Winter Beauty Rules
THERE is a good winter beauty
treatment (in fact, one could also call it a health treatment), which is simple, practical, and does not waste too much Ulme.
You begin the day with some quick, easy exercises as follows:
1. Twist the body to right, and then to left, six times cach, keep ing the lower limbs perfectly still.
2. Bend forward and touch your toes without bending your knees ten times,
arms
3. Bend to the right side, and afterwards to the left, six times still allowing the legs to remain still.
out. the 4. Stretch horizontally, and raise first the right leg, and then the left, until they are in line with the body, This exercise should be repeated nt last six times, and the body should be kept all. It is an ex- cellent exercise for giving balance and a graceful carringo.
Five Minutes Only for Exercise
5. A skipping exercise will stimulate every muscle in your body. Swing your arms round 1271 round, accompanying the swing with a tripping Jump. You can use a skippling-rope if you lile. Your exercises, after you have acquired the habit of thein, should not take more than five minutes, as they should be done- quickly. You will feel warm and glowing after them.
If you take your bath in the morning, you should have it after your exercises.
A morning both can be warm, but not too worm, and it should ben very quick affair. A good rapid rub down with a loofah will stimulate circulation.
After you have dried yourself vigorously with a fairly rough towel, you will feel ready for everything the day has to offer. Applying Skin Food to the Face
Masange in a little skinfood if your skin ia very dry and allow it remain on while you are dress- Ing-remove it, and dab your skin with a good stimulant be- fore you apply your foundation cream.
When using both your creama and your lotions, see that you go along the muscle structure of the face, correctly.
From the chin to the temple, moving close to the ears, lies the main facial muscle; work across the face to the ears, under the cheekbone, and you are helping to preserve the youth contours of the face,
If your bath in a night one, you will have more time at your disposal, and you can make it a leisurely naiṛ.
You can take this opportunity also for giving your skin a good treatment with hot oils. ent n desert-spoonful of sweet almond oil and a teaspoonful of olive oil mixed together, and after your face and neck have been well cleansed, massage in the hat oll,
Leave it while you are in your bath; then remove any oll which your skin has not absorbed and apply with a cotton-wool
pad this lotion:-Take four tablespoonfuls of fresh milk and one table- spoonful of rosewater, mix them well together. (This lotion must be made freshly for each occa- sion.) Let it dry on, and leave It. It is a good lotion for any becasion.
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I Train My Son The Modern Way
REALISING that my own smiles when I produced another
Spartan training had been balloon and blew it up for him, at fault, I resolved to train my and left him to help himself son differently. I knew that it again. He now pounded the would demand full measure of ball and the apple in turn, my time and my patience, but I bounced the bal and attempted had a fair knowledge of kinder- to bounce the apple. This game garten training and of child tasted for about a month, but psychology, and what was more each morning he ended it by valuable, desire to learn more eating the apple. fully. So I did not set out on Once I gave him a sponge and a this great adventure assuming cork, a floating duck, a feather, a that I knew everything.
pebble, and, of course, the apple, in
in the first place I treated my a bath of warm water. The sponge 8011 as an individual with powers delighted him most, and, incident- that had to be developed. He was ally, gave me a great deal of work, not an engine to be started up, or so after the first day it was with- stopped, or made to go faster, or held. But my action in taking the slower, at my own dietation, so there sponge away only emphasises the
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THE ACROBAT
Keep Fit
THE RACE
Won By Inches
YOUR GUESTS TO TRY
Sitting Still Is
was-no-discipline-of-the-"da"-er-fact that laziness-must play-part-Not-So-Easy!
nuts.
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ERE is a gentle amusement----
so good for the digestion-that may answer for you that "What shall I do now?" or "What shall 1 give them to do now?" feeling_that occurs to most of us at some time during the winter months when parties are the vogue.
All you need to do is cut out the curious shapes marked with num- bers on the left-and, if you like, stick them on cardboard--and then see how many "plctures" you can form with them.
It is simple enough for quite young children to try, and amusing to occupy even the over-fortica.
Try it on your guests and offer
a prize for the best effort. The acro- bat and the two runners shown below will give you an idea of the method to employ.
