PERSONAL

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 303, 23 December 1939, Page 11

PERSONAL

Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Miles, of Feild- £ ing, will spend Christmas at their beach < house, Paekakariki. ( Misses Patricia Robson and Merle Gibson left Feilding last night to spend a holiday in Auckland. Misses Dorothy Sargisson and Jean Telford, of Feilding, left yesterday to ; spend a holiday at Eaumai beach. Mrs. A. Clark, Palmerston North, is visiting the Misses Clark, “The Chestnuts,” Otane. . Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Birnie, of Victor- , ia Avenue, leavo to-day to spend a fortnight in Wellington. Professor G. S! Peren, Mrs. Peren and family, are holidaying at Paraparaumu beach. Mr. and Mrs. Noel Holland, Palmerton North, have left on a camping holi- i day in the north. Mr. and Mrs. R. Davis, Chaytor Street, are spending the holidays at Napier and Rotorua. Dr. J. S. Yeates and Mrs. Yeates, of “Viewfar,” Fitzherbert, will spend the Christmas holidays at Taupo. Mrs. E. Dymock, Euahine Street, has left to spend sonic weeks in Wellington. Miss P. Hastings, Fendalton, Christchurch, is spending the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Hastings, Herctaunga Street. Mr. and Mrs. R. L, Levin and Miss Paddy Levin, of “Westella,” Feilding, are spending tho Christmas holidays at their Rotorua station at Okere Falls. Mrs. Lorna Bristow, (Kohukohu), Miss Annette Bristow (Napier) and Miss J. Bristow are spending Christmas in Palmerston North. Mr. and Mrs. Iv. G. McLean and their family, of Taranaki, will be staying for the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Barltrop, of Feilding. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Grant of North Street have taken a house at Kilbirnie, Wellington, and with their family will spend the legal vacation there. Mjijor aud Mrs. W. L. McLean, of East Street, Feilding, will have as their guests for Christmas Mrs. L. G. Stocker and her daughter Ann, of England. Miss Vera Royal, Ada Street, leaves next week to spend a month’s holiday in Sydney, where she will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Erenstrom. Mr. and Mrs. John Murphy, of Wellington, are staying for some days with tho latter’s father, Mr. W. E. Carthew, Ranfurly Avenue, Feilding. Mrs. W. Deans, “Sundown,” Canterbury, is at present staying with her parents, Major-General Sir Andrew and Lady Russell, Tunanui. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Sheklcton, of Pahiatua, and their little son Robert are spending a few daj's with Mr. and Mrs. E. P. C, Swainson, Kimbolton Road, Feilding. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Seifert, jnr., of Palmerston North, and the latter’s mother, Mrs. H. Pilcher, of Hataitai, ’ Wellington, are arriving in Palmerston North to-day from America. Mr. and Mrs. Terence Bailey, of Porangakau, Hawko’s Bay, are journeying to Feilding to-day to spend the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Bailey, 11 Ivaingara. ’ ’ Mrs. Claud Anderson, Palmerston North, accompanied by her two small daughters, Judith and Diana, is visiting Hastings and is the guest of her mother, Mrs. L. F. Peach, Fitzroy Avenue. Among those who attended dinner of the Wanganui Girls’ College Old Girls’ Association in Wanganui were Mesdames J. Remnant, A. Smith, D. Dickson, D. Shannon (Palmerston North), M. Cobb (Feilding) and Misses N. Gibson and J. McLeod (Feilding). Among overseas visitors at present in New Zealand are Mrs. L. G. Stocker, sister of Rear-Admiral Stocker, of the Royal Navy, England, who, accompanied by her daughter Ann, is making an extensive motor tour of both North aud South Islands.

