THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1936..
British Women the Blonde's £14,000
Most Natural
THE suggestion made in
Parliament that a tax should be imposed on cos- metics has caused inquiry into the size of the industries that centre on women's beauty in Britain.
No oficial statistics are kept, but the following facts are the result of careful research and may be taken as correct:- British women spend far less ou
cosmetics
than American
women, nud less also than the women of almost any great nation of Europe.
The British Industries making face powder, face creams, lipstick. eyebrow pencils, perfame, and mascara do not
than employ more
10.000 people.
The amount British women spend on these things Ja About £18,000,000 a year. £15,000,000 of this is spent in the country's 15,000 chemists' ahojt.
Every cliemist's shop in the land sell
on au average £20 worth of cos- mrtles a week.
The rest is spent in the 47,000j
hairdressing saloong which the population supports, These saloons sell their £3,000,000
of cosmetics only as a side-1 liae. Their real business, haircutting and waving, dis fart bigger.
Of the £18,000,000, face-powder and cream (It is said)
count for about £12,000,000.
It is a fact that the aretage woman
-
BIRTH
on "Love Potions
CONTROL IN
CATHOLIC
Coronado, Cal.; June 20.
only method of birth control sanctioned by the Pope and the post office de- partment
exhibited publlely for the first time at the California Medient Asso- ciation convention held here.
WOR
It was a two-inch square of cardboard with circles of dates and months printed on Its surface, covered by a re- volving celluloid disc on which is printed Information pertaining to sterility and fertility during rhythmical circles.
Doctors crowded around the exhibit, twirled the cardboard
CHURCH
"dise which is supposed to tell
when conception can be ae. complished as well as when it can not, and argued about whether it WAS practical. Some 76 bought them.
Officially, the association took no notice of the device beyond allowing it exhibit space and was expected to take no stand on the matter.
In section meetings of the 65th annual convention, suc- gery by which it is possible to noul an unshapely hody, to nermal proportions when nil diet and other methods of
failed drew exercise have applause of attending sur-
Keons.
BIG INLAND CANAL
FOR ETHIOPIA
Italy Revives Project of
Last
Rome, June 21.
Century
Seasormally prevails over the
zone approximately the same temper.
kel St. The amullness of the proportion of Engineers in the employ of the tatal necupied by lipstick | 194 the Colonial Office have
Secondly, it would have the effect would astonish most men,
extracted long forgotten re-ot alloying desert winds which fre
devastating dlast buys only there lipsticks or fewer ports of Italian explorers uently create
such as those which have from dusty shelves to revive roused losses of millions to A lipstick las's a long the three a project whereby a huge salters in the mid-western region of the
to six months. British women are about the last take would be created in the
a year.
storms
United States..
Thirdly, the man-inade lake would witch of the big nations to become Danakil region of Eritrea and yield hydro-electric energy booty-conscious. The reason North-Eastern Ethiopia. could be harnessed to furnish electric Is that they have such good complexions-the best in the This project, involving con-Power to a vast region in Eritrea and
world. This Is principally struction of a canal permitting | the result of the ckmale. waters of the Red Sea to flow
Northern Ethiopla.
A
BEAUTIFUL Swedish girl who spent £14,000 on buying love philtres and magic potions,”in a vain en- deavour to retain the affec- tion of
a wealthy banker whom she hoped to marry,
Insist on
CHESDALE
CHESDALE
CHESDALE
CHESDALE
CHESDALE
CHESDALE
DELICIOUS
has just brought an extra-RICH MATURED jordinary action against a
fashionable fortune-teller in NO WASTE-NO RIND the West End of Paris.
She told the police that five years ago, when she was 20, sle met the banker and for the first time in her life fell in love,
For two years she was pletely happy in her friendship with this man who was very generous, and she hoped that one day they would be married,
com-
There came day, however, when I nolked int he seemed to be cooling in his affections," she rald. "1 beeane wuxious, and naked the advice of a friend. He Jadrised me to consult a certain | fortune-teller, in whom he and the |grenfest of geenfidence.
