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THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY
1937.
THE
34 Married
SPARE MOMENT PAGE
AVERAGE
Weighs 8 st. 9lbs. Spends 15s. A Week On Clothes:
TO-DAY IN THE PAST
NAVAL RIVALRY BEGAN WITH DREADNOUGHTS
TO-DAY is the thirtieth anniver- sary of the launch of HMS. Dreadnought.
The building of this battleship the excitement all over caused world, for it was a marked improve ment on former types both is re- gards speed and armament.
The Dreadnought was 490ft. long. had a displacement of 17,050 tons, and a speed of 21.knots. For arma- ment she had
12-in. guns, twenty-seven 12-pounder quick-fir- ing anti-torpedo boat guns, and five submerged torpedo tubes,
ten
For the fral time the steam tur- bine
Was rysiem of propulsion adopted. There WALM storage for 2700 tons of coal, and all-fuel could also be carried. The total cost of The ship was £1,913,100.
GERMANY'S REPLY
Admiral Lord Fisher was the man responsible for the production of the Dreadnought. At the time he was convinced that he had a trump card against Germany which would forec that country to stop her ambitious plans of naval competition.
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Moreover, Germany was now in a position to begin a new competition on an almost equal basis,
The designer of the Dreadnought Was Sir Philip Watts, who died in London In 1920 at the age of 79.
In addition to the Dreadnoughts, he designed the Invincibles, and was! responsible for the restoration of the Vistory. Strangely enough, how- ever, he was a keen advocate of pence. He was knighted in 1005.
WOMAN
IS-
5 Feet 3 Inches Tall Has One Child;
Has Three Secret Worries
PUZZLE
Arrange 24 matches as shown. Take away 4 of these so that you leave 5 identical squares.
COLDS: How
And They
Why
Start
SEEKS ROMANCE IN
THE CINEMA
Her Emotional Life Is An
Unhappy One
RECENTLY the Telegraph described that elusive person the Average Man, Here is depicted the even more elusive Average Woman,
It is perfectly safe to tell the Average Woman that she is
She will not slap your face.
average.
She will not believe you.
The first unalterable incradienble' conviction of the Average Woman is that she is unique.
If you can walk into a store and buy ready-made clothes, that at you better than most gloves, Ho from there to a lending library and find dificult to choose a book berause so many please you, if you can usual- ly find what you want to eat at the top of the menu, and generally enjoy them in
any cinema. fact the world about you is you very well mentally and physleally, you have to everage woman.
I in
that you are an
Here is Jane Bult in detall. She is 34.2 years old. She has been married eight years. She is 5ft 3ins, in height, weighs Bst, She is 31ns. around the 28ins. waist, and is bust, as 37ins, round the ups. Unlike The average
But in a short time Germany, too, was turning out Dreadnoughts at a
OW far "Colds" are in the news is shown by the great pace, and actually improving on the British design. The Dread-
number of letters I have received commenting on sought did, in fact, lead to a new
the statement that Draughts do not cause Colds, competition in nuval armaments, for capital stips to-day have
Many are positive that they catch cold in a draught; just double her displacement.
All the German ships became as many agree that an open carriage window is safer obsolete on the introduction of the
But the remarkable than a shut one. Here are the facts: clearly distinguish Average Woman Dreadnought. feature of the now naval era was between two things, the Cold virus, and your resistance' that Britain had to dispense with 75
kips as obsolete, while Germany's to it. bad debt included only 28.
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In December the virus is everywhere; it reaches you in drop- dets breathed or sneezed froin someone who has already got a cold. Open windows and cold moving air lessen the chances of The P.&O. Banking infection. If you resistance is good you keep well; if it is bad you Corporation, Ltd. get a Cold.
Your resistance will be bad if you
(Incorporated in England, 1920), allow your body's machinery for
Authorised Capital
Subscribed and Paid-up Reserve Fund
HEAD OFFICE
dealing with changes of tempera- £6.000.000 ture
The great Lo Het rusty, €2,694,160
10,000 authority, Sir. Leonard Hill, quotes Seneca, writing nearly two thousand years ago:
Blass
by
Disease of Drunkards
NINE out of ten drunkards
117-122, Leadenas Htreet, London, E.0.8. WEST KND BRANCHL 14-15, Cockapur Btront, London, W.1.
