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MAINTAIN GOOD LOOKS:
TREATMENT OF LINES AND WRINKLES
THE CONSTANT CREASING of the face into laughter or frowns and the lines of worry must inevitably leave a defined' impression of the predominating mood. But wo- men are as troubled when they discover little folds of laughter about their eyes as they are at the sign of the first grey hair.
Every expressive mark, eloquent. of individuality and character, is invariably classed under the heading of "lines and wrinkles," although it may really be an added attrac- tton.
BUT LINES AND WRINKLES tune in which to be quite free are not synonymous, Thay spring from "artificial lubrication. If it is from different causes, "akbough forced to live daily on this abnor- their treatment la much the same mal diet it will become relaxed Wrinkles should be the wrecoga- | and slack. tive of all age. They are a may
Treatment: of a lifetime.
Out of Place:
THE METHOD OF TREATMENT for premature wrinkles and for
·BUT · PREMATURE WRINKLES deep-cut lines is the same. In each. ARE OUT OF PLACE They are case a suitable cream should be generally the result of a sudden used every night for about two loss in weight through Biness or weeks. The treatment is then de- some unwise diet undertaken increased until the cream is being *the cause of slimming. The re-upplied only on one night in the
medy is the same in each case. † week.
Feed up both inside and outside. An abundance of cream should The lost weight must be replac- Du spread smoothly over the face ed and the impoverished akin und this should then be patted nourished locally with a cream into the skin with a series of light, rich in lanolin. If the youthful quick taps with the anger tips. elasticity of the skin has not been Lines running from nose to mouth depleted by the years, this simple can be massaged deeply. treatment should be sufficient. In Later life a specially prepared cream is more suitable.
Premature Wrinkles:
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The cream should not remain uts the skin for longer than 10 minutes. Afterwards all trace must be removed and a mild skin tonic applied from a spray.
An astringent of any kind is are unsuitable. If the lines or wrinkles.
PREMATURE WRINKLES sometimes caused by an inactive do not respond to this simple circulation. which
of impoverishes method
correction.
a
more
the delicate facial tissues and penetrative and expert treatment causes the skin to look old before should be considered.
its time. A" treatment, has been
evolved for this condition, Increas- ed local circulation of the blood
is assured, the ceils become more' active, impurities which clog the pures are thrown off, and the
complexion becomes revitalized..
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This comparatively new depar- ture in cosmetic chemistry cspecially good for the woman whose skin responds very slowly to simple massage and requires something more penetrative. Groups of 12 treatments with per- haps a month's interval are re- commended.
While wrinkles appear to be a tiny lattice work which may cover the whole face and especially the cneeks, !nes are more deeply engraved. They usually appear, on the forehead, about the eyes, and from the nose to the corners of the mouth. Occasionally a line will. appear under the chin. bit the cheeks usually remain smooth.
Outcome of Habit:
MANY LINES are the outcome
of some nabft, such as.frowning. The folds, or creases in the skin, which have been brought about by these habitual movements are first noticeable in early childhood. Then they are soft and superficial. and they will remain so for many years...
Virginia Grey wears this new hat for" afternoon
cocktail hours.
It is in dusty · rose sirk braid, the raund skull cap crown- ed with a elrels of cabbage, roses, FDmy nef in a blocked design is, worn as a below-the-shoulder vell,
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TRY THESE FOR
WOMEN'S INTERESTS
A WINGED
EVENING CREATION IN CHARTREUSE
"-CHIFFON
MORE PICTURESQUE DRESSING
TYPICAL LANVIN gowns for party occasions look youthful, unsophisticated and crisp, with full-shaped ground-length skirts and modest decolletages surrounded by flat frills.