250 PAYMENT
"I went to her, and she told me that her powers were so extra- jordinary that she would be able to ensure that held the affections of the banker.
"She prepared for me Ittle sachels of magle powder, for which she charged £40 a time. I visited her at least once week, and in addition to obtain- ing these magic sachets and other secret preparations I paid her heavily for her advice, "On one acrasion, when my friend was showing marked signs of losing interest in me, I gave her £250 for a special consultation."
The girl, an exquisitely dress- ed blonde, admitted that money she lavished so freely on the fortune-teller taken from the very generous gifts which her admirer gave her from time to time. Suddenly the banker ended the
the
It has been estimated thal 100,000,- One Liro would be eutleient. for construction of the canal aid of! The American WOTAL have the inland,' seems likely to be car-initial hydra-elvgtrie plants. If re-friendship and told her that they
worst complexions-the resultried to conclusion if new expedi. commendations of past Italian ex-could never be married. dit is said of their drinking tion: fall to reveal existence of ploring expeditions are followed by Realising that he had spent ice water, which ruins their til or of valuable minerals such as the Ministry of Colonies, the canal $11,000 in vain, the girl hastened digestions: of excessive steam gold, silver, iron and cod in tde would start at the Red Sea port of
red to her lawyer. heating, and of the
An Immediate result of her sharp torrid region now known as. the Meder in Italian Eritrea and proceed for approximately fly kilometres varintions of climate,
| Danakil ra.
inland.
action is that the income-tax no. The American woman is estimated to
Centuries ago, say historical docu-thorities propose to take netlon spend Just about three times as
the engineers, would far of three-folt bene-mente a great inland take spreading against the fortune-teller for not over an area of approximately 10,000 declaring the true contents of her square kilometres, existe in the really swollen bank account. Firstly, it would, result in modifica Danakil desert. Its confines are now
sub-aca level by a great tion of the climate' in the desert re-marked
abounding in Bult. Italian kion, as a consequence of evaporation | basis processes, establishing in this torridengineers believe construction of the proposed cana! would. result in crea- tion of similar lake.
much on her complexion us Englishwoman does,
At present the English girl earn-
ing £3
weeks reliably stated to spend 28. of it on beauty and 24, on her hair.
AL:
Creation of the lake, say Italian
DOCTORS FLY 800
MILES TO PATIENT HUNDREDS of fives have been saved in the "outbacks" of Aus- tralia through the bravery and skill of four young men who to-day are national heroes,
They are "flying doctors" who daily risk their lives to reach patients who live miles from a hospital.
The Rev. John Flynn, one of the most famous figures in Australia, started the aerial medical service in 1928. In those days they had only one plane-now they have four.
Shield Designed For P. I. Congress
The men cover practically the whole of the tropical aren of Australia. AL Darwin there is Dr. Fenton, at Clon- curry Dr. Russell, at Port Headland Dr. Vickers, and at Wyndham Dr. Cotto,
STRETCHERS IN A PLANE
Princess Braves
A Death:
Penalty
Lisbon, June_1. Infanta Maria fose de Braganza,
Italian expeditions in the Damkil desert have indicated that neither valuable minerals nor oil exist in the soctor-where it is proposed-to-create. The huge lake. The government is taking no chancea, however, and is seventynine-year-old daughter of eparing to finance a new expedition King Miguel of Portugal, „andl which will carry with it the mot modern of appliances for the detection of the Belgians, has arrived in grandmother of the present King of mineral and oil deposits,
It is pointed out here that the vast Lisbon on a visit. project would greatly aid agricultural The princess is the first mentier. and economic exploitation of Ethiopin of this. branch of the Braganzas since Italian ships would not And it to return to Portugal since 1834, necessary to proceed to Assab but when King Miguel was banished,” could plow Dhrough the canal Moder and proceed to any point on his descendants forbidden. the sea-fed inke to receive products under a death, penalty, ever to
exportation abroad.--United enter Portuguese territory.
Reuter
for
PYCRK.
JAPAN AS WORLD'S
DRUG MENACE "UNFRIENDLY ACT”
Geneva, June 15.
