Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-30
TRAINING FOR SPRING HATS
Flower Massed Headgear Trying to
the Face.
ROSES, PANs1Es AND CAMEI1As
Lotions of Strawberries aud Green
Salads and Strenuous Arm Exer-
cises Are Needed TO Match
the Complexion.

NEW YORK, Jan 29.-"My- Easter hats
are here from Paris and they are made of
flowers" said = pretty woman smiling at
herself I'm the gloss and nipping her al
ready pink cheeks with her finger tips,
japanese fashion. Il read the other day
that one Of the smart hats OF the season
would be trimmed with purple and yellow
pansies swathed in smoky gray tulle. Wen.
that accurately describes the color scheme
Of one of my best hats.
You know that some Solors are moro
trying than others, and the flower tones
are particularly bad for the woman who
has been housed up all winter and has
dcsed her complexion with cosmetics in
stead of fresh air. In the spring, whom
such a woman attempts to put on a flower
hat, she is In trouble.
MY beauty assistant warned me a few
weeks ago that I must begin to prepare
for spring. And especially for purple said
she, This spring we must get ready for
pansy, heliotrope and all the dark as we'll
as light puppies. (
THE artist who advised the yelling Of
pansies with smoky gray understood the
situation. Yet I think the beauty specialist
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skins are not quite ready for gray. The
hint would be, Don't
There is a great dress specialist in
Paris who will not allow a woman over 50
to wear gray. 1T makes you look too
ashen,' he says. And so he keeps his GUS
toner In special tints until such time as he
can melt her complexion so that It harmon
ICES or at least goes well with gray.
There is another dress artist, not a
dressmaker, mind you, but a color artist,
who will not let his clients wear brown
after 40. Brown he says, brings into
relief every freckle in the skin and 1t
helps to bring out the sallow hues that
might otherwise escape unnoticed.'
This spring I am getting ready to
wear purple. I am also preparing for a
hat of pink camelias, and If 1 can get in
shape I am going to have a hat Of shaded
pink roses. Now, you cannot imagine a
more trying list of colors for a woman
who is past counting her seasons out.
Getting ready to wear violet, heliotrope
and pansy colors means taking buttermilk
baths. Nothing else will clear the skin as
well. The buttermiIk should be at least a
day old to give It a sharp tang, which acts
as an electric shock to the skin, and It
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skin soft.
II take one pint of buttermilk and I bet
1t on the radiator for half an hour. While
it is warming I stir some powdered borax
into it. Meanwhile 1 steam my face with
hot cloths applied over flannel pads. Then
I put on the buttermilk, rubbing 1t over
my face as though It were a salve. / let
it dry on, finally taking it off with a
cloudburst of hot water administered with
a face hose.
Women who are planning 10 wear the
shaded rose hats should take lcare. A rose
hat upon the wrong head is pathetic. My
beauty specialist told me that In the mat
ter of rose hats 1t WAS largely a question
of knowing how to make up. Never said
she, wear a rose hat after a sleepless
night or when you have a headache. There
should be no sacks under the eyes when
roses are so close to the face and the
checks should be almost as bright as the
roses.
For a sallow skin there is one very
potent remedy and hat is the strawberry.
Fortunately the first Strawberries come
just in time for the first rose hat. It is