Household Hints

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 290, 31 August 1910, Page 3

Household Hints

OUR HEALTH. Nowadays people do not drink enough water to thin the blood so that the system can be cleared of its effete matter quickly and promptly. The consequence is that this long-continued retention produces rheumatism and catarrh, and affects the heart. The use of water in its normal quantity keeps the stomach and bowels clean, and really has the effect of an inside bath. ( SHUT EYES WHEN RESTING. The nervous girl who tries to rest while her eyes are wide open, her muscles cramped, and her brain tense is wasting time (says one who professes to know), for even if she should fall into a fitful doze she is liable to awaken from it with aching limbs and a doleful facial expression. GOOD FOR THE COMPLEXION. Among face creams recommended is one made of one ounce each of spermaceti and white wax, five ounces of the best oil of sweet almonds, an ounce and a-half of rosewater, and twenty grains of powdered borax. Dissolve the borax in the rosewater while you melt the wax and spermaceti in a pipkin placed in a pan of boiling water. When it is thoroughly melted add the oil of almonds and let the mjxture remain in the boiling water until all flakes of wax caused by pouring in the oii are melted. Then quickly pour rosewater into it, letting the mixture still remain in the water until all the wax flakes are dissolved. Now pour the mixture into a jar, and with a silver knife beat it until it is creamy. HOUSEWIFE'S BOAST. Ingenious people sometimes propound schemes for increasing the popularity of marriage. To them may be commended the plan of the Blackburn lady who, as she has explained, before she married her husband, demanded of him that he should be a "thorough-going teetotaller and non-smoker," and proclaims as a result that though she has been married forty-two years, "never yet has anyone smoked in her home." This (remarks the "Telegraph") is in the same class with those queer pieces of information that tells us how many [match boxes standing on end will make a pile as high as St. Paul's. Few of us wish to give an order for a match box monument of that or any other kind. Few of us have any particular desire to boast of a home in which no one has ever smoked. I( seems unsatisfying as the prize of a lifetime. REVOLUTION IN DRESS. Since most of us wear tailor-mades for every occasion, from the plainest frieze coats to the most elaborately braided velvet ones, the so-called "best" frock with a silk foundation seems about as dead as the sable dolman or bugled mantle, say ) Mrs Eric Pritchard. Motoring has ised the world of dress to an- unprecedented extent, so that one resorts to gorgeous garments for evening and reception wear only. In the street coats and skirts predominate, but they have assumed new dignities, for the plainer the coat the more perfect must be the "cut." A HARD CONDITION.

To remain young is the chief ambition of all women, and, perhaps, of most men too. Until now, the feeble resources of coquetry were the only methods of protection. But now we are brought a new remedy, said to be infallible against white hair, wirnkles, falling teeth, and all the other irreparable signs of age. The prescription is simple, but difficult: Never talk! For talking, argue ths advocates of this new method, causes wrinkles, which are a sign of age. Laughing is very dangerous, too; and so people who pass their entire lives in silence ought to be still young when their time comes to die —consequently, as next step, there is no apparent necessity for them to die at all. All they have to do is to remain silent. But there is a species of torture in this treatment, recalling the old French adage, "One must suffer to be handsome." The woman of last century would have told you that when she was a little girl she did not sit up to table, and her parents, fearing that she would not develop in graceful proportions, had her hair tied to the back of her chair, so that she was forced to throw back her shoulders and hold her chin straight. This may seem barbarous, but to most women, say the cynics, it would be preferable to being doomed to eternal silence. • To them beauty may be desirable. but talking is a necessity. WHERE FASHION REtGNS. Old rose is a colouring to be worn for indoor gowns.—Braided net to match high-waisted skirts is used for smart little blouses. —Some polonaise effects are obtained simply with a wide sash of supple silk. —The dress without a button in sight is the one that is to be the coming novelty.— Even on children's clothes the present fancy for black is seen as pipings, revers, or trimmings of some slight kind,