A SCATHING attack on Japan, accusing the Tokio Government of facilitating the drug traffic in Asia
Each of them has a vast area to fly over, and their calls come from places 500 to 800 miles away from their headquarters. If the doctor San Francisco, June 21.
is out on a gase the wireless opera- tor
the COPIES of the shield_de-
n't the hospital calls sign for the XXXIII nearest of the four, and he flies to International Eucharistic the sick man or woman. Congress. to be held in Three of the planes are equip- Manila, P.I., from February ped with stretchers so that if the 3 to 7, next year, have been case is urgent the patient can be and in North America, was delivered here to-day when lifted in and rushed back to the Mr. S. J. Fuller, the United States representative, addressed received by the heirarchy of nearest hospital.
the Opium Advisory Committee of the League of Nations. this country,..
But many a life has been saved by an operation performed on a Mr. Faller, whose criticism because I have been brought to The background of the shield table of a sheep farmer's home.
was supported by Major Coles, regard this failure to discipline and is golden with white stripes on The doctors' work is sponsored the British delegate, went so far punish these polsoners in Japan and the border which represent the by the Australian Inland Missions to describe Japan's "toler-
By their courage and complete Papal colours and also the ripe. ness of cheat and of unleavened disregard of their own lives these ance of the drug traffic as "go young doctors are doing more to unfriendly net" towards the brend.
Topan up the interior. than anyone | nations of North America.
TRANSVAAL'S
GOLD STILL
In the centre is a large iron else in Australia, cross and a chalice and Host resting on the junction of the transverso bars. In the upper loft hand section of the shield is the Trinidad," the ship of Fer dinand Magellan, Spanish explor- er, which anchored off the shores of Cobu Island in 1521.
The first mass of Cebu, to celebrated in die island, is depicted on the opposite side of the shield.
be
The Papal coat of arms is represent. ed i on the lower left ourner with the
real of the Commonwealth over meat on the right.
Tho Cathedral of the Immaculate
on the fower Conception painted section of the Philippines is the only Catholic country in the Far East.
Thousands of visitors from all over the world are expected to attend the seremonies in the Philippine capital.
LEADS WORLD
THE TranKynal is still easily the biggest gold producing arca, with an estimated output for 1935 of 10,768,006 onneck. This is 30 per cent. of the world' total and 280,000 ounces in excess of the 1934 production, according to statisties published recently.
Rüsin retains Recond place with an output of 5,000,000 ounces, the United States is put third with 3.532.000, and Canada fourth with 9.21,000. The out put of tussin. It is pointed out. has been trebled in the last five yours.
In China
not only as an act of unfriendliness
to the Chinese but also assess
friendly act towards the nations, of the North Amertenu continent Canada, Mexico and the United States."
"Whore Japanese influenço' ad- vances in the Far East, what goes
Major Coles said that drugs from with It? The drug traffle!" sald China had caused serious trouble in Mr. Fuller,
the British colonics in the Far East. "What is the reason? Maxi-le appealed to the Japanese Govern mum punilty few weeks' restment to co-operate in suppressing in gaol and a fine amounting nl- this evil.
most to the profits of one poor Mr. Hotta, the Japanese – repre-. day's business of a petty traffic-sentative, sald that his country was not well informed on the subjecte ker!"
"CALLOUS POISONERS”
but he waR sure his Government would do its best.
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WORLD MENACE
"It is certainly most unfortunate that th all these years no effective action has been made to remedy, this Mr. Fuller, according to Reuter, re- situation.
vealed some remarkable feels regard- "It makes not only China buting the cultivation of opium in China; Japan itself and all Japanese posses where, he said, over 90 per cent, of sions a haven refuge und an un- the world's total supplies of opium surpassed headquarters for callous to say nothing of vast quantities of Japanese and Koreans, who are so heroin--is grown." |successfully and blithefully poisoning He described "the vast flood" of
their fellow-men, for galn.
oplum produced In China as a men- "I speak of this with feoling, 'ace to the world.
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