Here's your Answer

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 287, 24 February 1928, Page 4

Here's your Answer

T ET THE SUN Service Bureau assist you with your problems, whether they relate to dress, health and beauty culture, cookery, homecraft, travel, sport or any other of the many things on which we are all constantly needing information. Whatever you*’ particular puzzle may be, we will be glad to give our advice whenever possible. All communications must be accompanied by the inquirer’s name, and address (not for publication), and sent to THE: SUN “Service Bureau,” Women’s Page, THE SUN, Auckland. Answers will appear weekly in this column.

COLD CREAM FOR ROUGH SKINS A very simple but. most effectual cold cream for rough skins can be easily prepared at home, at a comparatively trifling cost. Beat together, until frothing, 1 tablespoonful almond oil and i teaspoonful simple tincture of benzoin, adding the white of an egg and a few drops of perfume. Beat thoroughly with an egg-flip and bottle for use. VINEGAR CAKE Three-quarters of a pound of flour, six ounces of butter or margarine, six ounces of brown sugar, half a pound of mixed fruits, half a pint of milk, two tablespoonsful of vinegar, one teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda. Rub the butter into the flour and add sugar, fruit and one small teaspoonful of mixed spice. Put the vinegar into the milk and add the soda. Beat to a froth and mix with the dry ingredients. Beat well, put into a prepared cake tin and bake in a moderate oven for one and a-half hours. A most excellent lunch cake. FOR LONG EYELASHES To increase the length and strength of the eyelashes simply clip the ends with a pair of scissors about once a month. In Eastern countries mothers perform the operation on their children, both male and female, when they are mere infants, watching the opportunity while they sleep. WEDDING CUSTOMS No, it is not customary for the bridegroom to supply the wedding cake. That is usually provided by the bride, but it is of course a matter that can be adjusted to meet your particular circumstances, and if the bride is not in a position to provide one, and it is thought an indispensable adjunct to the occasion, it may be provided by the groom. FRIED CAKES I am sorry that I have been unable to find any recipe for the fried cakes you mention. As they are not doughnuts, I am not sure what they can be. Perhaps some reader can help? The recipe required is for a small cake, very light and spongy, with eggs in the mixture and no trace of fat in the taste that appears to have been freid in deep fat. Does anyone know how to make these, and if they do, will they please be good enough to share the recipe with us? ENLARGED PORES As you have tried so many lotions and astringents without success, the only thing left for you to do is to consult a doctor or a good chemist, as the acne and consequent enlarged pores may be caused by internal reasons. It is rather foolish, isn’t it, to be sensitive about asking a medical man’s advice upon such a thing? Even though you are as you say “a young man,” there is no reason why you should consider it a mark of vanity to wish to rid yourself of such an embarrassing disfigure - ment. FOR PALE CHEEKS You can buy a good rouge in any shade you require from the palest peachbloom to a deep suntanned orange shade, so should have no difficulty in getting one that will really suit your skin. It won’t be obvious at all if you remember to only use a soupcon of it, and to work it well into the skin, so that there is no marked line where the colour ends. A dry rouge is the most suitable for daytime use, and should be applied after the first dusting of - powder. Rub your face cream well into the skin, then put plenty of powder on your puff and flick it on to the face, afterwards spreading it evenly and thinly over the skin, with special attention to the neck and chin, brow and near the ears, spots that are so easily forgotten. Now for the rouge. If you have a thin face, keep the colour low on the cheeks, starting in a point just below the cheek bone and sweeping it outwards towards the ears. Dust lightly over with powder and work down the edges to blend the colour thoroughly with your natural skin tones. If your face is a plump one, you can wear your rouge higher up, I nearer the eyes and nose. One little tip that makes all the difference to a pale skin. Do put just a suspicion of colour on your chin and on the lobes of the ears, but just enough to look like the faintest blush. Then, when your eyebrows and lashes are brushed free from powder, your lips ever so delicately touched with colour if they need it, you will not look pale or muddv-skinned at all. As for your worry with cream coming through the powder, why not use an astringent lotion? Buy a good one, and there are plenty of those on the market; and after washing the face with warm water, dab it lightly on the skin. That will close up any big pores and keep the skin from being greasy. Don’t on any account leave off the

cream instead, as it is most necessary, not only as a powder base, but to prevent the powder and dust of the day clogging up one’s pores. I do hope that you will find that successful. If you care to send me your address and a stamped envelope, I will send you the names of some good preparations, but I cannot give them through this column. CLEANING A SINK To whiten a porcelain sink which is badly discoloured, rub it with dry borax or powdered bath-brick, then wash with soapy water to which a tablespoon each of ammonia and turps has been added. If the marks are still stubborn, rub the sink lightly with powdered pumic- stone, and then wash again. COBBLERS WAX To make cobbler’s wax melt together over a gentle heat lOoz of bayberry tallow, soz of beeswax and loz of mutton tallow. When melted, add lamp or ivory black to give it a good colour. Stir the whole well together, take from the fire and add half a glass of rum. ASTRINGENT CLEANSING LOTION Ask your chemist to mix, in a 4oz bottle, 2 drams of simple tincture of benzoin with enough triple extract of orange flower water to fill the bottle. This quantity will make 4 pints of cleansing lotion. Pour off a fourth of the extract and add a pint of boiling water. When cold strain through a linen handkerchief into a wide-necked bottle and add 2 teaspoonsful of eau de cologne or lavender water.