SHADOW BRIMS & Flapper Bows
JEAN BAIRD
Flat pilibox of 'soff braid, with flapper bow at the back. Feather flowers Irim the wide-brin- hat of shantung sa
If a Heat Wave Should
Come
By Family Doctor THE weather prophets are optimistic that the sun is going to shine and a warm spelf In which case may lie ahead. it is as well to know how to pre- vent those irritating rashes that often come during heat waves.
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Tis not hard to realise how important the right hat is to a film star. Not only must it be a perfect frame for her face but it
Mary Grace
4.
talks about
NEW HATS
must also express the most arresting characteristic of her personality. The right hat doesn't just happen and you will| quite understand that Howard Hodge, whio is responsible for so many hats of Hollywood film stars, understands women as well as mililnery
He has just brought to London come of his advance styles for spring and summer and you can see for your- self what a revolution they will mean in thọ hat world.
-use as little make-up as possible and
change it often for-
THE HONGKONG Telegraph, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1997.
"Me Arsti"
Beauty The Children's Choice
in a FOG
Children, né a rule, object strongly to medicine, and it is in no small: measure due to the fact that Baby's Own Tablets are pleasant in taste that they enjoy un ever increasing reputation in homes where there are children. "My little ones call them little candies and will not take any other", writes a Canadian mother, Mrs. Adkins, 303, Show Street, Toronto.
Their pleasant taste is but one of several features which make Baby's Own Tablets the ideal health corrective for infants and young children. The tablets
are readily crushed to powder and are therefore easy to give; accuracy of dosage is assured by the form in which they are put up. They are the prescription of an eminent medical child specialist.
The tablets have a mild laxative action and gently dispel constipation, sweeten the stomach, old digestion, relieve colds, expel worms. They are of special merit during the teething period, settling the stomach, easing the
WHEN fog gets in your pains and inducing sound health-giving sleep. Obtainable from chemists.
make-up there is only
First, he leaves that high crown severely alone and one thing to do. Clean your in its pince is the provocative little sailor or pill box. They are for the young and gay, and to break the hard-face and begin again.
ness of line of a pill box on a shingled head. he has re- vived the black butterfly bow so beloved of flappers of 1010.
Pastel Shades for Spring
Unfortunately, when you are
out and about all day, this is not always possible. The next best thing on a foggy morning, then, is to use the minimum
With spring suits we all can wear a faunty saller shape in a cheerful colour. Some sailors are flat and narrow brimmed, others have sleping crowns with amount of cosmetics and to take ward curving brima to show well waved hair and jewelled cat tips.
All hate to-day are worn well forward, even the large brimmed ones, which are expertly moulded to cast kind shadows.
How different from the ugly, exposed look that the eccentric high pitched models of the past season gave to quite good-looking women.
hat,
a small repair outfit with you in your handbag.
Foundation for powder should
be of the non-greasy kind. A It will be the shape. not the trimming that will be all-important complexion milk that protects
in the new millinery, A single quiii, a small bunch of flowers or n crystal buckle alone will relieve the severity of a perfectly plain Unusual materials are also being used, such as pliable braid. hand woven hemp, and, later on, for summer days, a beautiful quality ahantung silk from China."
There's Beauty
in Everything
A
by MINNIE PALLISTER
To give sufficient flexibility to the material a good deal of stitching on the brim will be used. Stitched tulle is a fragile sug- gestion for summer, whilst the machinist's art will convert linen, silk, poplin and crêpe into fashionable headgear.
Pastel tints of belge, and, pink, blue and lilac will be worn in neat little sallor and turban shapes with tailored suits and dark
coal frocks,
MAN walked in the fields one morning, reading with joy a book
of poems. He met a former busy about his inspectica of field and cattle,
"What brings you out an early?" asked the farmer; then, glancing at the book, "What rubbish have you got there?"
I hate oren reading some lovely poems," replied cashular. Feeling nettled. " zuppose pot think that beauty is a waste of tinte in your busy life."
The farmer was silent for a moment; then. polating to some comes in' the next fleld. “See Them basta?" he dakrd, "would you call them in very hot weather we nil per- beautiful?" "Hurdin" (eplied the bookworm, with a smile. "Well, they are beautiful to spire to a greater or lesser degree
in
me." said the farmer, and both stood for a through the millions of pares body. This
moment realising that men see beauty in perspiration contains
the
diferent directions. blood and waste matter from is a useful cleanser relieving the kidneys of part of their work.
our
Plenty of liquids should be con- sumed in the heat even though they appear to make one
even more
thirsty than before. This extr liquid makes up for the loss through excessive action of the sweat glands and helps to keep the kidneys wash- ed out and so prevent stone forina. Lion.
Towels which have been used and then dried and used again are often the cause of rash production. If a clean dowel cannot be had after every bath it is a simple matter to swill through the used towel in clean water and hang out to dry. It will then be safe to use again.
The acid perspiration itself makes the skin sore; a cold shower is good for closing the pores and preventing undue excretion.
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DABBING with eau-de-Cologne
or spirit lotion is good as the skin is toned up by the alcohol, Bornele lotion is cooling and sooth- ing. When the rash of prickly heat is red and troublesome, dusting with
The child who is a pill of God to the mother may be a noisy nuisance to a rieighbour. One man revels in a sunset, another in the song of bird, another in the perfect working of some great engine.
The ritual which brings comfort to some souls is only a weariness of the flesh to athers. To some, gaiety and crowds bring happiness; to others they brine only earndach
a good talcum powder over an application of calamine lotion will give a presentable appearance.
Aspirin may be necessary for the Intense trritation,
URT
***
or
heat-bumps
TRTICARIA
appear more in the hot wea-
ther in sensitive subjects. The fot consumption should be reduced, also amount of egg dishes and bacon or highly spiced food.
the
Tomatoes may set as skin irritants to women sometimes, or an excess of fruit may cause a rash. Calcium lactate tablets, grains 5, one after meals three times daily for three days per week will reduce the irrita- tion.
HATS BY
C. HOWARD HODGE
OF NEW YORK.
Turtle green for a cloverly stitched folt hat, trimmed. with a tropical-coloured feather mount,
the skin and holds the powder
Be
is the best thing to use. sure that the skin is perfectly free from grease before patting in the milk.
Compact or cream rouge can be used, but powder should be applied with a light hand. Eyes and Noses
EYES are not the only things that run in a fog; noses run, too. Both these features need different treat- ment
cold and foggy morning from the kind they get on a nice fine day.
on a
A tiny speck of special nose cream should be well rubbed into the nose before powdering, it, and it will undoubtedly save your face if you take the pre- caution of carrying a tube of the cream in your handbag so that running repairs can be carried out after one of those very necessary "good blows."
or
Eye make-up is risky when there is fog about. Instead of eye-shadow; brighten up the'
of oil lids with a smear vaseline, and brush the lashes with a little oil or dark brown eyelash cream.
If you're out all day
IN your handbag, be-
sides the nose cream pop in a few face tissues and a small phial of the complexion milk, so that if you are out for the day and want to freshen up you can do so thoroughly.
In any case avoid repowdering as much as possible. A blend of fog particles and powder do not add to the gaiety of faces on a dull November day.
Go as gay as you please with your lipstick, and for powder choose a warm apricot or ochre roscetone.
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