"Him, whom
windows BRANCHES-bay. Calcutta, Callent.
drink because they are un- Coimbatore, Columbo,
Madras, project against every breath of alr; jlonskens,
whose feet are kept warm Shanghel, incapere,
fomentasions periodically renewed: happy, and their misery comes whose dining rooms are made com either-from-internal neurotic or from external fortable by heat within the walls conditions and under the floor-such a person, not even a gentle breeze passes over without danger."
World.
Agencies: In all principal towns of the General Exchange and flanking business testucted. Loans and overdrafts granted on Approved security. Current and Fixed Deposit
accounts opened.
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS IN LOCAL CUR RENCY-Interest allowed at 2% per annum. STERLING BAYINGS ACCOUNTS: Interest allowed at rates, which may be obtained on application.
•
In short, there are more Colds in
than stromheated New York
In
sources.
favourite colour.
THE FACTS
THE Average Woman has been
analysed through:
The Statistical Department of Somerset House.
. Shops.
Cinemas,
Correspondence columns. Medical records.
Manufacturers' associations. Statistical abstracts. Women's associations.
hers at night. She uses bath salts, but not regularly, and makes her buth her beauty treatment, using mun, the face creams and lotions.
has no marked
Although the Average Woman is married at 20 years 4 months, there are 10,414.083 single women In England and Wales.
ONE CHILD
can
Unlike her mother and grand- mother, she can play no musical in- strument. There is no plano in the house.
But Mrs. Average Woman daner, can read simple French, is as politically educated as her husband, knows something of world affairs.
She reads one daily newspaper, one weekly newspaper, and
week-
If that June Bull has one child. child is a girl, her clothes are likely to be copies of those of the little y periodical devoted to home inter- ests. She belongs to a circulating Princesses or Shirley Temple.
two The Average Woman makes near-library, from which she obtains ly half her child's clothes and 25 per novels a week. The books she reads con kniture written by women (75 per cent. cent. of her own. She
of the novels... circulating among simple, but not intricate, garments,
are written by them) on She spends 15s. a week out of her
romantic subjects. husband's Income of £325 a year on
her own and her child's clothes.
She does her Own housework, whether she lives in house or fat,
with part-time help.
women
AMUSEMENTS
mare
Like her husband, she reads 'no poetry, no philosophy. She takes a volume.of.memoirs-aran. auto. HER BEAUTY BILL
blography out of the library once in She does her own household wash-six months. She will occasionally
buy
cheap edition of a novel that When the sober world does not ing, with the exception of sheets, is pleased her, if it is not offer a man the necessary minimum tablecloths, her husband's collars, than 28. Gd. of happiness he drinks to help and stift shirts. himself create an imaginary world She does her own cooking, but which suits him better. We may does not make jam or pickles. She rowrite Shakespeare and say:
has no "store cupboard," as her There is a dangerous sort of
The lunatic, the drunkard and mother and grandmother knew it. draught, which is the cause of my
the poet.
She makes one cake a week, buys correspondent's troubles; It is the
Are of imagination all compact.. one joint, and other meat three times Executorships and Trusteeships undertaken. draughty floor of a badly ventilated All three are dissatisfied with dally a week. She makes a pudding el-
W. J. WADDINGTON,
room with windows shut and a gap life. It was long ago discovered that
mos! every Hongkong. 17th Apell, 1980.
under the doors.
in Wales, for example, where wages The Average Woman smokes entertains friends to tea or to coffee are high there is little drunken-usually five cigare:tes ness, where they are low there is great deal. Defective nerves or д defective society: two things to be cured in order to defeat the demon
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Authorised Capital
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$10,000,000.00
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Wong Yun Tong, ..
