YOUR BATHING
PARTY
"down to the sea" are now in things, and
TRIPS
there is "water. water every where to provide the delights of swimming. Few forms of « sport surpass this for giving you that sense of exhilaration, freedom and physical fitness. that is sheer joy, every musele being brought into play and the healthful lungs stimulated to activity..
Swimming affords such magnifi- cent opportunities for health and pleasure that everybody should know how to exploit it in the right Here are a few reminders Way and suggestions.
Many like to spend a whole öftër- noon or even day at the swimming spot, so when packing your beach big, besides your wrap and beauty. box put in two swimming suits.
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-Give your last meal a good hour Trd a half to digest before-enter-
the water, and then dive or splash boldly in and duck under at nce. This in itself is a splendid tonic to the body and équation the temperature by far better for you than a faint-hearted, creeping
it.
While in the water, try and keep on the move, if not, Retually swim- ming. then by jumping and romp- ing rearrally but do not be that type af bather described by a fam- *waist wal- as instructor as Juwe
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Once out of the water, take of war-wet suit and give yourself a vigorous towelling before putting on your dry suit. If you feel at all shivery, try a warm drink, a few exercises, or a short
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with the medicine ball. It is never aod thing to lie or Stand about in a wet swimming suit, as the heat of the body goes to drying it and chills are often the result.
. After this you can go into the water again, but watch for a gen- erally "Baboy” feeling, which means your body is tired and you have done enough swimming for that day. Ears should be well pro- fested, as the constant pressure of the water, in particular when div. Ling, often causes ear trouble. Mast modem caps have sockets for the ears to fit into, but the addition of a plug of cotton wool smeared with vaseline is quite a good plan.
Children: to-day are taught swim- ming in and out of school all over the country, but there are lots of grown-ups who did not have these advantages and are still unable to swim. Well, it is never too late to learn, and the best way to start on dry is to practise the strokes land, so that you know all about them before you adapt them to the water and consequently waste no time in nervously floundering"about" and accomplishing nothing.
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Brushing Up On Hair
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OMEN who know how to make the most of them- selves look upon their hair as a decoration. They make of it a sleek cap, a modelled crown, a shining halo whatever will give grace to the face it frames» and best show off the charming Ther lines of head and neck. recognise the foolishness of ful- lowing a fashion simply be cause it is a fashion. Instead they try experiments-part their hair this way and that, flut ir out, brush it smooth, try it flat and straight, study the effect of curls here and there. In the end they manage that seeming miracie of looking like individ- nals, different from every one else yet remaining subtly in the mode.
The new mode is well establish id—the hair is-lifted up from face. and neck, yet the coiffures that may be achieved with
upward
movement are very dierent one from another. But quite apart from the actual choice of your coit- fure, there is much to be consider- ed.
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fluffy, and bright is more and bet ter shampOOS. They mourn be cause it is rondescript and mousy ther ask for rinses and dyes, that will change the enlour, when what they really need is a new routine to bring out all the gloss and lustre. eir locks should have naturally, As a rule home shampoos are her than those given in a shop. but there are plenty of exceptions. If you go to a conscientious hair- dresser and insist on two soapings, god rubbing and thorough rins- ing, you probably wil get as good a shampo as it is possible to get But if you are a timid soul and can aen quite get up courage to point out that only the left side is being rubbed or that you could stand a little more rinsing, you will fare beiter at home. You will need a liquid shampoo-home-made · frum cp fakes or shavings or bought ready-made, as you prefer-a con-- ple of towels, a spray, and lots of soft, water Then, the result is up to you: 15, when you do your hair after a shampoo, you find Jazzy dust on brush or comb, you know. the answer-you didn't rinse all the soap.
You probably will not wash your hair offener than ace every week or two, and in the meantime.its brilliancy is constantly being dull- ed by last from the air and ex- cretion from the scalp. In this situatio 1. your hairbrush', is your best friend Brash your hair vigor
ely ey day-part it in see- Mara, mi brush up and out from the scalp as well as-down from the crown of your head-and it will Tak chen and glossy from
Brushing Champoo to the next. has other uses. It is excellent to stimulate circulation in the scalp. It is a bit help in correcting dan- druff. It distributes oil from the gulp throughout the length of the hair and does away with dry, fuzzy ends. It keeps your hair alive and springy-looking, prevents it
It is a fact that many people do not realise the importance of exeing limp and unhealthy, quite cleanliness to the beauty of the hair. Women .complain that, their hair is too thin, dull, limp; or oily, when all it needs to be crisp.
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You can easily see that, sidering the importance of a hair- brush, its purchase is no light mat-
ter
One, with long, flexible, fairly
SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1935.
stiff bristles placed in tufts rather far apart is the best type. Choose one that will wash readily and spend your money on good bristles rather than on an expensive back. A new brush, made by an Amerì-
of can firm, has wavelike TOWS bristles spared so that they are most efficient in cleansing and polishing the hair without brush- inr out a finger wave.
While daily brushing gives the healthy salp all the exercise and stimulation it needs, women with thin hair should massage. Rubbing a tonic into the scalp makes the massage easier. An astringent tonic helps to correct over-oiliness, "while an oily one is excellent to make dry hair more manageable. There nothing complicated about good nassay. All you need to remem- ber is to mo over the scalp thor- oughly and to move it, not merely Another rub the fingers over it. way is to pull strands of the hair rently until every part of the scalp feels warm and glowing..
A good shampon meal oftes
cient brush wielded faithfully "very day. tonie treatments and Massage when needed, and a pretty coiffure that is all you need to have in topiknot, that adds to your k curative quality. All-except, of zourse, sound physical condition. If you are ill if you lose sleep, get overtired, rive way to nerves and. temper, your-hair will Jose its buoyancy and "brightness. So, for the sake of beauty if no other, mind" your health
If your hair looks clean and healthy, glossy and alive, and still seems to you to be something less than an asset, you need a' change of style. Get a new permanent. tady the coiffures of screen stars whose fares are shaped like yours, and practise with comb and brush and
urlers. Don't stop until you have a crown you are proud of -- one that tops your figure charming- ly and makes a flattering_frame for your face.
Irene Dunne Tells¬·
TRENE DONNE has lovely hands and she knows how to look after them. Here is some advice from her.
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Use lemon Juice for whitening the hands by all means. ways follow it up. with a generous hand application of olive oil or cream. After using any bleaching preparations, massage the skin with cold cream or your favourite skip food and wear gloves the night following treatment. ·
Irene Dunne prefers a bleaching cream to a lotion and never dries her hands roughly but pats them dry with the softest face towel she can find
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