When You are Feeling Positively Plain

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 792, 12 October 1929, Page 25

When You are Feeling Positively Plain

■ ; !•»,“»■« P»' r” "S' r»*Kt P v*oTa'e ,Solely wretched, and'toTnake matters Worse, you look particularly plain.

Tour eyes are sunken, or else the> have black shadows underneath them, your complexion is nondescript and motley, and altogether you appear shop-worn.’' lam not painting a very pretty picture, I know, but I think you will agree with me that it is very often a 'ruthful one. It is maddening to look and feel like this and to be unable to do anything to remedy it. Of course, if it continues tor too ’ong you must simply see a doctor, bir; even medical men are often no particularly helpful, and talk rather vaguely about a tonic. I have suffered from this mysterious feeling 01 malaise myself, and for what my perience is worth it is at your aispoml. . . Remember, we have only a certain amount of energy. Our bodies are like a battery, and if you use up more energy than you are generating, y°u will simply ’‘peter out.” That ls r of the inexorable laws of nature. Ini. feeling of utter lassitude, which is very often accompanied by a feeling horrible depression, may not com from too much physical exercise, m LAMPSHADES MADE FROM I PARCHMENT While every imaginable substance « being tried just now for lampshades, including beads, there is also a return to the great standby of parch®ent. Parchment has suffered a litde from the inverted light to which ft has not always been skilfully adapted. It has been coloured and ! is?d cylindrically round a bulb set on a square block of wood, but the old* •umed-down parchment shade, which us ed to be so attractive, has been 'arely seen. A good many turnedshades are now being made w ith J Q srrow petticoat round the edge to Kee P the light out of the eyes. The Petticoat is fastened on at an augle to r ' ae slope of the shade, so that it is Perpendicular and it is only an inch !* r 80 wide to prevent the whole from looking heavy. Another method is to in the lower opening of the shade entirely with the parchment. The .de thus becomes a sort of open ®ilk-can. It gives a very good light* *hich is. however, generally inefficient for reading. Other methods , u *ing Parchment result in what (?°J. like Cubist lanterns. lamps have bulbs which erely shine through sheets of frosted lass - cut in simple forms and held r a *lhi. The parchment, of course, 8 frame, which is generally of black iron. It must he ‘•Rehod very taut, and to counteract e st iffness of this it is sometimes r _ a ” e cloudy to show the kind of Serial it is. fl°w PreßGrvp a toothbrush. —Soak n nen new in hot salt water. This only cleanses it, bur makes it last •• long.

it may be the result of a period of m Wh a en you' look plain and fee! wo«e T advise you strongly to take a leTourVin as tor as your c.rcumS^S e almo™ universal medicine, and rest is aoms „t-water bottle you will loon find that you will have no wish a lot and. above all, don’t Dont eat a lot anu,. ht almo st indnnk much tea u s that yo u need, valid food, will be ~e s t all over, for your sy ?A e “ tl f at d , ou r “all-overisli-It is possible that you and not ness” may come this you must front exhaustion, „ toms . If you decide from Mlt am that evening take a ions walk. ana cstfui sl(Jep it r s °rfable that y ou an. from more"exhausted when you net into bed you need a res - ;.

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