Ever tried
MONT BLANC?
it's made with chestnuts
US easily made sweet-good children's parties or for a special dessert-is made with the big, meaty Italian chest-
These are the ingredients you will need: 3lbs, sound edible jchestnuts; lb. icing sugar; quarter good plain chocolate; 2ozs. pistachio nuts, peeled and finely chopped; 1⁄4 pt. whipped cream; 1 pint greengage jelly,
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Yo
CARING FOR YOUR
CHILD'S TEETH
had their value,
Start By skinning Them
daily walks were not just a ter Plant; it is a haphazard garden reached, it becomes absolute ogony child will be fearless in the dentist's tal trudging of hard pavements; they who can never be certain of his re- were little voyages of discovery. In suits and trusts to luck.
this way he learned about Nature. Careless Judgments
With all my own household duties
its
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hands.
And
took at thon any toy. Mothers chestnut mountain,
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YOU cannot start too soon to take
Put the chestnuts into a deep your child to the dentist. From dish, cover with very hot water and his earliest days he should regard keep them in the oven long enough the dentist as a familiar acquaintance to loosen their skins. Remove and rather than a stranger to be dreaded, skin carefully, Wrap them in ———If-you-wait until the school.dentist etolli-and-steam-unui-tender-and. "don't" order, but there was disci in modern training.
orders dental treatment for child you It is THOSE who think that, to become He should pay a
have walted far too then put through the potate ricer or pline, and he soon learned that my
Tonka sieve. In many cases it does 80,
a visit to a a dentist personal belongings must be res so much casier to leave a child to
T an artist's model, one must be a when he is young so that he cannot with three parts of the icing sugar Grate the chocolate and blend pected, and what was better still, his own devices, to let him be rude brainless creature too lazy to find a those of others. Honerly was in- and indulge in tantrums, and smil
proper job, are very much mistaken. remember his first visit, and it is a and fold in-very carefully with the wise plan for the mother to take him stilled into him, but not by writing, it away with a knowing "He must, Being a model does not necessitate
from the
the time
he is two or three sieved chestnuts. as I had to write, a page of "Hones be allowed to develop his personall-
any lack of morals. It necessitates
Pile the mixture high on to a years old whenever she pays her bord work. ty is the best policy" in my best ty."
into a glass bowl and then uwn periodiil visits to his surgery. dish If handwriting.
This kind of thing is "synthetic or sitting still is as easy as eating dental chair and undergo a rapid la- kitchen
anyone imagines that standing Then the child can be put in the chop your greengage Jelly on wet I have
a wet knife. never had much respect and not genuine mailern training. A
paper with jam, let her try it. It may be quite d
the first half-dozen Pile this in hillocks at the foot of spection. For for facts that can be repeated par good ardener will go to infinite easy for the first quarter of an hour times there will probably be nothing the mountain, rot-wise, so I trained my child to
pains to produce 11 perfect. more or less bearable till the half- reason and to observe, instead. Our
if you care to sprinkle hour, but by the time the hour is to do, but the examinations will have
for in future the these lightly with a little violet pe- I know! I have
dust the effect will be all the sat and stood in
more charming. various poses for hours on end, and
Most young children are mechani- at the end of the day I was more
The cream should be lightly tired than if I had undertaken a hard cally minded and find a dentist's
"gadgets" far more fascinating to whipped and piled on top of the Those who deride modern rain- day's washing. to perform, my son had often to be
and here and no knowledge of left alone, and this was good for ing have
I shall never forget the thrill and should do their best to make "den- there down the sides. Sift over all agony of my first Billing. Thetist day" something of a festival by a little icing sugar and finish with him, for real growth cannot take intelligent application, and so
artist, a very sympathetic lady who combining it with some small treat. few. drifts of finely chopped plata- place except when alone, and it is hear such disparaging remarks as
chalked recognlaed my rawness,
it is a great mistake to imagine chio nuts. And you have a pretty real growth that makes for ripe "That's what your modern training murk on her studio floor. On this I that the treatment of frat teeth does dish that tastes even better than it maturity.
was told to fix my eyes, with my not matter. To be sure they cannot looks. Answering Questions
With every new line of thought I head slightly to the side in a listen-inst long, but the longer they are there is always the danger of an attitude, so that the pose of my preserved the better chance have the Make it
head would not alter. There I
I sat in a flowing robe of blue, holding healthy
permanent ones that follow them. Alook Natural · something in my hand. What bone forming period, and decayed was, I cannot recall, but I know that nest teeth are injurious to the growth serve if you dust icing sugar on its It makes the dish easier to after the Arst half-hour it was of the second set. So slight are pro- surface before piling up the mixture. agonising to hold.
fessional operations on baby teeth The Resolutely I fixed my eyes on the that the
cream may be applied with child hardly associates a coarse ribbon pipe, but it must not chalkmark and sat so still that sense of pain with them and is free scarcely allowed myself to breathe from that horrible sinking feeling and palette knife do the job better stiff and unnatural. A spoon EO (inxious
was I not to spoil the that so many people experience in thann_pipe. he Is Intelligent pose. Presently I was forced to re- the dentist's walling-room.
