CULT OF BEAUTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 237, 6 October 1928, Page 4 (Supplement)

CULT OF BEAUTY.

PHYSICAL CULTURE. . . AID. TO LOVELINESS. ' (By A PARIS BEAUTY SPECIALIST.) ■ Women have a way of alluding to the "secrets of beauty" as if the lotions and pots of cold cream and "boxes of powder contained some mysterious powers that just ordinary people can',t understand. ■ . That is because they do not become well acquainted with ordinary aids - to beauty.: A woman will buy a-jar of cold : cream and will rub it on once, twice, three "times. There is no perceptible change, so- she decides there is no virtue in it and gives it to her maid, or,' if, she» hasn't- used enough to show a perceptible decrease, smooths it over 'on 'top and ' presents, it a friend. Then, .because :-:the ' cold cream fails' to mako .a,'rose 'leaf ,of her skin, sho decides there is some, secret in a good-looking woman's dressing table— something deep . and ■ mysterious, which only: the elect arc given to solve.. '■'.?: Thero are no genii in. a/pot'of .cold cream, no fairies hiding under the cover of a box of rouge.-- There is- no mystery in a lipstick. .If women -wiLV take down some, of the tiresome sunshiny'mottoes from their walls and-., put :up instead just onp'. word they will: find proof of what I am'tejlling you.. And that word is • "perseverance." There is no word in the English language that equals it n doing good team-work ; with cold creams ~•,-'••" .•'-.■. '■.:'-..- -All , Actresses Have' Good Skins.

Do-you know why./all actresses'-have good skins and fine complexions? .They have. . I know *it. . I. Wve seen thousands of .'them: It is ' becaOse ■ tKeJ are .wildly extravagant with cold cream; A • debutante on. the 'stage, may liave to -make a biin and a,cup of tea , do: for-a-full meal; but, bless , your, hear]b,' if -she reaches the'bottom'of j.her cold cream jar she' cheerfully gives .up the , ,bun)' to replenish it. , She , knows she cold -to retain her.:_good. -looks. ■'

An"; actress appears before' her .public eight times • a week'. Eight times a week she. , puts cold cream on before making her appearance, and eight times she has to put on'more cold cream to get the stage make-up off. n She does not use modest-little dabs, as a thrifty soul measures, out tea. She fairly plasters it on' ' ,■'- . . .;'...• •'■••■..*!

■ And that night,'before going to bed, having got into the habit of it,'she puts it 'on .again. She can't forget cold cream, any more than a school "mam" may forget a- lessons. It would be just as fatal to her job.• Every woman needs all the beauty aids she can get, "but cold cream is one of the 'most important. Physical culture plays an immense role as a beauty aid. Vlt is more .important ,than cold cream. And that's saying a great deal! I have spoken so often, in these articles of mise, of the, importance of physical culture that I. will not touch.upon this subject again to-day. But remember. U I have told you, you readers. . Body culture, neck exercises, and facial gymnastics ... There you are! Cleanliness, a daily cold bath, and a weekly warm one. > Follow tlio cold bath with a. hot foot bath and a dry rub. Have lots of interests in life. Books, plays, walks, trees, clubs, children, dance as much, as you can—oh, life's 'full of interesting things. But don't'forget the cold cream! What a Wonderful Gift is the Lemon! What a' perfectly wonderful gift is the lemon from an.all-wise Providence! It promotes health, and heals in sickness. ' But, first of all, we have to banish from our minds the teaching of ignorant nurses and governesses, which, learnt at that most impressionable age, have the habit of popping up in one's memory, and if one is not particularly strong-minded, engender a doubt; And a doubt about a thing undoes, all the good that thing might do, whether mental or physical. In days past, my old nurse used-to make lemonade, for us. She didn't know how to make. it though. Instead of having the cooling effect it was supposed to have on our 'blood, the many, tablespoonfuls of sugar it contained did away with most of the good intention, sugar being rather a heating food. : The addition of sugar to raw lemons was supposed to counteract , the dangers of the raw lemon. Oranges she also had rather a suspicion of. According to her, they were "bad for the liver." In consequence, therefore, of this absurd idea, we iad only about two oranges a'week, instead of about four' a day! '. Poor slandered orange! Sometimes, in the spring, we got nettlerash. . .We were'dosed and dieted. • Why had not, our elder's the sense'.rto give us pure, undiluted lemon juice to.drink and' rub on the irritated skin—lemon juice being; alkaline in its reaction? •' ~ ..-■.. :':■'•',

Wonderful for the Cure of Eczema.

' The juice of lemons, oranges and pineapples is wonderful for the alleviation and- cure of eczema. Soak thin layers "of cotton, wpolin the juice of any one of the- three, and leave it on to dry on the sore place. Exclude all meat from your diet and eat vegetables and fruit, without sugar.- -Meaf is not really necessary, although it is certainly useful in some -instances. • ■ How many, many years is it.going to take before : people ■ will learn- to live on natural healthy;. lines, and discard that old axiom, "What was good enough for our parents is good enough for me? In nine cases out of ten, look at our parents! GouS nerves, liver, rheumatism, .most of them dwelling in a miserable, pain-godden old age. - . 7 Ttiey never had-parents who studied health; beauty and' physical culture. We should eat .and drink the; things which are best 'for us,'too, and we should "live as near Nature as our com r plicated 'existence will permit us., inen we may escape their dismal fate. ; •