FilmIndia (Jan-Nov 1942)

FILMINDIA June, 1942 more than her birthday suit if she pleases. She can go about her household chores leisurely. She has no slave driver of a boss watching her like her husband has. It should be her job to keep her poor husband as cool as possible but she should begin by always looking delightfully cool and fresh herself. A man does not feel any less irritable when he comes home to find a greasy faced perspiring wife waiting for him. May be, we can help you to keep cool. If you have a placid sweet sort of nature you stand a much better chance of resisting the heat than a hot-tempered excitable person. So you must try to keep calm and unruffled during the hot weather. Don't lose your temper or let anything upset you. Think pleasant thoughts i nstead. If you can keep cool mentally then part of the battle is won already. Next see that your house is a cool one. Get rid of dark curtains or bed covers which only draw heat. See that every room has a fan which works and get yourself a refrigerator if you haven't already got one. If your budget does not rise to a refrigerator then buy an ice-box because you've just got to have ice. Give your husband plenty of long iced drinks, iced lemon juice, iced coffee and iced fruit juice. Cut down spicy foods which are heating and give him plenty of fresh vegetables and Spray every bit of exposed skin with Eau-de-Cologne. fresh fruit. This will keep his inside cool and yours too if you follow the same diet. Now your bath. This is the time when you must really wallow in your bath. Plenty of cool water with a large splash of eau-de-cologne in it, freshly scented soap and a liberal sprinkling of bath powder to soothe your prickly heat. Lastly don't forget your deoderant to keep "B.O." at bay. See that your husband has an equally refreshing bath when he Consider the problem of the perspiring male. comes home. You can however omit the feminine touch from his by buying him an unscented bath powder if he has prickly heat or leaving out the bath powder altogether if he hasn't. ICED PYJAMAS Frighten your dhobi into leaving the starch out of your husband's shirt and collars. Anything stiff and uncomfortably around his neck only add to his discomfort. Now about your own clothes. Wear the airiest most transparent saris you can find Frighten your dhobie into leaving the starch out of your husband's shirt. and let them be light coloured ones please, because as we've said before dark colours attract the heat. Buy yourself a large scent spray and fill it with eau-de-cologne. Eaude-cologne is cheap and is one of the few perfumes which don't turn stale with age. Spray your neck, face, hands and every bit of exposed (unexposed too, if you like) skin with it. Ycu'll feel beautifully cool and smell like heaven. When your husband comes home in the evening and you've given him a nice cool bath and a nice cool drink, coax him into taking you out Go for a walk by the sea or go for a drive if you have a car (and the petrol) but den't let him sit at home and think about the heat. If you can, take him to the cine ma. If you can't find an air-conditioned theatre then look for seats under a fan. Choose a nice gay comedy which you can laugh at. When you com" home and it's time to go to bed surprise your lord and master by producing an iced pair of pyjamas for him to wear. (You've kept them wrapped in paper in the refrigerator all day). He'll go to bed thinking that hot weather isn't so bad after all and also that you're a swell wife. As we've said before it should be a wife's job to keep herself and her husband ccol. If he always finds her looking as fresh as a daisy and smelling better, he'll begin to think he's imagining the heat. Once you've got him feeling this way your battle is won and lady, you're a real heroine! 6S