Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-02

soME oENEaAL RULEs eY GLADYS zELs
By GLADYS zELL.

Z SPEND half an hour every day on
'prettying' up and two hours OF
Sunday Few girls have more
time than that to devote to their looks,
and if one gives this amount of time
regularly to ones personal appearance
there is no reason why one should not
always be We'll groomed.
This is how | manage. ! divide the
time up in two parts-ffteen minutes
in the morning and the same at night,
OF course | am not counting the time
spent on dressing and daily bath,
which should just take five minutes. If
you keep your hands, hair and face in
good order and take one hour a week
for mending your clothes, you will find
that you can dress very quickly and
you are really not spending any more
time in identifying" than the girl who
just dawdles around when she should
be getting dressed.
Before | go to bed every night
brush my hair for five minutes by the
clock That doesn't seem a long time
when you say five minutes, but if you
are brushing it gives you plenty of OPP
portunity to shine and brighten your
hair and make it glossy and smooth.
After ! have braided IT into two plaits
l pin it around my head and then start
in to look after my complexion.
A Good Cream.
l get a good cleansing cream, which l
use in quantities and rub this on my
face thoroughly. This doesn't take
more than a minute, and the cream has
already made my fingers greasy, so I
am ready to give five minutes to mani
curing. use the same cream to soften
the cuticle around the edge of the
nails. and, as [ do it every night the
cuticle never has to be cut, but can be
pressed down with a little orange wood
stick and then with the finger and the
edge OF the towel | give my nails a
touch with the emery board shaping
them little every night, so they very
seldom have to be cut at all, as l keep
them filed down in this way After the
cuticle is softened and the nail nicely
shaped l put on a little more of the
cream, dip my buffer in the polishing
powder and polish my nails for about d
minute one minute a day is plenty
long enough to produce and keep nice
polish on the nails, provided of course,
you don't omit a single evening.
Now, l wash my hands in warm
water and then in cold and have used
five more minutes of my evening time.
The cold rinsing water which use for
my hands l dabble over my face and
begin a quick massage stroking and
pinching my cheeks nard This brings
color into the cheeks and the cold water
is fine tonic After two or three min
utes l wipe my face off thoroughly on a
soft towel the cream bringing all the.
impurities with it. In all, I spend fif-'
teen minutes on myself, but ] don t
stop for Second and whatever ! am
doing I do it with all my might and
main, whether it is hair brushing, face
massage or cleaning my nails.
The Usual Lemon.
In the morning ! spend five more
minutes on my face, bathing it with
warm water and soap. and then rinsing
off with cold again. In the morning l
also use lemon on my neck so as to
whiten it. Just a small piece of lemon
rubbed over the skin is all one needs.
After that wipe the neck off with a
wash cloth. In a few days the neck
will be just as white as a chid's and