WHAT IS
TRUTH?
ANY parents, particularly those who have a strong code of behaviour, are inclined to be overshocked when small tons and daughters Lay away from the truth, But really, is it to be wondered at if a child draws on his imagina- tion when his nursery days are coloured with such stories as Jack and the Beanstalk and the bedtime tales that Mummy and Daddy love to tell?
Further, when he shows concern for poor little Red Riding Hood, he is assured that it is only a falry story.
It is unreasonable, in these circumstances, to expect young children to understand exactly what is meant when told "not to tell stories."
So we must treat the children's laptes into make-belief with patience and understanding, and as they grow older they will develop a sense of values
and will realize that make-belleve must be kept for pinytime and should have no part in real matters.
Changing Names
My son lives in a world of "make- bellene." So firmly does he believe in the characters which he takes on that He gets into wild tempers when we call him by his own name,
MY advice is that you should leave
this alone, na your boy is not yet five. He will probably outgrow this habit once he goca to school, and, if at present he prefera to be called "King Richard" or "Dick Turpin," it will dö no harm to humour him.
He is doing you the honour of in- cluding you in the game, and deep down ho knowa that you are all pre- Lending, but it is good fun.
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Children are very open really, wonder how many grown-ups have not lain awake at night planning what they would do if they won A large sweepstake prize.
Because we keep these secret Imagini-
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make-boliovo.
logs to ourselves there is no rersch why we should think little of children who air their imaginings openly. By checking their "make-believe" we run the grave risk of making amall folk secretive.
The Practical View
We are very isolated, but my nearest neighbour and friend is now expecting baby. I wonder if I should tell my girl of thirteen about this,
HERE you have a golden opportunity
of explaining matters quite simply
to your girl. I nuggest she should do something useful as regards the preparatima, such as knitting vests or u frock,
There is nothing like streasing the practical side of these matters; that leaves.no time for speculations. At the same time it is a really big mistake tu confuse Ignorance with innocence. By wrapping the whole subject op in cotton-wool one only creates a mystery! quite unseersartly.
Most Untruthful
Her teacher reports that my piri ol fourteen continually tells her untruths. She is the same at home..
FRIEND once told me that she was most untruthful until a school- teneter once told her a lovely legend of truth from Olive Schreiner's famous
vel. "A South African Farm."
That led to her taking a much wider view of the whole subject. Not tell- in untruths" widened out into a zearch for Truth, cost what it might.
T is a well-known fact that women together talk, to a large extent, about clothes. It is equally a fact, but 1 very much hushed-up fact, that men to- gether are also apt to touch on the subject of dress.
One can hardly imagine-a-man- saying: "I saw the cutest little remnant of heather tweed to-day and just couldn't resist buying it." But they do say something like "I've just bought a new sult, but I think the revers are too wide. The salesman said it's the latest thing
Women are also known to dis- cuss their underclothes. How and where one gets the fimiest bit of allk and lace for a song: cami- knickers versus chemise and panties, whether to. wear black under black frocks-n million and one things about lingerie.
Stylish Underwear
Now a man will not discuss his underclothes. And why? Because for many yeara men's underwear 'has al- ways been the same. At 14 or 40--the same shape, the same material year la, year out.
And now, although men's underwear has been for somo ilmo past at a stage -no, I am not going to say of undress1 -where there is no more need to speak of those articles with bated breath and blush of shame, or not at all, tradition dies hard,
As a matter of fact, there's real style in men's underwear to-day.
I am not suggesting that they are adorned with lace or embroidery nor that theirs is a question of the amart man wearing blue under a blue sui But he can get his underwear in many colours and ninterials, styles and fit- Linga.
Take, for instance. Wolsey under- wear. They make many styles and colours, in the Rnest, softest wool
And don't imagine that men's under- garments are shapeless in these days. Far from it.
Hard-Wearing
There's a pride in the fit of the gar- ments they turn out. They are specially kuitted, not cut, to shape. Everything of theirs is fully fashioned.
