1937-08-11 — Page 2

Routine For

OWEVER much

H

we think

we know there is always somebody who knows more. That is why fully quali fied doctors continue their hospital work, or specialise in some particular branch of medicine.

And that's why actresses who have "arrived" still take singing and dancing Jessons,

The reason, too, that I decided to spent a few hours in the London salon of a famous Hollywood make-up expert the other day, 1 wanted to refresh my knowledge.

How do you apply creamı,

powder and lipstick?

Well! never mind. Just read

the result of my visit.

The expert's first principles are: 1 Powder should match the skin. Lipstick should be of the same tune as the natural colour of the lips. 3 Rouge should harmonise with the colour in the checks. He calls

it "colour harmony,"

N

TOW for the method. Cleansing cream is wiped off again with a cleans- Ing tissue. A lotion is applied next. If the skin is dry or normal (and there are more dry skins than oily ones, be- lieve me), a skin freshener is used. If it is greasy, an as- tringent is dabbed surface.

over

Then comes the foundation.

the

Again, the condition of the skin bone first, then one on the is studied. For a dry or normal head and the last on the chin. skin a blender is chosen; if greasy,

fore-

a special cream. You don't put it This Is called the "Ave point hophazardly all over the skin. A touch." tiny dab is placed on each cheek

When Meat Is Tough

It is softened gently over the entire face and then removed 10 moke sure the skin is smooth. So Įmany women leave too much on the skin, and that gives a thick and uneven appearance when the powder

goes on.

If you have dark ines under the jeyes a suspicion of the blender is ROUGH and tasteless," declares placed there. It takes away the a housewife, indignantly, of hurd line and the face looks rounder meat that has proved an unpalatable and more youthful. dish. And, though the butcher may

with reply

"Can't EL perplexed understand it, Ma'am," he often knows perfectly well that nothing now. but careless cooking can have spoilt the very excellent Joint for which

he is held accountable.

Wishing

"E are ready for the touches

Eyeshadow with a creamy bage is used as it is easier to

"Oh, I just pop it in the oven" you mingle with the foundation, moy, perhaps, hear an experienced | cook say airily. And the novice, fast- ing the admirable result of this op- parently simple treatment, imagines that there nothing more learnt about the preparation of meat for the table. Never was there

bigger mistake. The expert

to

be

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cool

even

does not deal so summarily with the prime cuts of meat, and

Make-Up

These are the rules: Blue shadows for the blonde. Brown for brown, hnzel, or green eyes with little specks of brown in them. At night a green eyeshadow gives an exotic effect.

ELSIE SCOTT tells you here

a famous Hollywood expert's method

Then be sparing with rouge. Blend it sparsely on the highlight of the check-bone, smooth it downward and away from the in- dentations.

If you are unfortunate enough to have hollow checks keep it away from the hollows where it acts as a shadow. and it will counternet this natural shadow. The cheeks treated so appear fuller and the contour of the face is rounded,

INALLY the powder.

FINALLY

Use a velour puff and the powder lavishly.

Start at the lower jaw and work up the cheeks; pat it up towards the middle of the face and on to the brow. Powder the nose last. Press the powder lightly into the lines around nose, eyes, mouth and chin.

The face a thickly coated with powder. It should not be rubbed· aff, but brushed nway lightly with the soft-bristled, curved brush this expert Invented for the purpose, and which you can see sketched on this page.

Eyebrows are marked with a pencil, not In one hard line, but sketched in with light, short strokes.

Lashes are darkened with a soft eye brown or black applled with a little brush.

Lipstick is painted on with a brush, and the colour placed well inside the lips to avoid hardness.

Remember that lipstick will not adhere to wet lips. They should be dried rat. Paint the upper lip round the natural shape, press it on to Place a cleansing the lower lip and then fill in the outlines with the brush. After the eye shadow comes the tissue between them and press the lips together to remove surplus colour.

Now moisten the lips and your mouth should look perfectly symmetrical, rouge.

I wish you could have seen the finished face, fresh from the expert's ministrations, you would certainly make up your own face in future accord- ing to these rules.

It is patted on with a puff, not rubbed in. A tiny triangular dub is put on the high point of cach check and then brought down to follow the natural curve of the bone. Coax it into the full parts of the checks and soften the edges,

Rouge should be taken very faintly to the outer corner of the lower eyelid. The white space be- tween eye and cheekbone is thus hidden and

natural look achieved.

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THINK marriage is a dreadful of running commentary bridge. Dur- risk." sighed a friend the other ing the whole progress of the game

There day. "It only

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he about, she descends into the horrors cynical companion. "I the full part of the check and so survives that ordeal, he will come of unbridled facetiousness. She dif- diminish the high light in the middle safely through anything!" of the face.

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"FLORENCE F.”

fers from the conference expert in never waiting for a reply, but just It is a strange fact that bridge bubbles on in an infuriating spate of reveals all the little "links" in our meaningless words. natures that at other times we keep

stop

and

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disorder. I should certainly seek advice from a doctor, who may be Whenever I have a sea and an able to prescribe some treatment. would certainly never dream of holiday I am troubled with little omitting the preparatory processes by blisters on the lips. Afterwards which the inferior joints CRU be they turn to horrid little scabs. They served in a tender and lusty condi-ure not in the least serious but they

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invariably disfigure me for about. Can you help me, please? I want my bust but, like the ten days, just when I want to look to develop my best. Is there any remedy or correspondent who wrote to you a few weeks ago, I haven't much means of preventing this rask?

time for exercises. Is there anything my size? are i could rub into the skin to increase

"For to-day's cooking" is a remia- der to the reliable butcher that meat should not be sent straight from the ice, nor without being properly hunk THESE small water blisters In warm weather, however, the meat caused by the action of the salt

a chilled condition. is often sold in it and to put it in the pot or the oven water and sun on certain skins.

