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THE CHINA MAIL.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1933.
11 The WOMAN'S Page 1
POWDER BLENDING
IS IMPORTANT.
How To Emphasise Regular Features.
CAMUFLAGING LARGE NOSES
Is your nose too prominent? Then resort to face powder to cor- rect the Impression. Blend to gether some of your regular faco powder and a little of some darker shade. Then apply this darker mix- ture lo the nose. For the rest of the face, use your regular lighter powder.
During summer suntan Beason, this same rule applies-only, of course, with dark and darker pow ders used in the same way. That is, use a darker powder on the nose than on the rest of the face if your nose looks too large.
Perhaps in your private sizing up of your features, you have decided i that your nose is so small that it might just as well not be there at all. But instead of discouragement,Į
take up a little art.
If you are a blond, blend together
flesh and white powder and use that
on the face. But in order to em-ADVANCE MATERIAL
phasize your tiny nose, powder it with all white. This little trick will actually make your offending nose seeth quite correct.
smail Brunnettes with
Boses should make a mixture of three- fourths while and one-fourth flesh powder for the nose and powder the rest of the face entirely with
flesh.
Of course, one of the most su cesful
ways to take attention away from a nose that may not be
PURCHASING.
Hints To Remember
For Autumn.
Marlene's
Influence On
Beach Trousers
Have Matching Jackets In Wool Stockinette.
STRING IN FASHION
Beach trousers have not "gone
up in smoke" as many people, said they would when the beach skirt arrived. But they are changed.) They have gone Marlene Dietrich.j Much narrow. straighter. and Much like a man's flannels. So if you like the trouser habit for the beach, take some along with you! You will not look out of date if the legs are narrow.
in your suitcase.
These new, straighter trousers Perhaps | have matching jackets.
they are still thinking of Marlene's; sults. Woo stockinette is a popu- lar material, and striped cotton shirts are matched up with the These have the high neck! suits.
women
fashion to which so many smart have succumbed, Heler Hayes and, Tilly Lasch others.
among
If you are not yet brave enough! to wear black linen on the beach then you
must have something string.
Materials are at very low prices: A belt, a beach bag, or a knitten in the sales. Silks in particular string hat. String has come 80
are cheaper than they have ever far forward into fashion that it been, and most attractive patterns, has gone Into the weaving busi- in crepe de Chinese and chiffons ness, and now there are "staring are to be found. Owing to manu- materials." facturing difficulties there were
beautiful Is to emphasize the appeal some late deliveries, and sale cus- of the eyes. That does not mean tomers have the advantage. that you scould drench your eyes
with mascara. It means that a care- In buying materials ahead for fully disguised eye make-up will im- the autumn it is well to remember prove your appearance generally. that everything points to a big
BIG
SALE
NOW ON
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acason for velvet, and that small- patterned velvet will be in fashion. [ Moire and taffeta are also to be worn in the autumn, owing to the growing ornateness of evening gowns; ottoman silk, shiny satin, and meta} brocades are other materials which make good buying. There are many handsome metal brocades at less than half-price in the sales, and already the demand for them has been very great-
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PINE-OIL FACE PACKS
The most convenient kind of re- juvenating treatment for the kind takes the form of a pine-smelling oil Six drops, mixed in ordinary cold cream, are enough to act as a face pack without the bother of it.
UNUSUAL COLOURS
DOMINATE.
Artist's Conception In Dress And Scarf.
LANVIN'S MUSICAL
COMEDY SUITS.
Her Summer Outfits.
EXPRESSIVE HANDS IMPORTANT
Need Same Skin Tonic As Face.
RED HANDS SHOULD BE SCRUBBED.
than a
Lovely hands are more mere beauty. They are an expres- įsion of personality, and a revelation of character. They tell you things that you might otherwise never know. That the shabby woman, in poor clothes, is of gentle birth; that|| the man doing a rough job of work is an artist, and that the young girl who seems so irresponsible is both capable and reliable.
A simple way of keeping hands:
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them with the same skin food" as that which is used on the face. Stroke it in gently, as though you were pulling on gloves, start- ing at the finger-tips and working up towards the wrista.
Quite a number of people suffer from red hands, and this is often due to bad circulation. Vigorous scrubbing with a nail brash or a good hard loofah will greatly im- prove matters. Stain and dirt caused by handwork or gardening can be removed by a cream which, spread on the nail brush, is used in the same way as soap.
