THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 10, 1940.
Beincine Uễn Father
•WHO KIN SLEEP AROUND HERE WITH THAT FOG- HORN GOIN' LIKE THAT ALL THE TIME?
SAY-CAPTAIN-WILI_ YOU QUIT BLOWING THAT FOG-HORN?
I'M NOT BLOWING THE FOG- HORN-IT
ISN'T ANY FOG-AN
THERES
Bv Génrae MocManus
OH! I'LL HAVE TO CALL UP THE CAPTAIN AGINĮ, "AN" APOLOGIZE TO HIM 30!
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Copr. 1940, Kông Trmarre Syndicate. Inc., Work rights reserved.
A PAGE FOR WOMEN
Come Into The Pantry
EGGS, LEMON JUICE, a drop of Vinegar, and some Corn-Meal were very capable aids to your grandmother's beauty, and just as long as they exist there is no need to spend envious hours looking at expensive shop windows.
NAN GLOSTER-
explains just how you can put these simple
kitchen items to good use.
How often have you stared at the prices in the beauty shops and envied the women who can afford expensive "facials"? How lucky they are, you may have thought, to be able to use stock in sitin re- juvenators, beauty creams, as tringents without a palpitation on half-guineas or half-crowns. Like buying a pound of something at the grocers, you think.
You frown (bad habit), Money is distributed in such a topsy- turvy way! By this time the mood is gloomy (also bad for beauty). You hop on a bus and fly back to' your kitchen to prepare a meal" wash undies or clean the "bijou" fat.
Thinking of prices in the beauty. shops you have no eyes for the world's oldest beauty prepara- tions on your kitchen shelves. The beaten egg, lemon juice, fresh, milk, olive oil, "porridge" meals -even plain bread-are almost as good for your complexion and (or); hair as potted and bottled my steries.
Less than fifty years ago, when your grandmother was a girl, beauty recipes were verbal family, secrets and nearly all ingredients were natural or food materials from the pantry. So let's raid the food pantry to beat the beauticians at their own expensive game.
to enrich, whiten, tone, and refine. Brush it on and then relax in- dulgently with a book and ciga-. rette for about twenty minutes. White of egg whipped with milk and a few drops of witch hazel for vinegar) makes a healing mask for a bad skin-grease, and open pores.
Beauty's Budget
R Egge, 4d; Vinegar, 1d; milk, 2d; Meal, 2d; Lemon 11⁄2d; Oil, 22d. Total 18. 1d.
Mix lemon with milk or eggs, drop by drop or it will congeal.
White of egg with a little olive oil is good treatment for wrinkles.
"The empty "cup" of squeezed lemon can be used as a cuticle and hall clean- ser. Push the fingernails, In the pulp and work it clr- Qularly.
a
Olive oil with fine sugar removes stains from the fin- gers.
:
Vinegar with a little warm water will cleanse the scalp between shampoos.
When applying a meal pack see wards. After twenty minutes wash. that it has not too much "weight" the mask off with cold water, and'! and thickness in the mixture. pat the skin with a lotion of cold Face masks must not be so heavy water, lemon juice, and eau-de- that they pull the flesh down- i cologne.
You'd Like Your
Child To Be Musical?
...Where is there a child who has where they are, so that when one not been sung to sleep in its particular note is played or sung cradle or in somebody's arms? All to him he can learn to pick it out children are musical to begin for himself. with. They may lose it later on, but, unhappily, you can tell beforchand whether that is going to happen.
never
to
Later on a gramophone becomes very useful for teaching, him all about music. In any case, a child who is being brought up musically Usually they are singing be-should be allowed to hear plenty fore they can talk. They may not of good music.
When he sing in tune, but, while talking.
goes to school needs plenty of inducement, sing-and learns music with his, lessons. he should be For a start let's say your coming seems to be their natural der other
sire.
taught by somcone who plexion is dull, it has lost the glow
has as
much bent it had on your wedding day, Drab
teaching children as for teaching ness and dullness are the most common skin symptoms among
music, women who envy luxury treat ments but do nothing to imitate them.
First skilled service is to go after that lazy epidermis. Don't
Before they learn to talk they use only vowels and leave out the are al- consonants, and vowels
for
yB Mary Benedetta good musicians. People Imagine
!
let your complexion sit down, on most singing in themselves. Con-
the job. It wants electrifying. On sonants are the first musical set-vantage. Actually, if their father your kitchen shelf three is a bottle
back a child has.
of Biblical olive oil. It was used A child should begin learning by the Babylonians and Egyptians music at the carliest possible mo- for skin balm thousands of years ment. By having notes and phrases ago! Your bottle may be labelled sung to him he can soon learn to "salad oil."
carry them in his head and pro- duce them himself.
Emolients are the beginning of all beautifying-after cleansing. A People seldom think of teaching thimbleful of oil and butter a child to read music before he whisked together make a perfect learns to read books. Yet reading cleaner and softener. for any com-music is very much easier--not, of plexion. Drops of eau-de-Cologne course, reading a
score, because adid the sophisticated scent that is one of the most difficult Smooth a little over the face and things in the world, but an or- wipe it off with cotton wool dinary line of music. A squeezed out of cold water. With the remainder massago face and throat.
Music is sometimes hereditary, and you find whole families of
musicians' children are brought up in an atmosphere of continuous music and so have an unusual ad- is a conductor or an orchestral player they probably hear far less music than most other children. There may be very little music in if he gets a musicians house much outside. Children can go to concerts when they are quite small, for they still have natural appreciation of music that makes them respond to a lullaby as in- farts,
Children are perfectly capable appreciating the real thing in music just as much as in anything elsc. Any child who is used to being treated like a normal human After all, there are 26 letters in being will. stare a trifle coldly at the alphabet and they do not al- a grown-up who tries to talk ways mean the same thing. Musi-baby-talk to him. And if children For a medium type of com- cal notation is much more exact are accustomed to hearing good plexion, probably the oldest facial and uniform than is spelling, or music they will be just as dis- tonic in history
perhaps pronunciation...
criminating. earlier than ólive oil
is the swabbing of a mixture of milk
.
Whatever instrument a would- Since all children are musical and buttermill over the combe musician chooses to take up, to begin with, parents who bring plexion. Apply it plentifully with he should have at least some sort them up musically are giving. a piece of cotton wool and let it of working knowledge of the them something thoy enjoy. And. dry slowly and stay dry for some piano. The time for a child to a happy childhood means a grent minutes. Wash off with water begin learning to play the plano deal diluted with lemon, julce,
is when he can stretch five notes In any case, without becoming. átill have (there is no need to wait for an musicians, they may With milk or lemon as a basis octave),
become people, who gain much grundma made many beaufy un-
pleasure from music because they guents. Boaten egg yolk and dash Even before that he can be understand it enough to appreci- --of-lemion gives you a face mask learning the different notes and | ato it.
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