THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 10, 1989.
Beauty and You
by PATRICIA LINDSAY
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Every one rushes to reply, course losing sight of the fact that chess is not the whole of life. Miss Frances Day, the actress, says, "I'm a blonde and I spend my life concentrating, one of my best friends. is a brunette, and she can't keep her mind on anything more than a minute"." Miss Bacon, in charge of |12,000 Lyons' teashop girls, says: "I never found a blonde that could not compete with a brunette in mental ability." And Miss Sim- mins, an educational psychologist, finds that blondes are at least as RETAIL & ACCOUNTS DEPI 20416 intelligent and purposeful as brunet-WHOLESALE & GENERAL OFFICE: 22336
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So the argument will go on till a would be for Herr Hitler's folow- new hare is started, with nothing ers if they had to rewrite Nietzsche decided either way. Which is per- and start dyeing everybody's hair haps as well. What a nuisance it brown.
Pinning a lush hibiscus blossom into her hair this young lady gayly contrasts her soft Bermuda Belge suntan which has delicate coral pink under tone.
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New fragile beauty cannot now ing glowing because natural condone the miserable tans and ma- healthy colour peeks through the hoganys which were so long the sun's healing kiss. So the current vogue. More than one lassie. dis- problem is to seep in Vitamin D covered that her skin texture was without discolouring your skin. considerably ruined from too crisp Of course, if you wish, you can
a burning, and older women have smartly carry a párásol or wear a spent hours of time and sizeable in- fetching sunbonnet to shade your vestments trying to recapture skin face, but even then a thin protec- loveliness after a season's tropical] tive skin lotion should be the rule folly.
of the day. For both the steady reflection of the sun, and the sud- den change of temperature from North to South, can raise havoc with your skin beauty.
This new rosy type of tan is a light, glowing shade of sun coat
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Doctors will tell you that once your temperature fall all-important to rebuild `your, wasted nerve and muscle tissues.
After the fever has gone, when the stomach is too weak to digest ordin- ary foods, a nourishing and appetia- ng food drink is most essential and beneficial.'.
Efficacious Protection Perhaps the thought of tropics and sun and holidaying bringa to mind a delightful lotion made from luscious green Persian limes, for I find myself wanting to tell you! lucky sun-worshippers about it.
Rich in minerals and sun vita- mins this almost gossomer con- coction seems to instantly quench the thirst of a dry or crisped skin, as a savory fresh lime-ade quenches an actual thirst." And what is more, It keeps your skin fragrantly "mois- tened for hours after its applica tion and prohibits the persistent sun from cutting beauty-robbing capers..
In Horlicks doctors have found au liquid food that not only can be easily digested, but also stimulates your jaded appetite and gives your ex- hausted" body all the nourishment it needs. Horlicks helps you to put on weight, re-establish your strength and regain your full vitality. Get Horlicks 'to-day.
In these difficult times of anxiety. and worry, the task of carrying, on and doing work which must be done is a doubly difficult one which must tend to exhaust one's nervotis energy,"
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Good for Cold Climate Too Less fortunate darlings who must stay and brave the icy winds will also find a loyal friend in
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