WOMEN'S INTERESTS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1933, Page 2

WOMEN'S INTERESTS

Hints from Home and Mbroad.

HOW TO BEHAVE.

TIPS FROM A WAITRESS. Don’t, 0 n entering a tea-room, take any of the vacant tables you can see; go right up to the other end and choose a “reserved,” with tilted chairs. Reverse the chairs and sit down. This will bring the waitress to you hot-foot, and will also give you an excellent opportunity to comment upon her impudence when she requests your patronage of another table.

Don’t, although you may feel very hungry and have a lot to spend, give all your order at once. Let her get well down the room and then call her back and explain that although you said “tea,” you really meant “coffee” and that when you ordered a plate of cakes you meant only those filled with cream. Such trifles create a pleasant atmosphere, and give the waitress needful exercise. Don’t dream of looking at the specified price of things marked on the menuargue with the girl when she gives you yotil* ticket. It solicits attention from the manager, and shows the girl that if she is a fool you are not.

Do, if you have time, carefully scru. tinise the menu for anything that can possibly be given a French pronunciation ; jt impresses your neighbours and shows the waitress up when she brings you an ordinary omelette.

Do, when you see. spotless napery, give the children te a in a saucer, also a spoon, that they may play nicely while you discusss your domestic derangement with your best friend. The mess won’t matter—you car cover much of it with the plates, etc until you go. After that well, the waitress is proverbially careless; she will merely be blamed for upsetting the teapot.

Do, if only a s an outward and visible sign that you cannot be idle, fiddle with the table accessories, especially the cruet; then, when the top comes off and the whole contents of the pepper pot become immersed in the gravy, you can protest indignantly to the manager and get a second serve or your money back. Don’t forget before leaving, to confiscate all loose paper dovleys “te take home to the children.” They love them so, the. darlings! And. at ter all, you’ve paid for them, haven’t you P BOAS SOME BACK. At a mannequin parade ill Birmingham to Which (states an English correspondent), I wont the other day. fhore were evening frocks with trainlike pieces which swept the ground at the back, and feather boas, exactly as we remember them in pre-war days, were worn with many models. Perhaps tha boas were not exactly like their predecessors, for they were coloured bright blues, greens and pinks, but they looked strangely oldfashioned nevertheless. Tha newest material for an evening frock is a very lightweight fine wool. There was an attractive blue wool model cut on slender lines so that it appeared no less graceful than many of its satin a nd velvet rivals. Nearly every frock had a small detachable cape t 0 match which fastened at the throat and was infinitely becoming.

HOW TO WEAR THE SCARF. The French are very cunning in the wearing of the scarf. Their favourite) new half-fichu-'shape that leaven the throat open, adds height and length to the neck. The fichuline is always becoming.' The smartest scarf of the moment is cut on. similar lines to the hunting-stock, hut is only loosely tied at the throat and then hangs straight down. This grace ful and practical type is good for the new velvet narrow scarf with its hem or faggot border. Here again,, as it suits so many women to leave the throat open, it is easy to place the “tie-over” lower down. Many of the new fur-ties and scarves are worn in this fashion. The new fur-capes are held in place by scarf-ends of the same.

Many collarless tweed cardigans look very well, just finished with scarf-ends that tie fairly low. Other types can have, on the same garment, an inner-scarf to fold in stock form right across the throat, letting it bang down the sides.

BEAUTIFUL HANDS. There are two golden rules to be. observed if you would bo the possessor of well- groomed hands. The first is nourishment, and the' second regularity of treatment. If neglect has been their portion—and people are strangely spasmodic in this matter, of manicure—then it is useless to go to a professional manicurist until they have first been got into good condition at home. The cuticles must bo softened and the nails nourished before there is any thought of correct shaping or polishing. As a first stop the hands should ho massaged with a good nourishing cream every night for a week, and a special cream applied to the base of the nails. If the cuticle is torn or grown above! the “half-moon” it is wise to sleep in gloves occasionally,

or to wear them over creamed hands for an hour during the day. Special gloves with perforated palms can he bought for this purpose. Continue the treatment for a further week by soakjng the tips of the fingers in a warm oil bath—cine oil or sweet almond oil will do cxcellent-

EYES OF MEN. ; Brown eyes show deep feeling and a great susceptibility to the female sex —who, in turn, find them attractive. Blue-eyed men possess clear intellects, and are firm and honest. They arc often the heads of great industrial enterprises, and are cheerful and optimistic in temperament. The pioneer and the born leader possess them. The deeper the colour of the eye the more extreme are the likes and dislikes of their owners. Black-ey.ed men are violent in friendship and easily roused to anger. Grey-eyed men are invariably clever and gifted in some special line. It is the eye of the artist, and the writer, and its possessor is sometimes inclined to be fickle. Green-eyed men are often jealous, but they love very deeply. If the eve is feebly tinted or rather colourless, the man has a cold, selfish nature. If a man keeps his eyes half closed, do not trust him or make a confidant of him, as he will let you down because lie is fundamentally insincere.

"CADS,” OR TEMPERAMENT? Jf, in the course of a game, a man takes a hiding and flie.s into a rage, lie } fi . ,a cad; if a. woman, similarly treated, throws a fit, she i-s simply "temperamental.” If va man cheats at cards,, he is thrown out of his club, or receives a knock on the nose —according to the company lie keeps ; let a woman client ,aud her offence will be laughed off ns “just another of Mabel’s funny littie

ways.” The world never cares to admit th e possibility of a woman being a bounder. There is no feminine equivalent of “cad.” Paced with her "funny little ways,” the world sbrugis tolerant shon der,s and declares that a woman can’t b e judged by.male, standards. And that would be perfectly harmless, and not worth writing about, if the sexe.s were segregated in separate yovblas they were fifty years ago. N°w, however, we are all in the i«ame boat. The great game of working and playing together, which for ten thousand ve-ars and more, has been man’s monopoly, is now shared by almost every woman. It is up t° her to .allow that her conduct shall be judged on an equal basis.

COLOUR BY LIGHT

TO SUIT ALL MOODS. 'Chromatic art has reached the home not the cacophony of jarring half-tones in music, but the control of ceiling lighting 's° that diners may take their hor s d’oeuvres in one shade and their foh in another in finest adjustment to the weather, tempers of th e company, and fashions of the moment. Primrose yellow and primrose green iave 'supposed by psychologists to be. a perfect compromise between vivacity and placidity of temper. If, therefore, the hostess of the future observes that her most important guest is tired and out of sorts, she will only hav e to murmur, “James, the harmony scheme,” and the success of her evening will be assured.

Fo r .sluggish and silent visitors, a stimulating orange; for a heat wave, cool blue ; for a sombre winter’s afternoon, ,a warm yellow ; for chianti and risotto, whatever riotous blend of colours suggests the Mediterranean. The possibilities are unlimited, but there are one or two complications. An American scientist, Dr Dudley Watson, has just issued a warning that a red dining room adversely affects the digestion 'and leads to more divorces than even a bad cook. And his harmony scheme is plain blue. Then there may be difficulties about dress. The hostess may have decided on ,a blue evening and have donned her froefk accordingly, only to find '’that the wife of the man who matters 'i® wearing a red dress, from which her blue lighting would drain every spark of colour.

BRIGHT JEWELS. Emeralds, sapphires, and rubies should be shaken in warm bran, and then very gently brushed. To clean opals or corals simply rub them with soft chamois, after dipping them in tepid water. On no account expose opals to any heat, for they arc likely to crack. Never wet turquoises, or they will lose thei r colour. To nuiku polished go'/I Wry bright, clean with jeweller’s rouge .and a so it brush. For dim gold iis e warm water and soap. 'Silver filigree ornaments and trimmings are best treated with very fine powdered magnesia, which must be left on for a few hours, and then shaken oft'. Always brush your ring®, Bangles, necklets, pendants, etc., very gently otherwise you may loosen and Sometimes oven lbs., the stones.