Feminine Interests

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 830, 26 November 1929, Page 5

Feminine Interests

food for beauty

COMMON-SENSE ADVICE

All you need do to be healthy lt to ensure that your diet is sufficiently varied during the course of the day. While It is a mistake to be fathly ltl( , r e are certain foods which do prohue certain result and which certain jifopte should not eat. In fact, literally, "one man’s meat, is another man’s poison!” One thins is certain—that you cannot take vitamins in tabloid form, but ihst you must spread them throughout your daily diet. It is a great mistake to refraiu from eating certain articles of food unless you are certain that they do not suit you. for you muy be omitting something that your body particularly needs. Healthy and Wise One person will tell you that meat Is very bad for you. another inveighs sjainst potatoes, while a third begs you never to touch jam or something of the same description. Now. probably your own appetite is quite the Is'st guide to what you should eat. unless, of course, you have ruined it by being silly, as. for instance, by Indulging in enormous quantities of sweets or pastries which are merely a morbid form of appetite. A little red meat, a certain amount ot vegetables, enough fresh fruit, and s goodly amount of butter and some honey make a varied diet and one which contains most of the necessary elements. But there are many other articles of food which are delicious, and will not harm you iu the slightest degree. There is a legend that lobster is indigestible, but very tew people have found it so. So if you don’t suffer from indigestion after you have eaten lt. carry on and don’t pay sny attention to what people say.

All you need do to be healthy is to ensure that your diet is sufficiently i varied during the day. and it this is i the ease, you can leave the rest to Nature. For instance, it you had t, breakfast consisting of tea. an egg and an orange; and luncheon was a cutlet, salad, potatoes, and fruit; and dinnei some iish and brown bread and Cheese, you would have provided your i body with most ot the elements that j it needs. If, however, you find that a par ! ticular article ot food disagrees with you, cut it out at once, and don’t waste time trying to accustom your poor inside to digesting it. And remember that the surest way to look old before your time is by avoiding fatty foods for fear of getting fat. Oil in some form is necessarv to vour j health. From Beauty's Standpoint j Now, champagne and white wines. : in fact almost any wine, is bad for j people who suffer from acidity. If I you drink a moderate amount of wine during the evening, and next day you have a furred tongue and you feel I distinctly “snappy,” you may be I pretty certain that it is bad for you. From a purely beauty point or view, wine is distinctly bad for the complexion, as it dilates the tiny blood vessels too much. Cider is a harmless drink, you would think, but it may bring you out in a rash if you drink it constantly, and if you notice that this is the case 1 should advise you never to drink it. Vichy water is an excellent beverage, but if it makes you feel depressed then it is as bad for you as cider is for the other person. On the other hand, you may be able to drink cider at every meal and champagne all the evening without any ill effects. On the whole, eat a good percent age of raw food, a little meat every day. and plenty of wholemeal bread, and you won’t go far wrong. But don’t begin cutting out this and that, i or when you are rorty. you will have no digestion at all.

THE GREAT ILLUSION

So many housewives suffer under the delusion that women’s work is never done—and make an effort to see that it never is! ’’l can’t—it’s simply impossible to sit down and talk to you now—l’ve loads of things to do,” said Hilary to her husband, who was lounging comfortably in an armchair, pipe in mouth—waiting to talk things over with her. "Do for heaven’s sake drop it,” said

; Harry, all the good humour wiped out of his face. “You are making a God ! of the house!” ! Poor Hilary:—she believed in the “great illusion”—that “a woman’s work is never done.” The result was that disaster threatened her happiness. If a wife has no time to be a companion to her husband—he will seek companionship outside the home. Hilary had given up friends —she had no time for them; she had no energy for walks and games: all her attention was given to the carpets, the fires, the dusting of ornaments, the cleaning of I pots and pans. Let the Hilarys scrap all the unnecessary ornaments, pictures, curtains. Use casseroles instead of the ugly saucepans which crowd their shelves. Let the coal fires be a thing of the past. Today it should be a crime for any woman to spend herself in slaving away in the old-fashioned style of housekeeping. Our houses should be run with the maximum of comfort and with the minimum of work. It can be done —if we only will take advantage of modern methods of housekeeping which abound.

SHORT CUTS!

CHIC EFFECTS ATTAINED

Quick beauty tricks for you to remember when you are in a hurry on party nights. Should you have cut/things so fine that you have not time for a bath, try an eau-de-Cologne friction (it is sometimes more refreshing). Add a few drops of eau-de-Cologne to a cup of salt water, sprinkle on to a loofah, and scrub yourself down from top to toe. You can dance every dance with ease if, before -setting out, you rub a little methylated spirits into the soles of your feet and dust the insides of your stockings with boracic powder. Discoloured necks, arms, and hands can be made temporarily snow-white as follows: First rub in a trace of greaseless honey and almond balm: next work in a little powder-cream, and finally dust with orchid powder (adjective refers to the shade, not scent). * * * To Make* Your "Good Time” Better To give your breath a delicate fragrance ou dance nights, brush your teeth and rinse your mouth with warm water containing a little eau-de-Cologne. If your recently-put-in "perm.” or water-wave is looking a trifle “off colour,” spray with “setting” lotion, don a shingle cap (push up the waves through the net), and hold your head iu the steam from the hot water tap for a few minutes. There is nothing quite so refreshing as an ice rub when you're feeling, and what is more tragic, looking “lined” and drab. After “ironing” out your. face willi the ice (pay special attention to crow’s-feet and nose-to-mouth lines), pat up gently with a rubber face brush. To subdue highly-coloured cheeks and noses in the evening, first dust freely with Rachel No. 2 powder, then sparingly with apple green powder, and once again with Rachel No. 2. Making the Best of Yourself Vaccination marks and other minor scars can be disguised with fleshcoloured grease-paint and liquid powder (cream-pink for preference). The skin should be treated with cold cream prior to being dressed. Don’t forget to remove all stray cream and powder particles from your lashes and brows. •