THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 10, 1940. Bringing Up Father
1.
“WHO KIN SLEEP AROUND. HERE WITH THAT FOG- HORN GOIN LIKE THAT ALL THE TIME?
SÄY-CAPTAIN – WILL. YOU QUIT BLOWING THAT FOG-HORN?.
A NOT BLOWING THE FOG
•HORN-THERE ISN'T ANY FOG AND BES
THERE
'ON THE YACHT-
Page 11 By George MacManus
YOH!PEL HAVE TO CALL
UP THE CAPTAIN AGIN AN APOLOGIZE TO HIM
HONK!
HONK
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Cope, 1940, King Features Syndicate, Inc., World rights
A PAGE FOR WOMEN
Come Into The Pantry
EGGS, LEMON JUICE, a drop of Vinegar, and some Corn-Meal were very capable aids to your
grandmother's beauty, and just as long as they exist Beauty's Budget
there is no need to spend envious hours looking at expensive shop windows.
NAN GLOSTER-
explains just how you can put these simple
kitchen items to good use.
How often have you stared at to enrich, whiten, tone, and refine, the prices in the beauty shops and Brush it on and then relax in- envied the women who can afford dulgently with a book and ciga- expensive facials"? How lucky rette for about twenty minutes. they are, you may have thought, White of egg whipped with milk to be able to use stock in skin re-and a few drops of witch hazel juvenators, beauty creams, as-for vinegar) makes a 'hedling tringents without a palpitation on mask for a bad skin-grease, and half-guineas or half-crowns. Like buying a pound of something at the grocers, you think,
You frown (bad'habit), Money is distributed in such a topsy- turvy way! By this time the mood is gloomy (also bad for beauty). You hop on a bus and 'fly back to your kitchen to prepare a meal" wash undies or clean the "bijou" fint,
Thinking of.prices in the beauty. shops you have no eyes for the world's oldest beauty prepara- tions on your kitchen shelves. The beaten egg, lemon juice,.fresh, milk, olive oil, "porridge" meals -even plain bread-are almost as good for your complexion and (or); hair as potted and bottled my
steries.
Less than fifty years ago, when your, grandmother was a girl, beauty recipes were verbal family secrets and nearly all ingredients were natural or food materials; from the pantry. So let's rald the food pantry to beat the beauticians at their own expensive game.
open pores.
2 Eggs, Vinegar, Meal, Lemon, Oil,
Milk,
"Mix lemon with milk or eggs, drop by drop or it will congeal.
White of egg with a little olive oil is good treatment for wrinkles.
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The
empty "cup" of squeezed lemon can be used as a cutiefe and nail clean- ser. Puth the fingernalls in the pulp and work it selr- *cularly.
Olive oil with fine sugar removes stains from the "fin- gers.
Vinegar-with-a little-warm water will cleanse the scalp between shampoos.
When applying a meal pack see wards. After 'twenty minutes wash that it has not too much "weight" the mask off with cold water, andi and thickness in the mixture. pat the skin with a "lotion of cold Face masks must not be so heavy water, lemon juice, and eau-de- that they pull the flesh down-j] cologne,
You'd Like Your
Child To Be Musical?
Where is there a child who has | where they "are, so that 'when one'] cradle or in somebody's arms? Allin him he can learn to pick it out 'not "been sung to sleep in its particular note is played or sung
children are musical to begin for himself. with. They may lose it later on, but, inihappily. you can .never tell beforehand whether that is going to happen.
Later on a gramophone becomes. very useful for teaching him all about music. In any case, a child who is being brought up musically Usually they are singing be- should be allowed to hear plenty fore they can talk. They may not of good music. sing in tune, but, while talking When he goes to :school needs plenty of inducement, sing-and learnsmusle with his For a start let's say your coming moms to be their natural der other lessons he should be plexion is dull, it has lost the glow sire. it had on your wedding day. Drab-
ness and dullness are the most Before they learn to talk they common skin symptoms among use only vowels and leave out the women who envy luxury treat- consonants, and vowels are al- ments but do nothing to imitate them.
"taught by 'someone who has as much bent for teaching children as for teaching music.
Music is sometimes hereditary, and you find whole families of
musicians' children are brought up in an atmosphere of continuous
By Mary Benedetta good musicians: People imagine
First skilled service is to go after that lazy opídarmiis. Don't let your complexion sit down on the job. It wants electrifying. On most singing in themselves. Con music and so have an unusual ad- your kitchen shelf three is a bottle sonants are the Drst musical set-vantage. Actually, if their father is a conductor or an orchestral of Biblical olive oil. It was used back a child has. by the Babylonians and Egyptians for skin balm thousands of years ago! Your bottle may be labelled' "salad oil,"
music at the earliest possible. mo-music than most other children. A child should begin learning player they probably hear far less ment. By having notes and phrases There may be very little music in If he gets sung to him he can soon learn to a musicians house carry them in his head and pro-much outside. Children can go to |duce them himself.
concerts when they are quite small, for they still have natural"
Emolients are the beginning of all beautifying-after cleansing. A People seldom think of teaching appreciation of music that makes -thimbleful-of oil and butter a child to read music before he them respond to a lullaby us in→
whisked together make a perfect learns to read books. Yet reading "fants: cleaner and softener for any com- music is very much easier-not, df plexion. Drops of eau-de-Cologne course, reading a score, becausec add the sophisticated recent that is one of the most difficult Smooth a little over the face and things in the world, but an or wipe it off with cotton wooldinary line of music.. squeezed out of cold water, 'With,
Children are perfectly capable of Appreciating the real thing in music just as much as in anything else. Any child who is used to {being treated like a normal human the remainder massage face and After all, there are 26 letters in being will stare a trifle coldly at throat.
the alphabet and they do not al-grown-up who tries to talk ways mann the same thing. Must baby-talk to him. And if children, For a medium type of com-cul natation is much more exact are accustomed to "hearing good plexion, probably the oldest facial and uniform than is spelling or music they will be just as die tonic in history... perhaps pronunciation,
** | criminating. earlier than allve:oll... is the swabbing of a mixture of millë]
Since all children are musical and buttermilkt över the combo musician chooses to take up, to begin with, parents who bring plexion. Apply it plentifully with the should have at least some sort them up musically ore giving a plece of cotton wool and let it of working knowledge of the them something they enjoy. And dry slowly and stay dry for some piano. The time for a child to a happy childhood means á great minutes. Wash off with water begin learning to play the piano teal. diluted with lemon, julce, jos is when he can stretch five notes In any case, without becoming (there is no need to walt for an musicians, they may ***still "have With milk or lemon as a basis octave),
become people who gain much grandma made, imany Ibeauty un-
pleasure from music because they guents. Beaten egg yolk and dash Even before that he can be understand it enough to appreci-. of-demon gives you a faço,-mask-l-learning (the different notes «and [atefit:-
Whatever instrument a would-'
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