Fruit is all the rage just now. Paris wears fruit in her buttonholes and New York suggests we follow in her footsteps and spread our faces with fruit salad to keep the wrinkles away. That is the modern idea in beauty culture.
The new French buttonholes are made of artificial fruit. A yellow pear dangles from a blossom-covered spray; a couple of almonds nestle in green foliage. Fruits are matched to frocks so that we see a bunch of peaches at the waistline of a peach-coloured suit, or cherries with a gay Majesty." t be thankful for the Fest, this absence of etiquette will bring them. And they will need a rest before the strenuous Canadian apd short visit to the U.S.A. red jacket.
A New York botanist, Maria Pul-gar, has brought the fruit facial idea to London. Fruit juices are good for the skin and this being so we are told to slice bananas, tomatoes, cucumbers and lemons and lay them on the face. I don't know that anything was said about peaches, but if you want the authentic "peach and cream" complexion you will know what sort of fruit pack to choose!
Their Care and Preservation A plant in the house is a plant out of its element, not quite so much out of its element as a fish out of water, but almost. It has insufficient light and insufficient air; the atmosphere is often too hot or too cold, and is always too dry. The plant cannot, in the circumstances, be expected to bloom happily away for weeks at a stretch with only a daily driblet of water for encouragement.
That daily driblet of water is in itself a bad mistake. Pot plants should only have an occasional good soak when the soil has become quite dry. The pot, if tapped, will say when—a clear ring if the soil is dry, and a dull note if the soil is moist.
In cold weather use tepid water. Changes in the temperature of the soi! cause checks in the proper functioning of the roots.
A plant needs more water when it is doing more (growing more, flowerimg mere). Ferns and summer-flower ing plants need hardly any at all during the winter. Too much to drink is the cause of many an untimely demise. Never stand the pots in dishes of water or allow drainage water to collect in the vessel in which the pot is stood. This standing water sours the soil and upsets the root action.
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