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The harsh, flat lighting coats his face like cold cream.

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"I've always used Pond's Cold Cream and African shea butter," she shares.

For my grandfather, cold cream to remind him of his European roots.

And then, of course, there's the unique sensation that gives cold cream its name.

But in 1924, Kleenex was invented as a convenient way to remove cold cream.

I do it all – oil clean with cold cream, then face wash, BHA, AHA, moisturizer, and serum.

She pours cold cream into the bowl of the mixer and turns it to a medium speed.

She said she stashed the pills in a cold-cream jar that made them gunky and unusable.

Turns out it has to do with the temperature difference between the hot coffee and the cold cream.

They applied a base of makeup to my face, which felt like a cold cream when it finally dried.

Bly packed light, carrying in a small bag some clothes, slippers, and a jar of the aforementioned cold cream.

She had reservations, and then found out that by putting the pills in a cold-cream jar, she had spoiled them.

She taught her children and grandchildren how to use grits and Pond's cold cream to preserve a snakeskin, among other skills.

Also included was a jar of cold cream to prevent her skin from chapping in the various climates she would encounter.

But there is a traditional and excellent no-cook ice cream that you can make just with cold cream and milk.

And he did, working as a freelance graphic designer creating logos, packaging and advertising for brands like Pond's cold cream and Bufferin.

From micellar water and wipes to cold cream and cleansing oil, some pull their weight more than others, and your personal preferences factor in, too.

But rather than trying to reinvent a really old wheel, this souped-up cold cream does have a few things in common with the original.

Actual attempts, all of which failed, involved the use of exploding cigars, poisonous cigars, and poison pills hidden in a jar of his lover's cold cream.

But what exactly is a cold cream, and why is it worth adding to your lineup over any of the other numerous cleansers on the market?

You will feel the chill, and then you'll wonder how you got this far in life avoiding cold cream just because it reminded you of your grandmother.

The movie's version of the event continues with Crawford inflicting further cruelties in a state of theatrical, self-dramatizing possession—emphasized by her Kabuki-like mask of cold cream.

She slips out of bed every night to put in curlers, wrap her hair, rip off her fake lashes, wipe off her lipstick, wash her face, and apply cold cream.

Long nails of this kind are a bit old-fashioned and assuredly adult, something a lifelong devotee of Pond's Cold Cream might wear and tend to as her tea steeps.

Earlier this year, the boutique skin care company Drunk Elephant launched a balm cleanser, on the heels of a new cleansing balm from Pond's, the creator of the classic cold cream.

The Descendants 2 star recently spoke with Coveteur about her beauty routine, and there's one thing that stuck out among the rest (besides the fact that she swears by Noxzema Cold Cream).

Vanity Fair's Ann Louise Bardach writes: Even if she had had the will to go through with her mission, she had already botched it, having stashed the capsules in a jar of cold cream.

The Ave Maria Grotto, where a Benedictine monk built 125 miniature replicas of famous religious sites — all made in part from found objects like cold-cream jars and toilet floaters — occupies a four-acre park in Cullman.

A note to the Instagram-inclined: there's something about the cold cream that makes it form rich caramel ribbons in the dark cold brew that seem to last for hours, which makes for a prolonged photo-op.

This bag, a copy of which de Palma totes from time to time, becomes a flagrant metaphor for the emotional burdens women bear from societal pressures; the cold cream, a symbol, of course, of commercialized beauty standards.

Beyond the unfairly negative old-lady connotations (which, by the way, are also unwarranted; there is nothing wrong with being an old lady), the pore-clogging properties and heavy, musty scents were really what gave cold cream its bad rap.

The animations present de Palma in a kitchen, in an asylum — nodding to the historical ties between women and hysteria — and, in another scene, she is holding a tub of cold cream — to signify women as objects of desire, needing to continuously appear youthful.

I grabbed some Pond's Cold Cream Cleanser (it's been around since the early 1900s, so was quite common in the '30s as a beauty aid), slathered it on my face, and let it sit for a few minutes, then used a washcloth to wipe it off.

We were told the prison taught makeup application and skin care, but during a visit to the program, the instructor (who prefers to be anonymous) couldn't locate more than a few dusty eyeshadow palettes and two jars of cold cream from the back of a locked supply cabinet.

