WOMAN’S WORLD.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5501, 15 November 1929, Page 1

WOMAN’S WORLD.

BEAUTY HINTS. NEED FOR CLEANSING CREAM. A London beauty specialist who gives treatment to hundreds of women every week declared that 90 per cent, of her middle-aged patients are suffering from the careless use of makeup during the last ten years. “Cream, powder, and rouge should be cleansed from the skin every night with; a good lotion,” she said, “otherwise they destroy beauty instead of enhancing it as they should.” Drastic methods have to be adopted to treat complexions suffering from the indiscriminate use of cosmetics. Every week over a hundred pots of a stiff, almost gritty paste are made by this specialist. It is worked into the skin with a pad of cotton wool, or even a small, soft brush, until it produces a lather, acting as an extra strong cleansing agent. “Many women,” explained the specialist, “choose beauty aids of whatever colour happens to be fashionable at the moment, regardless of their individual complexions. English girls do not need the same elaborate makeup which the American girl, whose complexion is pale because of the steam-heat which spoils the texture of her skin, finds necessary.” Numbers of midle-aged women who visit this salon are induced to go to sleep by gentle massage round the eyes, while they are treated for sagging muscles and wrinkles. When the skin around the eyes has become puffy it is painted with an astringent-and-oil lotion. AN EVANGELIST’S EXPENSES. New disciples gained by Mrs Aimee Semple McPherson, the Los Angeles revivalist who visited England last year, have been sadly shocked by the discovery that she spent more than £8 on beauty treatment during a recent 15-days “revival” at Detroit. The Rev. Dawson MacCullough, former superintendent in Michigan for the Four Square Gospel, of which Mrs McPherson is high priestess, has disclosed that her visit cost nearly £4OOO, leaving her followers in Michigan State with a deficit of £lB3O to meet. When they complained to him he told them that her bills included hotel expenses of £135, flowers costing £lO, personal payments £46, and unexplained miscellaneous items £199.

KEEPING FIT. DIET AND EXERCISE. Although the very slim figure is not as fashionable as it was, women who are not naturally thin are as anxious as ever not to put on weight. Diet and exercise can do much to reduce one’s weight, but it is not advisable to go to extremes in either of these cases. While fatty and starchy foods can be avoided without detriment to one’s health, it is very important that proper and sufficient nourishment should be taken. Exercise must not be overdone. A few simple physical exercises should hep erformed in the exercises should be performed in the morning, and as much walking as possible should be done during the day, but fatigue must be guarded against. Avoid Sweets. The woman who is not so thin as she would like to be should avoid rich cakes, cream-filled pastries, chocolate, sweets, wines and other alcoholic drinks, fat meat and bacon, pies, potatoes, cocoa, and all starchy food. She should drink her coffee and tea sugarless, and the tea should be quite weak. Toast and biscuits are better for her than bread, and she should eat meat but sparingly. Butter, milk, and eggs must be included for the sake of the nourishment they contain, and she should also eat liberally of fruit, raw and cooked, green vegetables and salads. The woman who is dieting should not drink at meal times, but about an hour or two before. She should certainly drink a glass of hot or cold water on rising in the morning, another last thing at night, and two more, if possible, during the* day. To add taste to the water and to increase its benefit to the health unsweetened lemon or orange juice may be added to the water. Lemon juice is wonderfully “slimming,” and orange juice purifies the blood and improves the complexion marvellously. Homemade cakes are better than bought ones, as, fof one thing, one can use just the ingredients one requires. When dieting, be sure the cakes are nourishing by using fresh butter and eggs, and the best currants to give 1 iron to the system. COLOURED INK CRAZE. Now that notepaper has run through practically the whole gamut of colours, ink has come in for a large share of attention. All sorts of hues are used instead of the every-day blueblack, with emerald green and brown as favourites. It ain’t no use to grumble and complain ; It’s just as cheap and easy to rejoice ; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain— . W’y, rain’s my choice. —JONES WHITCOMB RILEY. A.lady writer asks : Does a woman prefer a husband who gives way to her, or the other’ sort What other sort ? i