BACKWARD CHILDREN.
HERE IS REASON,
WITH THE STARS AT HOLLYWOOD.
WARNING TO THOSE WITH
MOVIE AMBITIONS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1928.
WOMAN'S WORLD
FOR OUR LADY READERS.
Passe-partout.
Spring Clothes.
HUE
One of the commonest causes 'of poor health and unsatisfactory de- velopment in little children is the presence of worms. These vorme live at the expense of the child,
If you have movie ambitions absorbing nourishment which should be his. Once they have get rid of them. That's the best beon got rid of improvement al-over some statistics just complled advice one can offer after fooking most immediately becomes np by the Central Casting Bureau, parent and the little one speedily official suppliers of extra talent. guins in spirit, colour and weight.
The figures dug up during the To expel worms where children fast six months prove one thing are concerned drastic drugs about Hollywood-it is the best ahould be absolutely avoided. All place in the world to starve. Only EASY WORK FOR AMATEURS. PALE YELLOW THE COMING that is necessary are few doses of one extra of either sex, Ruth Baby's Own Tablets, which not Hurst, works six days a week. only gently and effectively cleanse And there are more than 11,000 the bowels, but at the same time registered extras here. One other sweeten the stomach, ald, diges- | girl has averged five days week tlon, and start the child well on during the last six months. Eight the road to further progress. giris averged four days a week Guaranteed entirely free from and 21 averaged three days work. narcotics or other injurious drugs, The other 6000 work only at in- Baby's Own Tablets can be given tervals. with perfect safety to infants from birth onwards as a remedy for in- digestion, coustipation, colic, 'wind, teething troubles, also to check diarrhoea and relieve croup and colds. Chemists sell them or post free, 60 cents the vial, from the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 60, Kiangan Road, Shanghui.
RECORDS.
THE SEASON'S HITS
4080
Forgive Me
Pick a Rose
4696
J Red Lips Kiss My Blues
Bells Cutic
[Charmaine
4711
1 C'est Vaus
4659
Hallelujah
Gonna Get a Girl
4715
Me and My Shadow
In a Street
Aint She Sweet
4618
Dreaming of Brown Eyes
4761 Here am I Broken-hearted
| Magnolia
0179
Girl Friend
Blue Roum
0186 Dancing Tambourine
Barbara
0194
Mediterranean Bhres Honey Bird
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The men have fared slightly, Of the 5000 very slightly better. here, two have worked five days a week over a period of six months, Twenty got in four days a week and 36 averaged 'three days. The remainder, like the girls, have worked only occasionally.
we think first of all of spring When we think of spring clothes,
From a binding that had the frank appearance of stiff paper, the manufacturers of this popular picture framing medium have im colours, proved it beyond recognition, so that now they Imitate leather, or You may think it odd that we wood, silver or gilt, just as may be should know, what colours aro required. Passe-partout, nowdays going to be worn before we know recognised as a simple, yet artistic, method of framing, and a beginning amongst French artists who, too hard up to frame, their pictures, pasted them around with strips of brown or black paper.
Nowadays even amateurs can get the very best effects in this work for present-day bindings are very After spending several weekspitable and set slowly, so that it fa high up in the Utah Rockies, Ed easy to work them into the desired win Carewe is going to utilize position. For this reason It is even Every possible bit of film footare. Possible to frame circular and oval pletures in passe-partout, stretch-
He told me the other day that heing the centre of the binder to make ig making arrangements to superit At. impose the subtitles on bite of gorgeous scenery which Was pholographed..
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Colour Schemes.
With a little imagination and Even though some thousands of practice, delightful colour schemes, extras are on the verge of starva-may be evolved by the use of two tion, this seems to be a lucrative or more bindings in conjunction. season for the kids. Out on the There are gold and deep blue, silver Hal Roach fot nearly all the mem- and black, black and gold, or red, bers of "Our Gang" are blossoin-blue and gold for oriental effects, ing out in new cars. Jackie Con- Always remember that the colour don, Joe Cobb, Farina and Jay value of the picture is sometimes Smith age all proud possessors of | deepened by drawing a line around new sedans.
the print with a coloured crayon.
