Evening star., 1943-01-18
CHAPTER XIV.
Your Beauty Is Tn to You.

A'hi ~ Up w
Whether YOU make your beauty
at home or buy it over the counter,
the result you are looking for is
consistent good grooming IF your
hair trails down the back OF your
neck, your waistline bulgeS and your
elbows need scrubbing, your spirits
will drop to zero, no matter what.
Find time to keep after yourself
so YOU don't let yourself down. OF
course routine is the answer. Oh. |
how simple that sounds How hard
for a busy woman really to follow
Some experts say never, never
skip hot bath before dinner and
make sure Your face is we'll creamed
Try it sometime with a child
bouncing in and out Of the bath
room demanding the next INSTALL
ment of Alice in Wonderland. TRY
1t with maid waiting to get YOU
nnlShed, dined and over with be-
cause she's sick and tired of doing
everything in your household and
wants to go home to her own. Trv
II II you get home from work at
with people calling for you at ITO.
Don t experts ever suffer any con-
fusion In their lives? The simpIe
foutlnes experts work out ALWAYS
nave to be followed with clockwork
eLlclencV on your part or else no go.
Make your own routine according
10 your needs, and if it slips here and
there Just hope the goddess in
charge Of beauty knows your heart
IS IN the right place. That bath for
instance. Good idea-a long lei
surely bath with cream on vour face
II YOU can't do it before dinner
"nen 1t might relax you for the eve
nlng, why not try it before bedtimeo
or even in the morning when Won
get up? II gets the cream on vo,,r
face anyway.
lhen there are the experts on
exercise. They all agree it's here to
Stsy-out the devious ways thev sue-
geSI you go about it! For instance
C1ose tricky little numbers YOU are
supposed 10 practice at your desk
IKE rolling your head wav back and
puillng It forward. or pushing for
Ward and backward from your desk
70 uni1abbv your arms. If anv ono
IN your office ever caught Won at If
they'd sWoon. az IL
iou may think you're too busy In
20 IN Tor good old bending exercises
but If you are you must certai,,1v
be too busy to waste vour tin,a =,
your once bobbing back and forth
me greatest difficulty with reg
uidI nome exercises is the boredom
II you could only repeat. Coue
iaShlon, while you twisted and
turned each morning and nioht
Wis., oy twist I'm getting thinner
ana thinner" you might get through
I'VE minutes of it. 1t is not a tech
nlque that works for me pot
oored after one minute and no Co,,a
can compensate. Sadly enough five
minutes is all you need each morn
ing and night, if you could onlv
oVIch 70 II. II you have the will
power you will have the figure.
90 many women just lie in bed for
~ minutes thinking about that five
minutes of exercise they will GER
talnly do this morning. Then thev
pend once or twice, stretch a few
times more, then have their coffee
But that's not good-oh, no. Oh,
1or the vim to dash out of bed
throw the window wide, breathe
oeeply, then start-20 bends, 20
hands on hips and turn completely
from side to side. 20 tall cat
stretches, then down on the floor
20 hops on one side of your back
sloe, 70 hops on the other, 20 PAGES
across the floor on your hips as if
you were walking legless down.
stairs. Five minutes is all this takes
and you are new woman.
My scouts. who know women who
nave actually done this consistently.
say the results are amazing.
One thing should give you courage
to try it-at least your husband isn't
under foot, alas. so you won't be
subject to masculine derision If YOU
do get out and bounce.
Or perhaps that's just another
excuse taken away.
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Remember this about your figure.
II you spend two months losing it
you're not going to be able to re-
trieve it in two days. And a change
OF figure will shock your husband
more than anything else. Fat is
the most obvious disf1gurement-you
can't hide it by a hurried facial or
a new hair-do.
If you find suddenly that you've
gained weight, go on diet. In
this new world of rationing and
scarcity your diet ought not to be
tricky and involved. Don't have
special menus prepared-they're ex-
pensive and troublesome. And spe-
clally ordered delicacies in restau-
rants will run your check up faster
than anything else.
Eating cheaper. more easily oh
/ talnable foods does not necessarily
| mean eating less fattening foods.
Ihe most surprising thing to dis
cover is that often the less yol1
'P~H" VII SOlh LltdIS LIle more
weight you gain. That's because
/ instead of getting a 50-cent salad,
say, for luncheon, you'll economics
with a 20-cent sandwich. The two
slices of bread, the butter and the
sandwich filling all add up to twice
the calorieS of the green salad. A
dish of spaghetti will fill YOU up
completely at comparatively little
price, while vegetable dinner, cost
ing twice as much. will leave YOU
unsatisfied. So you order the spa
ghetti, save your money and add
pound.
But the day of reckoning. when
you simply have to take those pounds
off, should not be fanciful and costly.
First cut out all breads, potatoes,
Starches and desserts. Let YOUR
meals be as always. minus these fat
ty addenda-and don't take second
helpings of anything no matter how
much you want to. And you'll lose
weight.
The popular speed-up- your-meta-
bolism diets will take this weight off
more rapidly, it is true. These are
the nine-day wonder diets that call