The Women's Corner.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1990, 21 February 1914, Page 11

The Women's Corner.

SPECIAL COLLECTION OF SMABT. AND EFFECTIVE BEAUTY . .-'!;•■■. EEciPEs. ■■,;, , -~- ■ ■■' . )>■ What"Women■Hate';- : "Helpful Gossip." . , ' Every woman hates a shiny nose and a. dull or greasy Few know that there is an instantaneous remedy at hand in the home, one that is absolutely \ harmless/ and that defies detection even ■under the closest scrutiny. If you have no cleminito in the house get about'an ounce from your chemist, and , add just sufficient water to dissolve it. A little ot this lotion applied. to the face will instantly cause the greasiness to disappear, and the skin will have a perfectly natuTal,, velvety, youthful bloom that: any -woman. might "envy. : The effect will last for many hours, and no• powder is. required,, even under the .most trying conditions, indoors or out. To prepare the face,, neck and arms for a. long evening in a hot ball-room nothing can comparo with this simple home-made lotion. , . . To make the eyelashes grow long, dark and curling, apply a.little mennaline with the finger tips occasionally. It is absolutely harmless and beautifies the eyei brows as well. . .... Pilenta soap is the most satisfactory for all complexions. It even works well in cold or' hard water. ... : Permanently Removing Superfluous Hair. • -."Toilet Gossip." How to permanently, not merely temporarily, remove a downy growth of disfiguring superfluous hair, is what ■ many women wish to know. It is a pity that it is not'more generally known that puro powdered pheminol, obtainable from the chemists, may bo used for this purpose. It. is applied directly to the objectionable hair. The recommended treatment * not only instantly removes the hair, leaving no trace, but is designed also to kill the roots completely. ... The natural allaciteof oraago blossoms makes a capital 'greaseless face cream. It holds the powder perfectly, and the. natural odour of this product is, of course, most delightful. N Many of the smartest women are now using it exclusively, because it floes not encourage a growth of hair on the face. .' . . ; The annoying bodyodour sometimes resulting from perspiration can be instantly neutralised by the occasional application of powdered (white) pergol. : . . . .... Renewing Complexions with Oxygen. ' "Handy Recipes." > Everyono knows that oxygen consumes waste matter in the body. A poor complexion is merely the accumulation of half deadened, or waste matter upon the surface of the'skin. It sticks on stubbornly, sMowing m the form of jallowness, moth patches and a generally lifeless appearance. '. Oxygen may bo used with'advantage in removing . this disfiguration. Any chemist should be able to supply raercolized wax. This contains oxygen in a form that is released when it comes in contact with the skin Naturally the oxygen attacks the deadened matter, but does not effect the healthy ekin at all. Thus a few applications of-this perfectly harmless substance poon begins to clear the skin and reveal the beautiful complexion which every woman, has just underneath the-ugly. one. The process is pleasant and harmless, and involves no inconvenience whatever. ... To bring a natural red colour to the lips, rub them with a soft stick of prqlactum. . .. .. For hot. tired or perspiring feet, use a tensDOonful of powdered onalite in a foot bath. A Strange Shampooi "Cosy Corner Chats." ... I was much interested to,-learn from this young woman with tho beautiful glossy hair that she never washes ■ it with soap or artificial shampoo powders. Instead, she makes her own shampoo by dissolving a tcaspoonful of stallnx granules in a cup of hot water. "I make my chemist get the stnllax for me." said she. "It comes only in sealed packages, enough to mfiko un twenty-five or thirty individual shampoos, nnd it smells eo good I could almost eiit it." Certainly this little lady's hair did look won- , derful even if she has strange ideas of a shampoo. I am tempted to try the plan myself. . . . For an Actual hair grower nothing equals pure boranium. It is • quite harmless, and sots the hair roots tingling with new life Tho use of rouge is almost always obvious, but powdered colUandum gives a perfectly natural colour and defies detection.—Advt.

circumvent tho power of The Foot—secret means, unfair, unfriendly means. And in the end' husband and wife will be left regarding each other almost as strangers, across a mass of accumulated misunderstanding; she—becauso she can so'easily outwit his clumsy tyranny —cannot avoid a feeling of contempt for tho supposed infallibility of his judgment; he—when in time ho discovers it—cannot forgive his wifo's systematic deception. But how many wives have sufficient clearness of vision to perceivo at the outset tho truo kindness of tho former attitude and tho cruelty involved in the latter? Wo are so unwilling to be too critical or too self-assertive. "Wives, obey your husbands!" That instinct is strong at tho beginning of every marriage, and we only learn gradually that a homo designed for the happiness of two persons cannot bo successfully directed according to the views of one alone. Objects to Being Ruled. I have already confessed that my husband is tho possessor—and user! — of a foot. Probably it is becoming equally clear that I am not one of those strong, clear-sighted women who Jiavo frankly objected to being ruled. I have taken the easior path and gone in for my own way when my partner wasn't looking., , . Oh, it , has paid, up to', a point 1 Our married life has gone emoothly, our friends think us a wonderful example of matrimonial harmony and devotion. They know nothing of the scores of small bitternesses this male despotism has aroused in any heart, and nothing either of my mean little- methods of get- . ting the better of it. (He's so innocent 'and unsuspecting, this heavy-footed, iron-willed husband of mine.) And perhaps they also fail, to notice a steady Jucreaso in his self-complac-enoy, with a consequent decrease in warm, human sympathy, and a growing indifforonco to the opinions of other people where they do not happen to coincide with his own. ..-, My share in bringing about this state of things was sharply brought homo to .me the other day by a chance remark made- by my son, aged five.

"Never miiid, Baby," ho said, to comfort his small sister, "Mummy will let us play with them as soon as Daddy has gone- to tho office." The toys in question wero some old and very "fragile pieces of china —a doll's teaeot —which had belonged to an ancestor. I had given tho children permission to play with them, partly with the idea of training them in careful handling. They had been put on their honour to treat tho things very, ven gently, and were full of pride in their new trust. ; But Daddy at that point felt that an opportunity had arrived for putting down his foot. The china was valuable; children yi'ore notoriously, rough ■ and careless; ho wished it to bo understood that these pieces were never to bo given tc. the babies unless a grown-up person was at hand to see that no damage was done. Hence the tears and lamonta- . tions of my. youngest-boru and the praotical advice of her elder brother. Hor Failure. But what a shock tho child's shrewdness gave'■me when I had fully realised its meaning! He was already beginning to find us out. My own contempt'for his father's orders was transferring itself from my mi.nd to his! In another year or two 'where would this want of unison land us? Our marriage had once been full rf hopes and ideals, and I felt that 1 was chiefly responsible for their failure. The sense of that failuro was ruther_ overwhelming. . But in tho midst, of it ,on& fact shone out, and I clung to it. it was not too late to go back, to. get on a surer, sounder footing, because I knew that wo still cared, both of us. All our years of''domestic cross-purposes had not killed out love, though sometimes it had certainly grown dim. I cared so much! • I care so much at thih moment, and so, I know, does my husband. My discovery, you see, only happened yesterday. And this very evening, after dinner, the new time is "oing to begin. I havo resolved to be tho outwardly submissive, inwardly rebellious ,wifo no longer. Wo are going to talk-— frankly and bravely—and I shall point out. to my husband tho necessity for banishing from our homo once and for all, that . terrifying sham tyrant—His Foot.