Radio and television mirror (Nov 1939-Apr 1940)

IN RELAXATION 4 ** ^v \>e<^S o^ DO you know that one excellent way of making yourself more beautiful is simply — to sit comfortably in your own living room, listening to the radio? Yes, it's true. . There is beauty in relaxation, if only more of us were wise enough to realize it. Sit quietly, health and beauty experts tell us, for at least fifteen minutes every day. And we reply, "That's all very well, but where can I find the time?" The answer is to do something useful while you are enjoying your beauty rest, and then you won't feel that you can't spare the time. For instance, there's the simple but fascinating and profitable pastime of crocheting. Crochet fifteen minutes every day while you're sitting back, letting the weariness of work wash away, and you'll not only — through relaxation — help erase those lines that are beginning to form, but you will soon find yourself the proud possessor of a new sweater, or of a winter sports set like the one Joan Blaine, star of Valiant Lady is wearing in the picture above. Any department store has instructions if you have never learned to crochet. But — and here's the practical beauty note in this month's discussion— if you're going to crochet, you're going to spend a little time watching your hands. And that might be a very good thing. Other people look at them a lot. You can't crochet, or play cards, or even act as hostess at luncheon or dinner without showing off your hands — and many knowing people By DR. GRACE GREGORY will judge your grooming not by your face, but by those same two hands. Nowadays, hands with harsh, roughened skin are inexcusable. The outdoors girl and the housewife can have velvet-soft, exquisite hands. Take Ginny Simms, for instance. She is an all-around active girl; golfs, swims, drives, and romps with her bird dog, Tex,' when she is not singing with Kay Kyser's band on NBC's Wednesday night College of Musical Knowledge, or making Vocalion records with her own band. Virginia Simms has a profile like a cameo, a slim, lithe figure, and expressive hazel eyes. You remember her in the movie "That's Right, You're Wrong." She began her career when she was a sophomore in Fresno State College, California, by organizing a trio with a couple of sorority sisters and singing over local stations. Her fresh young contralto with its haunting deeper notes was bound to attract a wider public, and a nationwide career was under way. Ginny Simms' face could never be less than beautiful. But her hands could. They are the hands to delight a palmist, which means there is nothing pretty-pretty about them. Strong, capable, a little on the large side, and every sensitive fingertip a slightly different shape. But how exquisitely cared for! The muscular structure is RADIO MIRROR *...•** firm, as befits an athlete and musician; but the skin is satin-smooth and delicate. She wears a polish of jewellike brilliance, although she prefers the more conservative rosy tint. The rules for hand beauty are simple. Soften any water in which you immerse your hands just as you do your bath water (and that includes dish water too.) Of course you will use the blandest soaps and soap powders. Any soap that bites when you touch it with the sensitive tip of your tongue has no business outside the washing machine. But the greatest help towards beautiful hands is the regular and frequent use of a good hand lotion or hand cream. There are plenty of good ones, compounded of healing, soothing ingredients, non-greasy, inexpensive. Every time your hands have been in water, give them a treat with your favorite cream or lotion. Besides keeping the entire hand youthful and soft and smooth, you will be surprised what such regular treatments do for your nails, especially the cuticle. It is ridiculous to cut the cuticle, ever. If you start it, you have to keep on. And at that it never looks as well as a cuticle that is kept soft by hand creams and lotions, treated with a special cuticle cream when you manicure, and pushed back with an orange-wood stick. Such a cuticle looks well always. The cut cuticle looks well for a couple of days after the manicure, and then begins to be uneven and grow up on the nail. 76 RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR