THE HOME “BEAUTY PARLOUR.”

Taranaki Daily News, 18 February 1933, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE HOME “BEAUTY PARLOUR.”

If you suffer from a flushed face, and feel terribly, conscious of it, be sure not to eat or drink anything hot before going to a party or dance. You can put a little cooling cream on your face, if you like, while you are dressing, or eau-de-Cologne and rosewater in equal parts, gently patted over the Fkin, will have a soothing effect. To remedy red arms, put a large handful of oatmeal in the washing-water

night and morning. After drying the arms thoroughly, rub in a little cold ci earn. To brace up the muscles of face and neck, use this home-made astringent lotion; Tincture of benzoin, six parts; tincture of quillaia, three parts; eau de Cologne, six parts; distilled water, one hundred parts. Shake well in a bottle, and pat some of the lotion lightly into the skin once a day after washing. An olive oil scalp bath, taken once a fortnight, will help to remedy dandruff. Rub the oil well into the scalp with the finger-tips, leave for an hour, then shampoo your hair. Rinse well, adding the juice of a lemon to the last but one rinsing water. Superfluous hair on face and arms will disappear in time if you rub the skin gently with smooth pumice stone. Peroxide of hydrogen, applied every night, will quickly lighten - the hairs until they are almost invisible, and Will also weaken the growth. If your skin is not tender, you can use twenty-volume strength instead of ten. CHAFF OR RIDICULE? ■ “She simply can’t stand being chaffed.” Isn’t this a remark we -hear quite frequently? Generally spoken, too, in a sneering tone of voice. But is it chaff or ridicule which seems to upset some people so unduly? There is a vast difference between the two, yet hosts of well-meaning folk are constantly mistaking one for the other. Chaff is a kindly thing. Its object may be to amuse, to tease, to help break down some irritating habit or mannerism. Whatever its object, it is generally used in a spirit of friendliness. The “chaffer” is careful not deliberately to hurt the feelings of his audience. He exercises his teasing wit “like a gentleman.” But ridicule, a very different proposition, can pierce through the “thickest skin” leaving a poisoned wound behind. Ridicule seeks to put the victim in an absurd position, or show him up in an unfavourable light. And few can bear that with equanimity. There is a sting in the tail of ridicule’s shafts, however witty they may be. That is because they are launched from the ill-natured or selfishly thoughtless mind. Ridicule is meant to hurt in most instances. It is a cowardly weapon which can do as much harm as those material substance. Remember this. And be very sure when you set out to chaff a friend that you employ only real, happy, healthy chaff. Not its counterfeit, ridicue. I repeat, chaff and ridicule are too often mistaken for each other. Are you one of the thoughtless blunderers? It is a question worth asking yourself. PANI RADAR’S COTTAGE. (By Elisabeth Kyle.) < Old Pani Kadar is quite pleased with her cottage, whatever her smart new daughter-in-law may say of its old fashioned furnishings. For in the country places of Czechoslovakia to-day, you may see two distinct types of house decoration and furnishing. There is the old Czech tradition of painted wood, strong bright colours, and simple lines. And, gradually superseding this peasant craftmanship, there is the more ornate modem veneered stuff copied from Germany. Pani Kadar’s furniture has been in her family for generations. She would willingly enough give some of it to her son’s wife, but Lida Kadar will have none of it. Brought up in a town, and accustomed even to the hire-purchase system, she looks with disdain at the solid, unpretentious work of her forefathers’ hands. She thinks the blue and red carnations painted so naively on the old marriage chest given an extra countrified air to what is only an ancient piece of lumber anyway. She thinks the old woman’s living-room, the “Cierva Izba,” childishly bright and undignified, with its row of coloured plates suspended from the ceiling, its painted corner-cupboard supporting a holy image and candles, its chairs with intricating carved backs. She laughs at the bed in the comer with its painted panels showing a design of black birds, whose species would puzzle an ornithologist, .flying across a cornflower blue back ground. But she approves the numbers of pillows it supports, and the three mattresses underneath. There’ at least old and new Czechoslovakia agree. - After an afternoon’s ,r cbffee-drihking with the old woman, L;da goes back to her own over-furnished rooms with a feeling of satisfaction. She looks at the massively ugly sideboard weighed down with electro-plate and badly cut glass, and at the head of the negro boy done in carved marble, and she feels thank-’ ful for the “progress” which has lifted her generation above the taste and style of living of simple peasants. What she does not know fortunately, for her peace of mind, is that any collector would willing give the price of all the rubbish cluttering her house for that one quaint bedstead with its group of fluttering birds!