BEAUTY FOODS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 66, 7 March 1908, Page 3

BEAUTY FOODS.

"Forget that stupid old maxim, ' Beauty is but skin deep,' and determine to annex all the prettiness possible by eating and drinking what is good fur you. It isn't true that beauty, is only skin deep; on the contrary, it is the health—that is, the beauty of the body beneath the skin—that makes a girl's appearance attractive." Thus spoke a- beauty doctor. '■ 1 treat my patients as much by inlluencing them to eat and drink sensibly as by selling tliem unguents and cosmetics—though they have their uses," continued this authority. "And one of the (irst points upon which 1 insist is that they do not cat to satiety. "Should there be a sensation of oppression and languor—as there will lie after a heavy meal—it is an excellent plan to ' skip' the next altogether. And to avoid such feelings, T advise my clients to en I uo bread, except a very little crisply toasted, with a meat meal of any kind, and to drink no fluid. The best time to drink is an hour liefore a meal, ir three hours after one; and then pure ivater is par excellence tlie elixir among ill beverages to take. " Few women grasp the fact that pure .vater imbibed at the proper time is an nvestment in beauty that will pay her nterest at the rate of cent, per cent. A uinblerful taken the last thing before ;oing to bed is excellent for the coinilexion, because it keeps the system in ;ood order. It should, furthermore, be eeollei'ted that beer, tea, and coffee all ffect the heart that is not strong, and hat, as a stimulant when tired and

erwrouglit, there is nothing better

than a cup of hot milk, sipped, not swallowed down quickly; or, if that m distasteful, one of hot water or thin cocoa taken hot,

" Hot milk will bring back the brigh less to lack-lustre eyes and the hlooi o pallid cheeks, not for a few minute imi with the meretricious gaiety beslov

Ed by alcohol—'which is ruinous to beauty in the long run—but permanently, and with a bestowal of girlish loveliness that is inhnitely bewitching. Taa should always be drunk freshly made, and quite weak; toffee very hot, in small quantities, and black—that is, without milk, and for the stout without sugar. Buttermilk and barley-water are two exceedingly healthy drinks, and so is lemon squeezed in water, sweetened by honey.

"A large fruitarian diet is of the greatest benelit to girls of a sallow complexion, prone to dismal forebodings, and to attacks of liver disorder. The fruit may be. eaten raw or stewed, according to preference. " livery advantage accrues to the lean person who can digest them from eating well-cooked potatoes served with butter; I but those inclined to stoutness should eschew them, just as those ol a goutv tendency should refuse lentils, peas, and beans. Kaisins, tu those who have -iO time for a proper meal, are far more sustaining and profitable than a hurriedly bolted plate of meat and vegetables. " The fat woman will help herself towards symmetry by abandoning white bread in favour of brown, and the sufferer from flatulent dyspepsia will find that she can comfortably digest a meal all of one kind of food, instead of a mixture such as soup, fish, meat, and pudding."

Make rose lip salve as follows: Melt togetlier two ounces of prepared mutton suet, three quarters of an ounce of white wax, one ounce of spermacetti, and stir till well mixed. Then add four ounces of sweet almond oil, anrf ten drops of otto of roses. To make '.be. salve the necessary pink a small quantity- of alkanet root should be steeped in the oil and strained before using. Run the salve into small ]H>ts and stand them in a cool place. To avert chapped hands, take common starch and grin'g it with a knife until it is reduced to the smoothest powder, Put this in a clean tin box so as to have it continually at hand for use. After washing your hands rinse fliem thoroughly in clean water, wipe them, and while they are. still damp, rub a pinch of the. starch thoroughly "over, covering the whole surface. The effect is magical. The rough, smarting skin is cooled, soothed and healed.

After doing dirty work do not at once wash the bands in water. First rub a little grease into the skin, more especially the dirty parts. Mutton fat is excellent. Then wash in the usual way. The grease loosens the dirt, ami hands treated in this way will never become ingrained 'with dirt.