THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 10, 1940. Bringing Up Father
WHO KIN SLEEP AROUND HERE WITH THAT FOG- HORN GOIN' LIKE THAT ALL THE TIME?.
SAY-CAPTAIN – WILL YOU QUIT BLOWING THAT FOG-HORN?
I'M NOT BLOWING THE FOG- HORN HERE ISN'T ANY FOG AND BE
NO FOG-
ON THE YACHT
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By George MacManus
OH! I'LL HAVE TO CALE UP THE CAPTAIN, AGIN AN APOLOGIZE TO HIM »
HONK-
HONK!
HONK-
Copr. 1940, King Features Syndicate, Inc., World rightu eosevell.
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 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 the prices in the beauty shops and envied the women who can afford expensive "facials"? How lucky they are, you may have thought, to be able to use stock in skin re- juvenators, beauty creams, as tringents without a palpitation on half-guineas or half-crowns. Like buying a pound of something at the grocers, you think.
to enrich, whiten, tone, and refine, Brush it on and then relax in- dulgently with a book and ciga- rette for about twenty minutes. White of egg whipped with milk and a few drops of witch hazel (or vinegar) makes a healing mask for a bad skin-grease, and open pores.
Beauty's Budget
2 Meal, Lemon, Oil,
Eggs Vinegar,
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.
The empty '"cup" of a squeezed lemon can be used as a cuticle and naif clean- ser. Push the fingernails in the pulp and work it clr- cularly.
J
Olive oil with fine sugar .removes stains from the fin-
gers,
Vinegar with a little warm water will cleanse the scalp between shampoos.
wards. After twenty minutes wash the mask off with cold water, and pat the skin with a lotion of cold water, lemon juice, and eau-de-
When applying a meal pack see that it has not too much "weight" and thickness in the mixture. a topsy-Face masks must not be so heavy turvy way! By this time the mood that they pull the flesh down- cologne,
You frown (bad habit). Money is distributed in such
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" flat.
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.
You'd Like Your
Child To Be Musical?
you can never
Where is there a child who has where they are, so that when one its particular note is played or sung not been sung to sleep in cradle or in somebody's arms? All to him he can learn to pick it out children are musical to begin for himself. Less than fifty years ago, when with. They may lose it later on, your grandmother was a girl, but, unhappily, beauty recipes were verbal family tell beforehand whether secrets and nearly all ingredients going to happen. were natural or food materials from the pantry. So let's raid the food pantry to beat the beauticians at their own expensive game.
that is
Usually they are singing be- fore they can talk. They may not sing in tune, but, while talking' needs plenty of inducement, sing ing seems to be their natural de- slre.
For a start let's say your com- plexion is dull, it has lost the glow -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 are al- women who envy luxury treat consonants, and vowels ments but do nothing to imitate them.
Later on a gramophone becomes. very useful for teaching him all about music. In any case, a child who is being brought up musically should be allowed to hear plenty of good music. When he
to goes
school and learns music with his lessons he should be other taught by someone who has
much bent for teaching children as for teaching music.
as
Music is sometimes hereditary, and you find whole families of
By Mary Benedetta good musicians, People imagine
are
up in an atmosphere of continuous
First skilled service is to go after that lazy epidermis. 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 first musical set-vantage. Actually, if their father 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 cil."
A child should begin learning music at the earliest possible mo- ment. By having notes and phrases sung to him he can soon learn to carry them in his head and pro- duce them himself,
-Emolients are the beginning of ell beautifying-after cleansing. A
People seldom think of teaching "thimbleful of oil and butter a child to read music. before, he whlslied together make a perfect learns to read books. Yet reading cleaner and softener for any com- music is very much easier-not, of plexion. Drops of eau-de-Cologne course, reading a score, because add the sophisticated scent, 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 wool dinary line of music, squeezed out of cold water. With the remainder massage face and
Lis a conductor or an orchestral player they probably hear far less music than most other children. There may be very little music in if he gets a musicians. house much outside. Children can go to concerts when they are. quite small, for they still have natural appreciation of music that makes them respond to ir lullaby as in-. farts.
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 After all, there are 26 letters in being will stare a trifle coldly at the alphabet and they do not al- a grown-up who tries to tulk ways menn the same thing. Musi-baby-talk to him. And if children For a medium type of com-cal notation 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 "dis.
criminating. tonie in history
perhaps pronunciation.. earlier than olive oil... Is the
throat.
swabbing of a mixture of milk Whatever instrument a would- Since all children are musical and buttermills over the com- be musician chooses to take up, to begin with, parents who bring plexion. Apply it plentifully with ho should have at least some, sort them up musically pre giving a piece of cotton wool and let it of working knowledge of the them something they enjoy, And dry slowly and stay dry for some plano. The time for a child to a happy childhood means a great minutes... Wash off with water begin learning to play the piano deal." diluted with lemon juice.
is when he can stretch five notes In any case, without becoming (there is no need to wait for an musicians, they may still have With milk or lemon as à basis | octave),
bocomo people who gain much grundma made many beauty uh-
pleasure from music because they guents. Beaten egg yolk and dash Even before that he can be understand it enough to apprecl of lemon gives you a face mask learning the different notos and ate it.
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