofi motoring, when playing golf, hockey or tennis, it is a good plan to use a protective lotion which has a sediment that is evenly distributed over the skin, and this affords protection from sun and wind. Eyestrain is responsible for the fine lines hound the eyes which come from screwing them up. In this case suitable glasses are needed. Red noses are often the result of congestion caused by eyestrain. :i .• ~ Use a lotion if the eyes are tired, or, failing that, a pad of cotton-wool dipped in rose water, with a handkerchief placed over and left for ten minutes, will take away the burning feeling. When there are heavy lines round the eyes, you will need to pat in a skin food at night. You cannot be too careful about the way this is done ah the skin under the eyes is very delicate, and must on no account be stretched. When one spends much time out of doors in sunny weather, it is advisable to bathe the eyes every night with a warm borasio lotion and, an eye-bath. HAVE A HERB-SCENTED BATH, HINTS FOR PREPARATION. Tepid baths scented wjith 'herbs are a change from the ordinary ones, perfumed with hath salts. The herb hath was considered a great beautifier in the days when still-rooms were an important part of every household. It is not every garden that will provide sufficient herbs for the daily bath, hut if a herb biaih is substituted once a week for the ordinary one, it -will be found quite refreshing. The water should he softened before the herbs are put in the bath. This can he very satisfactorily done by adding a little powdered borax instead of scented water softeners, and thjen there will he no clashing of perfumes. Some people prefer to make an infusion of the herbs. To do this they should he put into a basin and two quarts of boiling water poured over them. Leave until cold. Strain and add the herb water to the warm bath. Gentle friction when drying will leave the skin smooth. LAVENDER. Izaak Walton gave a pleasant picture, which a whiff of lavender may sometimes recall, “of an honest ale- 1 house, where we shall find a cleanly room, lavender in the windows, and 20 ballads stuck against the wall, and ray hostess ,1 may tell you, is both cleanly and handsome.” Lavender is ever associated with all things dean and fragrant and of good repute, for its name is from “lavare,” to wash, since the Romans perfumed their baths with the herb. Tire fragrant herb came to England from the south of Europe in the sixteenth century, and must have been rare in Elizabethan days, though mentioned by Shakespeare as “hot lavender” is a reminder of the pleasant ender, still grey.” Oliver Wendell Holmes’ happy name was the Quaker flower.

The expression of “laid up in lavender’ .is a reminder o fthe pleasant custom 1 of using the spikes to scent linen.