PEKTA OLALINNEN TRAN
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 26, 1941.
Bringing Up Father
I WISH MY FAMILY WOULDN'T TALK ALL THE TIME-I CAN'T EVEN READ
THE PAPER
BLIT DADDY-
DON'T *INTERRUPT-
WELL-IF YOU FOLKS MUST TALK- PLEASE DON'T TALK SO LOUD - I DON'T CARE TO HEAR IT --
I SAID - DON'T INTERRUPT-
By George MacManus
I GUESS I SHOULDN'T
HAVE TALKED
MESELF-
A PAGE FOR WOMEN
Health Reducing Menus
Many women who would like
to reduce have not the patience te follow a planned thirty-day re- ducing diet, or are so busy that they cannot concentrate on pre- scribed menus For these Ww. men, here are a few valuable sug – gestions which are easily 841115- orised and which actually work wonders if followed consistently
It is not necessary to eat meat. unless your physician telk YOU differently But you nust wat some protein Protem
tou
in cheese. nuts, eggs, most beans and fish Gelali. wheat gerin and the avocado
pear are also
considered substitutes for meat. So instead of eating meal, cat one of the above with your larg- est daily meal.
In modern, well-balanged men- us there IN no place for heavy sauces or rich desserts. Just avoid them and you not only will keep slim but you will grow healthier. Vegetables and fruits should be taken raw in salads, or steamed when cooked. Drink your mik skinned, but du drink milk un→ less you are allergic to it.
Forget about in between meal snacks unless you eat very light- ly at mealtime. If your meal is light, then you are allowed a cup of fruit or vegetable juiev, ur you may munch on a crisp piece ui cele: y or carrot.
Think “Slim”
You were perhaps raised
the theory that you require "three
good meals per day." Just forget
you ever heard of that. You do
ELIZABETH EARLE of Warner
Bros. emerging
from her pool.
for women. it nicely and gives the body the action it needs,
netû three meals a day but they Swimming is considered the very best active sport need not be heavy meals if they proportions the figure are well balanced,
One famous nutritionist has
had great success with the theory
that approximately 80% of your
food should consist of vegetables any protein except meat; 10% of and brown sugar for sweetening, and fruits and juices of both; starchy and sweet foods, which natural syrups, whole grains, 20% should be protein preferably i include fruits for desserts, honey, wild rice, baked potatoes, chest-
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Protect The Eyes
Dust and wind make it necessary Naturally you have been for us to give our eyes especial' before this to shade your care. If we neglect them we are flirting with poorer vision and all the minor aches which eyestrain
causes,
CANTON WOMEN'S MEETINGS
nuts and lima beans. And your fat and oil intake should be no nore than the remaining 10%.
Perhaps it will be difficult for you at first to figure percentage: of menus but if you will bear in mind that over half your food told should be vegetables and fruits eyes and less than one-fourth protein, and only one-tenth sweets and starches you will fare pretty well,
when you are out under the bright sun, either with sunglasses, or by wearing a broad-brimmed hat or visor cap.
Svine doctors say that the lear
Keep Colon Clean
ducts of the eyes secret enough The most important step in re- fluid to keep them cleansed uf ducing scientifically and success- dust and other foreign particles. fully is in keeping your colon But one of the foremost eye phy-clean.
You should exercise suf-
sicians disputes this theory. He ficiently and eat regularly so that believes that the eyes should be you have a normal movement or washed whenever they are tensed, two cach day. Chronic constipa- sore or smarting; after any long tlon not only creates excess drive in the open, or after a day weight, but it encourages poor The Canton Women's Interna- on the sand. He feels that the health, unlovely skin and a leth- tional Club, Hong Kong Branch, tear duct is not sufficient to com-jargy which takes the joy out of will hold their monthly meeting bat the smoke and dust in the living! Once you learn to balance to-morrow at the Hong Kong air of cities, and he advises all your menus and to eat just en- Women's International Club rooms, those who work out of doors, or ough, you should have little trou- Gloucester Building. The time has in department stores (where the ble. been changed to 3.30 p.m. A Por-shuffling of feet keeps the dust
tuguese programme will be pre-stirred up) to wash their eyes
sented, arranged through the kind- twice a day with a recommended other fish oils. Second in order dess of Mr. D. O. Silver.
solution. Once, in the morning, Mr. E. Moreton will speak on and once at the end of the day. are red palm leaf oil (only ob "Present Day Portugal." Musical Just as our teeth require brush- talnable in capsule form), carrat. numbers have been arranged by ing, he says our eyes also require Miss Aurea Baptista. Tea will be cleansing, served with special Portuguese novelties.
These Foods Nourish
Eyes
juice in quantity, spinach, alfalfa, parsley, papaya, watercress, egg yolk, and such highly coloured fruits and vegetables as apples, oranges, lemons, grapefruit, per- simmons and tomatoes.
more
The March meeting will be an International evening with pro- gramme items from each nation-
It is good to remember that the ality, to entertain husbands and To strengthen eyes, scientists tell raw juice of fresh fruits and ve men friends, ending with a buffet us, we must eat of the food which getables give
you much supper of international foods. The contains Vitamin A. Recently new | nourishment than canned, juice. April meeting will be given by the tests have been made as to the So whenever you can, Juice your Parsee women of the club, on the Importance of part of the Vita- fruits and vegetables in a juicer. interesting aspects of Parsee his- min B complex, for treatment of Unsweetened pineapple juice may tory and the part played by wom-eye trouble. But we are told the be combined with almost any ve en. The May meeting will be most important sources of eyegetable juice, making a very' the traditional May luncheon, with nourishment are shark liver oil, pulatoble drink, and also alding the installation of new officers. hallbut liver oil, fish rog,and. In the assimilation of other foods,
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