HEALTH HINTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3610, 16 January 1906, Page 4

HEALTH HINTS.

Fruit should b« a large portion of one’s breakfast.

Hardwood floors and rugs are better than carpet on sleeping floors.

Hot water cools and cleanses, cold water 1 “firms,” and massage irons away ugly facial lines. But have a care how and where you rub or you will create line*.

After bathing in the surf the lips are often blue. The heart is in revolt. Take a few breathing exercises and then watch your lip* freshen toward red. Women should take five minutes a day from work and lie flat on the back, all muscles relaxed,.with eyes closed. This will be found a wonderful preserver of heallh, beauty and strength.

The bath is a semi-religious observance during torrid weather. Those who must bathe in a thimble of.water, so to speak, should spend a long time in rubbing the body gently with a coarse towel afterward.

If you feel restless keep ths fact to yourself. Avoid rocking chairs when you are entertaining or are being entertained. Don’t fidget, your feet, thrust them forward, or call attention to them by crossing and uncrossing them. One expects boys to go through a hobbledehoy stage when they don’t seem to know quite what, to do with their limbs, but in a girl that sort of (Mag is intolerable.