GUIDE FOR HOME
Dressmakers
"DEEP IN EVERY WOMAN'S HEART AS two Intense destres, one to make herself attractive, thé other to use in some way her own creative talents. In no other art do them two desires dind much satisfying expression as in sew-
ing
This stimulating first paragraph set, the keynote of Mary Brooks Picken's new volume of practical advice for the woman who wishes to make her own clothes--"Mod- Dressmaking Made Easy." Published as a companiop volume is the same author's "The Lan- guage of Fashion" Chunk and. Wagnalls Company, New York. $3.50 and 35 respectively.) Educational Value:
Of these two books, the second
| one, being merely a reference book -a dictionary of fashion terms-- 15 of educational value primartly. Whereas the book "Modern Dress making Made Easy" is a practical, dally handbook for any woman who, wants to know how to dress becomingly, particularly how to make becoming clothes herself,
From first page to last, this textbook on home dressmaking.
FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1940.
BIG SELECTION
IN
SLACKS, SHORTS
AND
BEACH WEAR
ALL SIZES
VARIETY OF COLOURS
LADIES' SALON
ilustrated profusely with line LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
drawings and diagrams, is cram-
med with dednite instructions on
how to use a pattern, how to put
a garment together, how to de-
corate and finish it, how to wear
it smartly, how to choose colours KEEP AS FRESH AS YOUR
and styles suited to oneself, even how to buy ready-to-wear clothes. Smart Grooming:
The book discusses smart groom ing from every imaginable angle- the right lines for certain figures; correct gloves and shoes for various on- corseting: the proper castons; graceful carriage, how to sit and walk charmingly,
The chapter entitled "All About Patterns," which painstakingly guides every step of the inexper- ienced home dressmaker, should prove invaluable to the many women who, today, are learning to make at home the softly-smart, beautifully hand finished "dress- maker-type" frocks they cannot afford to buy.
NEW SHERBET SAUCE Delicately spiced apricot sauce is a grand new idea for vanilla ice cream
like in colour and is equally good warm or cold.
Take, for example, the crisp quality of taffeta rustling gently as graduated skirt fulness drops into a wide bell-at pineapple sherbeta. It is spring- shaped hemline.
THE TAFFETA is one of the new pinstriped ones in pale pink}' and green delicately shirred in the piece to resemble ribbon join- ed together at regular intervals from top to toe in the round.
More Attractive:
WHITE ORGANZA · is made to look more attractive than usual through big pink moss rose buds
Adapting Your Clothes To Changed Conditions
to
FROCK, IF YOU CAN
WARM WEATHER
ADVICE
even
YOU CANNOT DO JUSTICE to a dainty new dance frock unless you yourself have the secret of remaining cool, fragrant and poised, when you are feeling very warm indeed. During the hot weather, there is nothing more tragrant or cooling than eau de cologne. It freshens the body, removes all traces of tiredness, and acts as a good beauty pick-me-up.
Beauty Bath
· A VERY REFRESHING BEAUTY BATH, before a night out, is pre- pared with eau de cologne and tomato Juice. The cologne will re- fresh, cool and remove all traces of tiredness, while the tomato juice will soothe and heal the skin and clear away all traces of mud- dines
Then while the face is still alightly damp with tente, apply your foundation cream and pro- ceed with your make-up:
A clothes brash should be used daily whenever a dress le worn. Vigorous brushing removes tiny. particles of lint and revives the appearance of the dress.
A BOON TO HOUSEWIVES
The bath is made as follows:- Procure four very ripe tomatoes, cut them in half, squeeze out the juice, and to cach tablespoon of the liquid add 10 drops of eau de cologne Add to the bath, and --A" "NEW 'LABOUR SAVING bathe as usuRI,
WASHING SOAP powder has made
these need a deal of atten- tion.
For
afternoon frocks printed ninon is worn over amart gay taffetas petticoats, which give forth a pleas rustle. All the lection are nipp- jackets at this with their follage embroidered at NEW SUMMER MODELS showed in at the
Ist-Ene. They are intervals over the front of shaped the first definite adaptation of shorter this se on, and the necks, changed skirt slightly gathered into waist clothes
conditions.unilke those of last season, are line of coraage...
