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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2657, 12 November 1909, Page 3

MAGNIFICENT COMPLEXIONS. BEAUTY IN THE MAKING. ' • . ' f- . Tills .Is common sense talk on facts and probabilities, heart to heart. There is a woman in London named Miss Kate Cutler. She is the brilliant and distinguished actress who has been playing lead with Sir Charles Wyndhnm in “ Bellamy the Magnificent.” lier success has been remarkable, and she owes it to the fact that she is one of the most intelligent, most refined and most alluring women in London. Mile. Helena Rubinstein, the Viennese complexion specialist, has received a letter from Miss Cutler, in which she said:—“ I have used the Valaze preparations with best results. The skin stimulating and clearing properties of Valnze Skin Food are indeed most remarkable. Every woman should use Valaze to preserve her complexion. The Valaze Powder and Soap, also, are unlike any I have Used, and unquestionably the best - I have ever used.” That is the straight talk of a straight woman, and' it could hardly be stronger. Now, talking heart to heart to you, can you want anything more than that? Miss Kate Cutler is an absolute authority on the thing that concerns you vitally—the value of a perfect complexion—and she-tells you that she has discovered the one set of things that will make and keep a complexion perfeet. Valaze costs -Is and 7s a Jar. It keeps the skin smooth, clear, and supple, free of wrinkles,' lines, and blotches. Valaze Powder, for greasy or moist skins, and Novena Poudre, for dry and normal skins, costs 2s Gd a box, and Valaze Complexion Soap, 2s 3d a cake. Valaze Blackhead and Open Pores Cure also overcomes greasiness of the skin, in tins. 3s 9d. You can buy them at all leading chemists, or you can get them direct, post free, from Mile. Helena Rubinstein, 23, Brandon-street. Wellington.- The rest is for you. It’s very intimately your affair. Don’t take anything on hearsay or without investigation. Get right into your mind the fact that this business of beauty is a very serious maltci —fer you. Study it. Send now for Mile. Rubinstein’s famous and unique book, “ Beauty in the Making.” Mention this paper, and the book will be sent you gratis, post free. Clearly and concisely it covers the whole ground. It leaves you no doubt as to what you should do, whatever your 1 need or trouble. In plain language, without surplusage, it goes to the root of the matter. The book expresses the honest and mature convictions of a specialist, whose experience has been so full and various as to be without parallel. !f you read it carefully and without prejudice, andpermit yourself to be guided by it, you cannot fail to attain to the fulness of that beauty that bountiful Nature intended you to possess. Mile. Rubinstein can only be satisfied by your satis, faction, and she has written this book to make her satisfaction more assured. With her, beauty culture is not so much a profession, as an enthusiasm. She delights in it. P.l 1

Life in the.public service of New Zealand threatens to become a most mysterious business (remarks the “Christchurch Press”)- The ban of absolitte silence! as to departmental affairs, under the-risk of instant dismissal was laid a week or two ago upon the officials of the Agricultural and Tourist Department has now been imposed upon the Defence Department. The habit of saying “Hush” is evidently becoming epidemic in the Cabinet. Private secretaries go about, one imanines, with fingers on their lips, heads oF departments wanting to discuss matters of administration lock themselves in the strong-room and turn out the lights, in Government offices all the air of' solemn stillness holds” whenever a newspaper man puts his head inside the door, and a deaf mute has only to make known his affliction to' secure n mediate appointment without passing the Civil Service examination, on the ground that lie is an expert at holding his tongue. So rumor says, and though she has but an indifferent reputation for truthfulness, circumstances five some color on this occasion to her statements. If this sort of thing goes on people wilt begin to wonder, what horrid secrets' Ministers are trying to conceal. Nothing creates suspicion like unnecessary secrecy. . '