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- meties 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 correcti British women spend far less on
cosmetick than American women, and less also than the women of almost any great nation of Europe. The British Industries making face powder, faco creams, lipstick. oyobrow pencils, perfume, and mascara do notj employ more than 10,000 people.
The amount British women spend
on these things la shouti £18,000,000 a year. £15,000,000 of this is spent in tho
16,000 country's
chemists' shops,
Every chemist's shop in the land sells On an average £20 worth of ens- melles a week.
The rest is spent in the 47,000 hairdreasing saloons which the population supports. These saloons sell their £3,000,000'
of cosmetics only as a Bide- line. Their real business, haircutting and waving, is far bigger.
Of the £18,000,000, fare-powder and cream (It is guid) ac- count for about £12,000,000.
The smallness of the proportion of the total occupied by lipstick would astonish most men.
It is a fact that the average woman
buys only three lipsticks or fewer
A year.
is that they have such good complexions the best in the
on "Love Potions"
BIRTH CONTROL IN
CATHOLIC
Coronado, Cal., June 20. THE only method of birth
Was
control sanctioned by the Pope and the post office de
exhibited partment publicly for the first time at the California Medien Asse ciation convention held here.
It was a two-inch square of cardboard with circles of dates and months printed on Ila surface, covered by a re- volving celluloid disc 02 which is printed information portaining to sterility and fertility during rhythmlenl circles.
Doctors crowded around the exhibit, twirled the cardboard
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dise which is supposed to tell when conception can be ne- complished as well as when H can not, and argued about whether It was practical. Some 76 bought them.
Officially, the association took no noire 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 unshapoly body to Permal proportions when ail other methods of diet and exercise have failed drew applause of attending gr- Keons,
BIG INLAND CANAL
FOR ETHIOPIA
Italy Revives Project of
Last
Rome, June 21.
Century
zone approximately the same temper
United States..
worldThis is principally struction of a canal permitting ODG
the result of the climate. The American
waters of the Red Sea to flow
for
of
Engineers in the employ of Red Sermally prevalls over the the Colonial Office have Secondly, it would have the effect extracted long forgotten re- of allaying desert winds which fre- Just devastating Create such as those which have ports of Italian explorersently from dusty shelves to revive cauard losses of millions to far. A lipstick lasts a long time-three
a project whereby a huge salters in the mid-western region of the to alx months. British women are about the tast lake would be created in the
Thirdly, the man-mule take would enerky which of the big nations to become Danakil region of Eritrea and yield bedro-electric
could be harnessed to furnish electric beauty-conscious. The reason North-Eastern Ethiopia.
This project, involving con-power to a vast region in Eritren nud
Northern Ethiopin.
It has been estimated that 100,000,-
Lire woul be sufficient construction of the canal and have the linland, seems likely to be cag-initial hydro-electric plants. If re- of past Italian-ex- worst complexions-the resultried to conclusion di new expedi-commendations
It is said of their drinking tims fail to reveal existence of ploring expeditions are followed by ice water, which ruins their oil or of valuable minerals such as the Ministry of Colonies, the canal digestions; of excessive steam gold, silver, iron, and coal in de would start at the Red Sea port of the Meder in Italian F-itrea and proeved heating, and of the sharp orrid region now known as
for approximately Afty kilometres variations of climate.
Danakil 011
plaml "The American woman is estimated to
Centuries ago, say historical docu- spend just about three times as Creation of the lake, say Italian
the engineers, would be of thret-fold bene-ments a great inland lako spreading over an area of approximately 10,000 Aquaro kilometres, existed in the Firstly, it would result in modifica Danakil desert. Its confines are now tion of the climate in the desert remarked by a great subsea level gion, as a consequence of evaporation basis abounding in salt, processes, establishing in this torrid engineers believe construction of the proposed canal would result in crea- tion of a similar lake.
women
much on her complexion us Englishwoman does.
At present the English girl earn-
ing £3
n week is reliably stated to spend 28. of it on beauty and 2a, on her hair.
fit!
DOCTORS FLY 800
MILES TO PATIENT
HUNDREDS of lives 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. At Darwin there Dr. Fenton, at Clon. curry Dr. Russell, at Port Headland Dr. Vickers, and nt Wyndham Dr. Cotto.
Each of them has a vast area to fly over, and their calls come from places 500 to 800 miles away from their headquartors. If the doctor San Francisco, June 21. COP
YOPIES of the shield de-l out on a caso the wireless opera- tor at the hospital calls the sign for the XXXIII nearest of the four, and he flies to International Eucharistie the sick man or woman. Congress, to be held in Manila, P.I., from February 3 to 7, next year, have been received by the heirarchy of this country..
STRETCHERS IN A PLANE Three of the planes are equip- ped with stretchers so that if the ass is urgent the patient can be lifted in and rushed back to the nearest hospital.
But many a life has been saved
by an operation performed on a The background of the shick table of a sheep farmer's home.
The doctors' work is sponsored is golden with white stripes on the border which represent the by the Australian Inland Mission, By their courage and complete Papal colours and also the ripe- ness of cheat and of unleavened disregard of their own lives theso young doctors are doing more to brend.
else hi, Australia.. In the centre is a large iron open up the interior than anyone
cross and a chalice and a Host rusting on the junction of tha transverso bars. In the upperi left hand section of the shield is the Trinidad" the ship. of Fer- dinand Magellan, Spanish explor- -er, which auchored off the shores
of Cebu island in 1521, -
The Best mass of Cebu, to bo celebrated in the islands, is depicted the opposite side of the shield!
an
The Papul coat of arms is represent.
ed on the lower left corner with the
Boni
of the Commonwealth govern.
ment on the right.