That means their garments · aro shaped in the making to at like a glove with no wrinkles of rucks, and will really keep their shape through years of hard wear.
- Now, with women's lingerie, wear is often a secondary consideration. With men, wear naturally comes more to the
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I believe that she never told a le from that day, and this change of atti tude towards the whole question bas led to her becoming a fearicas spokes- man for tho weak and afflicted.
NURSERY
EXPERT
tho matter to be explained to them on its true footing; it will probably be best just to say that their father has gone away, and to add that they must look after you for the present.
Toddler's Menu
'My toddler is difficult over his dinners. How could I very his jare? Ape 1 months.
TRY these suggestions for a week's dinners: Monday, one tablespoon. ful of lightly-cooked steak, cut up omall with sharp knife; one table- #poonful of green vegetable; one small potato; cornflour shape with jelly.
Tuesday, one tablespoonful of flaked white scp-fish or a aniali day, one tablespoonful of well-cooked Arcen vegetable: one small 'potato; stewed frult with a teaspoonful of cream. Wednesday.
of tablespoonful ont lightly-cooked and finely-minced liver; one tablespoonful of sieved carrots; one potato. Milk pudding.
Thursday, scrambled sheep's brain, green vegetable and one potato: stewed fruit and cream. Friday, one steamed fillet of plaice, one tablespoonful of greens, one small potato: milk Jelly.
Saturday, small mution cutlet, free from fat and cut up anely; green vegetable or cauliflower, one smanil potato; milk pudding. Sunday, shiny- ings off the joint, green vegetable, one small palato: stewed fruit and cream.
Try to get your daughter to take this Noisy and Troublesome
larger view of Truth, and I am conf- dent that you will help her to conquer this fault.
Where's Daddy?
I have been obliged to obtain a divorce from my husband who has now remarried. How can I explain things He was to my two small children? very fond of them.
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UDGING by the dignifled tone of your letter I am sure that the handling of this matter is in nfc hands, but I realise that such situn- tions are particularly dieult when both parents are fend of their children. Your little ones aro too young for
Fewer Parrots In
England
London.
My little girl is spectaily trouble. some at school, her teacher tells me. She lived with her Granule for two years and was rather spoilt,
GATHER that your little daughter is now once more in your care. She will soon get over this early spoiling f you are firm and patient with her now. Plan her day carefully so that she has a regular routine with time for open-air play and plenty of sleep. A regular routine is a good antidote to apolling and lack of wise discipline.
Cigar Indian's Face Lifted
Hardworking Hands
DUSY hands can be kept soft and Dunblemished If a few simple precautions are taken.
Hasty washing and cureless drying most of the hands are among the fruitful sources of trouble, So a bowl of oatmeal should always bo washbasin, kept by the side of the and the hands dusted with this after washing.
After a particularly dirty job, sonic the hands in olive oil before washing. and the dirt will come off very easily. Avold the, USC of washing-soda.. Soap flakes are much kinder to the hands. But if soda has been used in the washing-up water, rub a lotion into the hands immediately after. Ad excellent one can be made by mixing four parts of milk to one of glycerino.
Keep a plece of lemon by the sink, and a fitile salt is added to this, It will remove the most obstinate i stalns.
Where the nails are inclined to be brittle, the null varnish should be the nails removed each night, and should be soaked in almond oil, drying J very Nail varnish has
this, effect, but the oll counternets besides keeping the cuticles soft and pliable.
A Quick Transformation
to it Sometimes
is necessary
Au achleve very quick results. invitation to a party may arrive un- expectedly, and the hunds must look their best.
Here is a certain method of effect- ing an overnight transformation, and, extra trouble once in a while, the involved will not be. grudged,
Make a bath of hot olive oil, and add glycerine in the proportion of one tablespoonful of glycerine to two of oil. Soak the hands in this
an
upward lotton, massnging with
the wrist, ond movement towards pulling the fingers as in the act of donning gloves. Spread the fingers out and bend them. Close and open the hands with the Angers spread out.
