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Show From the flrcEiives A method, the next time you have a chance to take a nap! Drop down on a couch and close your eyes, but do not try to go to sleep. Just relax, and let your hands and feet go limp. Think of pleasant things, but do not try to plan anything definite. Even if you do not go to sleep, at least you will feel rested because vou're relaxed. 50 Years Ago ... From The Park Record June 20, 1930 HERE'S TO BEAUTY By Doris Hale Du Barry Beauty Consultant WARM BATHS REST TIRED NERVES AND BRING RELAXATION your eyes brighter and your mind seem much more alert. If your eyes feel especially tired and drawn, try this simple remedy: Saturate two small pads of cotton with good eye lotion. Let a few drops of the lotion run into your eyes, and then place one of the dampened pads of cotton over each eye. Let these pads remain on your eyes while you take a nap. or rest for a few minutes. The antiseptic eye wash will soothe your lids, and your eyes will be bright and clear when you get up. 50 Years Ago ... From The Park Record Jan. 24, 1930 DAD'S COLUMN By "Dad" . Alhambra, Calif. Another week has slipped into by-gone days. Time for another letter for The Record. Re-cord. What will we write about? Don't know, something some-thing is expected however. So here goes for an effort to supply that "something." The weather. "Something" "Some-thing" can always be said about the weather, you know, particularly in fhis section, where there are just two kinds: "the ideal and the unusual." A new experience for the "mountaineer" the past week. An earthquake, if you please. Only a little one, but a "quake" just the same. "Dad" was doing his customary custo-mary "hard work" reclining in an easy chair, reading and snoozing when to his surprise, there was a persistent movement of the chair, as if some mischievous youngster was trying his best to crawl under and tip it over. In getting up to ascertain the cause, and looking out of the window, people from adjacent houses were seen emerging, looking up and down as if expecting to see something. The fact then penetrated the thick skull of the writer that he had experienced the novelty of an earthquake for such it was. Many women find a warm bath is an excellent way to rest tired nerves and bring a complete sense of relaxation. Simply fill your bath tub with water that is neither hot nor cold just warm and soothing. Then throw a handful of granulated bath salts into the water. They will dissolve very quickly, softening the water and making your bathroom smell like a garden of flow ers. After your bath, gently rub your skin with toilet water and apply dusting powder with a big fluffy powder puff. You will be surprised how easily your clothes slip on afterward. If you plan to go out. I recommend a little nap after this "luxury" bath. Five or ten minutes' rest will make The other day I took a short train trip, and as it was a two-hour ride, I said to my companion, "I think I will take a nap. It will do me good." The girl smiled enviously. "Oh, Miss Hale," she said. "If only 1 could sleep during the day time how happy I would be! Do you mean to say you actually can sleep here in the chair car?" I nodded, and she sighed. "You are a lucky person." I put my head back, and soon fell asleep. When I woke up refreshed my companion com-panion looked tired, and there were deep lines under her eyes. Again she said. "You are lucky! I tried to . take a nap. but it "was no use." All of you who have trouble sleeping in the day time have my sincere sympathy. sym-pathy. But I wonder if the difficulty is not more mental than physical. Probably you try so hard to sleep that you defeat your purpose. Try this .rl' . Last week it was the "unusual" kind, because of the heavy rains, the wind and cold, the ice and snow and heavy frosts. This week is the other kind: clear sky and balmy, sunshine and warmth, with longer days and comfortable nights, disappearance dis-appearance of snow from the mountain sides, and a scarcity of same on the far off mountain tops. The "winter" "win-ter" is over, we are told, with only rare showers and occasional cloudy skies from now on. Great country this for the idle rich. Old Charles A. Lindbergh, who, with his wife, has been in Los Angeles for some weeks, is winning new praise and popularity during his visit by his friendliness and "talkativeness" to newspaper newspa-per reporters and for his skill and carefulness when driving driv-ing an automobile. He is no longer "America's most silent man," but is now proclaimed by the public press of this section as being quite chummy and as "one of America's most cautious automobile drivers." A great boy is Charles. |