Care in Washing
Care should be taken when wash- ing the hands that the water is not too hot, and roughness can be avoid- ed by rubbing in a soothing lotion immediately afterwards.
A good plan is to keep's bottle in readiness on the bathroom shelf If the skin is at all dry a mixture containing almond oil is advisable, for this helps to prevent the skin from growing aged and wrinkled.
Almond oil, again, in plain form,} * Lanvin's suits that look like the is one of the best things for soften- musical comedy pastiches of those ing the cuticles. Put a little into a picturesque fisher lads who come saucer and dip the fingers in before: Bahore to dance so marvelously going to bed. Do this again in the every Saturday night at the port morning, and then push the cuticles balls of Le Lavandou are the most well back each time after washing! amusing novelties in the pyjama during the day..
line. There is one that has wide During the summer months aome sailor trousers in pale beige jersey people find it difficult to keep their and a loose, daring chartreuse hands cool. A little eau-de-Cologne green smock, buttoned part way added to the water when washing is there is down the front, with short, flappy most refreshing, or if cape sleeves.
a tendency to dampness an effective
2 drachms tannic neid. 1oz. glycerine.
Lanvin likes flowing, half-length remedy can be made by mixing to wool capes, that tie on with a scarf fether the following:--- collar at the throat, to slip on over | these pyjamas when the sun goes down or under the clouds; they can also do duty as bathing capes.
Ker new Summer-resort after- noon outfits remind us of the great has been seen around these parts pyjama epoch-nothing like them
for some time. They are in heavy printed crepe, with long, flaring
Zozs. toilet alcohol.
Sozs. rosewater.
This should be applied to the palms twice a day.
COWLS FOR EVENING. ·
White cotton evening swagger
trousers, wing-sleeves and hiplength costs have a monk's hood attached
box jackets With them are worn to pull up over the hair and keep it: long mit sleeves and enormous, tidy while driving to parties. dressy, black straw hats, hinting
at a certain formality.
While organza has the sheerness of spindrift, chiffon has the soft- ness of rose leaves, and lends it! REGULATING SUN EXPOSURE self to summer negligees better, in
an all-round way, then anything Chanel is again going in for else.
beach pyjamas Some like her It clings and drops into easy really boyish ones better than the folds; it can be made layer upon slightly disconcerting unions of |layer in combinations of a variety masculine pants and frilly tops.
of shades and colours-soft green She has navy jersey one-piece that | ⠀ and old gold, pale blue and dusty is just the thing for the Northern pink.
beaches. It is fastened with black One gown designed by Madame buttons, like those on men's suits, Vionnet was of silvery lavender, placed on either side..... of a front the scarf being of three colours, panel that ends at the square de- lavender, oxblood and sapphire colletage. They conveniently per blue. This combination was the mit one to regulate one's degres of conception of an artists).
exposure to a sun bath.
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
This crass-word puzzle has been made by an expert bús
our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic
spelling, arch as harbor, plow, and altbe.
38
110
46
149.
HORIZONTAL
1-To put into action:
7-Paradies
10-Plastures 12-A metal 14-Agitate 15-Pronoun 17-Plant
19-Milk (Lat.) 20-Blatted box 22-Golf mound, 23-Conjunction
25-A vegetable
25.Feathered
# 15
16
19
28
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| HORIZONTAL (Gent)
40-A grain
141-Poison
42-Long grass stem 44-Protect 46-Ruminant with
antiara
48–A Inezzure of
length (pl.) 49-Laude
VERTICAL
1-Scent
vertebrate animais | 2-Preposition. By
27-Tablet
28-An 29-Exalta 11-Existed.
of the sex
£3 Musical nota
#4-A title
35-Waste
37-An enclosurs
18-Work
3-The whole
4-Near by
S-Frenk. Thrice
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VERTICAL (Cont.) 14-Tardinst 16-City thoroughfare
(abbr.) 18-Forsordain 20–Surrenders tikim 21-Racaded, as the tide 24-A nocturnal
mammai
name
26-Manta 27-Analyzed 30-One who tela
falsehoods
187ind
perforated sphere 32-Penetrates
31 Repair 36-Italian river 97-A kitchen utensil
(pl.)
Organs of hearing a
7-A herolo poem
Verso
10-Chief actor
|11-Statute (abbr.)'
13-Want
41-Article of furniture
(pt.)
43-The (German). 46-Enemy
47-Egyptian sun-god.
The solution of the above with a new cross-word puzzle writt
appear in Monday's issue,
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