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THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1934.
The Woman's Page
is restricted to orders insued on the SEX APPEAL
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FROM AMERICA & CANADA
Oct.
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Oct.
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FROM SHANGHAI
Oct.
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* MYTH NOW
EXPLODED
Women Become Insipid Without Personality
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THE SEX PROBLEM
Some people always have main- tained that hard work would get a girl there. Thère, of course, means
means any place with a nice name.
Others say that it doesn't that sex
appeal should be given most of the leredit.
Now George Jean Nathan, writ- ing on The Sex Appeal Myth", in} the August Esquire, hands the de. cision to the group that excels in things other than pure animal magnetiem. No one woman, he tells us, has a universal appeal for men. The actresses who are halled Jas the great box-office favourites .Oct. 1 are those who have charm and per-l
2 sonality and talent.
Philoctetes
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Oct,
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PRICKLY HEAT
Ammonia Makes An
Excellent Cure
GRECIAN MASK BELTS
Loch Ness Monster In Composition
More Novelties From Paris
Versions Of The Tall Hat Mode
WINDOW-BOX NECKLINE
Parts.
The ingenuity of the Paris fashion creators hes, as usual, pra-i duced many striking-novelties.
Versions of the tall hat mode in- clude the high, flat-topped millinery creation in black velvet, worn with a cloth coat sumptuously trimmed with fox. Another autumn style l the fint, three-cornered that, Bug-i gesting the University cap, trimmed with a quill. This is of black caracul, and matches the cape, with its novel "paper clip" fastenings.
The "window box" neckline is In- troduced in the silver ahot molre evening gown, with shaded purple flowers' arranged behind a square: fold.
Physical appeal is a brief appeal, Mr. Nathan says. That is heart
INTERIOR DECORATIONS balmi to the girls who are told that they have ability, drive, force, de-
Plenty of folk do not visit the termination-this, that and some-
furnishing departments when in thing else but never seem to
Although cloudly ammonia has
search of materials for interfor awaken the desired cardiac reac-for many years been in use in Eng
décorations, but go straight to tions.
lish households as a cleaner, it is Belts are legion, notwithstand the dress-material counters for Personality Important only recently that the manifold nesing the vast number of streamline fabrics which they regard favour- Sex appeal is nice to have, but of this versatile liquid have bee gowns, and appear in narrow ably when light, dainty effects personality is vastly more important.{fully appreciated in the trópies. -'
Dress organdies, back width of box calf with are required.. They do not always go together.} As a cure for prickly heat it is broad fronts designed in leaf or especially the stiffened variety. either! Without personality alextremely efficacious, Atable scroll fastenings, Pi akin and are much in request for curtains, woman is as insipid as a glass of spoonful or two in a bath has a natural coloured. tan balta match both long and short, the fashion- Det warm water without the pre-break-wonderful tonic effect on the skin pill-box cape, and have single ar- able check and plaid patterns 3 fast dash of lemon. If she hasn't and quickly combats the effects of row gripa of the leather darting ulting well the prevalent furn- 5 some
divine individuality and excessive, perspiration.
through slots. Instead of buckles. ishing modes. And coat-tweeds, less heavy and close than furn- charm she may work until Gabriel! It is also extremely refreshing. This leather in natural toning; blows the last note on his shining and renders the water beautifully sometimes, forms a short series of fishing tweeds, are preferred for horn, but she won't register. soft. Soap lathers twice as easily square
chair covers. or oblong links braced in water to which cloudy ammonia together. has been added.
Broad belts of antelope, patent Cloudy ammonia is also an ex-or stitched fabrics, fasten with cellent antidote for insect bites. large buckles made of clasped It quickly diminishes irritation and hands of xidised silver. Grecian inflamation, and is pleasantly cool-masks suggesting Melpomene, ing when applied.
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Oct.
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FOR SHANGHAI
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Thalla and Thespla, in milk white mat china. Small, Loch Ness monsters are, in the same com- position, also horse heads. White
ivy-leaf clasps and bats wrought in gunmetal.
Fre
like to know them better. Physical allure has its day-sweet, brief, golden. But when sex appeal in all, the curtain swings down forever) with the night. When sex appent is bolstered with the talent and charm form medallions for necklaces,
China Fleur De Lys Milk white masks sometimes
of the five mentioned actresses, and there is a miniature white there is always another play.
