THE HONGKONG TElegraphi, Saturday, MARCH 6, 1937.
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Discipline for UNRULY CURLS
PRESENT-DAY hair styles--all curls and rolls--
are attractive enough. Trouble is to keep them going. The better they look when you leave the hairdresser the more they seem to go to pricces in a cumple of days.
There is a knack about keeping curia trim, uratip set. First you must be prepared to spend at least ten minutes every night firing them when you go to bed, however late it is and tired you are. Brush your hair firmly across your head, not straight down,
Then comb out each curl with a fine comb, taking each curl as small as you have the palioner for. Be careful to fix the curls the way you want them to sit. Pin them flat on your head--twa pins put crossways to each curl,
Tie
Put in combs to hold the waves, and spray por" hair with setting lotion-enough to make it quite damp. (It's spirit and will dry off quickly.) up your head with a net or veil (remember the one wr told you about last week?)
In the morning comb out each curl with a tail romb. Curl them over your finger in the directiont they are to sit, and roll them ratoul your finger with Fir them with an the pointed end of the comb. invisible hairpin when you put on a hat,
An occasional fine spray with brilliautine keeps vurls glossy and trim.
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HE fact that there is
a shortage of short- hand-typists in Lon- don will come as a surprise to many overseas business girls. The rate of wages as quoted by some employment agencies-23 a week for a. junior shorthand - typist twenty years of age is also unexpected.
re-
One employment agency ports that it has no junior train- ed shorthand-typists between the
of seventeen and twenty-one on its books, and has
ages
a long list of vacancies awaiting such girls.
Two reasons are put up for this shortage. First, there are few girls In London between these ages, as they are the children born at the end of the war, when the birth rate was extremely low, especially in girls. Second, fewer girls want to typists; they prefer other more in- dividual and artistic jobs.
Shortage
THERE
be
for
Business
Girls
Fewer girls mean higher wages for the fow.
Higher
mean more in- teresting jobs and better
pro- spects, for no bust- ness man is going pay a high wage for more donkey
business
Aftern
girls between the ages itsel twenty-one, Perhaps this is to the good.
seems to be on all- round shortage at Home of of
to
HOME
PAGE COOK
on
BACON
UR taste in bacon is distinctly rasher should be laid in a hot (but not red-hot) milder than it used to be.
pan and be allowed to cook gently in its own fat.
It is rare nowadays to come across a piece which needs prolonged soaking before it can be approached with any safety. Those thirst- provoking gammons are no more.
As a rule the bacon is ready for the pot or pan us it comes from the shop.
be
the past can Any salty survivals from detected by a pale deposit on them and a marked tendency to dryness on the eut surface.
"Not too Lean
bacon
THE rind of a good piece of
should be thin, and there should be a fair proportion of firm, clear fat. Too lean a piece has obviously fome from a pig which has been unhappy and illnourished in its liste.
If it is going to be cooked beneath the grill too fierce a flame must never be allowed to play upon it. A hastily cooked rasher invariably turns into a kind of brittle wood. Use its own Fat
THAT other abomination, the limp and greasy rasher, is caused, on the other
work--be
will install machines to do the
hiking in winter are the finest and least expensive sports to follow.
Take exercise regularly every week-end. Walking the best of exercises-is within the reach of every pocket, for I is free to nli.
Friends
CHO
HOICE of new friends In the business world often cro- ates a difficult problem. It is wise to make friends with people of your own sex who will work up with you through your enreer, and hot with those who have more money and smarter clothes.
The girl straight from school is npl to make this mis- take and then away go her good resolutions about health and work. ing for examina- tions,
Save your sleeves with-
deachable cuffs made of a transparent material incised with lacy designs. They button aver your sireve, do not gel diny (because the material i glossy) and look In fact they are the hot of thing you might like to wear out of the office 100,
*mari.
donkey work and use the girls for more intelligent posts.
Exercise
JEWCOMERS to the business
NEW
world have two problems
to tackle outside their work--health
Men friends are your personal con cern, but they are still frowned on by some employers. They should bo kept away from the office. It is pleasant to be call-
ed for and to show,
off In front of the other girls-but it 1። a bod policy.
Try to keep your private and your business life apart. In this way you will earn a reputation for taking your job seriously and you will have the added advantage of living two lives-- one from nine until six, and the other from six until bedtime.
and friends. It costs money to keep Ambition
healthy in a large city, and the junior
business girl enn ill afford to spend
it.
It is essential, to keep up the healthy outdoor activities Indulged in fat school, and It is false economy to sit at home. every evening making clothes or working up for a commer- cint examination.
Continue membership of clubs run in the evenings or on Saturday after- noons. Badminton, tennis, hockey, gymnastics—all these can be cheaply kept up in this way,
For girls without these facilities
hand, by too slow a cooking, too hasty a dishing-pen-air swimming in summer up, and by the unnecessary addition of other fat by the timid cook who fears that her, bacon will otherwise be burned.
So it will be seen that a certain nicety of timing and touch is needed to produce the perfect rasher. Having produced it, our next concern is with the things which best accompany it.
The cuts from which the favourite breakfast To go with It rasher is extracted are usually the back or the streaky. Its thickness must largely depend upon individan taste.(but except when it is going to
EAVING aside the all too obvious egg.
LE except to remark that the scrambled
be curled round something in a savoury or used egg might well be more often substituted for the as an adornment for roast chicken, a rasher of fried one, we come to such things as liver, kidneys, extreme thinness should. I think, bo avoided. mushrooms, tomatoes, and the less usual, but Your very thin rasher Kegs to lose a certain guite admirable, apple and banana.. amount of character in the cooking.
Haste spoils It
Finally, we reach the more humble resources of our larder in the shape of bread and cold vege- tables.
These, I think, shine with unexpected brilliance SOME rashers lose everything in the
in conjunction with bacon, for it has few better cooking, but the blame for this must accompaniments than golden squares or fried be attached to the cook. Excessive speed has bread, or slices of cooked potato (with or without ruined many a breakfast.
the addition of greens) which are cooked in its fat, After it has been trimmed of its rind the and should also have the tinge of gold.
vehicle,
CINEMA NOTES
a ne
Johnson Choir Negrò- voices the feminine lead, The cast is a deserves special/commendation for tremendous one in size and re- its outstanding: singing In themarkable for the number of talented spectaculor levee scenes,
players, there being ninety eighi speaking paris, with
with 2,550 bit players
"Garden of Allah.” Prompted by the success of his and cxiras appearing, Besides
produced picture "Little Lord
first Indepe countleroy," David Orch and Miss de Havilland, some.
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BUSINESS girl has written saying that she would like Lo hear of girls in the Far East of her (twenty-six) who have
own age made good without expensive train- ing. She herself, a secretary, has worked up from a medium education to £5-a-week job. She taught herself touch typing and then short- hand at evening classes,
She has supported herself since the age of eighteen, and at last is able to realise her ambition and spend her summer leave abroad. She has also taught herself German in the last two years.
She is interested in girls in other professions-particularly artistic ones.
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"It's Great To Be In College”
.
of the more important players in- "Rainbow on the River," the second Selznick entered the technicolor clude Edmund Gwenn, Claude Rains, singing picture to star the young field to produce "The Garden of Anita Louise, Louis Hayward, Gale which brings
Stem lyric tenour, Bobby Breen, opens at Allah",
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Tamiroff, Ralph Morgan, Henry Production for RKO Radio
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Sam
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bosol Twentieth far Sturges Came, art director, those
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