Continue the treatment for about twenty minutes at least. If there is a tendency to enlarged joints in the Angers, half an hour's treatment is advised. The hands should next be washed in luke warm water to which the juice of a lemon has been added. Finally úpply a pack of honey and borax, slipping on a pair of loose white cotton gloves, which will not as bandages, and allow the pack to do its work overnight.
water
the
Fremont, O. Parrots are gradually disappearing) "Chief Tecumseh," last of the cigar-
In the morning. wash from English homes and the import store Mohicans, has been restored to trade is practically ended. This his post in front of a tobacco shop which has been softened by
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g several addition of a bag of ontmeal, and, a result of the prohibition of the im-here after an absence port of all birds of the parrot species weeks. The wooden Indian, familiar given the usual manicure, the hands imposed in 1930 "to prevent the relic of the past, was taken to a re-will be as sult and dainty, spread of the Infectious disease) pair shop for a new coat of war point most fastidious woman could desire.
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and minor repairs.
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fore. And this is where this ärm scores again.
Pirst and foremost, at all points of Could wear there is reinforcement. one want more? Becondly, all cuffs- -at-arms- and legs-aro knitted with the garment, so there in no weakness with a join
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And to add to all this, the special
THE
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EVERYWHERE
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seams le absolutely fiat so that there' is no chasing, but perfect comfort.
And their range of styles is afily equalled by their range of prices. A man of almost any size and shape caN bo provided with amart, hardwearing, perfectly fitting underwear for any- thing from 84. 11d. to 15%. 11 per garment.
Socks & Cardigans
Of course, underclothes are not the Bocks, only things thila firm maken. cardigans, pullovers, etc., all made of pure, soft wool for hard wear in a multitude of styles and sizes.
For two miillings the stronger sex can invest, in a pair of socks, ribbed, marled or plain, in any one colour, with the knowledge that if they shrink in washing or fail in normal wear a new pair will be forthcoming free.
We have all heard of the tour looks with which the nicest woman meets, in the same room, a frock identical with hers
Well, I am not going to say ulikt the samo neree anger secilies in a manty bosom when he sees his socks on some
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There's Style In Men's Underclothes These Days
the
other man. But the situation is certainly 2 mite embarrassing. Now, Wolsey are rather clever over that. They have many, many designs. But they are all exclusive to them- selves. Thus the duplication risk
reduced to a minimum.
So, Monsieur can chooST! himself a sock with just the pattern to suit his suit (oh, dearl) and his taste.
Then there arò pullovers and pullovers. Here again I must put la frm into the first class for wear, style, range and value, and -very important-FIT.
Perfect Fit
In these, too. the garment is fully fashioned and knitted to shope so that not a wrinkle will mar its sarlarial perfection.
ONLY
14
SHOPPING DAYS
TILL CHRISTMAS
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 0, 1937.
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JOLLY RECORDS FOR THE CHRISTMAS
FESTIVITIES
C2877-See Me Dance the Polka.
Blaze Away. You're Not the Kind.
I Want the Whole World. Take My Heart. Sing Baby.
(Polka. Velcla, Waltz, Q.8. F.T.) C2870-PAUL JONES., Little Robin. It's a Sin. Shoe Shine,
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One Rose. No Regrets, There's a New World.
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Blue Danube, Happy Darkles Barn Dance, See Mo Dance the Polka,
FG54-Old Fashioned Dances. Jolly Brothers Veleta.
Blaze Away Military Two Step, Old Fashioned Waltzes.
PLAYED BY HERMAN DAREWSKI & HIS BALLROOM ORCH. 8055-Gay 90's Waltz Afedley.
PLAYED BY PRIMO SCALA'S ACCORDION BAND,
8328-Nellie Dean. After the Ball, Daisy Bell,
For Old Time's Sake.
C1582-Good Old SongS
C2701-DRINKING SONGS
.SUNG BY FLORRIE FORD.
.JACK HYLTON'S BAND.
..JACIC HYLTON'S BAND.
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Marina House,
$1 TIFFINS
at-
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Tel. 24648.
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Also A la Carte
China Bldg., Hongkong,
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