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BEAUTY FLASHES
You can
have
with your fun hair this autumn. Be as fancy as you please.
Beauty parlours and hair salons are keeping pace with Edwardian fashions with bows and baubles designed to be worn amidst the high piled curls. You will be able
Ear-Boxing Actress Pardoned
Queen Wilhelmina "recently pardoned Cissy Van Benne- kum.
the young actress who
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was fined for boxing the ears
a man who called her "sapee-box.
of
The incident took place tramcar.
The man took Glasy to court.
to take your choice from a vastety where she explained that she was of jewelled combs specially shapindignant because she thought ed to keep the curls from slipping. he intended to be insulting. tiny spraya pt flowers to match The magistrate, aning her 10s.. larger sprays on the gown. rea- said that the law was that no thers and bows.
blows could be given unless & Edwardian Fashions call for Ed-person was attacked, and "even a wardian manners. If you rouge nice actress is not allowed to your face, you must do it discreet-break the law."
ly. Hence the new compact with its Cissy. determined to fight for secret "drawer." which is not a "the right of all Dutch women to drawer at all, but a little compart-, box a man's ears." appealed. → ment attached to the ordinary||| compact.
When you open the lid of this new case, only face powder is
visible. Rouge is concealed; need not be private.
and shown except in
-Beauty-is-speeding-up-We-have- learned how to put on a new face at a moment's notice by means of quick-cleansing pads. Sirilar
-ones can now be bad in miniature form saturated with a solution for removing polish from the nalia
For a quick manicure these are great time-savers. They come in white opal glass jars containing .35 pada
PASSED FIRST AID EXAMINATION
The Women's Air Raid Precau. tions Union announces that the following have passed the First Ald examinations:—
Mrs. S. A. Ismail. Misses Katima el Arcul Lucy Sufflad. Hagara Jamali, Alice Abbas, Katva: Moosdin
FORGIVEN BY QUEEN
CISSY VAN BENNEKOM Man called her “sauce-box"
Newsettes
The Appeal Court, while agree- ing that it was a serious thing for a mother
Mr. W. A. Chamberlain, corres- a married woman and
Cissy is married and has a small pondent in Japan for the Christian daughter to be called" a
Science Monitor. arrived in Hong- box, the law was the low. But kong yesterday by the Empress of they reduced the fine to two shíl « | Axia. lings.
TWO LOVELY
WAN
sauce
BLACK EYES
The new German Ambas22- dor to Great Britain, Herr von Dircksen, recently found him- self seated at dinner next to the beautiful young Duchess of Roxburghe. Knowing that 3be a grand-daughter of the great Lord Rosebery, be re- marked gallantly. "I suppose you get your fine black eyes Tram your Scottish ancestry?” "No, your excellency" she re- plied with spirit and candour, "I think it must be my Jewish ancestry. One of my grand- fathers was Baron Meyer de Rothschild."*
Choosing Wife By Heredity
FITNESS TRADITION IN PHELPS FAMILY
Snap-dragons, black anwhiteness, which manifests itself white rats," and the Phelps in a quarter of the offspring of a family of watermen are among mating between hybrids." examples selected to demon- strate theories of heredity in a pamphlet written by Dr. C. P. Blacker, and published for the Eugenics Society, of which he is secretary.
Six charts are explained, which "can be used in schools to demon
heredity strate pictorially that plays a part in our lives, which we should take into account in the choice of a mate. 'Marry wisely' is the lesson to which they point."
THE PHELPS FAMILY
Mr. Eric Himsworth, formerly Second Magistrate at Kowloon, re- turned from leave by the same liner.
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Other well-known residents who returned to the Colony by the Empress of Asta yesterday were Major and Mrs. F. E. Hogg, of the Jockey Club, Mr. E. Simonsen, of Crown-Chipa Inc., Miss M. Manuk, Rev. Fr. Virçondelet and Rev. Fr. Maestrini.
