Beauty
JOAN
Expert,
BRIDGE
Specially For Women
BERINGER,
gives you a load HANDS
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 brilge parties, dances, cockinit '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 basic preparations,
band loveliness depends on daily eare only. Regular daily care Which is kind on the purse if exacting to is the trump card. one's perseverance!
What to buy? Well, here's your hand in this manicure
out for the winter:
1. Hand-massage
cream will do.
cream- rich cold
2. Cuticle cream くろざ
good one
4.
mail tonic-get a
3. Bleaching cream-if you need one. Hand fulion-non-silely for day use. Cotion sleeping gives-- [1
5.
will buy them.
Fashion Snapshots
ILETS of flowers and gold and silver leaves, modernised, but derived from the Byzantine princesses, are going to be in great demand. Variations of the laro and coronet bruid which had their basis in Afteenth century Italy, are coming back strongly.
Fashionable women are lucking their chins into ruffles and jabots. Pluted white organdie spills over the front of tallor-sults, and checked taffeln bows enliven the severity of redingotes.
Two new blouses seen at a recent opening are lovely things to wear with your sull or with a skirt and coat. One is pale blue crepe with tucks across the front, and a minute ruffled jabot, the other is buttercup- yellow with a very high neckline.
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game.
Soften the fingertips daily in warm soap and water, and
slu Gently rub in massage cream to keep the hands smooth and
shapely.
have
That is all, for, of course, you
set and either complete manicure your varnish or another form of nail polish. Now for a few essential rules:
Rules To Follow
J. Keep a water softener, such as fine oatmeal, and your hand lotion in the bath PUISIT. Use both every time, pot wash. Ex- periment till you find the soap that suits
HOLL
2 Once a day, after lunch of at night, pive hands and nails a very thorough soak- ing and washing in scupy water. After drying, work in your message cream plenti- fully and vigorously.
3. If you have to keep your hands much İtl water-coping with household work, vegetables, and so on-form the habit of. wearing rubber gloves: A nuisance, but your hands will repay you right through the
winter.
The card below shows you the correct way to use your nail buffer in conjunction with a good polish.
4. Keep nails and cuticles in trim tolth
Spasmodic manicures regular care.
will never produce the same immaculate effect.
In the beauty salons where manicure is a speciality, half an hour's hand massage is being followed by the application of a bleach- ing cream, which is left on for ten minutes. This is to remove sunían, which seldom looks chic against the dark dress colours of winter.
Pale and Slim
Many women's hunds are very much disfigured in winter by Refective 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 orm exercises, by holding the hands and wrists niternately under the hot and cold taps for a few minutes every day, and by keeping the wrists warm---wearing gauntlet gloves and snugly fitting cuffs to frocks and jumpers.
If the circulation causes. chilblains or
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chronically swollen joints, an early visit to the doctor Cat preventive treatment and diet is advisable. Don't wall fill the cast wind sends -you to him!
nics,
Nails need gentle treat- ment. They don't like harsh nail brushes, steel
cuticle metal
removers. Persuade them with orange sticks wrapped round with cotton wool, with springy entery 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 fail. It's the first rule of manicure.
The question of vamish is still a vexed one. Subdued shades, or even a good polish kept shining with the buffer, ore safer and smarter than lurid Anger-tips. And much more pleasing to the masculine eyel
Nells, if coloured, should match the lips, which, of course, means that they will har manise 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
W
ure
HINTS
When Appetites Flag
[JOMEN, - - -who pride themselves, uat seem logical to do so when one
upon their eflictency in the busi-remembers that good manners ness world and in running a home, usually retained after adolescence.
den heal waves and gloves soll only. You shin keep not yet number punctuality among There are, however, in the ranks of WHITE kid shoes, handbags, and THIS time of the year with lis sud- their virtues. In this modem age, the modern young women, many who
at almosi cultivate coyness and, thinking that em fresh for a long time if us soon sultry weather, plays havoc with the when things are done breakneck speed, it
bouts of
that women should be content if the punctuality is "oo business-like," as a mark appears, you clean it off appetite, and nursery meals are liable
SCCIFS strange
There is no overwhelming vogue for wearing flowers, but some women have white ones, as an added while accessory with black day-time cos. tumes. In the evening, to add an- other white mute to a white gown, in udition to shoes, jewels, and hand- kerchiefs, white flowers are used.
Some of the new colours are soft. Brown and mossy-greens predominate for day wear. Greys of all shades, gold, coral, dusty purples, faded
give it a wide berth.
with a soft rag and eau-de-cologne. to become times of stress unless suit- pinks, and rather chalky blues, are
If lateness becomes a habit in the The cheap variety that is sold for able adjustments in the menu are worn during day or evening. Black, arrive Ave, or six, minutes late for
made. More fresh fruit juice and their appointments, and stroll into business sphere, employers imagine tollet use is best for this purpose.
which "slip either alone or with white or grey.
Curry a good sized split key ring light, atractive dishes the 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 live start in their work as they are careless in your bandung when you to shop-down" easily, instead of heavy, clog-
invaluable for keeping Hing foods are required. about being "on the dot" when they ping. It soft colour palette, As for the bright-ed work.
