Watch Your Complexion

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 65, Issue 5, 16 November 1942, Page 317

Watch Your Complexion

QUMMER is coming—isn’t that grand? Aren’t you just longing to

feel the warmth of the sun on your face once again? But do be careful please, for the sun is' hard on your complexion, and it takes a little bit of extra special care to keep your skin looking its best when summer comes. Take your mirror, and study yourself, critically, making sure you are in a good light. Be honest with yourself now! You don’t look as young as you looked this time last year, do you? And although you will tell me you are a year older now than then, that has little to do with the matter. You see, you must keep at your complexion, year in and year out, so that later on you will still be the proud possessor of a petal-soft complexion.

How about wrinkles? When you are out in the summer sunshine, you may not be conscious of the fact that you, screw up your eyes a little, causing fine wrinkles to form across

your forehead. Wrinkles are the most telling blemishes of all when it comes to straightening up your complexion. Get yourself a bottle of good tissue tonic, and rub it in freely every nightall over your neck and shoulders, too, because they wrinkle easily. Pay particular attention to wrinkles that may be forming above the eyebrows, and massage your face well, always remembering to rub upwards, and away from the nose. Another tip for keeping your complexion youthful is to remember always to remove make-up before it has been on the face too long. If you are going out for the evening, always apply fresh make-up, and if you are unable to have a good wash, then keep handy a bottle of cleansing milk, and this will do the trick for you. And whatever you do, or don’t do, never go to bed without removing every trace of make-up from your face. Nothing is more harmful to the skin than make-up left on overnight. You may be tired out, and we all know

how tempting the thought of bed can be when we are very weary, but next time you have that “tumble-into-bed-without-cleansing” feeling, just remember that for every night you go to bed with old make-up on your face, you are adding more years to your face. So please, do remember to have your nightly wash, and always apply some tonic to your face before retiring. It is not so much what you put on your face at night in the way of tonics that matters is the massage that goes with it that keeps your skin fresh and glowing with health and youth. ''

Ever tried face exercises? We have all tried those bending exercises that keep our figures —now what about some face exercises for a ' change? Facial exercises do help to keep wrinkles at bay. Take a deep breath, keep your mouth closed, and puff hard against the inside of your cheeks. Now open the lips slightly, and let the air out in little short puffs. If it is your forehead that is wrinkly, try taking handfuls of hair, and pulling them gently. This tightens the skin across the forehead.

Ever tried the yawning way to beauty? Let your head fall back as far as it will go, and open and shut your mouth as though you are yawning. For a change, rotate your head round and round, having an imaginary chew all the time.

And one of the best and quickest exercises to beauty is to whistle whenever you think of it. Whistling puts you in a happy frame of mind, and at the same time brings into action many of the facial muscles. .

With a little persistent attention and care, even though your years may be mounting up on you, you will find before long that instead of watching your complexion and yourself, it is the other folk who are watching your complexion, and wondering just what is the secret of your youthful sparkle and beauty. . j

The Tyranny of Beauty.

THERE is no escape from that I which is beautiful. It will have our homage. Sometimes I have even been glad of summer’s end to rest me. So swiftly the may treads on the heels of the daffodils, and folded roses be waiting even while the may burgeons, and woodbine stills the heart with a sigh, and then corn yellows in every scrap and gore of barleyland, and lo! apples bin ripe, all painted in one night by an angel. And methinks, times, it is great peace to turn away from all this lust of loveliness to the chilly call of winter, where there is nothing to keep our thoughts back from Him. And then the spirit rests no more in this or that carnal thing of petalled delight, but starteth away hastily over the waste waters, like a seamew, plaining for eternity.

—MARY WEBB.

Fragrance In Your Bath

HERE is a recipe, very old-fashioned but very fragrant, for a bath sachet. Mix together four large teacups of smooth oatmeal, 4 tablespoonsful of powdered borax, 3 tablespoons of powdered orris root, 4 ' tablespoons of finely shaved good soap, and 10 drops of oil of lavender. Now make some small bags out of towellingold towelling, is admirable for the purpose. The bags should be about six by four inches, and when filled should be about one inch in thickness. Sew the bags round very firmly. Just before you are ready to slip into your bath, put in a bath sachet, and let it soak for a while. You will be surprised how refreshed you feel

when you come out of your scenty bath—and incidentally, the bath sachet makes an' excellent washing glove while you are in the bath. ' Do try it.

Knitted Bootees for Baby

THESE knitted bootees are so simple to make, yet they will not slip off baby’s toes like so many bootees are inclined to do. They are quickly made on two needles, and require less than 1 oz. each of either 3- or 4-ply fingering. Use No. 8 needles to produce about six stitches to the inch. Cast on 33 sts. (under the foot), then knit a row. The following is continued in plain knitting, but an increase of 1 st. is made after the first and before the last st. and each side of the centre

st., making an increase of 4 sts. in each row. Continue until there are 53 sts., then work six rows with no shaping. Now decrease one st. each side of the centre in every row until 29 sts. remain, this being the shaping for the top of the foot. Work a plain row (with no shaping), then make a row of ribbon holes, spacing them as evenly as possible. To make a hole, bring the wool forward and knit two together, taking the wool back over the needle. Work about lj in. of plain -knitting for the leg, and another 1| in. in ribbing of one purl, one plain before casting off loosely. Sew together, and insert narrow ribbon at the ankle, thus completing the little bootees, which will be appreciated by those mothers who spend valuable minutes hunting for lost bootees.