The many friends of Mr. E. R. Lockwood General Secretary of the Canton YM.C.A.. will be glad to learn that he is progressing satis-1 factorily at the Matilda Hospital after his operation for appendi- citia.
Madame Wu Chu-fang, the leader of the Women's Northward Expedition Comforting Group, has cabled the Women's Comforting Association 1п Hongkong an nouncing their arrival at Nan- chang on September 18.
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Mr. Li Yu-jih, military strategist. reached Hongkong from the front on Wednesday en route to his native place. He will return to the front in about a week's time.
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"The Phelps family chart shows The superviser of the Chinese the transmission of physical fit-General Chamber of Commerce, ness and aptitude in a family Mr. Chao Hsueh-yu, arrived here which has been associated with the yesterday aboard the Empress of river since the 13th century."
The Phelpses, it is explain=" ed, "have been boatmen, water- men, boat builders and pron fessional scullers.
For generations they married the daughters of watermen and sailors, One chart illustrates Mendel's and "unconsciously they followed law. by means of the colour of the tendency of itke to marry like antirrhinums-snap-dragons. Men-thus passing on the magnificent del was an Austrian monk, who. physique that is their great inheri- after experiments with the garden tance. They have produced nine pea, discovered basic principles on winners of the race for the Dogget which hereditary characteristics Coat and Badge." are passed on from generation to generation.
Another chart deals with the results of mating a black with white "rat, and Illustrates "the principle of simple domi- nance in rats”
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"One of the parent rats has u dominant gene for clement in germ cell) for colour, black, and the other a recessive gene, white."
"The hybrid offspring, though all black, are carriers of the gene for
CALLING IT A SPADE
This story is from Nuremberg. One Nazt is addressing another at the parade of the Labour Ber-
vice Corps, who carry spades
their "armament."
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The chart, on which "the dis- tinguished members are shown-by special marks." traces the family from the days of "Honest" John down to the modern "Bessy," the King's Bargemaster.
ROLLING TO FORTUNE!
Onlooker's Doubt Ends Pose
Growds gathered, when shrouded female figure rolled fato Jhansi from Poona She explained that she was roll- ing long the ground to Benares, holy city of the Hindus, to carry out a command of her dead Bus-
1st Nazi: When is a spade not bond.
a spade?
2nd, Nazi: When it is a rifle.
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A fund. was immediately started
by sympathetic and plous onlook-
In view of the overwhelming ers. A sum of about £15, collect- -demand for hotel accommodation 'eg on the spot, was given to the
in.. Nuremberg, many, согтезроп widow. dents of foreign newspapers have One bystander had his doubts, been housed in a special train He was a police officer, who fol- drawn up in the sidings outside lowed the widow to a post office, the city. This particular suburb where ship invested the sum in a bears the somewhat unfortunate postal order.
Asia.
NEWS FOR WOMEN
Dark green table glass will be fashionable this winter. It looks good with a shallow
massed centre-plece
with mixed flower heads made from china in natural colours. There is a great ́vogue for this form of decoration now.
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In Sweden cushions for a settee are quite small. several in different shapes and colours being piled up at each end. A small extra pillow, covered in material to match the bedspread, I put on the bed during the daytime,
Planos 10W match the colour scheme of the rooms in which they are placed.
I have seen a plario paint- ed pale blue, for a pale blue and grey room, coffee-beige one in .. an off-white and oatmeal colour- ed drawing-room. In another drawing-room" the cream and gold plano goes with the walls and the brocade sofa covers.........
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TRIBUTE PAID TO QUEEN MARY
Extension Opened
At Newnham
When Queen Mary travelled from Sandringham to open the new Fawcett building at Newnham College, Cambridge, recently, she was described by the Principal. Miss J. P. Strachey, as the first Queen who had befriended a Cam- brläge women's college.
