FilmIndia (1946)

F ILMINDI A Can this thing be worth so much? figures in magnified form. The eyes bulge and get strained. Then there is the quiet, loyal wife with the gay husband who thinks that the time to return home is when the world sleeps. This woman waits, of course impatiently though the world mistakes it for a patient vigil, and peers into the dark night every five minutes to spot the familiar figure of her lord and master. Sometimes she stares at the street lamp, expecting some human shadow to cut the light. All this is just so much strain to the woman's beauty bulbs. The bulbs are burning extra current of energy every second of these life's troubles and compromises. COURTESY TO THE EYE Seeing life what it is and as we cannot change the world merely to prevent eye-strain, the next best thing we can do is to soothe the strain to restore the energy burnt up. Eyes have been called the "windows of the soul". It was a good slogan fifty years back. The modern woman does not so much believe in the cultivation of the soul. Don't worry about the soul — it will look after itself. Just nurse the sole of your foot and see that it isn't caught in a tight shoe. The pain in the sole always affects the eye and a comfortable footwear is a good eye-treatment. Another way to avoid eye strain is to avoid glare — sun glare or light glare. For the first buy good shade glasses— not those cheap goggles which are no better than bits of coloured window panes — and wear them when the rays of the sun smart the eyes. But don't deprive the eyes of the life-giving sunrays early morn and late evening/Like everything else, the eyes also require a bit of sunshine if they are to prove their metde in moonlight with the moonstruck dumb-bell holding your trembling hand. The light glare can be prevented by a little horse sense so rare in women. They have generally mule-sense, if that is any sense at all. Push the lamp behind you and let the light shine over your shoulder. This is the treatment to the lamp, assuming that the female is too lazy to push her chair a litde away and in front of the lamp. If the eyes burn, water or reveal line designs below and around, it is time to see some eye-specialist and ask him a hundred questions about the eyes and their care. Women who are good in asking their husbands a million questions, become suddenly dumb when they go to the doctor. It is rather a strange phenomenon, perhaps as strange as the woman herself. Now if you don't feel happy about the eye-specialist, you can still do a bit for those poor eyes who let you see a lot of life with the least demand of attention, say, just as a courtesy to them, eh? January, 1946 Well, take a good soothing eye lotion or even rose water and wash these windows of your soul twice a day, morning and evening. If you do that your soul, hidden somewhere will also be cleaned automatically. Try it if you don't believe. Here is a reliable recipe for washing your eyes daily. This lotion has both the qualities in it — curative and soothing. Sodii Salicylas 200 grains Distilled Water 20 ounces Use this twice a day — morning and evening — three minutes for each eye every time and eighty per cent of your eye worries should be over. It is an effective remedy for eye-strain. WINK AND BE WELL Very often eyes stick in the night — rather the lids and the lashes do — well try to fill the eye, before retiring, with a 10% Xeroform ointment. Wrinkles need a long time to be smoothed away. Take a nice cream and massage the wrinkled part very gently as if to open the wrinkles. Remember, however, that you should never stretch the skin whilst massaging and the strokes should be semi-circular and directed outwards. Puffiness below the eyes needs electrical treatment. They do this in (Continued on page 65) College boys have eyes with X-rays that penetrate even the privacy of Ladies' cloak-rooms. 54