Secrets of Beauty.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1937, 20 December 1913, Page 11

Secrets of Beauty.

SELECTED RECIPES FROM HERE AND THERE-THINGS EVERT WOMAN WANTS TO KNOW, Oxygen Removes a Bad Complexion. "Practical Suggestions." Oxygen is now used to clear the complexion. Its peculiar property of destroying waste matter and 'not injuring healthy tissue is well known. Bad complexions are merely the accumulation of half-dead waste matter on the skin surface. This accumulation shows in tlio form of sallowness, moth patches, and a generally lifeless appearance. Smart women now clear off these imperfections by Retting some mercolised wax from the chemists arid applying it for a few nights like cold cream. This wax contains oxy-, gen which attacks and removes the disfiguring waste matter. It is pleasant to uso and perfectly harmless. The. fresh healthy skin which has been covered up is soon revealed in all its beauty and the face so treated looks much younger nnd prettier as a result..* * * To bring a natural red colour to the lips rul) them with a soft stick of prolactum. * * * For tired, hot, or perspiring feet uso a teaspoonful of powdered onalito in a foot bath.

Getting Rid of Female Moustaches. "Practical Suggestions." To women who are annoyed by disfiguring downy hair growths a method of permanently eradicating thrf same will coma ( hs a pieco of good hews. For this purpose pure powdered pheminol may bo used. Almost any chemist should bo able to supply an ounco of this drug. Tho recommended treatment is designed not only to remove the disfiguring growth instantly, leaving no trace, but also to actually kill tho hair roots without irritating the skin. * * * Objectionable body odours resulting from_ perspiration anil obher causes may_„bo_. instantly banished ■by,'/simply applying: a little- powdered (white) pergol to tho affected surface occasionally. * * Smart women are rapidly adopting the use of the natural allacite of orange blossoms when the complexion is inclined to be oily. It makes a capital greosoless cream, holds the powder perfectly,' and does not encourage hair growth. Home Beauty Aids.

"Household Hints.". A persistently shiny noso or a dull lifeless complexion drives many a woman to cosmetics and consequent despair. And all tho time a simple remedy lies at harnl in tho home. If yori have no cleminita in tho house you need only get about an ounco from your chemist nnd add just sufficient water to dissolve it. A little of this simple 'lotion is Nature's own beautifier. It is. very good for the skin and instantly gives the complexion a soft, velvety, youthful bloom that any woman might envy. It lasts all day or evening, renders powdering entirely unnecessary, and absolutely defies detection. " * • To make the, eyelashes grow long, dark, nnd curling, " a.pply a little mennaline with the finger-tips occasionally. It is absolutely harmless and beautifies the eyebrows as well. "• # Pilenta soap is tho most satisfactory for all complexions. It even works well in co-Id or hard water.

Naturally Wavy Half. "Home Chemistry." Good stallax not only makes the best possible shampoo, but has tho peculiar property of leaving tho hair with a pronounced natural "wave," an effect pre-, sumably desired by many ladies. A teaspoonful of the stallaxgranules, dissolved in a cup of hot water, is ample for a luxurious head wash, and leaves the hair with a peculiar lustre and fluffiness obtainable from nothing else as far as known. It is perfectly harmless and can bo obtained from most chemists, although sinco it has been so little used for this purpose it comes only in sealed original packages, enough to make up twenty-five or thirty individual shampoos. * * * For an actual hair grower nothing equals puro boranium. It is quite harmless, and sets the hair roots tingling with new life. # * ' Tho use of pugo is almost always obvious, but powdered colliandnm gives a perfectly natural colour and defies detection.—Advt.

REXOHASOAP IN THE NURSERY. Tho purest possible soap is required for nursery use. Tho skins of infanta and little children are particularly apt to be roughened and made •oro by inferior soaps. A number of tho soaps sold for babies are worse than useless, and as skin soothers and tealers they are positively injurious. •They, oft as not, are made with crudo fats which penetrate tho tentier skins of infants and cause obstinate soreness. Rexona Skin and Facial Soap is the purest of the pure. It can work nothing but good for an infant's skin,_ and its healing and soothing work will be noticeable within one iour of application. If mothers insist upon nursjs using nothing but c„— Hjeir chilr en they will bo ■ well re- [ paid, for the ohi 1dren will nover bocomo tore, and their skins will alwayi bo sound and perfect, and as soft and smooth as velvet. All this ■pel's poaco—not omy for baby but for all tho household- For every mother knows that no baby will sleep quiotiy if troubled with soreness, llexona babies are'inolined to bo bright and lively, for that important organ, tho skin, is kept in perfect order by tho use of llexona Skin and Facial Boap. Mothers, if your baby shows iigns of fretfulness, try giving it a refreshing bath with Rexona Soap. Mako it a Resona bafry and watch the result. /' '

