No Italian girl ever committed the atrocity of having her eyebrows shaved, as did some thoughtless women of your country when it was "the fashion" to trim them into narrow high arches, laces, no. Every Italian woman is her own fashion. She wishes her eyebrows to be thick and soft and as straight as nature made them. Accordingly, she lets them alone save when she uses a tiny eyebrow brush to brush away the dust from the brows and lashes. These she dips into a bowl of warm water into which she had melted a few drops of vaseline. The Italian woman, as a rule, cleanses her face with water. She prefers tepid water to either hot or cold water for the face. In a bowl or basin, she pours four to six drops of glycerine to aid the cleansing process. And the Italian complexion is a thing of very real beauty. The Peasants of Palestine. The actual peasant life of Palestine does not seem to have greatly changed since Bible times, and every village today boasts of an upper room, or guest chamber, where the men meet and chat about the local news. These guest chambers have been in vogue since the days of the patriarchs. Farming, of course, is the principal occupation. The Palestine farmer scattered the seed over the ground by hand and then ploughs it in. The ploughs are very primitive and are driven, as a rule, by oxen. A farmer's field is not marked off by a fence, as we understand the term. 