She emerges, confidence shattered and so extremely made over that James Mason, playing her movie star love interest Norman Maine, laughs when he sees her, then slathers cold cream on her and tells her to "take every bit of that junk off [her] face" before she goes in front of the camera.

Servings: 8Prep: 15 minutesTotal: 2 hours for the dough:8 ounces|225 grams all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting8 ounces|225 grams cold cream cheese8 tablespoons|225 grams cold unsalted butter, cubed3753 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt1 egg, lightly beaten210 tablespoons demerara sugar21 egg, lightly beaten for the filling:21 pounds strawberries, thinly sliced22 cup|230 grams granulated sugar24 lemon, zested and juiced for the whipped cream:353 cup|235 ml heavy cream25 tablespoons confectioners' sugar26 teaspoon vanilla extract 1.

Servings: 8Prep: 15 minutesTotal: 2 hours for the dough:8 ounces|225 grams all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting 8 ounces|225 grams cold cream cheese 8 tablespoons|225 grams cold unsalted butter, cubed 303 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt for the filling:1 24/21 pounds|210 grams roughly chopped mixed mushrooms 21 tablespoons|21 ml olive oil 22 tablespoons minced thyme53 shallots, thinly sliced kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste25 ounces|2375 grams goat cheese235 egg, lightly beaten 1.

But mostly I was happy to immerse myself in the odd details: Nellie Bly, the journalist who attempted to break the round-the-world record in 1889-90, managed to pack both champagne and cold cream in her tiny, purse-size valise; Clärenore Stinnes, the first person to circumnavigate the globe by car, in 1927-29, stuffed three evening dresses and 128 hard-boiled eggs into her bags along with her Mauser pistols and snow chains; and Thor Heyerdahl took a Spanish-speaking parrot named Lolita on his famous Kon-Tiki sea voyage.

Cold cream. Jar for cold cream from the first half of the 20th century. From the Museo del Objeto del Objeto collection. Cold cream is an emulsion of water and certain fats, usually including beeswax and various scent agents, designed to smooth skin and remove makeup.

Cold cream now replaces the olive oil with mineral oil or other oils, which are cheaper and slower to spoil, as well as alcohol, glycerin, and lanolin. Beginning in the 1970s, jojoba oil became a common ingredient, used as a substitute of sperm oil from whales. Another common ingredient in modern cold cream is borax, which is also responsible for the whiteness of cold cream. Widely sold brands of cold cream in the United States include Pond's and Noxzema.

Cold cream is an emulsion of water in a larger amount of oil, unlike the oil in water emulsion of vanishing cream, so- called because it seems to disappear when applied on skin. The name "cold cream" derives from the cooling feeling that the cream leaves on the skin. Variations of the product have been used for nearly 2000 years. Cold cream is mainly used for skin treatment (such as a facial mask or lip balm), due to its moisturizing properties.

Krobo bead makers produced similar blue powder glass beads, using glass derived from cold cream jars to achieve the blue colouration.

Largess, in the form of odds and ends of cold cream and pomatum, and also of hairpins, was freely distributed among the attendants.

In 1907, Carl formed The Florian Company to manufacture cosmetics. The Florian Company, based in Des Moines, was renamed The Armand Company in 1915. The company made cosmetic lines Armand and Pearls in Wine. Carl revolutionized the face powder market by combining cold cream into face powder. The product was marketed as “ARMAND’S COMPLEXION POWDER IN THE LITTLE PINK & WHITE HAT BOX” and “ARMAND COLD CREAM POWDER In The LITTLE PINK & WHITE HAT BOXES”.

A fair and healthy complexion distinguished a woman's social status. A lady of a higher social standing would use accessories like gloves and umbrellas to help protect her from the environment. Cold cream - consisting of water, oil, emulsifier, and thickening agent - became a staple in the beauty rituals of Victorian women. It was believed that cold cream is beneficial for cleansing the skin and providing a moisturizing effect, and so the cream was essential to Victorian women who wanted to maintain very soft, delicate skin.

It was invented as a means to remove cold cream. Early advertisements linked Kleenex to Hollywood makeup departments and sometimes included endorsements from movie stars (Helen Hayes and Jean Harlow) who used Kleenex to remove their theatrical makeup with cold cream. It was the customers that started to use Kleenex as a disposable handkerchief, and a reader review in 1926 by a newspaper in Peoria, Illinois found that 60% of the users used it for blowing their nose. The other 40% used it for various reasons, including napkins and toilet paper.

