Radio romances (July-Dec 1945)

ALSO FAMOUS ROGER & GALLET PERFUME DRY PERFUME • LIP ADE • TOILET SOAP H HI 16 Copyright 1945< Inlernotionol Silver Co., Holmes & Edwards DfVM Meriden,Conn.lnConoaa:TheT.EotonCo.(Lid °Reo.U.S.Pat.Olf. SWEET SLEEP Sleep won't give you the voice of Marion Hutton, but try it for hair that shines like hers, for her clear eyes, for vitality. TO A GIRL like gorgeous Marion Hutton, featured singer, heaven is a place where you can spend a half hour getting ready for bed with lights out at 9 P.M. Though she loves her whirlwind life appearing in movies, on the stage, in radio, making records and singing with bands, Marion wishes she had more time to sleep. Most of us do these busy days! For there's nothing like sleep to give us back our sense of humor, erase worry, sharpen our wits and start a new day right. As for your looks, your skin never seems clearer or your eyes brighter than after a good night's rest. But there's more to sweet sleep than tucking in with windows open and lights out. There's the getting ready for bed that's so important as prelude to another day. No matter how tired you are, says Marion, it's beauty heresy to go to bed before you've brushed the day's dust from your hair, removed all make-up and brushed your teeth well. Do at least that much. But do more if you've time. Go through some figure-improving exercises. Or take a wonderful relaxing bath, scented and softened with your favorite bath salts or oil. While you loll in the tub with cream on your face, you might work on the cuticle around ringer and toe nails. Afterwards, apply lotion all over your body for, with cooler days ahead, your skin needs this softening follow-up. Pin up your curls tonight if they need it and cover them with a froth of soft colored veiling tied in a pretty bow atop your head. Since sleep consumes almost a third of our lives, looking pretty for the occasion is a fine idea, indeed. But sometimes sleep eludes you just when you need and want sleep most. You lie and toss and think of things you wish you had or hadn't said today. You write imaginary letters. You review the upsets of the day or worry about things that will probably never happen. If you really want to sleep, here's a trick. As you lie there, start writing down on a mental blackboard each demon-sleep-stealing thought that comes to you. But as fast as you write down a word, erase it, so that the sentence is never completed. For some it works better than counting sheep and isn't so monotonous. The quality of your sleep influences the benefits you get from it, as much as the quantity does. Popping yourself determinedly into bed at nine-thirty of a night doesn't necessarily insure all the rest you need. Even if you do manage to fall asleep instantly, your sleep may be fitful and broken — particularly if you're a city dweller, by street noises, late-home-comers, nocturnal singers (and if you're a city dweller trying to sleep in the country home, you'll be as much disturbed by the gentle rural sounds of frog and cricket and splashing waterfall) . There are all sorts of mechanical devices worked out to give light and fitful sleepers a better chance. Try a black mask over your eyes, that will shut out any fugitive light-rays and close you into a black void in which you can't do anything but sleep. If it's noises you're sensitive to, try a pair of efficient ear-plugs. Then there is the matter of the pillow. It works both ways, Miss Hutton has decided. That is, suppose you're a with-pillow sleeper. Comes the night, and you can't sleep. All right — just this once, try it without the pillow. And if you're a without-pillow sleeper, vice versa. It works! A glass of warm milk at bedtime helps too. Or you might sit up in bed, in the dark, and do this exercise: Drop your chin to your chest and rotate your head backwards and around to the front. Done two or three times, it may make you a little dizzy but will probably also make you sleep. Or try consciously to breathe slowly and deeply as you do when you're actually asleep. It's relaxing and gives the come-hither to the Sandman.