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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY,
AUGUST
23, 1937.
How do you face
Growing Old?
HAVE gone into the thing pretty thoroughly. I have talked to wise old men and unwise young ones. I have plagued the life out of doctors and psycholo-
gists.
I have read books from Cicero's "De Senectute" right up to "the best years of a woman's life" sort of thing. And
talked to beauty specialists and rejuvenation experts.
I have
And still haven't solved the problem of how to grow older. Shall collapse into a deck chair and leave fun
for the younger folk, or shall I spend two days week in a beauty parlour and wear a brave, bright smile for the rest of my days and keep on the competition with youth?
I
I want to grow okier and nicer every year→→ and that shows that I have reachedi 30 or shouldn't be adding the "nicer" part. But I want to have fun and I don't want to look nasty. That is justly exnetly what everyone in the world wants to do and only very occasionally do 16nd people who have succeeded.
I have, of course, received some very good advice.
Several doctors told me that there wasn't a problem at all; as my hody grew older so would my mind improve and compensate me for loss of physical vitalily.
Asks Wulfred Pryke
I have got to wait until about 40 for that and then, apparently, I shall
no longer want to hurl myself into cold water or walk at night through the rain.
If
In my most unhappy moments
I am wondering whether my brain
Collapses into a deck chair and leaves fin for the younger fulk
Common Sense
in
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-women who drive a lot should watch these points. They'll feel and look better when the journey is over
you are a woman owner-driver.
. you will often forget your out of shops. A folded newspaper slipped under the pedals will prevent damage to the heels of your shoes. Suede is especial- ly susceptible.
You will drive without sufficient support for your back Lack of support makes and wonder why you feel tired after a run. for stack tummy muscles and hip spread. Have a wedge shape cushion in the driving seat or fold a small rug into a hard roll and place it in the small of the back.
with brightly cruel tongue that A nasty old woman.. gathers all round her when they want a laugh.
really will play up and develop to its full strength at 40 as it is supposed to do!
PSYCHOLOGISTS tell me that I must get outside myself
and become detached and impersonal and that, anyway, most journalists are neurolic-so you can guess that my talks with them were friendly and not those of a patient.
Beauty specialists tell me that, with knives and treatments, I can re- main lovely to look at until just bout 50 provided 1 sleep a lot and, an careful with my eyes.
Wise old men tell me that unselfishness is the answer, and unwise young one say "you aren't old yet, so why worry?".
But, all the same, I believe that there is a period between 30 and 40 when every mon and every woman has a nasty sinking feeling about getting older and wonders wildly how they had best adjust themselves to it. Once you come to your decision I imagine the battle is won and you are heading for peace and happiness.
But I haven't deelded yet how to do it.
much admire who has two
There is it
* Woman
children.
She is very pretty and is only two years nice husband older than I I am. She has
and has always been admired by men. And now she has settled down and saya that she is Hoing to spend the rest of her days thinking and plan- ning for her children.
She is not going to dye her hair when it turns She grey. She is not going to have a "face-lift."
is going to forsake the company of men and live only for womenfalk. And she really looks extremely happy and content on her decision.
Spends two dans
a week in a bean- tu parlour
in
order to compete arith youth.
KNOW another woman, also a few years older than myself, also married and with three children. She says she will Gght old-ge every step of the way.
That, of course, she will go to beauty specialists and mix with young people if she wants to, and compete with them as well. And that her children will like her far more if she keeps alert, young and golden-haired than if she gets fat and grey.
And so, I want to know how to grow old and I a still going around I nsking questions.
It eats with its Eyes
TOADS may not be elegant,
but they are useful, for they. devour lots of prubs and cater- they pillars. Queer creaturen, can swallow hairy larvac and stinging bees with impunity, nor do they boggle at blister beetles. It is worth watching one dine. It prowls slowly about the gar- den and, when it spots it prey. Then stops deal for a moment, out it shoots its tongue, three or even four inches. The sticky tongue catches the grub and pops backs with an audible click.
But the toad has no teeth, 30 cannot chew. Before swallowing it, therefore, it crushes its food inside its head, where do you think?
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One thing I do know, We are n aiming at the same thing, that is to living about it and enjoy forget every day of the week that conics along. And I have a very horrid feeling that it's on individual thing. If you have made a chaotic mess of being young you will до оп make just as chaotle a one of grow- ing older. I don't believe you suddenly became quiet and resigned if you are a Aghter and, what is more Important. I am perfectly cer- tain you don't want to,
and
WHICH shall I be? A
old woman in several shades of bright purple, with crimson hair, who has such a brightly cruel tongue that she gathers all round her when they want a laugh.
Or a nice rosy-checked okt lady who knits shapeless malince Jackets for ber great-grandchildren and exudes peace and quiet and security? Or do you think I could combine
In the two
caze any studied the subject for so many weeks that I feel like laughing until I gel hiccups and I hope you do, too, beenuse I believe that is the way to solve it after all.
