Beauty Expert, JOAN BERINGER, gives you a lead
in autumn
loveliness
FOR months now we've had a
respite from hand care, realis- ing with much self-satisfaction how slim and brown they've been look- ing against summer frocks.
But increased bridge-party invita tions are a reminder that winter is just ahead, and that it's time to make good resolutions for hand beauty.
Hands matter so much more in winter than in summer.
Winter Problems
At bridge parties, dances, cocktail parties, a woman's hands are noticeable as they never are when wielding a racket or golf club. Yet, perversely, how much more difficult they are to keep in trim during these cold months to come.
Given a few good base preparations, hand loveliness depends on daily care only. Which is kind on the purse if exacting to one's perseverance!
What to buy? Well, here's your hund outfit for the winter:
1. Hand-massugge
cream will do.
cream--a
rich cold,
2. Cuticle cream or mail tonic-get a
send one.
3. Bleading cream-if you need one.
4. Hand lion-non-sticky for day use 5. Cotton sleeping gloves-- shiling will buy them.
Fashion Snapshots
FILETS of flowers and gold and
silver leaves, modernised, but derived from the Byzantine princesses. are going to be in great deamnd. Variations of the tiara and coronet brak which had their basis in fifteenth century Italy, are coming!! back strongly.
Fashiortable women re lucking their chins into ruffles and Jabots. Fluted white organdie spills over the front of tailor-sults, und ehecked tallet bows enliven the severity of redingutes.
Two new blouses seen at a recent opening are lovely things to wear with your suit or with skirt and coat. One is pale blue crepe with tucks across the front, and a minute ruffled jabot, the other is bullercup- yellow with a very high neckline.
There is no overwhelming vogue} for wearing flowers, taut some women have white ones, as an added white; accessory with black day-time cus-
BRIDGE
HANDS
Regular daily care is the trump card in this manicure
game.
Soften the fingertips daily in warm soap and water, and
gently rub in massage cream to keep the hands smooth and
shapely.
That is all for, of course, you have set and either complete manicure your varnish or another form of nail polish, Now for a few essential rules:
Rules To Follow
Keep a water softener, such as fue Butmeal, and your hand lotion in the bath- room. Use both every time you wath. Ex- periment till you find the soup that suits you.
2. Once a day, after lunch or at night. give hands and nails a very thorough soak- After ing and washing in soapy water. drying, work in your massage cream plenti- fully und vigorously.
3. If you have to keep your hands much iza water-coping with household work, vegetables, and so on-form the habit of wearing rubber gloves. A nuizuner, but your hands will repay you right through the winter.
Specially For Women
The card below shows you the correct way to use your nail buffer in conjunction with a good polish.
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4. Keep nails and cuticles in trim with regular care. Spasmodic manicures never produce the same immaculate effect.
In the beauty salons where manicure is a specialty, half an hour's hand massage is being followed by the application of t bleach- ing cream, which is left on for ten minutes. This is to remove sunton, which seldom looks chic against the dark dress colours of winter. Pale and Slim
Many women's hands are very much clisfigured in winter by defective circula- tion, producing a swollen, red appearance which is almost impossible to disguise.
This condition can be prevented from starting by vigorous, daily hand and arm exercises, by holding the hands and wrists alternately under the hot and cold täps:ÍOR, U., few minutes every day, and by keeping the wrisis warm-wearing gauntlet gloves and snugly fiting cuffs to frocks and jumpers.
It the circulation causes chilblains or
chronically swollen joints,
an early visi! to the doctor for
treatment preventive
and dict is advisable. Don't walt till the east wind sends you to him!
Nails need gentle treat- ment. They don't like harsh nail brushes, steel Alca,
mctul cuticle removers. Persuade them with orange stleks wrapped round with cotton wool, with springy emery boards for fling, and clean beneath the tips with
a soft cloth dipped in soapy water.
Use cuticle cream or oil every night with- out fall.
It's the first rule of manicure.
chc,
The question of varnish is stu vexed Subdued shades, or even a good polish
kept shining with the buffer, are safer and smarter than lurid finger-tips. And much more pleasing to the masculine eyel
Nails, if coloured, should match the lips, which, of course, means that they will har- monlse with the frock,
And now, having read these notes, follow the guidance they give with care, and your fingertips will be worthy of your bridge hands this winter.