These do not, as in the last war, very low. Thus bright linings show Fine white cotton net is used in affect the uniform. Perhaps the on collar and revers, and elaborate masses by Alix for a very full-ly uniform feature is the big blouses add to the dressed ap- It is only when they become
gathered skirt that foams into pocket.
pearance of the open front. etched in deep and hard lines.
| short-trained length. The rucked Nor do they abolish the dance that their owners begin to worry
Some of the effects, thus pro-evering. corsage is squared with full puff- dress, though, this is very youthful duced are particularly new and and to wonder what could have FOR ECONOMY, cat new soaped short sleeves and narrow rose and suited to those who will be been done to prevent those lines into pieces of a convenient size red ribbon velvet makes simple partners to men on leave. Ceflon patterned marocain, or of Burah gay Talor-mades are often of Those which result from some and store in a dry place for some waist-belt
AND HERE IS SOME GOOD AD- with bow tle and is much used, presumably owing to for satin. These silk necessary trick or habit might time before using, It will then do streamers hanging at back as far the demand for wool, The evening admirable for not weather in the night when you use your cold VICE ABOUT YOUR ARMS. Every have been prevented if the correc-better work and go much farther as hem, which is edged by a simi- dress has many solutions which town, being very comfortable, very tion had been made in time than few soap, Frowns, for instance, may speak
lar single-indh wide band of the are fitted for varying conditions. smart, and with the many kinds of blouses capable of infinite Heim Designs:
Finishing Touch
of eyestrain..., m-ntting shoes which throw the foot out of align
ECONOMY.
ribbon velvet.
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variety.
sulta Bre
Hot, perspiring. clammy hands its appearance on the Shanghai are an embarrassment at a ball. market. It is called "Radion" and To avoid them, carry a tiny phial from experiments made has proved. of the iologne in your bag and itself amazingly effective. massage a Tew drops into your palms once or twice during the
Your Arms
Clothes or household linen plac-
ed in cold water with a sprinkling, of this new powder will eradicate all dirt and stains almost without touching by hand,
and washing costs have risen the In these times when cleaning
housewife will find enormous sav~ cream or skin' food, an your face, rub it also into your elbows to the in the use of "Radion" and in Great Need
keep the skin smooth and soft, addition will have the satisfaction of knowing that her ren is And, finally, remember that on wholesomely sanitary" and moW THE GREAT NEED is. for tracks
special occasions, the arms are just white in appearance. Colours also that can be worn on as many, dc-
as much entitled to their make-up are more brilliant when washed GOWNS designed by Heim bare casions as possible, and thus the well, then rub freely with vinegar that excellent quality of looking balero or Jacket goes with most of collection la the fabric hat. This be considerably improved by care
THE FINISHING TOUCH hr this
as the face. Their appearance can with Radion extract the remaining soap young but yet grown up, with high them so that they can be after-stiffened with machine atitch fully applying a little liquid pow from the pores and dry carefully. bodice ättings or shirt waist tops noon, or evening at will. Sometimes ing, and the fabric varies accord-der and massaging it well into the
the boleros are very short indeed, ing to the dress. For sailors pique skin. OIL OF EUCALYPTUS is good Red and white small gingham and they are richly embroidered is used, and there are many white for removing most stains from checked faille with bodice fitting with sequins, these being used in velvet or cloth. Apply with a clean makes contrast in stiff fabrics raised patterns of flowers.
IF YOUR HANDS become stiff ment can be responsible for Upes and shiny on washing day wash «about the mouth,
them with plain, warm water, dry
Tight hate will bring forehead lines. An incorrect head polse will
Mern
a line beneath the chin.
The cause of auch 'lines ahould be remedied and treatment under- taken
Lines of Expression:
to
Atted into waists.
from a little distance beyond the new woollen tulle.
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Finish the treatment by remov- ing the surplus with chamois lenë:
HOW TO REMOVE REGRASS - STAINS
Had grass-staine on white flannel and glycerine. Leave on the mark for
piece of old linen, working inwards next cotton net, jersey and the With dance frocks there are They are trimmed with bright-ther, and it will thus prevent any will yield to a mixture of yolk of eas organza Jackets, nipped in tightly coloured, grosgram yibbon, with streakiness and also remove, surat least an hour, then wash off. ThA BUT THE TRUE LINES of exmark to be removed.