1
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SMYTHE AND THE COOLINS
THERE are few things more the research revealed that this Forbes the Himalayas, the 3,300
the son of that Wilhelmina Coolins, I was forced
mendous than a first sight of the was
of the
to confess,
Coolins. I crossed the ferry at Kyle Belsches who nearly broke the heart must seem pretty footling.
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Skye and into the sunset. The Red the biography of Forbes, Hills, on my left hand, glowed a rich there were pages and pages of re- precipice is the same, at whatever crimson in the fading light; and the ferences to his achievements in the height one meets it, and Sgurr nan could I find Glenn alone has more than one of sen inlets at their feet were molten Alps, not one word
cams of Iridescent
All was about Sgurr nan Gillean, or any of these. But a gold.
a further shock WAS store, for Mir. Smythe casually dis- streams colour and splendour and pageantry, the Coollus.
Then suddenly, ns 1 came round n
dains the biggest thrills of the Coolins. He talks of them as lightly shoulder of one of the Red Hills, this
of tint and hue was JUDGE THEN OF my joy when, a few as you or I would do of Ludgate Hill.
pinnacle route The horizon days ago, I discovered that no less He climbed
of magnificence completely blotted out
coun- celebrated a mountainer than Mr. F. Sgurr nan Gillean "lethargically": us a whole The wheel should be carefully adjusted so that you sit upright, was serrated with a range of
The Hight of the setting sun seemed one of the highest mountains in the provided a series of pleasant "seram- well back into the hard cushion. In this position you will have tains of almost appalling blackness. 5. Smythe, the conqueror of Kamet, he found that the near
world, hind written of Sgurr nan bles.". These were sore blows; but, to have on them no effect whatever Giliean. But my joy was dashed to battered and staggering as I better control over your car and will not ruin your figure.
ground
when 'I investigated I rally all my forces your most glamorous make-up when except that their Jagged and enorm- G Keep your elbows down
Koing of for a week-end visit to ous teeth bit yet the more clearly
to the Coolins in an essay the most tremendous things I know. YOU will often drive with friends in the country. Resist the into a still luminous sky. The inn further, and found that Mr. Smythe assert once more that together, and that I was secking, with its meals refers may regret it
indeed, But then I have never seen your hands on top of the wheel, temptation, or you
a'humillation; but, compared Himalayas. Break yourself of this habit. It when you catch sight of yourself in and lounges and crowds of cheery called "Low Hills" This,
with the 28,000 feet of the glants of will give you sticking-out shoul- the mirror over that welcoming cup! visitors, was near at hand; never-
theless, the Black Coolins sent der blades and make your back of tea.
chill through my heart. oche. Drive with the elbow swell down to the sides, the hands lightly
rim of on the tower placed
SINCE THAT DATE, I have looked out wheel.
YOU will often forget to re- sun oil or sun cream all over your sharply for any iterature of the Conscious relaxation Jpx.
the face and neck; omit powder al-Coolins that might exist. Especially on a long together. Wear an invisible hair net have I ransacked the shelves of the muscle is most restful
peaked cup (inen with London Library in its mountaineer- the bead, then and n run. Start with the shoulders, next the arms. Final- slashed crown is high sports fashion ing sections. But, though scores ly the waist and legs. With a Bille this year), smoked glasses of course, books jiractice you wil And yourself loosening up automatically,
of
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Two days' research in Bodley at
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KKKKKKKKKARAKKENARIKKAAKARATANAGARKAZANKAREKATAKKKKKNĴa century old, I discovered that
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8 This kind of work obviously
puts years on a man's life.
9 The girl shows up a falsehood
about a creature.
10 A kind of Venetian bind. 12 There is nothing beside it in the
gome.
15 More than one make the reckon-
certain number. ing
19 One of the porcine family.
21 One of the duck family.
22 Fish.
23 Dance.
24 A man buying a Jerry-bullt
house is mistaken if he thinks
this means his last payment for
it.
27 Arrangement.
30 One partner seems to want the
other's aid.
32 Drive.
133 This girl claims to
looking.
be good-
DOWN There is part of a whip In this kind of carriage.
2 Coox.
3 Audible displeasure.
4 There is bloodshed if this mon-
ster is disturbed.
7 Sept.
14 Sept.
8 Oct.
15 Oct.
9 Nov.
16 Nov,
10 Dec.
17 Doc.
18 Oct. 10 Nov. 20 Dec.
3 Nov.
4 Dec.
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11 A sort of spice to annoy,
13 Worship.
13
14 A painter, not a soldier, 15 In the direction of a notice in a
hospital?
16 Reparation.
17 Sing about this for parting.
18 An emblem of viclory perhaps, 20 Famous actor.
24 Not a complicated herbal re-
medy,
25 An actor of old.
20 Weed.
28 This was formerly in poems. 20 The kind before your eyes now. 30 A practical joke perhaps,
31 Metal.
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