Let’s Go Gossiping

Waipa Post, Volume 51, Issue 3645, 19 July 1935, Page 4

Let’s Go Gossiping

.WOMEN’S INTERESTS: THE HOME.

' FASHIONS. • ACCESSORIES OF TO-DAY. The Jubilee has influenced fashions tremendously, and we are all •striving to look as glamorous and •as feminine as possible curls on our foreheads, flowers in our hair, and frocks which show the should • f ers : as they did when our mothers celebrated the Coronation. } Many of the following accessories were specially designed for Jubilee parties, _and they will give your frock just the right Jubilee touch. They are easily made. For instance, have you an evening cap; which has seen its best days ? Then | cut it short, make a round collar, and border it with roses. Tic it with long rose satin ribbon, and wear a. bunch of rosebuds at the neck, and a stray bud or two in the hair. Shoulder-straps of pink pearls and strands of them twisted in your .hair, are other charming ways to give yourself a festive air. Each 'shoulder-strap takes about six -strands of pearls, and if these are laid on a piece of flesh-pink net, and then sewn into position, they will give no trouble.

And how about a Juliet cap of rosebuds ? On dark curls this looks enchanting. Make a circular foundation of net, then stitch the rosebuds to it.

An armlet of flowers is another lovely and easily made accessory. All that you have to do is to make, a bracelet of wide elastic, and stitch on to it whatever flowers you inten dto have.

Or, do you fancy a coronet of flowers with a matching bracelet ? Tin’/ •pink and white daisies with green leaves would look delicious. To make this you will need about half a yard of stiff buckram, which must be cut to the required shape or size. Stitch the flowers to it back and front. You could secure it either by using hairpins or by sewing a piece of baby, ribbon velvet to each side of it and tying the ends under 'the hair at the back. v And the last suggestion of a flo-wer-lined decolletage brings back memories of long ago and is a charming way of reviving an old black frock. Little pink rosebuds with bright green leaves should be used.

BEAUTY. BE CLEVER WITH YOUR ' : HAIR. • I wonder what you understand when I ask you to be clever with your hair Perhaps I had better tell you what I do not mean. I don’t mean, for instance, that you should adopt a clever and complicated coiffure which gives your head the appearance of . having just left the hairdresser’s hands—and I don’t mean that your should surprise your friends by being a blonde one Week and a brunette the next. When I say clever I really mean “ cunning.” The whole art of having fascinatingly beautiful hair is to look afte? it so well that it appears not to have been interfered with at all. I mean that your hair should be kept so heal • thy and so well groomed that it wii! always be naturally lovely without your haying to induce it into waves •with a “ plastic set ” or striving to, make it attractive by dressing it m some terribly extreme fashion.

HEALTH,

(By Miss Mary Tallis.—Special Service to The Waipa Post.)

THE HOME,

THE NEED OF REST

We all start off in life with pretty hair—every child has soft, silky hair, even if it is straight. It just tumbles softly and sweetly about the fac.: and the very simplicity of it is fascinating.

If a woman wants to 'prolong her youth she must try to get a certain childish quality into her hair. Immediately a head of hair is clevenv dressed by a hairdresser a woman begins to look older and sophisticated. This is where a little clever cunning is needed. The ait, as I said, of having lovely hair is to appear artless about it.

Don’t be economical about your hair—either in the time or the money spent on it. It is one of your mo if important assets, so give it all the time you can spare. If you need a permanent wave, have as good a on; as you can afford. A really reliable method will give you so much better results.

The slightest suspicion of a natural wave should be encouraged. Use a good setting lotion and a lot of “finger persuasion ” and hair grips. The pretty natural result of soft, deep waves will more than repay you. And you save the price of a “ perm.”

LINOLEUM IN THE HOME,

Linoleum in its delightful modern designs and colourings lends itself to many schemes of decoration. Good looks, added to a grand capacity for wear, are its great virtues.

When buying linoleum remembei that there are three kinds: printed linoleum (inexpensive), but not so hai’d wearing as the other kinds; the very luxurious cork linoleums in self colours, warm and resilient to the touch, splendid for bedroom and nurs ery floors; and inlaid linoleum, which has the design embedded like mosai.-, not. merely printed on the surface. This is now made in glorious plain colours, such as deep cornflower blue and sealing-wax red, as well as in jaspe and marble effects and definite patterns. For the kitchen there is now a strong feeling for geometrical de signs in neutral shades such as stone and brick. These have the great advantage of not showing footmarks easily.

Tile designs can be laid in novel ways, in entrances and lounge halls : to suggest marble floors. As a wall decoration linoleum has come into its own. It is used with great success as an alternative to tiles for bathroom wall panels. An oldfashioned bathroom can be complete ly modernised if the walls and floor are covered with marbled and plam linoleums, attractively contrasted, and the bath “built in” to match. For this purpose the bath should first be enclosed with panels of o-ply, and the linoleum mounted on this with cement.

As a covering for damp or unsightly walls inlaid linoleum can prove a perfect boon. The walls should firs., be lined with 3-ply, backed with small blocks of wood; and the linoleum then attached to the panels. The wooden blocks form a hollow ventilation chamber behind the panels, and allow the moisture to escape.

