CROWNING GLORY?

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 70, 15 December 1937, Page 14

CROWNING GLORY?

"COCKTAIL" FOR HAIR It's all very well for sentimentalists to say your hair is your crowning glory, but they do not realise how much less picturesquely you could describe it on days when it proves thoroughly troublesome. What about the day before the 1 regular "Shampoo-and-set" when it is at its worst, and you are suddenly invited out that very evening. Here is a good "cocktail" to mix for reviving the dullest and flattest of hair on such an occasion. ✓ Take equal parts of vinegar and olive oil — rather less oil if your hair is greasy— add a good dash of eau-de-Cologne, and brush this through the hair. Spray lightly with setting lotion, and place a few combs in position where the waves have to be emphasised. The hair will be dry and looking entirely different before you have finished dressing. You probably find that setting lotion constantly clogs the spray, but you can put an end to this trouble by getting a bulb of rubber composition with a wide glass nozzle and "nebuliser" from the chemist. It is intended as a throat spra.> but does equally well for the hair — is very inexpensive — and never goes out of action. Feathers for Vases. Feathers have a place in the home and' plumes and dainty sprays of flowers made of feathers are often effective substitutes for real blooms in vases, while feather motifs 011 furnishing fabrics and wallpapers are very fashionable. Even table china falls in with the vogue and teasets pattemed with little drifting feathers in white on pastel-tinted grounds are attractive. Wall Decorations. Something gay and floral with which to decorate your walls through the winter is a good investment. Flower pictures have seldom before been so much in favour. Queen Mary's love of flower studies has done much to establish their popularity. The newest forms of floral pictures are those painted on metal and placed in a frame of metal painted in pale green. Shoe Cleaners. Portable shoe-cleaning outfits, small enough to be carried in a handbag or pocket, are a useful idea for the business girl, or traveller. A round container made of bakelite unscrews at the ends to reveal one side a pad soaked in emulsified wax and the other side a velvet ' pad for polishing. The waxed side is ligh'" rubbed over the shoe, which, ! given a minute or two to dry, is then s, polished up with the velvet. 1

ets and concoct her own scent powder to fill them. 1 The inner case of the sachet, should be made of something through which fine powder, such as orris root, cannot escape. Chamois leather is the best material, provided the seams are securely fastened, because it holds the scent. The cheapest container, though not nearly so good as chamois, is an envelope made of rice or crepe paper, securely pasted. The simplest sachet powder may be made of reindeer moss, reduced to a coarse powder. Put the required quantity into a basin and sprinkle on to it a few drops of the essential oils of citron, bergamot and lavender, using least of the lavender, as it is very strong, and add 12 drops of sandal-viood oil. Stir with a wooden spoon, cover, leave for 24 hours, stir again, and use as required. For sachets of fragrant flowers, to be used in wardrobes, drawers and boxes, take one ounce of coriander, one ounce of orris root, two ounces of powdered lavender flowers, one ounce of powdered cloves, and a quarter of an ounce of powdered cedar-wood. All can be reduced to a coarse powder in a little nutmill. Fill the sachets with the mixture, and the contents of chests and cupboards will be as fragrant as if fresh flowers had been used. Another method is to take one ounce of dried lavender flowers, one ounce of powdered orris root, and a quarter of an ounce of powdered cloVes. Mix, and add six drops of oil of bergamot, three drops of oil of lavender, a few drops of essence of ambergris, if obtainable, and four drops of oil of sandal-wood. Put the mixture between layers of white cotton wool and enclose in sachets.