Because Gene Tunney retained Many photographs that would re- his world's heavyweight title in main unframed on accouiit of ex- his recent battle against Jack pease can be cheaply and artistically Dempsey, Tom Mix was forced to mounted wath passe-partout. Tho carry big Tom Kennedy several white binding, which has very blocks up Hollywood boulevard much the appearance of crocodile on his back. When Dempsey ar- leather, is a happy choice for rived home he found a photo of children's portraits, particularly if Mix. with bis human load Inserib- they are mounted on a pastel shade ed; "To Jack Dempsey, an un-ckground. deniable proof of my friendship -Tom Mix."
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Snapshot Pictures. »
Just before he returned to Los Snapshots can be turned into pie- Angeles after his fight, Jack tures, too, in this way. Mount the Dempsey was offered the maver-photograph itself on a sheet of alty of Romola, a new town in the about half an inch wider than the Linted or transparent paper which Salt River Valley section of Arizona near Phoenix. The pro- print. Theh fix print and surround on a neutral coloured mount, and position offered the farmer give the picture a title, boldly champ was a $10,000 yearly salary written in a colour crayon to match and a ten-acre grapefruit grove.
or harmonise with the colour of the Jack hasn't made tiny reply yet.
binding. But I'm betting he will never get that far from Hollywood to live,.
Now that Sam. Taylor is all Through directing Mary Pickford in "My Best Girl," he has a really important job which needs ntten- tion. Sam has gone to Del Monte, ahnit 300 miles from here, and announced that he is going to stay until he breaks a hundred on the golf links.
GIRL'S PLUCK'IN 'SEA TRAGEDY.
Malta, Feb. 1. The crew of H.M.S. Vimlera are full of praise for the heroic conduct of Miss Monk Mason, the 11-year-old daughter of the Bri- tish Consul at Constanza and a passenger on board the Italian oft tanker Antares when the latter came into collision with H.M.S. Caledon in the Dorg Channel on January 20.
Twenty tons will be the weight of a stainless steel chain, 450 feet long -the largest of its kind ever made that is being manufactured by Brawn, Bayley's Steelworks, Ltd., Sheffield, to encircle the outer base of the Dome of St. Paul's Cathedral, to prevent its sagging and reserve its shape. Not only will this metal afford
strength in record H
Witnesses state that the tanker was abandoned in panie by her crew, the steward lost his life in trying to jump on board the Vimiera, and the captain boarded II.M.S. Ceres.
Meanwhile the chief officer, who'
a smaller capacity than ordinary was fatally injured, lay groaning sicel, but it will defy at- with pain in his cabin, which mospheric action. The chain will had received the full force of the only have a working lond factor of 1,000 collision. Miss Mason, the Lons. The links, ench of which will person left on board, heard the be 15 feet long, will be laid in four cries and rushed to the cabin and parallel lines, and the chain will be slood by the chief oficer until he embedded in concrete.
died.
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Falling in line with the new evening modles of 'extreme-. Iy low-back necklines, diamante and white gold neck- lace is worn with its sparkling tassel oranment in the rear.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
GEE-I'LL BE GLAD TO GET BACK TO SCHOOL ASAIN=
MANIKS TA MUMPS PUT ANE BACK IN MY SCHOOL WORK LIKE EVERYTHING,
I BETCHA!
For the Spring.
This delightful walking suit is, materialised in pearl grey face cloth. The skirt is pleat- ed at the sides only, and the coat is cut with a seml-filling back. Vest, buttonhole and hat are in pink chiffon.
very much about the cut and out- ines of the new clothes-but It isn't. You see, all the new ma- terials have been ready for weeks, even months, and it is pretty well known which the great dress- makers have chosen and ordered, but how they will cut and arrange them that is another story!
