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SPECIALLY FOR WOMEN

O not run away with the idea that this

the

Roman

conquerors with her. xurious beably culture. The Court ladies of Nero's time, about the year 31 A.D., were known to take per- fumed steam baths.

In the above sketch at the bottom

BEAUTY GADGETS USED TO-DAY

JE do not know that the we

days had

appliances to make their Anger tips slender, but one of the latest present- day gadgets does this.

to

It is a

In the top left-hand sketch there. left-hand corner yent will NUC a is a picture of a finger clip. 1937 A.D. adaptation of the steam spall metal contraption which is cach finger and beauty treatment. The electrie lamp snapped on costs for quinens, and the round thumb and the set of five costs 255. metal bowl opposite, which is made This may have been inspired by the

finger slimming

D antis

which we hear so much now is something new.

Nor are we particularly extrava- gaat in our starch after loveliness compared with the women of ancient times.

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Beauty Bureau

"WORRIED 18"

Since was fourteen-I am now

"LASSIE"

10/11-

1 am just seventeen years of age You have only to go to the British ghtern-I have been using cream but any bust is terribly overdeveloped. Museum to see an array of elaborate an my face. Lately I have noticed I want to go swimming very shortly

and I look a sight in my bathing ens designed for holding hairs growing on my lip. Has the Lume. Could you please give me kohl and other cosmetics used by cream caused them? Can YOU tell some exercises or massage for reður- Egyptian wonen enturies ago.

containers

me how to get rid of them?

ing I do not want anything that *will broaden my shoulders or back

It is most injurious to massage the bust. The best method of reducing is by diet and exercise.

An old Eastern recipe for taking Good toilet protlriets do not foster in any way, kohl-which was used to darken the growth of superfluous hair. eyelashes and for eye make-up`---

You should consult a cosmetician contained among other ingredients crushed parts and amber. That Who will inform you of various me

thods for the renioval of superfluous lot of money; hair, and also give the names of pre- Perhaps the fascinating Nefertiti parations which do not encourage the used this. Or Cleopatra, who dazed growth of heir,

must have cost

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SOMETHING ABOUT POTATOES

mashed potatoes have to be kept waiting before they can be served, The pan should be covered with a clean, folded kitchen towel or a piece fold Unen. The soft linen absorbs the steam, so that the potatoes may he kupt hot without becoming sodden and discoloured,

When old potatoes are boiled a few drugs of lemon juice added to the water will keep them whitę,

New potatoes may be scraped easily if boiling water is first poured over them to soften the skins.

Chipped potatoes will brown better

ITCHING re before they are placed in the hot

SKIN

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You should buy one of the swim suits which are ited inside with at brassiere; there are many of these now sold in the shops. This will help to keep the figure trim.

PINAFORES AGAIN

RECENTLY introduced revival of

an old fashion is the pinaforel skirt. It comes in linens, as well as! fine woolly materials, and is yet a further way of providing an excuse! for wearing the many sweaters which have been bought recently just be- cause they are so attractive,

I have seen eulotto pinafore skirt made in naturai coloured crease- resisting linen. The top was cut with deep square neck, there were broad shoulder pleces, and the divided skirt as cleverly pleated. It reached about eight Inches past the knees.

Pinafore skirts in wool are usually gored, and a design in dove grey lansi cleverly stitched top, little deeper

ELSIE SCOTT says

we are not so extravagant as the ancients

ployed by Mm star-1 forget who sixpence halfpenny in a shop the it was now a few years ago. She other day. It is meant to comb the used to wear thimbles m each of eyebrows and measures only 24in.. her fingers act thumbs for so long long und in, wide. each day to make them taper.

The le rotary brush near it is

Abave it Is n sticks with the minut-

Another present-day beautifer is for eyelashes. It's not very much I larger. The price of this is sixpence. shown beside the tinster-slimmer. consists of three thin metal dises attached to a sten, is calleita strygil, and is used to scrape oc est brush inserted at the top. This surplus skin food from the face, tests ninepence to-day and is for pushing the cuticle of the nails into You can buy it for 37s. 6d.

place and brushing away the dead The bristles are frm and yet

shown.

IN the top right-hand drawing skin.

electric eye-lash curlers are that so hard 'as metal or wood.

IN

These and the other modern beauty alts I've written about are used in a

beauty salon I visited recently,

If you look at the smaller drawing, you'll see a contraption which resem- bles a pair of scissors. These eyelash curlers, too, but not electric

ones.

The tall thing in the centre has a rubber top to it and is designed to pat skin food or cream into the face or neck. You can buy it for 2s. d., while the Bide cylinder he side it is for holding the face cream. enough to slip in- cra

handbag

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It's an attractive little affair, which looks like colour-

de eci enamel corated

with

bright metal

bands, and is the same price as the

parter.

tiny

are

ND now, just for a momen

let us stipipase we are burt-)

COME years ago gadgets for led 400 years into the future and beauty were recovered can see our descendants discovering from Kish, in Iraq-the oldest city in some of these beauty gadgets we use

10-day. the world.

Among them was a

They would probably conjecture wee Vanity case, made of bronze, which may that the women of 1937 had a pas-

for

might have

tiny things. They belonged to one Baby- sion

these miniature Honian womart of fashion. The little even put some of

some glass case in nail files were strung together by a items into a cord at the top and the sharp points museum, not yet founded, and label fitted into a tiny holder, similar to them, quite wrongly: the modern scissors case.

But We have mininture beauty gadgets to-day. And they are cer tainly not so expensive as that ant- cient and much decorated bronze manicure set dug up in the East.

"Children's Toys,

Dall's cosmetic instruments.

Circa 1937 A.D."

And writing all this has made me wonder what kind of beauty gadgets

In the smaller drawing you will will be used by the women of 2337 see a little comb. This 1 bought for A.D. or thereabouts-400 years hence.

Hints for the Housewife

BATHE IN LUXURY

Wiisun make some floral bath satchels. To half a pound of fine oat- soften the water and add fragrance to your summer bath (writes Green meal and un ounce of powdered orris root add four handfuls of dried red rose leaves and one of lavender. Spice with some crushed cloves and some strips of dried lemon rind. Put into muslin satchets and store in an airtight container. They can be used lo scent your linen, too.

CANE

NE seats that have begun to sag should be scrubbed on both sides with hol water and soap, and dried in the open air. As this shrinks the cane. the seats will become as firm as when new.

stender AFTER washing loose creioane covers belonging to a room that is used

E they are made thoroughly warm thun a hipband, and two and dry in the oven or in front of a straps cross the shoulders.

tnt.

When salad is being made from they are still hot. It will blend with! freshly bolled potatoes the dressing them more easily than when they are while cold. should be poured uver. them

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HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

The cost of maintaining the Ling Yuet Slen Creche during the second half of 1937 Is estimated at $250.00 per month. The doner of the Creche has given $100.00 per month towards this east.

The Society usks for donallons to cover the balance of

$1,200.00

Hon. Trenirera:

Mr. D. BLACK, C.A.,

c/o Percy Smith, Sell & Fleming,

0 Des Voeux Road, Central.

Mr. KWOK CHAN.

c/o Banque de L'Indo China,

Hongkong.

August 23, 1937.