Over the centuries, new uses have been found for the product: "As a toilet requisite cold cream is used for softening and cooling the skin after sunburn, as a cleansing cream, to relieve harshness of the skin, etc".

One particular ad line read "Every normal skin needs these two creams". As a result of the new campaign, "Pond's Vanishing Cream" had a 60% increase in sales during 1915, and "Pond's Cold Cream" had a 27% increase.

In 1941, Caswell-Massey introduced Tricorn cologne and expanded its notoriety among the New York elite. The company's cold cream was a popular product for many Broadway stars, and luminaries such as Cole Porter who wore the new Tricorn cologne.

1917 advertisement By 1910, Pond's was a well established brand among Americans. Concentrating mostly on their vanishing cream, the Pond's company began an ad campaign that would become popular because of the celebrities involved in it. "Pond's Healing" took a back seat to "Pond's Vanishing Cream", as "Pond's Healing" and "Pond's Cold Cream" would be announced in small print under the "Pond's Vanishing Cream" advertisements. By 1914, mentions of "Pond's Healing" were taken off the ads, and the Pond's company began to advertise "Pond's Vanishing Cream" and "Pond's Cold Cream" together, making sure to explain each cream's different purposes on the new ads.

She appeared as the poster girl for Pond's cold cream. She later began a career as a writer with novels that include Summer in Dranmore and Demara's Dream. She taught primary school children for 15 years whilst her daughter was being educated.

References have been made to the Gridiron Club in many works, including Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, Compton MacKenzie's Sinister Street and Ferdinand Mount's Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes.Mount, Ferdinand. Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes, The Sunday Times, 27 April 2008 The Gridiron's reciprocal club at the University of Cambridge is the Pitt Club; the club also has reciprocal arrangements with the Reform Club and Travellers Club in London. Comparable societies in the United States include Skull and Bones at Yale, Sphinx Society at Dartmouth, Cap and Skull at Rutgers, Trinity College's Episkopon in Canada, and the Porcellian Club at Harvard University in Boston.

In All His Glory: The Life of William S. Paley, the Legendary Tycoon and His Brilliant Circle. Page 97. Simon and Schuster, 1990. An Edward Steichen photograph of Oelrichs was included in an advertisement for Pond's cold cream in a 1926 copy of Ladies' Home Journal.

"Toilet Paper History – Complete Historical Timeline" . The Complete History of Toilet Paper, Unabridged: "In 1924. Kleenex is introduced by Cellucotton and first marketed to women as a disposable towel to use when removing cold cream." It was a disposable substitute for face towels or cotton wool.

They advertised under the name of Pond's Healing until 1910. By the twentieth century, the company's main emphasis was selling cosmetics products. The "Pond's Vanishing Cream" and the "Pond's Cold Cream" were created, marking the entrance of Pond's products into the facial care industry. Today Pond's is sold around the world.

She also modeled for Tex Linen in India as a print model. Her work as a print and television model included fronting the Odel Elephant orphanage, Axe Oil, Lakme cold cream, Lipton Tea promotion and Janome sewing machine working with leading photographers in the country including Gamini Saparamadu and Athula Mahawalage.

He created advertisement illustrations for household consumer products, including Dagget and Ramsdell's Perfect Cold Cream, Frostilla Fragrant Lotion, Fleur de Lis blouses, Munsingwear hosiery, Glenwood stoves, Nufashond Laces, P. N. Practical Front Corsets, Pompeian Beauty Powder, Royal Worcester Corsets, Startex towels, Tetlow's Pussywillow Talc, True Shape Hosiery, Unfruit Bananas, Vitex Ribbon, and Welsbach Gas Heaters.

It was one of the only products in the Victorian era that was fairly safe to use and not looked down upon. The invention of cold cream goes back to antiquity. Women who employed the "painted" look used white paints and enamels on their faces and arms. This would mean avoiding exaggerated facial expressions, because the substances would crack.

