NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Thames Star, Volume LIX, Issue 16626, 23 October 1925, Page 2

NOTES FOR WOMEN.

YOUR HAIR IN SUMMER. TIME

During the hotter months of the year a woman’s hair, whether it Tie bobbed or not, always needs a little extra attention. When inclined to excessive greasiness it requires very special care, as greasiness is always more troublesome during the summer months than at any other time. Frequent washings are useless for removing tin? greasy appearance, they merely weaken the hair. The only, sure remedy is the application every fourth night, for several weeks, of an astringent tonic lotion. An astringent lotion which is easy to fapplv, which has a. most delicate scent, and will he found most beneficial. can be made bv adding half a drachm of glycerine of borax, a drachm of spirits of rosemary, and two drachms of spirits of camphor to six ounces of orange flower water.

Five minutes night and morning should bo devoted to brushing the hair, and before being used the brush should be sprinkled with a few drops of bay rum. Those who dislike the smell of bay rum (and they are many) can disguise it by adding a few drops of perfume to the bottle containing the bay rum, and shaking them thoroughly together. Greasy hair should be shampooed once every fortnight, and a pinch of borax added to the rinsing water.

And those of you who are troubled with greasy locks, don’t forget That ventilation is your best tonic, and is essential to a successful cure. Give your hair an air bath whenever possible. Sun and air are great beautifiers to the hair.

THE PREVENTION OF INSECT STINGS. Summer time brings a form a torture to some women who are constantly being stung.by insects. These small pests are already very plentiful oven in suburban gardens. Prevention is much better than cure as far as insects’ stings are concerned, and although there are several “Fly Creams” sold at most drug stores which ease the pain of a sting, it is better to apply something that will prevent the midges and mosquitoes coming near one. Unfortunately, most of us forget how quickly we are stung once we are in a field, or garden, and for this reason one should keep several tiny bottles of the coarsest oil of lavender in the pockets of sports coats and other garments in frequent use to remind ono. to apply it to neck and ankles and round the brow. When one is stung in the hair it seems doubly painful. Coarse oil of lavender.is quite inexpensive, and it is one of the most effective things for keeping stinging insects at bay.

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Oil of geranium is good, too, but much more costly, and a shilling’s worth goes a very little way. TWO SIMPLE SWEETS. Chocolate and rice pudding is as appetising as it is nourishing. Put rt pint of milk and two ounces of rice into a double saucepan. Mix an ounce of chocolate powder with a spoonful or two of milk and add. Cook till soft add sugar to taste, and a little vanilla essence, and serve. Take a half-pint packet of black currant jelly, add a pint of boiling water, a. little sugar and vanilla essence. Turn into a saucepan and when at boiling point stir in six ounces of ground rice blended with, a little cold water. Boil for ten minutes and pour into a wetted mould till cold. ON FURNISHING.

In the realm of dress all manner of accessories that are not actually dress are included in the decorative scheme of the toilette, and so in the house, and particularly in rooms used specially by women, the colour scheme craze is now pushed to its farthest possible length (says a writer in an English periodical). Such articles as work-bags, teacosies, waste paper baskets, blotters and letter racks share the honours of beautiful design asd material with the actual furnishings. Not in the memory of living woman have furnishings been so highly decorative as they are at the present time. Take, for instance, the floral mirrors, either round or oblong, that are now made for the bedroom or sitting room of a person whom we feel we must caii “my lady.” These are of Pompadour period inspiration, and are very pretty trifles, even if they seem superfluous to those, of us who possess a more austere taste. The flowers which surround the mirror are of taffeta and chiffon and galon; sometimes they are made of embroidery work. Roses fashioned in silk, often achieve the effect of Dresden china,

The woman who likes to have floral mirrors on her wall will have handkerchief boxes and powder bowls and other small necessities or luxuries made to match. I saw a handkerchief box the other, day that was covered with rose pink taffeta and gold lace and surmounted by a doll dressed as a ballet dancer, all in gold lace and pink roses. The dressing table runner was of rose pink marquisette, and at each end roses and fruit were grouped. The same delicate material, arranged to give a fluted effect between gilt cane, went to the making of the wastepaper basket, which was finished with gold lace, (j!old and pink appeared also in a workbag and in a little opera bag, which was turned back with four narrow leal-like points ,all handworked with tinv silk*, roses.

ATTRACTIVE OLD MAIDS. Tihis is the day of the pretty and charming old maids. Middle-age has become so attractive that no woman is any longer afraid of it. With her experience of life, her broad and sympathetic outlook, her intelligent conversation, her non-slangv speech and soft-toned voice, her independence, her keen interest in current events, and her up-to-dateness in general, her smart clothes and her pretty siJvery shingle, the present-day old maid has neither the intention nor the need to retire meeklv to a dustv corner “on the shelf.” The shingie has certainly had a great deal to do with bringing about this happy state of affairs. Many middle-aged women had become accustomed during the last .10 or 20 years to bundling up their hair anyhow. Then the shingle appeared and middleaged women began to consider its possibilities for themselves. They observed that many quite plain young girls had suddenly blossomed into pretty ones by means of i.he new fashion. Why, then, should not middle-age become more attractive, too, and enjoy the obvious comfort, conteintncc and delight of short and wavy Jocks? A few of the. bravest began to experiment ;and though these L'St bald pioneers had to bear a com oh table amount of criticism—mainly ■rom those of their own age and sex—others gradually followed their sensible example. And now, wherever one goes, one sees fewer and fewer of the one-time depressing old-maidish coiffures dating from the ’nineties and more of the charming grey bobs and shingles—nearly all of them beautifully marcelled or permanently waved into cunning little silvery curls and dints, making suoh a soft and kindly framework to even the plainest middle-aged woman’s face that one frequently forgets she is middle-aged at all.