HOW TO LOOK COOL.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIII, Issue XIX, 4 November 1899, Page 845

HOW TO LOOK COOL.

If you come in after a long round of shopping and receive a sudden summons to the drawing-room to meet some unexpected guest, do not be dismayed at the crimpon face which meets your eye as you stand before your dressing-table mirror. Likewise do not seek a remedy in the bath-room. Many women think the only way to cool off is to bathe the face lavishly in cold water. This is a great mistake, and, with a thin skin, will only intensify the colour. Dash the water on throat and neek as freely’ as you choose, particularly at the back of the neck; but if the face is bathed at all, let it be done sparingly; then sponge it with Florida water, and, lastly, apply a generous coating of rice-powder. You will look ghastly, but let the powder remain while you add the few necessary touches to your toilet. Then, just as you are to descend, dust off all superfluous powder lightly, and you will welcome your guest fresh and cool, not only in appearance, but in reality.

PRETTY WOMEN AT BREAKFAST

A woman who looks pretty at breakfast is pretty without doubt. It is one thing to be charming at a ball in the daintiest of draperies, with “touching up” of all sorts, and under the gaslight, but quite another thing to be pretty in a cotton blouse, with the morning sun full in the room, and all the homely accessories of daily’ life by way of background. There are plenty’ of girls who are pretty on the seashore, in big shade

hats; on horseback, in a habit; but the family breakfast-table is the test. Yes, it is the test, not only for beauty, but for better things. If the smiles are bright and the speech soft, the movements gentle and the temper sweet, then you may rely upon the disposition under almost any circumstances.

I should advise any man who had fallen in love, and did not quite know whether he had done wisely, to get "her" father to ask him to breakfast, anil so decide the matter.