Punctuality-A Forgotten Virtue? HOUSEHOLD
tumes. In the evening, to add an OMEN, who pride themselves, not seem logical to do so when one
blue There is also [ new deep garnet red.
Savoury Tarts
upon their ellelency in the bust-remembers that good munners tire" ness world and in running a home, usually retained after adolescence.
HINTS
When Appetites Flag
and
"slip
other white mute to a while gown, in) addition to shoes, jewels, and hand- kerchiefs. white flowers are used.
den hent waves and bouts of gloves soil easily. You can keep Some of the new colours are soft. cannot yet number punctuality among There are, however, in the ranks of WHITE kid shoes, handbags, and THIS time of the year with its sud- Brown and easy-greens predominale their virtues. In this modern age, the modern young women, many who
ot almost cultivate coyness and, thinking that them fresh for a long time it, as soon sultry weather, plays havoc with the for day wear. Greys of all shades, when things are done
business-like,"ns a mark appears, you clean it off appetite, and nursery meals are liable gold, corni, dusty purples, faded breakneck speed, it seems strange punctuality is "too
with a soft rog and eau-de-cologne, to become times of stress unless suit- pinks, and rather chalky blues, are that women should be content if they give it a wide berth.
If lateness becomes a habit in the The cheap variely that is sold for able adjustments in the menu are
made. More fresh fruit. Julee worn during day or evening. Black, arrive five, or six, minutes late for either alone or with white or grey, their appointments, and stroll into business sphere, employers Imagine tollet use is best for this purpose.
Carry a good sized split key ring light, atractive dishes which one or two really burning scarlets, the office several minutes after the that their employees are as slipshod and a lovely old-gold, make up the other members of the staff have start-in their work us they are careless in your handbur when you to shop down casily, instead of heavy, clog-
about being "on the dot" when they ping. It is invaluable for keeping ging foods are required.
In this respect fruit-flavoured jun- soft colour palette. As for the bright-ed work.
In leisure hours lateness is taken start. Unpunctuality therefore should together safely all those small parcels
you gather as you go from store to kets are idenl, for fresh fruit juice er colours, we see a good deal of turquoise and dark duck's egg blues a matter of course, and women ex-be avoided.
friends pect to find their
waiting Some business women hunk they store. Just slip each string loop goes into their preparation, and they used in tddition to deep sapphire-patiently for them, even if they are ure doing very well if they spend the ring, and you can lift them all are both attractive to look 'nt and half an hour or one hour behind time, exira quarter of an hour at home and up together when leaving a bus or car nourishing. Meals will be welcomed putting them down on a where the pink, lemon, or orange- As they have become so accustomed make up their loss of time at the end or after
coloured dainties are present, and a to being unpunctual an apology for of the day by staying behind at night counter.
difficult Arst
quickly To prevent a sliver teapot which is
course will Juleness is deemed unnecessary. Some and doing a "bit extra." If everyone" women are late purposely, being were to adopt this habit there would not in daily use from becoming musty, vanish with raspberry or vanilla under the Impression that punctuality be no need for regular business hours place it in your cupboard, with the junkel in view, and if they are served is naive and betrays eagerness, which at all, and the confusion resulting lid wide open and pop two lumps of in little individual glasses they are they imagine is implied by being up from it can be Imagined. Other leaf sugar Inside. If it should have literally "in view" and provide the to time for an appointment. On the women, of course, and it physically become musty, swill out with a strong necessary
Milk
cun be dispensed with contrary, the habit of being unpune-impossible to clear their desks and hot solution at borax before using.
If your jums won't set, add a jelly entirely, even when appetites lessen, tual creates a very bad impression pack up their belongings so that they
flavour. You for it is the perfect food, containing as it destroys any illusion of sophis- can leave at the proper hour, but em- square of the same Pound together some grated cheese tication which a woman has taken ployers would feel more satisfied faced a one pint square to every 5 lbs all the necessary elements required
the of fruit and 5 lbs of sugar. Boil for for
growth and development. In with a strong flavour, a nut of butter, puins to create by the choice of her they arrived, and departed at pepper and salt to taste and a little clothes, her conversation, and her appointed hours instead of seeming to 15 minutes. This "does the trick" junket formthe old-fashioned curds
with marmalade too.
and whey of Little Miss Muffet fume Keep a small box of lime in a damp its digestibility Is Increased exactly cupboard and you will and the air 50 per cent. owing to the fact that the "curd" is broken up into small, will become bath sweet and dry.
