WHAT WE WOMEN THINK

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 11, 25 September 1931, Page 32

WHAT WE WOMEN THINK

True, But Unattractive. HERE ig both a practical and a romantie interest about the origin of some of the scientific modern beauty preparations. From the racing stables of a wellknown trainer at Newmarket came the prescription for an eyelash-growing preparation that is very much in demand from the salons of a Mayfair beauty specialist, In its original form this was used by the trainer on his valuable horses when they had blisters, to grow new hair, The trainer’s wife tried it when her eyelashes fell wut, and was so pleased with the result that she had the prescription modified and rearranged for general use. Long curling eye‘lashes are an essential with the new feminine type of hat. . Neither Use Nor Ornament. S4xs George Tremaine in an Wnglish paper:-There are three-and-twenty houses in our newly-built crescent, replete with every modern convenience. Alluring little homes, with attractive garden plots and intriguing, cool, Jacobean interiors. Everything as it should he, from chimney cowl down to the pussycat bootscraper in the porch. Out of these three-and-twenty model tenements at least ten have doorbells which at the moment are "out of order!" You know the gadget. A small black dise, set in a circular or oval metal plate, plumb in the middle of the door. Something between a shoe button and the head of a collar stud. Something which responds to the pressure of your finger-when it is so disposed-with a harsh staccato bur-r-r like the grinding of motor brakes. The type is much more temperamental than the contraption you are requested to turn, which tinkles like a ehild’s musical box. One can never be certain whether the. sound comes from @ visitor or the tricycle of a roving iceeream vendor. The amount of irritation and uncertainty caused by our mute inglorious bells is stupendous. A Democratic Duchess. THE Duchess of Portland has invited Mr, Gilbert Daykin, a Nottingham- _ Shire miner-artist, to stay at the Duke’s London house in Grosvenor Square in order that he may study the work of the old masters in the London galleries, The Prime Minister recently asked Mr. Daykin to send some of his paintIngs to 10 Downing Street, in order that Sir William Rothenstein, principal of the Royal College of Art, might inspect them. Forging Forward. HE Princess Esma Zafir, the great- grand-daughter of Sultan Abdul Kader, of Algeria, hag aryived in London as the representative of the Stamboul evening paper, "L’Akcham," and as the winner of a journalism scholarship in America. She is studying in London: on her way to the United States to take up the scholarship, and to study philosophy at Rockford College, near Chicago. Princess Hsma, cr Mile. Hsma Zafir, as she prefers to be known when engaged in her reporting work, is the daughter of the Princess Zeyneb, a leader of the feminist movement in Turkey. The latter was the first wo-

man of Arab race to engage in journalism, and for some years she has written on social and feminine topics for papers in Damascus, where the Sultan

Abdul Kader set up an Algerian colony after he had finally had to capitulate to the French in 1847. A Provocative Tilt. ‘HE latest novelty. in the millinery world is a veritable "forage" cap, but with a brim one side. The cap is no longer worn: at the back of the head,

but pulled forward and tilted over the right eye and as abruptly as a tiny brim turns off at the left. This sensational shape is appearing in the simplest and most demure of black summer felts. Its only trimming is a tuck of its own fabric and a tiny bow of narrow black petersham. Fascinating. ANOTHER novelty is the Robin Hood hat in thick black felt. This hood is twisted and pinched to turn up slightly at the left side and dip over the eyes and forehead. The soft crown is caught up with a couple of quills in black and silver cire. Lightsome Lunches. LoNcH is maligned. It ean be all things to all men and women. Once again I am lunching in Chelsea and William de Morgan is holding up a bowl of the colour of red wine, and telling us how his artist wife sold her jewels to keep his furnaces at white heat for that matchless lustre. Once again I lunch with my life-long friend, Perey White, in 2 dear little old world house in Holland Street, and he tells ine all about his very early friendship with Mr. H. V. Lucas and what an at- tractive boy he was. Or he boasts that his father, head of an _ ultra-smart school at Brighton, was really and

truly the Doctor Blimber who had Paul Dombey for a pupil. ‘ A lunch that began dolefully ended with the opening of an "ivory gate and golden" to a world all flowers. and little lovely children. For I once found Liza Lehmann in tears at her piano because Joseph O’Mara persisted in singing a new cycle of her songs in his own way. He looked angry as I-passed him on the doorstep. "Stay and have a sausage roli and cheer me up," said Liza, I stayed. A sausage roll, if indeed that was what we had, with Liza was better than either a dinner of herbs or a stalled ox. And afterward, her troubles all forgotten, she went back to the piano and wove for me alone one of her delicate "Daisy Chains." The goldentrue soprano rang out to the merry music set to those most natural verses of Anna Alma Tadema, If no one ever marries me, and I don't see why they should, } For nurse says I’m. not pretiy, an Pm seldom very good. %

R.

G.

4Hose Gleaming Locks, ‘THE first essential is constant and thorough brushing. This, contrary to popular opinion, does not harm a well-waved coiffure. "Women are, for some odd reason, terrified of oil," this hairdresser said, "but if they would take a little oil on the palm of their hand, smooth it lightly to the hair, and then brush thoroughly, they would get that slightly glossy, well-groomed look without which even the most elaborately waved hair is insipid and even dowdy." Brushing it cannot be too strongly emphasised in these days of short hair that is fatally easy to comb quickly, and is the only way of giving the hair the exercise it needs and of keeping the roots healthy and free from dust and grease. A small quantity of oil will not harm even naturally greasy hair, which always tends to be too dry immediately after a shampoo or a permanent wave, Oil, too, should be rubbed into the scalp the night before the hair is shampoosed. This loosens dust and dandruff. "No one," said the hairdresser, "would dream of omitting an occasional cleansing of the face with cream to supplement the usual soap and water. Why not apply the same idea to the hair?" Manly Simplicity. DEFINITE taste for masculine styles is creeping in, foretelling the doom of all the frill and furbelows of the season. lo Shirt blouses with detachable r collars and double cuffs cut on exactly the same lines as a man’s shirt, are being worn by smart women. Tailored lapels and revers are preferred to draped scarfs and cowl collars on onepiece dresses and suits. There igs a decided fancy for Oxford grey suiting, for the single flower buttonhole, the trim tailored waistcoat; feminity seems to have had its day as far as Dame Fashion is concerned. An Emergency Salad Dressing. To make an emergency salad dressing, mix well together one tablespoonful of vinegar (or 14 tablespoonfuls of lemon juice if preferred) with 2 tablespoonfuls of evaporated milk, 4 teaspoonful of mixed mustard, 1 teaspoonful of sugar, and a small pinch of salt, . oa