In the great majority of disease;, the human body can, if allowed, cure itself. A man faced with a difficult task will generally, if he is kept free from interruptions and annoyances, win through to success. If he is con tinually irritated and pestered; if he is tired out by other things, he will almost certainly fail. The same rule applies when he or she is fighting disease. The more the fight is regarded as a whole-time job the quicker it will be brought to a successful .conclusion. To take a simple case: Suppose yor |have influenza. There is probably enough recuperative power in youi system to allow you to conquer the disease and emerge well and- hearty 'again. But you know the fight is going to prove a drain on your strength, so, to avoid fainting in the street and having to be taken home in an ambulance,, you very sensiK/ go to bed and rest yourself. The mere fact that you are resting makes you feel better at once. Your vitality is freed from the need for muscular exertion, and finds hitting the influenza germs below the belt a much easier task.

As long as you are able to relax completely and rest, everything goes swimmingly. But presently you find you are not resting. You have a higher temperature, and it makes you uncomfortable. Your nurse spongeyou down. You are rested. Then your back aches; you toss and turn There is no rest in this. You take a couple of aspros. The ache goes. You

rest again, and start once more to recover. Very few people take enough res;. Very few people realise the boundless recuperative value of unbroken sleep. As a rule, it is only athletes, knowing they must be able to rely on then bodies, who ever give their tired hearts and brains and muscles enough rest. So, if you want to keep fit, remem ber that all energy must be balanced by rest. You cannot digest a big meal unless you are prepared to sit down for half an hour afterwards. You can’t do six months’ evening classes without sometimes going to the pictures, to make a change a rest. Make your surroundings, restful, abolish noise and fret and useless frittered waste of energy. Make your bed the best piece of furniture in the house. Rest !

COOKING. PRUNE W’RAP-OVERS. The first business is to wash 12 prunes; then cover them with boilingwater and let them stand until the water is cold. j Now make a short pastry to the following recipe: Take a quarter of a pound of flout and sieve it with a pinch of salt and a level half teaspoonful of baking powder. Rub in two and a half ounces of butter, and finish by adding very gradually sufficient very cold water to make a stiff paste. Roll this pastry out, and leave for a few minutes in the ice-chest while you finish the prunes. Drain the prunes, make a slit along the side of each, and carefully re move the stone.

Roll out your pastry very thinly, and cut oblongs four inches by barely two inches wide (or larger if the prunes are very big). The pastry should be slightly wider than the prunes and long enough to wrap round them.

Sprinkle some sugar in the middle of each prune and insert a blanched almond in the place of the stone Stand a prune on o piece of pastry, and fold this round the prune, letting the edges overlap. Damp the edges to make them adhere, but leave the sides open.

Now brush the pastry with wate% and dredge freely with castor sugar. • Bake in a hot oven until they are golden brown. Brush the pastry with milk or beaten egg, to glaze, instead of water and sugar. If you wish to make Savoury Prune. Wrap-overs, omit the sugar and almond and insert a small piece of cheese or a little chutney in each prune.

GENERAL. “ NOT MY WORK.” There is a class of person in business who continual 1 y states: ‘ That s. not my work.” These people, wit.i that little statement, often throw the whole order of things out of gear. When a well-organised office is running smoothly these people pass unnoticed, but when an extra piece of work comes in, how they stand out from the crowd ! For instance, in an emergency, labels have to be typed to explain the posting of a thousand circulars. Naturally, each and every typist has regular work, but each and every one’s devotion to her own task becomes positively edifying at the moment this extra request for an out-of-the-rou-tine task is made. The least busy typist in the office will say, with maddening indifference, “ that’s not my work,” thereby making the girl who finally has to take it appear to be the office fool.

This attitude will never get anyone far in business. I know, because, reversing the process, I once made a position for myself out of a skimpy, almost part-time job by deliberately doing things that were “ not my work.” Where I might have faked industry, and kept the powers that were from noticing my lack of occupation, I looked round for extra work and literally squirmed my way into a responsible position. s Doing extra work lifte this may prove to be the opportunity for whose knock you have long waited. Also, the point of view expressed by the phrase “ That’s not my work ” won’t help you get promotion. 1

HINTS. THAT STALE CAKE. When a cake gets stale, put it into a basin covered with a lid or plate, and steam for half an hour. The re • suit is simply marvellous; the cake will taste just as if it were newly baked. A COSY BED. For a cosy bed in winter, put at'; bedding and the mattress in the sunshine, and while it is hot make the bed. The clothes will still be warm at night. AN IRON STAND. When ironing, an ordinary brictc makes a far better rest for the iron than the usual metal stand. The lat-

a good conductor of heat, and consequently‘draws the heat from the iron quickly.

IF Y OUR NAILS CAUSE TROUBLE. Typing makes your nails break ? Painful half nails always coming ? Wish there were no such things as finger-nails ? If so, try this: Soak your nails in warm olive oil for five minutes. Then buy a set of thin rubber finger-stalls from the chemist, and wear them when you are typing or working in the house. They’ll keep the oil on your nails to strengthen them, protect the nails from the continuous tapping, and, because they are so thin, won’t affect your speed by a single word. BRUSHES. To stiffen the bristles of a brush, add a little alum to the rinsing water when washing. This makes them- almost as good as new.