I found my body sagging, inx.
at your Try this delicacy "Steady please," admonished the Encourage Tooth Brush Drill
[next party. If you like, use a very understand.
little green-tinted coconut or an- lie was provided next morning oneself: he has his own opinions, A Wearisome Job
A little personal vanity with re-gelica instead of the pistachio with a little tray on which reposed and worriea very little about the
gard to teeth is a good thing, and a nuts. an apple and a ball, a feather and opinion of others.
The moments trickled past. All small boy or girl who exclaims "se concentrate on morning tooth brush- a balloon. He soon discovered that
the swish of the how white my teeth are,” should ho could keep the feather in the air, velopment
feel now that the
proper do- could of his character in an-
artist's brush. I could not see what never be snubbed. Tooth brush drilling when in reality night brushing is but the pounding of an energetic sured, and that his further contact fist soon sent the balloon "west."
with life will smooth away
chaikas Interesting as possible. Children process of decay will proceed un- There was puzzlement and some little imperfections and expand his
maric, which began to dance wildly love colour and change, and some hindered in the mouth of the in- tears, which soon gave way to good qualition---A. MOTHER.
before my eyes. I tried hard to times a slack child can be made a active and sleeping child. But even avold the fixed and wooden expres more industrious tooth brusher by night and morning cleaning is not alon that weariness and discomfort the purchase of a new and fascinat-enough, and from their earliest days were bringing to my fentures. The Ing brush, an ornamental box of their teeth after every meal.
children should be taught to brush
does."
He
I was not so unwise as jo expect wrong application until it has been growth from nothing, und, when a thoroughly assimilated. My modern the age of two, he asked what I con- training of my son has produced a sidered to be his first real question, normal human being. Ife is not 1 was delighted and knew that I perfect by any means, but he is de could advance with a certain amount peadable and hard-working. of assurance. Although this ques believes that his own success de tion, "What makes my apple come pends on his own efforts: he is in- down?" could not be met by, an ex- dependent and has initiative and planation of the law of gravity, commonsense; could meet it in a way he would enough to realise that the world is very much what one makes it for
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The Japanese mother is most in- of her children's teeth, and tenches them to "Al Inst, however, when I seemed even to become an artist's model. By rub them after meals with the finger, to be aching with a thousand pains now I have learned how to ward af or with a small piece of polished and gradually drifting into it state aches and pains and cricks in the wood. The good results are obvious To my dismay I found that I could even a long sitting does at rate should end with a crust of brown of comu, the artist told me to relax, neck, how to conserve myself so that to all beholders.
Every meal for young ant with my eyes fixed me to such an extent, at any rate, bread or a hard apple, for half the not. There grimly to the chalk mark, a grisly as that first one did. smile on my lips and my hand clutch. It is worth it all, for the greatest Uls of modern teeth are due to this ing desperately the object that Jay of all thrills has been when the work lack of bone friction.
while they play. Nearly for thus you reduce to a minimum the Eating between meals is injurious, every child likes sweels and this is the pain he must suffer. At in my lap. At length í mannged to of some artist has been hung in the stir myself, but it was a long time Galleries and I have gone, a humble or not only does it overtax the diges- a sign of a healthy appetitile, but the same time in choosing your child's before I got rid of that crick in the spectator, to gaze at the result of allį, tive system, but it has a bad effect craving should be satisfied during, dentist. It is well to consider the per- neck or forget the agony of any frei my aches and pains. Sitting still on the teeth. "I never allow my rather than afier, menis.
Ronality of the man as well as the sitting.
may not be cusy, but it has its com- children to eat between meals, many The cultivation of good habita at number of degrees on the plate at That, of courɛe, was long ago. One pensations.
mothera remarkt, but at the same home is the best means of making his door. has to go through an apprenticeship,
L. D. time they supply them with sweets the dentist the friend of your child;
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Joan Varer.