EMERGENCY TACTICS

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 106, 7 May 1934, Page 13

EMERGENCY TACTICS

A "RAGING BEAUTY"

"A great friend of mine, with a reputation as a, raging beauty, ono -week-' end recently' ".Visited a country house and, when she arrived, sho was shown to her robrnj" States'MMViel Segal in the "Australian Women's Weekly-."' "For. a. few. moments she did indcedbocomo a 'raging beauty,' for she discovored that her vanity ease, containing her pvocious beauty secrets, had been mislaid. It had been left in tho. train. ~

"For only a .few' moments was sho discomposed; ,then. she askod mo, sweetly, if I would invade tho kitchen and.bog a bottle of salad oil, a can of boiling water, a packet of cornflour, a teacup, a piece of linen, an,d a cup of milk. •••.:■ ' ■

''She removed her frock anil conted [lor faco with salad oil, then she bent her glistening face over a bowl of boiling water, wruug out a corner of Vhe towel iv it, and applied itrto her.-face. "Three times she did this, then dried herself and tapped in another dose of oil. More applications with tho wet towel—the water was cooler now—and then the milk, patted on her fnco.nnd neck gently for about thrco minutes, with a linen,rag, until most of-the teacupful was absorbed. The remainder of tho milk sho used as an oyebath.

"When her face was quite dry, she applied her make-up, lightly, and skilfully—luckily she carried rouge, daycream, and lipstick in her handbagcompleting it except for her eyebrows and lashes. A flick with her puf£ with tho cornflour ('Always use a whito powder as a foundation, before applying a tinted kind,' sho" told mo, 'it gives that "petally" effoe.t) and a more Sonorous application of her own daintily perfumed peaeh-colo'urcd powder.

"She brushed eyebrows and lashes' with a suspicion of the salad-oil before using tho brown mascara, and there sho was, as perfect as if she had just emerged from a beauty parlour."