House plants often droop and wilt soft, easily assimilated pieces. This is Jenves become discoloured and yel-flussitude which oven the children after a spell of hot weather and the of obvious benefit in the cause of low. A fine tone for them is a ten-experience at times, for when red- spoonful of olive ail or castor oil on tness is present the power of digestion top of the soll just after the plants is impuired. have been watered. Do this once a werk for three weeks, then once a month all winter.
FIESE make a useful addition to
the high tea or super table
They are convenient too when guests come in for the evening and some thing piquant is required.
ly blended. Chop some watercress
to the mixture.
work us the spirit moves them.
made mustard. Add a teaspoonful of mannerisms. tomato sauce and mix until thorough Showing a Lack of Courtesy
A woman psychologist has placed punctuality at a discount and thinks leaves or mustard-and-cress and add Punctuality is a matter of courtesy, a few minutes lost here or there don't Fill cooked-pastry-cases with it, yet is surprising that girls, who are matter. On the contrary, in a com- made with short or puff pastry. nught to be punctual during school-pelltive world women cannot afford Alternatively it can be spread be- days, discard punctuality immediately to value punctuality so lightly.
after they have left school, It does tween split rusks, cheese bisculls or crispbrend. If preferred cream cheese) can be used instead of hard.
W. B.
Striking Details
RECORDS THAT WILL PLEASE.
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INTERESTING details abound in the fashions als season, and they bear testimony to the creative im- agination of the designers. Pockets shaped like purses, umbrellas, gloves, tortoiseshell handbags, and folding hots are all detalls to note, The umbrellas uto smull and in every C2708 colour imaginable, the gloves #re usually made with gauntlets for day C2715 wear, and discreetly match the eas- 'tume you are wearing.
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Coiffures, are unique and different. One woman has the head of a Chinese princess, another has the curls of a Greek statue from the Louvre. All the women have their hair arranged 13228 to emulate some enchantress.
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By the time October arrives those high, wide, and fancy shoulders that ran rampant these last few months C1231 are going to be as obsolete as the epoch that conceived them. The new sleeves will face the world squarely but without blurtering bravado
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For tea-supper, and us second Course at dinner, fruit-flavoured Junkets make a welcome and engerly- jooked-for dish. Try these quickly- made novel junket recipes:-- Vanilla Junket with Chocolate Sauce Colle is a common trouble with
Add a teaspoonful of sugar to u infants and c children. Gu pint of milk and warm until the milk forms in the stomach and bowels and is just luke-warm. On no account the consequent pain causes the child must it be hot
to cry out, he draws his legs up close Remove from the stove, and add to the body and refuses to be quieted, two teaspoonfuls of orange-flavoured Baby's Own Tablets uro hla urgent jünket essence, stir qulduy, and pour need and mothers should have these at once into individual glasses, handy for just such an emergency. When cool,.pour over this delicious Keep the bowels and lower limbs chocolate sauce. Melt 2 ozs of plain warm and administer Daby's Own bar chocolate in a saucepan, add 3 Tablets according to the directless tablespoonfuls milk, sirring till hot. and usually the colle will quickly Do not boil. Remove from the stove vanish.
and stir in a tablespoonful of thin Baby's Own Tablets are equally cream. Pour over the junket. helpful for the correction of many
Surup Delight other chlidiah ailments such as con-
Make lemon Junket us in the stipation, vomiting, diarrhoea, colds and croup, simple fever, and worm above recipe, but using the lemon And, during the troublesome teeth favoured essence. When Arm und ing period, they quickly ense the pan cool, just before serving, top each by settling the stomach and rellev glassful of junket with 2 tablespoon» ing Inflammation in the gums. Obsfuls of golden syrup, to which you tainable at all chemlate,
have added a few drops of lemon Juleo.
Baby's Own Tablets.
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