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WARM FEET
CURE
rum.
a day, and more
ore at week-ends,
-She buys one box of powder (29. 63.)
every four months, a Here your feet get cold and your
nese
lipstick (25.) every six head stumly warm-resull, bad cir-
months, spends 5s, a monta on culation of blood and lymph, dry and
lotions, face packs and creams, lot congested mucous tissue in throat- and nose, an easier entry for the
beauty generally. (Her Ameri trying to persuade people cold money 11
spends £1∙ n can counterpart and virus. Warm socks
week on beauty). breeze on your checks and you will that cold feet are to be avoided,
In their recent annual report they
She has her hair water-waved describe elaborate experiments to discover what temperature is best every three weeks. She shampoos It. in factories. at home beforehand, using a sham- for people working They discover that a temperature poo powder costing Od. Her nails between 60 and 6B is best and add: are professionally manicured once a Cold feet! In spite of "getting as would be expected, the tempera-year, for some special occasion.
The average Englishman likes his cold feet" being a proverb for ner-ture of the air near the floor has a vous discomfort, the Medical Re-considerable influence on the tem- bath in the morning. His wife has search Council is actually spending perature of the feet."
be a different man.
If you cannot stand a draught," loolt out; it is your body's warning that important machinery is rusty.
Triestina
Lloyd
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Dead Offen~~15, Gracechurch ftesat, Leaden, Xa,
Authorised Capital
Babwcribed Capital
Pak-ap Capital
Reserve Fund and Rai.
BANKERE.
£3,000,000
1.800.000
1,010,050
1267,830
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Did You Solve the match puzzle?
The first and foremost of the Average Woman's recreations is the cinema. She goes twice » week to the pletures, twice a year to the theatre.
At home her amusements are read- In the radio, and sewing. She
in the evening at least once a fort night.
In her emotional life facts show that the average Englishwoman is not happy.
Eighty per cent. of the films, books, and magazines that cater for her (and enjoy overwhelming popularity) are of what doctors call the "escope" type. That is, they are of the type enjoyed because they supply emo-
lopal excitement..
MAKE-BELIEVE
It is only the emotionally dissatis- fed who can stand u literary diet Woman scelts perpetual refuge in exclusively romantic. The Average make-believe.
Clark Gable, William Powell, Gary Cooper unconsciously make up to her for the inadequacles of the average man us lover and companion. These are the three fears deep in the heart of every women, her secret worries:
That she is growing older, less altracijve.
turn
That her husband may from her to a younger rival,
That the day will come when even her child will grow up and not need her.
But, as she will never admit that she is on Average Woman, still less will she admit to these shadows over her apparent serenity.
In fact, she will not admit any of But these are not conjectures. They are facts.
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Fal
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ACROSS 1 Facial surgeons lift faces, but
"this man takes them off!
9 May be in each car: if so, hard
luck.
10 Where the aide can give help. 11 Not in. nonsense.
12 You'll and the central point with the aid of two pairs in the Vessel.
13 Shakespeare's world. 14 You'll have no time for this! 16 Takes round the bag-but not in
church.
18 Pressing.
..
20 Many a peer will, on Coronation
Day,
22 Sometimes goes with a squeak. 24 "We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone-But we left him alone with his ("Burial of Sir John Moore.") 27 Being unfit, I pant for this. 20 A tile would' go`for her. 30 Little Portuguese saint.
31 Points for needlewomen.
32 These grievances remain -much
the same even atter Bölge com- Inission has been made.
33 When it comes to take a city, Franco's I can's no vain boast,
DOWN
Turned up.
3 Two words that may describe a
him. Only bad motorists reverse them.
4 Punish as in Geneva.
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5 Quite a lot of nuisance arises from the time allowed for pay- Ing foreign bills of exchange,
River of India.
7 What a vessel can carry.
8 Always the greater, presumably,
notwithstanding,
9 Pip failed to realise his-great
as they were said to be.
14 Reverse the trufle light! 15 Public school.
17 Does 75 per cent, only, 19 Familiar name of an “outpost
of Empire."
21 Proud mothers? Well, they certainly often have proud off- spring!
23 Anti-cob (onog.).
25 One who lets,
20 Shut and open.
20 Isn't a long shot needed to hold
it? Yes.
29 That's the stuff for the troops.
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