SLEEP GIVES BEAUTY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18832, 21 March 1931, Page 13 (Supplement)

SLEEP GIVES BEAUTY

AND BETTER HEALTH. It would be difficult to prove the truth of the old saying: ‘‘Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise” (says a writer in an exchange). Plenty of men and women have become decidedly wealthy who never even made an effort to get up early in the morning, and just as many wise people who have habitually burned the midnight oil. But the practice of getting enough sleep to produce good health, and this is especially true for the housewife. And since usually it is most inconvenient and inconsiderate for the housewife to rise late she really ought to make an effort to retire at a reasonably early hour. At Least Eight Hours’ Sleep. Some young mothers form the habit of sitting up fairly late at night simply because the hours after supper or dinner after the children have been tucked in bed constitute the only time they have to read or talk or to do interesting handiwork without interruption. They try to convince themselves that they do not need more than seven hours of sleep out of the 24. Yet, as a patter of fact, every busy housewife should have at least eight hours of sleep and some of them need as many as nine.

It is a rather easy matter to get into the habit of too little sleep just as it is doubtless easy to get into the habit of too much sleep. You can get along on a minimum allowance of sleep for years, but you will really be undermining your resistance and strength, using a little more reserve each day than you are storing away. Hurting Your Looks. And more than that—at least to some women—you will be hurting your looks. For the woman who habitually sleeps slightly less than she should doubtless shows it in her appearance. The woman who sleeps too much may seem dull and stupid, sometimes, and may look dull and stupid. Her complexion may seem sluggish because the type of woman who develops the lazy habit of sleeping too much is likely also to develop the lazy habit of not exercising enough. But the woman who habitually sleeps too little looks tired and often wrinkles more than she would if she slept more. Her skin looks worn very often, and her eyes lack lustre. So the wise thing to do, even if it means curtailing your fun a bit, is to get enough sleep. Sometimes the necessary added sleep can be snatched in catnaps—ten minutes at a time a couple of times a day will help.

WRINKLE CREAM. One of the finest, if not the finest, recipe for a wrinkle cream is the following:— Powdered alum, 15 grains; orange flower water, one dram; gelatine, four drams; mutton suet, 8oz.; spirits of camphor, one dram; tincture of Benzoin, one dram; glycerine, 2ozs. Dissolve alum in the orange flower water and add the gelatine, allowing it to soften thoroughly. Then add the glycerine and heat on a water bath until the gelatine has been dissolved. Melt mutton fat and add slowly, stirring constantly. Add the spirits of camphor and the tincture of Benzoin just before the whole is removed from the fire, and finally beat with an eggbeater until cold, making it light and fluffy. This cream should be used nightly. VOGUE OF PEWTER. The pewter from which our ancestors made their everyday pots and pans, mugs and platters is now being used in London and abroad to decorate bedroom furniture. A delightful bedroom suite was in rosewood, the dragon design of its handwrought pewter covering lighted up with red-brown Ruskin stones and tinted mother-o’-pearl. A charming toilet set to match the furniture was in a leather case of the same soft, sheeny grey as the pewter.