In this respeel fruit-flavoured jun- In lelsure hours lateness is taken start. Unpunctuality therefore should together safely all these small parcels er colours, we see a good deal of
you gather as you go from store tokets are iden, for fresh fruit juice turquoise and dark duck's egg blue as a matter of course, and women ex-be avoided.
waiting Some business women think they store. Just dip euch string loop on goes into their preparation, and they used, in addition to deep sapphire-pect to find their friends blue. There is also new deep patiently for them, even if they are are doing very well it they spend an the ring. and you can lift them all are both attractive to look at and half an hour or one hour behind time, extra quarter of an hour at home and up together when leaving a bus or car nourishing. Meals will be welcomed garnet red.
puiting them down on coloured dainties are present, and a where the pink, lemon, or orange- As they have become so accustomed make up their loss of time at the end or after to being unpunctual an apology for of the day by staying behind at night counter.
first course To prevent a silver teapot which is cult
will quickly Inteness is doomed unnecessary. Some and doing a "bit extra." If everyone
with raspberry or vanilla late purposely, being were to adopt this habit there would not in daily use from becoming musty, vanish under the impression that punctuality be no need for regular business hours place it in your cupboard, with the junket in view, and if they are served 13 malve and betrays eagerness, which at all, and the confusion resulting lid wide open and pop two turps of in little individual glasses they are "In view" and provide the they Imagine is implied by being up from k can be imagined. Other out sugar Inside. It it should have to line for an appointment. On the women, of course, find it physically become musty, swill out with a strong new
MUR cannot be dispensed with contrary, the habit of being unpunc- impossible to clear their desics and hot solution of borax before using. tual creates a very bad impression pack up their belongings so that they If your jams won't set, add a jelly entirely, even when appetites lessen, flavour. You for it is the perfect food, containing as it destroys any illusion of sophis-can leave at the proper hour, but emn-store of the same tication which a woman has taken ployers would feel more satisfied if need a one pint square to every 5 lbs all the necessary elements required pains to create by the choice of her they arrived and departed at the of fruit and 5 iba of sugar. Boll for for growth and
development. clothes, her conversation, and her pointed hours instead of seeming to 15 minutes. This "does the trick" Junket form-the old-fashioned curds mannerisms.
and whey of Little Miss Muffet fame 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 both sweet and dry.
House plants often droop and wilt soft, easily assimilated pieces. This is a spell of diet weather and the of obvious benefit in the ease of that leaves become discoloured and yel-lassitude which even the children low. A fine tonic for them, la a tea- experience at times, for when tired- spoonful of olive oil or castor oft en mess is present the power of digestion top of the soll just after the plants is impaired. live been watered. Do this once a week for three weeks, then once a month all winter.
Savoury Tarts
THESE make a useful addition to the high ten or supper table, They are convenient too when guests come in for the evening and some thing piquant is required.
Found together some grated cheese with a strong flavour, a nut of butter, pepper and salt to taste and a little made mustard. Add a teaspoonful of tomato sauce and mix until thorough- ly blended. Chop some watercress leaves or murtard-and-cress and add to the mixture.
with it, Fill cooked-pastry-cazes
puff pastry. made with short or Alternatively can
spread be- tween split rusks, cheese biscuits or crispbread. I preferred cream cheese can be used instead of hard.
W. B.
Striking Details
INTERESTING details abound in
women are
Showing a Lack of Courtesy
work as the spirit moves them.
A woman psychologist has placed punctuality at a discount and thinks Punctuality is a matter of courtesy, a few minutes lost here or there don't yet it is surprising that girls, who are matter. On the contrary, in a com- taught to be punctual during school-petitive world wonca cannot afford days, discard punctuality immediately to value punctuality so lightly, after they have left school. It does
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the fashions this season, and they bear testimony to the creative Im- ngination of the designers. Pockets shaped like purses, umbrellas, gloves, B8289 tortoiseshell handbags, and folding hais are all details to note. The umbrellua are small and in every C2708 colour Imaginable, the gloves are usually made with gauntlets for day C2715 wear, and discreetly match the cos- 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 n Greek statue from the Louvre, All the women have their hair arranged 113228 to emuinto some enchantress.
By the time October arrives those high, wide, and fancy shoulders that ran rampant these last few montha C1231 are going to be as obsolete as the epoch that conceived them.
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KEN HARVEY.
PAUL ROBESON. BASS.
Critic.
with marmalade too.
Children's
Isobel.
Colic.
In
Fortet-supper, and na second
at tourse
dinner, frult-flavoured junkets make a welcome' and eagerly- looked-for dish. Try these quickly- made novel junket recipes:
Vanilla Junket with Chocolate Sauce.
Colic is a common trouble withi
Add a teaspoonful of sugar to'o infants
and little children. Gas pint of milk and warm until the milk forms in the stomach and bowels and 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 Itemove from the stove, and add to the body, and refuses to be quieted. two teaspoonfuls of orange-flavoured Baby's Own Tablets are his urgent junket essence, slir quickly, and pour need and mothers should have these at once into individual ginsses. 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 Baby's Own bar chocolate In a saucepan, add 3 Tablets according to the directions tablespoonfuls milk, stirring til hot." and usually the collc 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 Syrup Delight Scottish Country Dance Orch. other childish aliments such as con-
.B.B.C. Scottish String Orch. stipation, vomiting, diarrhoça, colds, Make a lemon Junket as In the .B.B.C. Scottish String Orch.and croup, simple fever, and worms. above recipe, but using the lemon-
And, during the troublesome teeth favoured essence. When firm ....Meredith-Kay & Orch. ing period, they quickly case the pain cool, just before serving, top
by selling the stomach and rellev-ginasful of junket with 2 tablespoon- ing inflammation in the gums. Ob- fula of golden syrup to which you tainable at all chemists,
have added a few drops of lemon juice.
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