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A Beautiful Skin, Yours

To Have And To Hold

ELSIE PIERCE

Through the ages a beautiful skin has remained woman's greatest as set. Men may have their own peculiar ideas about make-up or nail polish shades or coiffure styles for women. Or they may at least pre- tend to protest.. But they all love

lovely complexion.

To some exten" your control

on the

First,

t get all the

the appearance of important day. rest you can for lack of it will soon' show in a dull, yellowish tinge. Second, if you can afford it, enroll for a course of facials. If you can- not, then give yourself a short facial treatment every day for at least a week or two. As a matter of fact, it is a habit worth forming start now and keep it up after you for married:

Of course, you want your skin to be lovely for your wedding day. And you want to keep it flawlessly clear, petal smooth, youthfully firm many, many years to come.

THREE THINGS:

are

The average skin can get along. with three essentials: cleansing,.

Witty Kitty toning and nourishing and for this

Variety may be the spice of life bat any one knows that too much, spice is worse than none at all.

F

a good cleansing "medium,

ser.

a skin

tonic and a tissue cream are neces- sary. If the skin is oily the clean- sing medium should be a complexion brush and bland soap or the incren- singly popular beauty grains some times known as póre paste or clean- A combination of cleansing cream and the pore cleanser grainy, delightful soap substitute is ideal for every type of skin. With these three things and a ten minute routine night and morning the skin As can be kept really beautiful. the milestones keep adding, a few essentials should be added. ton-a throat cream, a muscle tightening preparation, a chin strap to keep the contour firm. For specific. difficul- ties, specific correctives are neces- sary an acne lotion for the sional blemish, an anti-wrinkle cream for lines under the eyes and around mouth and throat; a heavier nourishing cream if the skin is very dry, an astringent if it is very oily and so on

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On your wedding day your skin must be clear, petal smooth and make-up applied as flawlessly as Jane Lang's.

LEMON CHIFFON PIE

tablespoon granulated ge- Intin.

1/4 cup cold water.

1

cup sugar.

1/2 cup lemon juice.

1/2 teaspoon salt.

4. eggs.

1

tablespoon grated lemon rind.

Baked pie shell.

Soak gelatin in cold water five minutes. Add one-half cup sugar, lemon juice and salt to beaten egg yolks and cook over boiling water until of custard consistency. To this mixture add the lemon rind and gelatin and stir well. Cool. When mixture begins to congeal, fold in stifly beaten egg whites to which the remaining sugar – has been added. Pour into baked pie shell, or pie pan lined with corn flakes or cracker pastry, chill, and just before serving spread a thin layer of whipped cream.

CORN FLAKE PASTRY

cup corn flakes or crack- er crumbs, rolled. 1/4 cup melted butter. 1/4 cup sugar and Roll or grind four cups corn flakes to yield, one cup of finé crumbs. Mix crumbs with butter and sugar. Press the pastry firmly into a nine-inch pie tin.--Edith Mi Barber

In order to retain the colour rhubarb. let it cook slowly over low flame.

of

a

Newspaper makes an excellent

paper:

To keep the flower garden looking well all faded blossoms and leaves must be picked and around plants weeded and spaded.

*...*

dead soil

Table linen should be ironed when ironed quite damp and should be until thoroughly: dry.

Solutions of soda, potash or am- monia will remove grease from_un- varnished wodd.

To fill a steaming teakettle place a small funnel in the spout to pre- vent burning your hands in taking off the cover;

Dry cleaning or a thorough brush- ing and airing should rid garments of moths, eggs and worms

Never put scrubbing brushes away until they have been thorough, ly washed, rinsed and shaken, so that most of the moisture has been removed.

Add a few bread crumbs to scram bled eggs.

It will improve the flavour and make the egge go far- ther.

A funnel makes an excellent hol- der for a ball of twine. Choose one large enough to hold a good-sized ball. Put the end of the string. through the neck of the funnel.”

Cut roses early in the morning

ch

polish for window glass and mirrors: when, they are fresh and damp and Wash, dry and then polish with the keep them in cool water in a cool room. With a sharp knife cut off. an inch of chatem under water. This gives

the stem a chance to To destroy the odour of smoke in draw up water and not air as it cid the house put a basin of water in when cut from the bush. If air is each room and leave windows open loft in the stem it will not permit top and bottom until the the water to feed the bud and it will

wilt and die.

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