carols or hymji3 colebrated tho Nativity, for festivals without song were unheard of. His words to his brethren, "Keep diligently Feast ''ays, and truly in the first place tli9 day of Christ's Birth," conveyed tho idea that that particular day was marked throughout tho year as tho timo when men should raise their \oiees in joyous exaltation Tho French historians state that Taleaphoriis,-Bishop of Home, in the year IK) instituted the custom of celebrating tho Nativity with songs of Noel or Christmas carols, and a definite announce ncnt was made that tho first Christinas carol of tho Church was tho "Gloria in Excclsis Dei." By tho timo of the fifth ccntury carols were firmly established, although by many writors they wero supposed to have originated in tho ninth century, largely because they had conio into prominence in different episodes and legends which were enacted in both churches and fairs by tho clergy. From a monastery in dorniv.ill, tlio haven of refugo in troubled times, issued tho one examplo of a carol which pro-Norman England can furnish. Tho facsimile which is presented to tho eyes of readers is very curious to look at, and might indeed be Chinese for all that can bo mado out of it. Among the carols which havo como down from tho eleventh century was one which was found in a Swedish Lutheran publication, though whether it came from Cnut's time or from after the pericxl of tho Norman conquest remains in doubt. A carol that had its origin in tho twelfth century is still sung among tho peasantry of France.

The Troubadour Elsmsnt. It is rather curious to learn that tho troubadburs, those gallant figures of old romance, should havo been in any waj associated with carols, and yet they had their share in tho dovelonment of ecclesiastical music. Religion, as well as glory, love, life, and ciqath, furnished themes for their art, and Provence, tho homo of sweet singers,, of chivalry, and of poetry, was Their birthplace. From Germany camo tho minnesingers; England had her glccmcn and minstrels; and from Italy camo trovotori and giocolonini, who sang the songs of Italy in their Oku tongue. Most of the'early carols wero sung in Latin —Latin, of course, being used in church observances, and ono can imagine how stately and sonorous the words as sung to the music must have sounded. Of the carols that have como to us from the thirteenth century a few are still popular, liko "C-ordus Natus," sung in the churches to tho hymn, "Of tho Father's Lovo Begotten," and "Tempus adesfc' Floridum," a spring carol suns' to Dr. Noale's doggerel about "Good King Wenceslas."

The English Touch. Carols benefited by the advance that had been mado in music by tho time of the fourteenth ceutury, both in craftesmanship, melody, and poetical meaning, though at tho samo timo vulgar music of tho period was very scant, and, not till later in the century, did John Donstable, "tho father of English music," appear. "Good Christian Men, Rejoice, Rejoice," is the translation, somewhat free,'of a fourteenth century carol "In Dulci Jubile." A battlefield is hardly the place that ono would look to for tho encouragement of religious music, and yet Edmondstoune states that it was owing to the tension of tho time of tho battle of Agincourt that tho famous Agincourt song appeared voicing tho victory and supposed to be tho work of John Dunstable. In tho rare collection contained in the Cambrido MS. is to bo found, besides this song a set of carols, eight of which are for Christmas Day.

In Praiso of Oliver Cromwell. Naturally . tho invention of printing by Caxton revolutionised both poetry and music, musicians being compelled to compress and concentrato tlieir thoughts owing to tho great cost of printing. In tho 'course of its- history the carol has been associated, or, more correctly speaking perhaps, has been interwoven with mystery plays, Nativity plays, masques, and pageants, but it reached its best'in the days of Caurroy and Byrd, though it lias since passed through various more or less interesting phases of development, It would liavo been disastrous had a proposal, solemnly placed before Parliament for tlio manufacture of Christmas carols praising Oliver Cromwell been passed, but, fortunately, the people had sense enough to turn it down. A curious intermingling of the sacred and secular is reflected in carols of tho seventeenth century, and not unfrequontly in the very same carol. In England it arose very likely from an intermingling of tho old Wassail songs of tlic°Anglo-Norinau times with tho Christian festival. A very quaint specimen of this occurs in an old poem. Tho opening lines tell of the masses of tho priests sung cn that solemn day:

This done, a wooden childc in cloutcs is oil tho altar set, About tho vhichc both boyes and Eyrls do dance and nimbly get, And carols sing in praiso of Ohrysto; and' for to help them here, Tho organ anewercs overy verso with sweet and solemn cliEare. Tho priests do rorc aloud, and round about the parents stand To sso' the sport, and with their voyce do help them and theiro hand. Carol singing is now principally heard in tho provinces. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, so it is stated in a work by Davies Gilbert published in 1523, carols were sung 011 Christmas Day in all the churches (at any rate in tho west) in place of Psalms, and at tho end it was usual for tho parish clerk to proclaim in loud voico his wishes for a n-.erry Christmas and a happy Now Year to all tho parishioners. Among carols two of tho most famous, also two of tho oldest, aro "God rest you, merry gentlemen'' and "Tho Boar's Heart," which was, and perhaps is still, sung on Christmas-Day at Queen's College, Oxford. It is a fascinating history that is associated with earolry, and one that takes tho curious fnquiror far back into tho past, even beyond tho timo of tlio beginning of tho Christian era. Tho Greek ode celebrated human honours, but tho Christinas carol celebrates tho Birth to which music has paid a magnificent tribute,; with every possiblo kind of melody, symphony, and oratorical song.