The Cathedral of the Immaculate Concoption painted on the lower section of the Philippines, is the only Catholle country in the For East.
Thousands of visitors from all over the world are expected to attend the seremonies in the Philippine capital.
TRANSVAAL'S
GOLD STILL
LEADS WORLD
THE Transvaal is still easily the biggest gold producing area, with an estimated output for 1935 of 10,768,000 ounces. This is 30 per cent, of the world total and 280,000 ounces in exces of the 1934 production, according to statistics published recently.
-Russia retains second ́ ́ place with an output of 5,000,000 ounces, the United States is put third with 3.532,000, and Canada fourth with 3,254,000. The out. put of Russin. it is pointed out, has been trebled In the lost ave усага.
Italian
Italian expeditions in the Danaki! desert have indicated that neither valuable minerala ner oil exist in the sector where it is proposed to create the huge Inke. The government is
A BEAUTIFUL Swedish
girl who spent £14,000 on buying love philtres and magic potions, in a vain en- deavour to retain the affee- tion of a wealthy banker
Insist on
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whom she hoped to marry, DELICIOUS has just brought an extra-
RICH MATURED fashionable fortune-teller in NO WASTE-NO RIND the West End of Paris,
ordinary action against a
She told the police that `five years ago, when she was 20, she met the banker and for the first time in her life fell in love,
For two years
ahe was com- pletely happy in her friendship with this man who was very generous, and she hoped that one day they would be married.
There camo a day, however, when I noticed that he seemed to be cooling in his affections," she Fald. "I became anxious, and asked the advlee of a friend. He advised me to consult a certain fortune-teller, in whom he had the greatest of.confulence.
£250. PAYMENT.
"I went to her, as she told me that her powers were so extra- ordinary that she would be able to ensure that I held the affections of the banker.
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"She prepared, for me little sachets of magic powder, for which she charged £40 a time. I visited her at least once week, und in addition to obtain- ing these magie sachets and other secret preparations T-paid her heavily for her mivice. "On ume ocension, when my friend was showing marked signa of losing interest in me. I gave her £250 for a sperini consultation."
on
The girl. an exquisitely dress- ed blonde, admitted that the money she Invished so freely
fortune-teller the
Was taken from the very generous gifts, which her ndmiṛer give ' her from time to time. Suddenly the banker ended the friendship unit told her that they could never be married.
Realising that she had spent £14,000 in vain, the girl hastened to her lawyer.
An immediate result of her nction is that the income-tax au- thorities propose to take action against the fortune-teller for not declaring the true contents of her greatly swellen Gunk account.
Princess: Braves
A Death Penalty
Lisbon, June 1. Infanta Maria Jose de Braganzó,
taking no chances, however, and is į--neventy-nine-year-old-daughter-of preparing to finance a new expedition which will carry with it the most modern of appliances for the detection of mineral and oil deposits.
It is pointed out here that the vast project would greatly aid agricultural and economic exploitation of Ethiopia since Italian ships would not find t accessary to proceed to Assab but at could plow through the canal Meder and proceed to any point on the sea-fed lake to receive producta for exportation brond-United Press
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King Miguel of Portugal, and grandmother of the present King of the Belgiana, has arrived in Lisbon on a visit.
The princess is the first member "of this branch of the Braganzas to retury to Portugal since 1831, when Klin Miguel was banished, and his descendants forbidden, under a death penalty,, ever enter Portuguese territory.- Reuter
JAPAN AS WORLD'S
DRUG MENACE "UNFRIENDLY ACT”.
Geneva, June 15.
to
A SCATHING attack on Japan, accusing the Tokio Government of facilitating the drug traffic in Asia and in North America, was delivered here to-day when Mr. S. J. Fuller, the United States representative, addressed the Opium Advisory Committee of the League of Nations.
In China
not only as an act of unfriendliness to the Chinese but also as, an un- friendly act towards the nations of the North American contineni.... Canada, Mexico and the United States."
Mr. Fuller, whose criticism because I have been brought to was supported by Major Coles, regard this failure to discipline and the British delegate, went so far punish these polsoners in Japan and
describe Japan's "toler- as to
towards the ance" of the drug trafe as "an unfriendly act
"Where Japaneso Influence ad- nations of North America. vances in the Far East, what goes
Major Coles" sold that drugs from with it? The drug traffle!" sald China had caused netions trouble in Mr. Fuller.
the British colonies in the Far East. "What is the reason? Maxi-[He appealed to the anpanese Govern- mum penalty few weeks restment to co-operato in suppressing in gaol and a fine mounting al-this evil..
most to the profits of one poor Mr. Hotta, the Japanese repre- day's business of a petty traffic-sentative, sold that his country was not well informed on the subject, kert"
bul, he was sure his Government.
"CALLOUS POISONERS":
"It is certainly most unfortunate would do its best.
WORLD MENACE that in all these years no effective nction has been made la remedy this Mr. Fuller, according to Reuter, re- situation.
vealed some remarkable facts regard- "It makes not only China but jing, the cultivation of opium in China, Japan Itself and all Japanese posnes-where, he said, over 90 per cent. of sions a haven of refuge and 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 gain.
opium produced in China as a men- 1. speak of this with feeling, ace to the world.
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