Intelligence Detracts
Alice in Wonderland crown for a
| bride to go with a chins fleur de lys necklace, Fleur de lys. In
or briliants form Many claim that intelligence de.either china trsets from sex appeal. It may be elips to jackets and belt fasten- true, Pure animal magnetism can't ings, and there are broad com- register as primitively when it is position masks in scarlet for wide under mental control. But when black belts. Another belt is it is controlled it is converted into high that it almost defines the that "undefinable thing called per-
at both Empire and Bonality and extends its day. normal; it is fitted to the figure Briefly, women with brains seem to in strips, of blended autumn leaf
last longer!
A woman with glasses on the bridge of her nose can lead the atag line in spite of her spectacled interference. Usually, though, she often that men
Mr. Nathan mentions, the rela-fhas been told so
AIR MAIL-Imperial Airways via tively younger actresses who at-dislike the idea that she has been Singapore, Bandeng-Amsterdam VIN Singapore Saigon-Marsellies via Sai-tract the biggest audiences in the to the oculist that she doesn't try.
Just where personality leaves off gon. Correspondence for Europe and theatre Katharine Cornell, Eva Le Intermediate countries will be se-Gallienne, Ina Claire, Helen Hayes and sex appeal begins, however, de- cepted for transmission by these Ser- and Lynn Fontanne. He says that pends pretty much on the man to vices, Rates and all particulars are shewn in the schedules exhibited at one of them is especially famous whom you are talking. the General Post Office and Kowloon for sex appeal.
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but sur
readers are warned to look out for occasional phonatie spelling,
such as harbor, płow, and altho.'
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11-Disongages 13-Conjunction 14-Diminutive suffix - 15-Greek god of war
18-Preposition
18-Restrain
20-Denan
Deaan veszet
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23-Expires
the skin
26-Scott 27-Deep
HORIZONTAL (Cont.) VERTICAL (Cont.) 47–Imitato
50-A land measura 51-Residence (abbr) 52-Served scantily 56-Prefix. Not
17-Lyric poem (pl.):
19-Unite 21-Gready
22-mixture of sand
live suffix 24-Flavors
159-First man
61-Munloa! nole 82-Stripe
25-Inflamed place on 87-Bird homs
hola
29-Extends over 30-Station (abbr) 31-Walka in water
33-A printer's messure
(PL) 34-Plant
35-Central part of a
Wheel
64-Alarms
65-Stagger
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VERTICAL
1-Pronoun 2-Corroded
A rodent (pl.) The same thing
repeated 5-Stripm 6-Once again
7-The (Fr.)
8-The
(8p.)
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36-More than sufficient -Empties.
28-Cornered
40-8ag
43-Kind of, velvet
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tints, and may have narrow strap fastenings with steel buckles, or ́a wide leather oblong bückle at the centre front.in a single colour.
ROSEMARY AS A
HAIR TONIC
7.-
THE “PULL” ON THE SHEET
When making beds always put ä fold in the top shest about kneel) length, thus saving the "puli" on
There are few better hair the sheet and consequently the tonics than rosemary. This re-wear and tear, Ninon d'Encios, you may remem- cipe makes a splendid shampoo:
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45-Earth (Fr.)
11-Butt 12-Part of a ship (pl.) 18-Allowance by way
of handicap
and, clay A 28-Ons who speede 27-Father (6p.) 28-Dogma di 31-Full
of moisture
36-Grows smaller
toward the end
37-Units 39-Gain
A
41-A metal
42-Printed tria!`shoots,
43-Remove the nicim 46-Girl's name 48-Feb
49-Angis in a fort
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· fluid1** 54-Strike lightly. 55-Native of Denmark $59-Raw metal: • [50-Prefix. Wrong
63 Treasurer (abbr.) 85-A coln (abbr.)
The solution of the above with a new cross-word
will appear in to-morrow's isaum,
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and a thine
Try the following for allyhty RASS BRASSO
Office. All lotters etc., must be mark However, every one of them has ber, had a whole line of men josing Spirit of rosemary, 2 ounces, FOR STIFFENED LINENS ed "By Air Mall" and handed in at a colour of her own, a convincing sleep over her until she was old sapon, mollis, 1 ounce; ext," "'quil- the General Post Office. Unless personality, an arreating spirit. enough to be a great grandmother. lalas liq., 2 ounces; liquor em superscribed for despatch by Maybe men aren't inspired to walk If women, instead of men, wrote monta 1 ounce: distilled water, stiffening muslins, linens, but ca "Beale mall service, correspondance
will be forwarded by the first service ten miles in the rain to bring them histories, maybe we would discover add 8 ounces. Two tablespoon-pecially organdie: One tablespoon- uváŭlable.
artichokes-if artichokes are what that the lady combined a brain with fule to be added to a pint of warn ful of white sugar to a quart of hot they want--but every man would her chemical allore.
water.
water; use as you would starch.
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