SELF-ANALYSIS OF BEAUTY How beautiful aro you? Or, if you are not a perfect beauty, according to the traditional standards—hovv pretty are you? And, if you aro neither a perfect beauty nor pretty, still according to the traditional standards generally associated with these two states of being—and it must be remembered that neither beauty nor prettiness aro necessarily indispensible to feminine appeal—how smartly distinctive ami attractive is your appearance. Naturally,, through this column, 1 can’t specifically answer any of these questions which, if honestly answered by those who read this column, will not only assist them in classifying their own degree of loveliness, but will in many instances almost automatically suggest either beauty-accentuating, glamour-creating, or flaw-correctiug measures. Questions I am suro that nearly every woman will be able to find one, or a few, advantageously constructive procedures if she will act upon what may be indicated by he own answers to the following questionnaire:— 1. Are you generally pleased with the reflection of your face which you seo in your mirror, or are there features about it from which you tend to divert your attention? Looking away from a flaw in the facial features simply enables you to overlook it for tho time being. The flaw, however, will still be there, and those who see you won’t overlook it. It’s better to admit to yourself that such a flaw exists, and then trying to do something about it in a corrective way. 2. Does the skin of such areas as the neck and ears reflect the same careful conditioning and make-up grooming that is apparent on. your face? The great majority of women are appreciative of the fact that the makeup of the face shouldn’t end with obvious abruptness. . There is still evident, however, that minority which seems oblivious of this elementary point—and consequently their made-up face offers a somewhat mask-like effect, terminating as it does at a very discernable border. 3. Are your teeth free from unattractive stains? If they are not, they should be. Regular trips to the beauty shop can easily be all in vain if visits to the dentist are overlooked for too long a period. Glamour and charm can hardly exist without attractive smiles—and

unblemished teeth are needed for these. It is also very apropos, at this point, to remind those of my readers who are mothers that they should keep a vigilant eye on tho denture formations of their childrep—particularly little girls. Teeth which grow in unevenly, and consequently protrude or reccdo to an unattractive degree, or are crowded in the mouth, can provide especially tragic drawbacks to the appearance of girls when they grow up. Orthodontists can generally correct such flaws of mouth structure and tooth growth, with a minimum of difficulty, when their patients are still youngsters. With adults, such corrections are much more difficult, and tho results much less assured. 4. . Your eye brows—are they symmetrical, well-cared-for arches, or merely unkempt patches of hair which happen to be sprawling about above the eyes? On women, the brows must be maintained according to the first of these two classifications. A man can allow his eyebrows to run more or less wild, and charge it up to “expression of character,” or something of that sort. But women with running-wild brows look either sinister, ferocious, or careless—or all three. 5. Is your hair sweetly clean and attractively lustrous? Is its coiffuro pattern studiously created to afford a logical frame for your own individual facial features? And how about your

hair-brush—do you use it as regularly as you should? Most women of to-day cannot honestly answer this question in the affirmative. Nearly all of them condition their hair properly, and the majority of them are expert in really adding to tho attractiveness of their whole appearance with an individualized coiffure. But at least four out of five aro steadily far behind in their hair-brush-ing. Those who do come under this classification, however, had best correct this sin of omission immediately, because bobbed hair needs the health-giv-ing strokes of the brush just as much as did the long locks of twenty-live years ago. 0. Do you condition your hands regularly, carefully? Do you keep the skin of 3’our hands soft and clear. Do you seo to it that the fingertips never publicly present the unsightliness of chipped-off nail enamel? Do you continually bear in mind that the hands, even if they are not small or delicately formed, can still be very attractive features if their grooming is correctly and steadily maintained? Quite a number of my readers will find that these questions have touched upon a week spot ia their beautification procedure. I must admit that there is a great deal of reason behind such weakness. The everyday activity necossary in nearly every woman’s life takes its toll of hand perfection, and a great deal of preventative and corrective effort is necessary to overcome j,his j handicap—but the desired results can jbe achieved, and the increased perfection in appearance always makes it worth tho effort. Hollywood The preceding questions are by no means all of those which a woman may ask aud answer to the benefit of her appearance. They, are, however, the jones which are most prominent among the make-up facts which we have learned here in Hollywood, as the official make-up counsellors to the film stars over a period of thirty years. Because of thia fact, I -am sure they will -be most pertinent to a majority of my readers. Motion picture cameras are positively brutal iu revealing even tho tiniest flaws of personal grooming. But, such photographic tests and analysis of the features are naturally not at the command of most of those who are reading this column. I hope, however, that the self-analysis which may be provided by asking and answering such questions as the ones I have presented may to some degree serve the same beneficial purpose. Study them and see if any of their inferences are applicable to you. . .