The only thing you can do is to without Orst "thawing" it is to make

same

For instance, four people arranged

Of course, everyone has met the to begin playing bridge at nine o'clock one evening. At, 10 p.m. they were pinyers of bandit bridge. They are still arguing about the conventions out, frankly to make an income from they should use and exactly what cards. Before play commences they

de was meant if someone called Three are simply charming, and the hearts" without a single card of that precating waves of the hand assure suit in his hand. By 10.30 they had you that they are not really much completed one rubber, and then the good but do so enjoy an opensional

the

unerring argument broke out afresh. One of rubber. With bust must never be rubbed the losers maintained that if his instinct that lends a vulture to its or massaged. The best method partner had had the elementary prey, they contrive to get drawn into it tough and tasteless. Chilled meat sinear some protecting cream round. should be covered with cold water, the lips before bathing or sitting in is by special exercises and a suit-sense to show his hearts when call- games with players who are slightly ing the last hand, they would have less skliful than themselves, and in never warm, for at least half an hour the sun. Wipe it off afterwards able diei,

saved the gaine, and would have the most disaming way manage to before cooling it, and even meat that with a pad of soft cotton-wool or a

probably won the rubber in the end. win. Consequently, they regard on At 11.15 the party broke up, with evening ill spent that does not bring them in at least a couple of pounds. I shall be thankful if you would out another hand having been played. The comic side of their performance |

and the four friends are now ene- mies! That was an extreme case, but may not be very apparent to their "conference bridge" came together. It just happened that tour experts at pponents, but it is, nevertheless.

pmusing to watch, Usually there is never more than one Finally, there is the win-at-all- "conference bridge" expert at cach costs player. She-this player is nl- table, and, though he does his best ways a woman-will make mistakes to turn the game into a debate, he that are always in her own favour; his verbal in a tight corner, and, if challenged, make everyone else feel they are in the wrong.

has not been chilled is made more j cient fender by lying in cold water about twenty minutes.

Beat to Make Tender

foundation

and

for cream before applying possible

"N. H."

"D. J. M."

cleansing tissue.

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protect the face as much as from the direct rays of the sun. The lotion you mention is largely re-dise me about the condition of my hair. I am 25 years of age and it commended for sunburn and its at is beginning to turn grey. i should "Vinegar," said un export rook.tendant irritations.

like to know if there is any cure for when asked to suggest a remedy for

this complaint? tough meat, and the housewife who once adopts the plan of applying a

1 am auty 22 and am I getting opinion about the cause of pre- THERE is a Brent divergence of little vinegar and water, or vinegar, desperate about a growth of strong, and salad oll, to meat before cookin dark hair on my arms, legs, face maturely grey hair. Sometimes m/ Azzles out in time through lack of she will unblushingly revoke when

and on my chest,

Do you think health, shock or nervous disorders ponents worthy of that this can be caused by

There medical disorder and can a doctor is little that can be done once the The Unwritten Law help?

has actually turned grey. It possible, however, to take very

result.

It, will be highly satisfled with the

It is best to wash the ment as soon

as it comes into the house and then baste it with a tablespoonful, each. of vinegar and water, or preferably vinegar and salad oil, rubbing in the mixture with the back of a wooden spoon. Steak, tapside of beef, or mutton that may, possibly, not be very lender, answers admirably to this

softening treatment. Lamb chops are made delicious by 2 squeeze of lemon juice before they are cooked,

The softening and breaking up of the meat fibre is, of course, the ob- jret of the oil and vinegar treatment. The result is further achieved by beating out steak and other possibly

rollingpin tough ment with a maliet,

whether

or

will make it lose its colour.

any

hinir

hair, such us you

most

20

shafts..

have

Fortunately the win-at-all-costs It would be a fitting punishment player in a rare type, but bridge docs

exaggerate weaknesses. N abnormally strong growth of effective preventive measures, the for such people to be condemned to known men who could not behave

superfluous

important of which is to keep piny eldfashioned whist with old-like gentlemen at the card table nl- mention, may be due to some health the scalp thoroughly healthy. The fashioned partners who insisted on though on any other occasion they hair should be frequently and well keeping to the strictest letter of the were perfect. But then I have 1 washed. Suitable lotions will also unwritten law that the game must be known men who could not keep their.

help to prevent the greyness from played in allence!

sense of proportion about pictures, An even more irritating player music, or food! colour of hair, and should be treated. generally a woman-is the exponent

SHORT SKIRT spreading. Dandruff will affect the

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the reaches to just below the knees and or the girls like it. It wraps com- fortably and it opens at the lower left side, near the knee. There are several versions of the short skirt which are altogether in keeping with the lines of the abbreviated summer jacket. One is a tight affair to just below the knees, and to make walk- ing possible, it is sloshed to a depth of three or five inches precisely the centre back, which openings in: walking give a pant-leg effect.

meat is to be roasted, bolled, stewed. A coating of flour also helps to seal the pores, and should always be given to ment Intended for pies, puddings, or stews.

If a fork is used to turn meat in cooking, it should be stuck into the fat, for. If the fibre is pierced, the juices will flow, and the meat will loso its flavour and tenderness,

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