Sleeves are either long of shirt- at the walt-line and finished with afternoon frocks goffered organdle plus powder which otherwise stain will come a pression are Inevitable and de-
waist and bishop cast caught into a narrow fited basque, They are hats are worn in all sorts of be might transfer itself to the sleeve this treatment strable. Without them there is a blackness which is unnatural.
@WHIREN STONE STEPS by cuffs or they are puffed out to varied by the most elaborate fuck coming and amusing shapes, in of your partner when dancing. A
ing and gathering.
by cluding sailor's and broadbrimmed
Your Neck
AN ADDITION TO The whole aim should be to keep painting them with a solution elbow length.
Honeycomb motifs appear in On dinner frocks of lace, falle, hata
THE TRULY WELL-GROOMED the skin soft and at the same made by stirring half a pound of
YOUR WORK-BOX corsage across marocain, or silk jersey there Is A gathered black organdie kat WOMAN does not forget her neck time so elastie that the lines do Whitening into three-quarters of both types of
Do not throw away fine steel not become hard or too deeply a pint of water in which four shoulders, down either side cen- also a great deal of embroidery in with a wide brim is lined with when using her cosmetics, either,
If you wish to look naturally wall crochet-book because the hock has engraved, This is best achieved by ounces of glue have been dissolved. tre front, beneath waistlines of outstanding designs, some of them white:
skirts sometimes at back as well Egyptian. Thus wide bands of gold Batlle is also used for hats, make up your neck as well as your to your work box The time point is groomed and lovely, you must and you have a very useful addition been damaged File it off smoothly, "guarding" aggingt å. dry skin by
as front. Added to these features and deep turquoise embroidery sometimes in two tones. The mak- face. A powder base and a coat handy, in unpicking riitebis, and the the regular use of some suitable WHEN A FRUIT CAKE is to be is the gentle rustle of taffeta pet-run round the neckline. Down the ing of the hat in stuff, often to so ing of powder should be applied graduated stem make excelent emollient.
carried some distance of sentticoats in movement
bodice is But there is a danger in this, overseas, bake it in the tin tri
a panel of similar with the stuff of a dress or suit, embroidery, while on the skirt It gives it an individual look, Tor the suppleness and elasticity which it is to travel, so saving
may be continued... of the skin may be depleted by space and helping to keep the the very means that are necessary cake from becoming dry.
to keep it Bott. Creams must (cer-
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FINK PEACHES FOR PALE PEOPLE
Are you troubled with cockroaches
so try curumber peeling to Pers terminate them. The cucumber acts
to the neck both in front and in stiletto, simas back, and should be ended Cotton Mach 'Seen
smoothly into the make-up of the WHO SAID SPONGE SANDWICH tacere
****** COCKROACHES? COTTON STUFFS are used botts
Many girls complain of a shiny tainly be used, but it is all-im-
for accessories and for the mail the weight of two eggs in four, 1
The weight of three eggs in sugar, face even within an hour after Bortant that they are used ́epr- TO PREVENT PERISHING In Yes, fresh, juicy peaches have the garment. There are numbers of teaspoon of baking powder, ble making-up 60, after you have rectly. The usual practice is to rubber hot water bottles that are three main minerals calcium, phos white pique jackets, and many spoon of melted butter, and 1 table cleansed your face preparatory to use a cream little and often. The not in constant nee, zuse them phorus and tron) and the tree white pique suite are being made spoon of cold water. Beat the sugar making up, pat it well with opposite should be the rule out all with a weak mint for thin, of course, 36 as we for the sea and the country. Linen in light pad of cotton-wool soaked in cold hould be applied lavishly solution of ammonia and water, want or Iran, of course, spricots are, is used for sitts and redingotest aber and skin tonic, so this wil
lifting add toner med and occasionally. This will mean then hang upside down to drain than any other fruit, did you know. In suites of the greater resistance and lastly, the cold water Cooks for close the pores and help to prevent
still better they're richer in Iron that the complexion has ample, and dry.
that? But we're talking of peaches. to crusta of the newer materials twenty minutes in a moderate event
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