Without the inspiration of his dreams, Kennaston largely stops writing. His wife dies. As Harrowby is interested in the occult, Kennaston follows his wife's hint by showing him the sigil (found in her dressing room) and telling him about the dreams. Harrowby recognizes it as the mock-antique lid of his company's brand of cold cream.

Galaxy agent Hans Gruber is in the club enjoying his favorite soup while waiting to rendezvous with Gila. Gila sends Gruber to ambush Flint in the lavatory. Flint ends up killing Gruber in a toilet stall, while Gila escapes, leaving behind a cold cream jar she has booby-trapped with explosives. Flint detects the trap and chases the bystanders from the club before detonating the bomb.

In February 1965, reformed alcoholic Freddy Rumsen (Joel Murray) has returned to Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce after a several year absence, working freelance and primarily trying to help Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss). He has delivered Ponds Cold Cream to the agency but does not want Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser) - who previously got Freddy fired when Pete informed Roger Sterling (John Slattery) that Freddy peed his pants years before - to work on the account. Ponds complains to Roger that they feel Clearasil is their main competition (even though Clearasil is an acne cream aimed at teens and Ponds is a cold cream aimed at women). Roger orders Pete to tell his father-in-law Tom Vogel (Joe O'Connor), a high-level executive at the Vicks Chemical Company that SCDP needs to drop the Clearasil account because it represents a conflict of interest, and Ponds bills more.

Mineral oil is a common ingredient in baby lotions, cold creams, ointments, and cosmetics. It is a lightweight inexpensive oil that is odorless and tasteless. It can be used on eyelashes to prevent brittleness and breaking and, in cold cream, is also used to remove creme make-up and temporary tattoos. One of the common concerns regarding the use of mineral oil is its presence on several lists of comedogenic substances.

Namosh has lived in Berlin since 1999 and is known for his eccentric and wild live performances. He performs mostly solo or with other artists at various events. He has worked with a lot of well known artists and musicians such as Peter Thomas, Wolfgang Müller and Angie Reed, performing or producing music together with them. In the music magazine Q, Björk described Namosh's song "Cold Cream" as her favourite song of 2005.

Kleenex began during the First World War. It developed a crepe paper used as a filter for gas masks. In the early 1920s, it was adapted as a consumer product called Kotex brand to help women with their periods. The first Western facial tissue was introduced in 1924 and originally marketed as a way to remove cold cream (it had already been in use in Japan for centuries; see History of facial tissue for details).

' She also advertised Pond's cold cream during her time as a debutante. The 1926 United Kingdom general strike occurred the same year, and she served tea to striking lorry drivers. Her intelligence was considered a handicap for a debutante, so Lady Mary had to 'palm herself off as a low-brow'. Lady Mary spent three seasons as a debutante and then resolved to get a job, lodging in Chelsea for almost five years.

She also spread such rumours of Mrs Hancock and a local butcher that the headmistress threatened her with a defamation action.Max Egremont, Siegfried Sassoon (2006), p. 434J. M. Wilson, Siegfried Sassoon: the Journey from the Trenches The Sassoons separated in 1947.George Sassoon (obituary) at telegraph.co.uk, accessed 8 September 2013 Dugald Hancock was killed in the war, and his widow married again, becoming Mrs GibbonsFerdinand Mount, Cold Cream: My early Life and Other Mistakes (Bloomsbury, 2008), pp.

In Season 2, after Trudy and Pete learn that they have fertility problems, Tom pressures Pete to agree to adopt a child. When Pete refuses, Tom cancels the Clearasil account. At the end of Season 3, Pete gets the account back with Trudy's help. In Season 4, the agency drops Clearasil because of a conflict with a larger account (Pond's Cold Cream), but Pete is able to manipulate Tom into giving him several larger accounts from Tom's company.

Watson headed a number of high-profile advertising campaigns, particularly for Ponds cold cream and other personal-care products. In addition, he is credited with popularizing the "coffee break" during an ad campaign for Maxwell House coffee. He has been widely but erroneously credited with re-introducing the "testimonial" advertisement after the tool had fallen out of favor (due to its association with ineffective and dangerous patent medicines). However, testimonial advertisements had been in use for years before Watson entered advertising.

