WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2972, 9 January 1917, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD

vTHE LATEST BEAUTY

METHOD /

V TINGLING SLAPS TO BANISH WE INKLES.

.-. . (By MTna.'ljna Oavalieri.) \ In-Paris a little woman is growing \ icli tho charms of many

' I " aa'tivo. and ■ visiting beauties hy tho ■ -\ BlnpiHng treatment. Each treatment \ costs teii dollars, and tho treatment • ' '•• continues for fifteen 'minutes. Sho can '■ givo twenty of these treatments; a day ._ ' yieforo her strength is quite gone. Sho tyill call; at our. homes,fat any, hour that is,convenient. ' I prefer it just .before rising, between my breakfast and my bath. Or, if the whim seizes mo, I go to' her cozy apartment near the Ayenuo do l'Opera, and, snuggled in a big, cool, leather easy with niy. collar turned hack and my throat ; muffled, iu a big, soft towel to protect my bodice;,,ltako niy slapping. The .."flapping.treatment, is the- best substi- ■,. -into I, know of for the now siipplant- '.' -hi facial massage.- The/fear, amountriug almost to a- certainty,. that massage,, dragging of tho akin, loosons •it from tho muscles and creates .;, wriiikloSj ■is ..Jjajiisluni''that/form ■ of beauty aid from most of tho parlours. The slapping treatment serves the same purpose without incurring the danger of massage'. It jio ' muscles; loosens and stretches no skin. I.t simply tones and vivifies tho muscles and slan where they stand.' ■■ Tho secret .of beauty,- as of health, is' normal circulation. Whatever performs this ofßco enhances health and beauty. It is tho corner-stone of tho * slapping treatment. Let mo describe if. Arrived at your apartment, or you having arrived at hers, the little beauty doctor washes her seemingly dainty hands once more. It is a-pleasure to "*■»• watch her make those spotless hands medically clean. It ia- n process' that liiany of us would do well to often re- ■ peat. Into a, howl half-filled with u>pid water sho pours, a teaspoonful of peroxide of hydrogen. ."Or if this is not handy, she uses a cake of soap strongly impregnated, with that great cleanser, carbolic acid. Then, to.make sure that not a_ single vagrant microbe remains, she wraps about tho point of an orange wood" stick* a hit of absorbent cotton. This she dips into peroxide Df hydrogen or into tho water in which the carbolic acid soap - has lain and mado a lather, and passes- it beneath the edgo of her finger iails. She knows, . wise little woman, that the tips of the nails are culture beds for germs. Still making ready lor. the, slapping,. sho dips her cleansed finger tips into a favourite. cold cream and'• rubs the cream well into her palms. Having rubbed one of these unguents well into; her-'palniSj.-'the^little''beauty- 1 doctor takes her place behind her patron's re- . ~ .. chair,!, and,.,having assured herself that tho i&atron is resting com-. ; -fortably, so'. , liat no line or crease .caused by discomfort shall he •slapped ', into the face, sho . tolls the patient !' where she will hegin.the slapping, and tells her to thrust her tongue into that part of. the face to protect it. Any "of .the lower parts of the face can.,he . thus protected. Not oven the longest tongued gossip "in the, world can'reach the upper partsof the'face, but there ■ . Nature has assisted the, little beauty 'doctor,-for the upper are the bony parts of the face, and provide their • own support., ' • The lines running from the nose to • the comers of the lips are those which most concern the, woman who is grow-ing-'old, or the -woman of fretful dis- (. position..The tongue, being thrust be- ..', neath this , line, it receives its share , of the slapping. Lightly briskly

and persistently tho palms descend upon these linos. Slap, slap, elapl Tho floeh tingles. Tho skin stings. Tho Wood rushes in little torrents to tho muscles of tho upper, lip and to the cheeks and beneath, tho nose. Slap, slap, slap! Tho circulation is ro-cstablishetl. The replenishing currents aro feeding tho tissues as copiously as a flood of rain feeds a parched land; Tho tonguo is shifted to tho other check. Tho slapping is resumed on tho other sido of tho mouth, ■ tho'.effect is repeated. "Maintenant, the shocks, s'il vous plait,",, saye. tho beauty doctor, and your tongue is thrust into tho cheek and resolutely there held. It must not forsako its task, nor even wobble- m it, for muscles of tho cheok are liablo to sag, and to the practised cyo' tho falling of theso muscles and tho disposition of a face to "jowls" is one of the first, indisputabio marks of age. It is the distinct difference between tho contour of tho young face and the old. "Plus has," says tho little woman, and the tongue goes lower. It supports the base of tho cheek, and tho soft slapping begins' at the point of the chin and proceeds to tho point of the jawbone, •' and turning tho. facial corner, makes its way upward to the ear. Madame, the slapnor, is reestablishing the wavering contour. Less vigorously, but still firmly, she slaps the face at tho corners of tho eyes, at tho temples, and in the worry area of-the forehead, between the oyebrows. AVhen she has finished the face is smarting, but not painfully, and there is a senso of a now flood of vigour in every muscle. Blood, the replenisher and revivifier, 3ias visited every spot in the face, nnd blood, in normal circulations, is what Ponce do Leon Fountain of Youth. If madamo is not available our own palms can do the slapping with considerable success.

One of tho most beautiful members of Roman society is Donna Vivfna Mazzaruio, the unmarried daughter of the Countess Lanza di Mazzarino, who is'one of the ladies-in-waiting to H.M. •the Queen of Italy;.' The Conto Lanza di Mazzarino is with the gallant amiy of our Allies, ae is also his son, who v is serving in' the ranks as a private. The Cpntessa and her daughter usually winter in Rome, and the latter caused a sensation last season by her beauty and charm.

"A recent issue of the "New Statesman" 1 reveals' a serious shortage ; of nurses to tend the wounded (says a writer in an exchange). At the end of October a 700-bed hospital in London was ready—except that it entirely lacked nurses. Tho article_ explains that nurses have been shockingly overworked, and sometimes very badly treated. Thus many have retired in collapse, and others in resentment. The exrjort'ation of nurses and doctors to our Allied countries is now forbidden, as the War Office refuse them passports, and tlfe "New;. Statesman" now suggests that the War Office make a solemn public official appealto women ae a sex, and, if the response is , still inadequate, that conscription of women be resorted to.

1917 Hair Orders -attended to with promptitude. Mise v Milsoa and staff are still busy on Natural Hair Pads, Plaits, , Switcbos, Toupees, Wigs, Transformations, and Curls. Only the lightest of work, the finest of .weaving, and j the best quality English Tiair used. So natural-looting are all these accessories that they cannot be detected when worn. Every client is taught the professional way to wave and polish thoir artificial hair, so that it lasts much longer than if obtained in the ordinary way. If unable to call, write and enclose pattern .of Kair. Full reply sent to all inquiries. All hair lotions, lubricants, and cremes, combs, and hair ornaments. AH face and skin Salves, Lotions, Poudres, Electrolysis, Manicuring. Miss Wilsoin, Barnett's Bidps., Oi Willis 'Street, Wellington. Tel. BU.-Advt.