What we know already is that eofours are "colder." They tend Lowards blue and green, very much towards grey, and quite away from reds and browna. The great powers are determined to get away from the eternal beige-and- brown, which has enslaved us for the last two or three years. Nuvy and lighter blues will be in high favour, especially combined with grey and worn with grey shoes, gloves and hand-bug. Pale yellow is also a "coming" colour, and is fancied as the favourite for this summer. Green is good if it is a light grey-green, and black and white will still be very "right," used ofther alone or together.
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You'd think we'd be glad to pull off our little skin-tight hata when evening comes, and let our shingles breathe awhile, so to speak-but not a bit of it! Our latest iden is to have an evening headdress, of gold or allver lame, as flat and
! O ALEK!! ANT
YOU SPRISED TO SEE | ME GOIN' BACK TO
SCHOOL?
Obscure Pains.
CULTURE. "OF THE FOOT.
The moral of the culture of the!
writes a Medical correspondent in foot is really more far-reaching than might at first sight appear
the Daily
Chronicle. The foot being the foundation upon which man depends for his crect posture and rapid locomotion, It follows that the whole of the superstruc ture will become modified if the foundations fail in any particular,
A badly-shaped chest is admit- tedly an invitation to tuberculosis. Apart altogether from such a dramatic instance it is well to re- member that an organ, such as the liver or the stomach, which is faultly placed in relation to the [bony skeleton, is thereby serious-] ly handicapped in the performance of its work And yet, if a chroni dyspeptit is informed that his abdominal sufferings are due £ his feet he is. liable, like Naaman the Assyrian of old, to go away in
arage.
Bad architecture of the lower extremities is, nevertheless, a fre- quent cause not only of dyspepsia, constipation and other abdominal troubles, but even more frequent ly of obscure pains and aches de scribed as rheumatism, neuralgia or whatnot.
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OUR CROSSWORD PUZZLE.
Across
1 Smart blow. 6 Dilates. 10 Mechanical contrivance,
1 Knave. 12 Overhead structure of
station,
13 Fabled marino erenture. 14 Alwayz. 17.Plexus of vessels. 19. Currents of the sea. 20 Wager. 22 Passed.
23 Relating to the car, 25 Selenes of the earth. 26 Sneering, 27 Weird.
20 Taste of sea-water. 31 Steop dax in water.
35 Genuine.
The man who said "that "at-32 Upper end of the elbow. foot can he so distracting us to 38 Accant. preclude the possibility of mental 39 Milky. concentration" did not exaggerate, 41 Vagrants.
but the distracting factor, al 42 Church.
ti
16 Impura acetic acid.
16 Abounding.
17 Shining.
18 Ngure of a man employed as a
column (Arch).. 20 Purchaser.
wireless 21
though it derived primarily from 43 Ono trained to exercise agility
and strength. the feet, produced its effects in
the nervous system, which it 44 Ridicule. reached via the vertebral column. 46 Made rotten.
In those who are still youn enough to counter an existing or threatened foot deformity the obvious course is to cast, all foot- wear as soon as they enter the house and to walk about on tiptor as much as they can as soon their shoes are off.
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tight as any felt. "mephisto," and outlining the head in just the same way. Sometimes they are made of tinsel net, but always they are studded with strass or diamants, and never do they show a single scrap of hair!
Checked Holders.
A smart, new cigarette holder checks its way to chic with a decorative band of black and white midway on Ita exaggerated length.
Not So Long as You'd Think
WHY WAY SLIM!! I WAS JUST JUNKIN ABOUT YOUGEE! YOU BEEN OUT OF SCHOOL FOR A YEAR IT SEEMS!
17 SEEMS THAT
LONG, TO ANE TOO!!
DAX
Down
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3 Mohammedan priest.
4 Became white.
Gleam.
6 Sluggart.
7 Troublesome plant.
8 Hang about.
9 Impregnated with salt.
Silent.
23 Era.
24 Railway slding.
28 Crawling creature.
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aa Oblige
34 Sen nymph.
36 Desolate...
37 Allowance mudo to British officers
in East Indios.
39 Guide..
40 Want.
Yesterday's 'Soltition.
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PERFUMERY DEPARTMENT.
By Blosser
SINCE THE FRENCH
"AN INDIAN WAR!!
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