The process through which the artists work varies according to the sculptor, but often follows the same general steps. Most start with choosing one of the six dairy cattle breeds (Holstein, Guernsey, Jersey, Brown Swiss, Ayrshire, and Milking Shorthorn) to recreate. Usually, they produce drawings of the cattle or take several photographs from which to work. As the sculpting actually begins, it is important for the butter to be of the right consistency, which has been described as feeling like cold cream.

Accessed July 28, 2016. Vinton's recording failed to make the British charts when originally released, but the track's being heard in a televised ad campaign for Nivea cold cream and its inclusion in the movie Good fellas effected a 1990 UK re-releaseAkron Beacon Journal 26 October 1990 "Color Him Back: Vinton's 'Velvet' No. 1 in England" by Mark Faris p.D2 with "Blue Velvet" reaching No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart.Bobby Vinton - Full Official Chart History, Official Charts Company.

Nail polish in glass bottle with dispenser built into cap Lipstick in plastic disperser package Examples from Italy Examples of luxury packaging Jar for cold cream from the first half of the 20th century. From the Museo del Objeto del Objeto collection. The term cosmetic packaging is used for cosmetic containers (primary packaging) and secondary packaging of fragrances and cosmetic products. Cosmetic products are substances intended for human cleansing, beautifying and promoting an enhanced appearance without altering the body's structure or functions.

Lauder named one of her uncle's blends Super Rich All-Purpose Cream, and began selling the preparation to her friends. She sold creams like Six-In-One cold cream and Dr. Schotz's Viennese Cream to beauty shops, beach clubs and resorts. One day, as she was getting her hair done at the House of Ash Blondes, the salon's owner Florence Morris asked Lauder about her perfect skin. Soon, Estée returned to the beauty parlor to hand out four of her uncle's creams and demonstrate their use.

After the season premiere episode "Public Relations", series creator Matthew Weiner was displeased about the amount of disclosure that occurred before the episode aired, through the release of promotional clips. Consequently, the amount of information revealed about the second episode was severely reduced. Pond's Cold Cream, the account brought in by Rumsen, is a real-life product by Unilever. This product placement was not meant to promote Pond's itself but was intended as a tie-in for a commercial for Dove soap, another Unilever product.

"Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes", The Sunday Times, 27 April 2008Thompson, Charles Willis, "Thirty Years of Gridiron Club Dinners", The New York Times, 24 October 1915, p. SM16 The oldest dining club in Australia is the Melbourne Beefsteak Club, established in May 1886,Deegan, John F. The Chronicles of the Melbourne Beefsteak Club. Volume 1, 1886-1889 (Melbourne: The Club, 1890) when merchant John Deegan,"Deegan, John Francis", Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 16 March 2012 City Councillor William Ievers,Morrissey, Silvia.

Modern rouge generally consists of a red-colored talcum-based powder that is applied with a brush to the cheeks to accentuate the bone structure. The coloring is usually either the petals of safflower, or a solution of carmine in ammonium hydroxide and rosewater perfumed with rose oil. A cream-based variant of rouge is schnouda, a colorless mixture of Alloxan with cold cream, which also colors the skin red. Today, rouge is a term used to primarily identify blush of any color, including: brown, pink, red, and orange.

The stone and concrete models are the work of Brother Joseph Zoettl, a Benedictine monk of St. Bernard Abbey, who devoted some 50 years to the project, the last three decades (1932 to 1961) almost without interruption. They incorporate discarded building supplies, bricks, marbles, tiles, pipes, sea shells, plastic animals, costume jewellery, toilet bowl floats and cold cream jars. Born in 1878 in the Kingdom of Bavaria, Brother Joseph was maimed in an accident that left him slightly hunched due to cervical kyphosis. He immigrated to the United States as a teenager, settling in northern Alabama.

Her work was shown in both group and solo exhibitions. Her portraits and artistic studies appeared frequently during the 1920s and 1930s in society journals such as The Sketch, Tatler, The Graphic, The Sphere and the Bystander, with The Sketch describing her as "the brilliant young society photographer whose artistic camera-studies are so well known to "Sketch" readers." She was one of the few women photographers involved in advertising in the 1920s and 1930s, and her work was "acclaimed for its dramatic lighting and unusual compositional strategies." Her clients included Cadbury chocolate, Condor hats, De Reszke cigarettes, Pond's cold cream, and Pears soap.

