TO KEEP GOOD LOOKS, SLEEP

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9214, 18 April 1908, Page 4

TO KEEP GOOD LOOKS, SLEEP

THE GERMAN CURE FOR INSOMNIA. (" New York World.") A wise woman who knows all the secrets of the professional beauty has turned her attention away from the complexion and the colour of the hair, and is making a study of sleep. " Sleep is tne most important aid to beauty in the world," she says, " and I regard the nap as an absolute essential to a woman's good looks.

' ' Lack of sleep will make a woman old and yellow, while plenty of sleep will make her young and gay. Most women think it is enough to sleep at night, but the sleep taken during the day is immensely important. " The woman who sleeps sufficiently will have hair that keeps its natural colour; her eyes will sparkle, and her skin will be clear, her step will be elastic, and her voice will keep its pretty even tone. Everyone knows how quickly a woman's voice loses its youth. That is on account of the laok of

6leop. *"" " Faces can keep young if their owner will keep rested. " The important thing about restoring one's beauty by sleep is that tho body shall rest thoroughly. The woman who sleeps with her hair in papers is not resting; her scalp will be tired. The woman 'who does her 1 hair up tightly before going to bed, who braids it closely or in any way tires the scalp will wake up with wrinkles in her face. 1 ' The mind is a very important factor in the matter. Don't worry if you want to sleep sweetly. "In tho retreats where women go to become young they make the patient exercise before going to bed. Bodily exercise of the most vigorous nature is part of the programme. " An American woman who went to a German cure expecting to be petted and pampered as when at home received a rude shock. In&omnia had been her oomplaint from girlhood. Hearing of the cure she went to Germany to take it.

" Fot breakfast this pampered child of luxury had a cup of coffee, some cold ham and brown bread. " ' I cannot eat a mouthful,' she complained. "' So much the better,' said the directress. The coffee was only a substitute, mostly burnt wheat- and as for the breakfast, you are bettor off without eating.' " Only one meal a day was ratable, and tho woman found that she could live nicely with one veiy square meal a day. When she grew hungry she ate tho coarse brown bread. " Her exercise was quite unconventional. On raw days she wnaeet to washing tne inner side of the windows, and .on warm days she was told, to sweep the garden walks. " ' It nearly killed me/ said she in recounting the tale to an indignant audience afterwards. " 'But did you recover from your insomnia? 1 asked someone. " ' Recover?' said the woman with a laugh. 'I never thought of it oon<** after I got there. I was so mad and bo tired,, co utterly worn-out by flight, that I slept perfectly. I even took day naps during the half-hour he fora dinner and lunoheon, and I napped a little while in tho middle of ti>« .afternoou. if I had time — when I wasn't sweeping or washing.' " \