HANDY HINTS AND TIPS

Various magazines - 1950s

 

 

 

Always apply your rouge - using a cream rouge over your foundation - just under the outside corner of the eye. Apply a little more vividly right against the eyelash, as this is the point where the cheek sags and shows fatigue. Then flash it down and out towards the ears before you sweep it in chinwards just above the jawline. Now fill it in across the cheek towards the bridge of the nose if you have a narrow face. Accentuate the color towards the lobes of the ears if you have a broad face. This may take a little practice and patience.

 

 

When choosing an iron, remember it is easier to achieve a good finish with one of reasonably heavy weight. It will also be less tiring to use, since the operator needs to use less pressure than with a lighter one.

 

 

 

Even the most beautiful women run the risk of acquiring a double chin. Pinching the chin is one way to keep it from developing a bulge, but this must be done gently, otherwise it will bruise.

 

 

Be lovely from the moment you step out of bed in the mornings. Immediately wash your face and smooth in a little Oil of Olay, to give your skin a delicate blush. Finish with a pink lipstick. Later you can add a tinted foundation and powder and choose a more glamorous lipstick, when you have chosen your dress for the day. Remember that it is important that your husband should always see you at your best, so don't wake him with morning tea, shorn of every inch of glamour.

 

 

To remove fat from the back of your neck, first rub slimming cream on your neck, and then dab it with skin tonic. For this you will need to wrap some cottonwool around a wooden spoon. Sprinkle with skin tonic and bang the neck with it until the skin is warm and red.

 

 

 

Biro pens are a wonderful invention, but annoying when they run out - suddenly. Not having any ink, I took out the Biro tube and used an eye-dropper to put water in the cartridge. Success! It wrote at least 4 - 5 more letters.

 

 

Have you noticed that the coffee at the bottom of the tin has little flavor? This is because the flavor of coffee always rises. Turn the coffee tin upside down in the cupboard to maintain the flavor.

 

 

 

If a youngster is sick and confined to bed, prepare a deep play-tray, calling it a "Happy Tray". Put in all their favorite things such as picture books, building blocks, dolls or small cars. It will take their mind off not feeling well, and can be gathered up quickly when they fall asleep. Rest and sleep will cure them. Loving them is what really matters.

 

 

The tedious job of removing pin feathers from dressed ducks and geese can be speeded up by melting a small amount of paraffin wax and applying it with a brush, than dipping the bird in cold water to harden the wax. When the paraffin is pulled off, it removes the pin feathers.

 

 

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