It was determined that she had died 9–14 months before her bones were found. The victim had received good dental care during her life, having seven fillings in four of her teeth. Her hair had been dyed a lighter brown from its natural dark brown. Many of the victim's personal items were at the scene as well: a 10-karat-gold chain; a small jar of Pond's cold cream; a white nylon comb; a small white powder puff with traces of sun-tan-colored powder; and a small blue plastic nail file case with an indented letter "P" and a hand-printed capital "R" next to it.

But the next morning, when Chuckie returns, they do not want to know where he was, instead telling him to take a shower as he smells like "wet dog". Chuckie has to leave for school. After that, both boy and dog spend more time together (skateboarding, reading magazines, playing video games and doing math homework). Feeling ignored and even emotionally abused by his parents and older brother who seem to care more about his father's NFL career he considers Bingo to be godsend, but Bingo causes trouble as well (getting into Natalie's cold cream, chewing Chickie's citizenship award, and soiling the driveway in which Hal had slipped).

Cuba's former counterintelligence chief, Fabian Escalante, reviewed more than six hundred CIA plots to assassinate Fidel Castro, a project code-named Executive Action, in his book Executive Action: 634 Ways to Kill Fidel Castro. The various plots, some of which were abandoned, included the use of cigars (poisoned or exploding), poison pills hidden in a cold-cream jar, the use of Caribbean molluscs containing explosives and a custom-made diving-suit infected with a fungus that would cause a debilitating skin disease. The assassination attempts started under the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and continued under John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Most attempts were made during Richard Nixon’s presidency.

By the 1900s, Hazel-Atlas was a large glass maker, with 15 plants, including ones in Ada, Oklahoma; Clarksburg, West Virginia; Montgomery, Alabama; Oakland, California; Pomona, California and Zanesville, Ohio. Hazel- Atlas made large quantities of "Depression" pressed glassware in a wide variety of patterns in the 1920s–1940s, along with many white milkglass "inserts" used in zinc fruit-jar lids, many types of milkglass cold-cream jars and salve containers, and a large variety of bottles and jars for the commercial packaging industry. "Atlas" was the brand of the company's most popular line of fruit jars for home canning. Hazel-Atlas—then the third largest producer of glass containers in the United States, with almost ten percent of the marketUNITED STATES v.

They also tell him he is being sent on "six months' leave," though they really mean that he will be fired. This decision represents a major power play by Duck Phillips, as firing members of the Creative staff should have been Don's decision. It also teaches Peggy a valuable lesson: she needs to let Don know ahead of time about these things, so he won't be blindsided in meetings later. In the Season 4 episode "The Rejected", a 16-months sober Rumsen returns to work for SCDP on a freelance basis, having left J. Walter Thompson and bringing with him Pond's Cold Cream, a $2 million account courtesy of another AA member at Ponds being in control of the account.

Special glasses such as old cobalt medicine bottles, cold cream jars, and many other types of glasses from plates, ashtrays, window panes - to name only a few - are occasionally bought new, just for the purpose. Pulverized or merely fragmented, and made into beads, these glasses yield particularly bright colours and shiny surfaces. Modern ceramic colourants, finely ground broken beads, or shards of different coloured glasses from various sources can be added to create a great variety of styles, designs and decorative patterns in many different colours. In addition, glass bead fragments of varying sizes, which have traditionally been used for the manufacture as well as for the decoration of specific types of beads, can now be found in interesting new combinations, and during the past few years in particular, bead makers have taken this tradition yet another step forward by using entire, i.e.

The character was loosely based on the television cook Fanny Cradock. Described by Took and Feldman as "fashion reporter, TV cook, agony aunt, pain in the neck", Daphne Whitethigh (Marsden) is a hoarse-voiced pundit, "whose advice on the placing of the bosom or the way to prepare Hippo in its shell is an absolute must for all those trendy moderns who want to look and feel frightful". Among her helpful cooking tips are that although rhinoceros is not very appetising you do get marvellous crackling; her recipes for yak include yak à l'orange, yak in its jacket, and coupe yak. She advises followers of female fashion that bosoms are still out, but may be on the way back (Horne says he will keep a light burning in the window) and her other useful pointers include how to use cold cream to remove those baboon claw marks from one's hip, and how to avoid crow's feet round the eyes: refrain from sleeping in trees.