WINTER IS HERE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 May 1939, Page 8

WINTER IS HERE

A FEW PRECAUTIONS. It is wise to protect fingertips and fingernails from the effects of the cold snaps that we are sure to experience shortly. Otherwise the fingers—especially when women are engaged in housework —will become harsh and sensitive and the nails will become brittle. The precaution or remedy is the application of cold cream or olive oil nightly. Old-fashioned people use glycerine and go to bed wearing gloves. You may take your choice, but the cold cream should suffice. It is not only the hands that feel the cold in the winter, and some city girls make no secret of the fact that they wear two pairs of stockings when travelling. It is easy to slip off one of the pairs when indoors. v. In cold countries everything that will combat cold is installed. Trains and hotels are all heated. One may be at Banff or at Lake Louise in the Rocky Mountains and outside may be a “world of white.” Nevertheless the bedroom is so warm that unless a wind -is blowing the window may be thrown wide open. Now is the time to prepare for the cold blasts —the period when —as Melb. B. Spurr, lecturer and entertainer, used to say—‘‘lt snows, it blows; ( it blows, it snows.”