The occasion, said Miss Strachey, completed a distinguished. tradi- tion, for many Kings and Queens 01 England had made benefactions to Cambridge men's colleges, and King Edward VII and Alexandra, as Prince, and Princess of Wales, opened the then recently built Newnham College Hall in 1888, exactly 50 years ago,
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The Rev. G. A. Weekes. Master of Bidney Sussex College, announced that Queen Mary had become the rst member of and contributor to the new Society of Friends of Newnham College..
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After her Majesty had declared 'the building open, 43 purses in aid of the Newnham Building Fund were presented.
INFORMATION
Latest Book On Hongkong
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THE BOOKS THAT HAVE been written about Hongkong are legion and while we have seen some Publications that must be classed as good, the latest one put in the market-Hongkong, by`Ellen Thor- becke-is by far the best produced mine, of, information" about this far-flung outpost of the Empire.
One of these was presented by Miss Ruth Hitchcock, the blind student who recently took a double first in theology.
The book is as well and tastefully illustrated as it is written and it! Another was handed in by three- should prove a great asset to any year-old Shirley Booth, of Rich-visitor to the Colony-and even to mond, who brought a smile to the many residents who do not know faces of Queen Mary and the all there is to know about Hong- guests by exclaiming loudly, kong. “Mummy, I did it,” as the left the dals.
Like any well produced "guide book" should be, this publication When her Majesty opened the deals exhaustively with every phas: building she received the key from of life in the Colony. Commerce, Miss Elizabeth Scott, the architect. social and sporting activities are who designed, the Shakespeare all given the space they deserve. Memorial Theatre. Stratford-on- Avon. Instead of the usual golden key, she received an old-fashioned tortoiseshell etal for sewing, with gold-Attings.-—-—
Among those presented to Queen Mary was Mias Philippa, Fawcett,
A chart tells us that the foreign population in 1840 was nil but that by 1940 it is expected to reach 22,000. The Chinese population in 1840 was 5,650 and the estimated Agure for 1940 is 1,200,000.
Education is dealt with in
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are also
the only woman who has ever separate chapter and Chinese cus- beaten the senior wrangler, and toms and superstition after whom, conjointly with her "covered" adequately. tather and mother, Prof. Henry In conclusion a word must be Fawcett, the blind Postmaster- said in praise of those responsible General, and Dame Millicent Faw for the general lay-out and pro- cett, the building was named. duction.
Misa Strachey announced that "Hongkong, by Ellen Thorbecke" £54.000 had been received towards should find a place, in every the £100.000 appeal launched two liberary. It would make a most and a half years ago by Earl admirable present, and is sure to Baldwin.
be much appreciated.-F. Mela.
"I Won't Spend It":
of his
Mr. Stanley George Jenkinson, ten. £1,600 notes stuck like a bandkerchief in the breast pocket
navy blue suit, motored home with his young wife to Newark, Notts, after the greatest day, in his life.
Not only had Mr. Jenkinson, of the pool promoter: "Don't who is a grocer. collected £10 throw it away; it's easy to lose." |000,his winnings in a pensy
Thirty-year-old Mr. Jenkinson football pool-but he and his and his wife, who is twenty-four, wife had lunched with Lord and heard of their good fortune | Lady Lonsdale and inspected while week-ending in their motor- some of the rare possessions entavan at Mablethorpe on the which Lord. Lonsdale keeps in Lincolnshire coast. his country home at Harley-
The authorities at the coming thorpe, near Oakham, Rutland. ·Both say there is "nothing | “Double Tenth" next month, in- At the end, the Jenkinsons special" they want to buy now. name of Schweinau (piggery). Then it all came out. The stead of the usual offer gold cam-summed it up by saying: "We've Bald Mr. Jenkinson: «TI invest
The French journalists have "widow" was a man, dressed in paign, will organise an offer service had a very nice time." nicknamed their quarters Cochon- woman's clothes, who earned a campaign encouraging the people ville.
handsome living by his imposture. to Joth in the defence works.
it. At 3 per cent.. we'll have
Bald Lord Lonsdale, in hand- about £s a well extra 3" won't
ing over the £10,000 on behalf touch a penny of the capital.”
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