A TRANSPARENT SKIN.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18512, 8 March 1930, Page 10 (Supplement)

A TRANSPARENT SKIN.

The woman who wishes to retain the clear transparency of her skin must make up her mind not to inhale. Inhaling is a very injurious habit, and gives the skin a dusky, dirty appearance. The inveterate smoker invariably reveals her ‘pet vice’ on her fingers, especially the index and middle fingers, which entirely spoil the effect of the hands no matter how pretty or well manicured they may be. Every evening after washing, squeeze a little lemon juice on the stained place, then soap a piece of pumic-stone and rub it gently over the fingers. In a short while the nicotine stains should vanish. Stains on the nails will usually yield to a slice of cut lemon, from which the pips are removed, rubbed backwards and forwards over the nails.

THE QUEEN’S BLUE ROOM. How I should love to see the Queen’s blue room at Sandringham, < remarks a Londoner. The walls are a pale, un--1 obstrusive blue and all the hangings mauve. The furniture is silver pine and in three exquisitely carved cabinets of blue lacquer—which were the Duke of Gloucester’s present to her when he | came back from Japan—are arranged i her wonderful collection of old Bristol j glass. COLOURED BOWLS TO ORDER. I The success of floral decorations dej pends to a large extent upon the harmony that exists between the colour of the flowers and the colour of the bowl in which they are arranged. Coloured bowls to order are possible by having a small supply of plain white glass bowls, and dropping a pinch of a cold-water dye into the water in which the flowers are placed, All the hardy flowers withstand the treatment very well, and seem to suffer no harm from the pinch of dye.