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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
The Awkward Age
"H
OW glad I shall bo whon Tony reaches school agel" sighed his mother sho rescued her toddler frami the coal-scuttle.
"Wait a few years longer and then you can reckon that your maternal problema are really about to belt. Inughed Tony's grand- Knother.
While the child in still small he should be regarded more or less as a sturdy young animal to be kept healthy and disciplined into the virtues which make it possible for us to live together in some degree of peace.
Once he reaches his teens he will have developed un individu- ailty of his own, but without sum- cient experience always to make a
Things To HOUS
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houses with
windows should inst upon the spreint brackets and fitments. that manufacturers supply Er the Hulders for hangingt nét cuntains. Any metal window can be atted to take a net curtain or a brise-hive, and women can get thea Atments
NURSERY EXPERT
advises on those
TROUBLESOME
TEENS...
wise choice when certain alterna- tives are put before him.
I am replying to-day to zome letter which have received from parenta whoag children have reached tits awk. Ward age, and who are at a fosa hơ best to help them over their present dificulties.
Budding Romance
My son who is still attending school has struck up a romantic friendship with a girl of whom we cannot approve. We are teendering how best to break this off.
ADVISE you to take the whole taranes calmly and not to show any marked opponatima,
Youth s DRAVS Squared
and have them put 111 without her, to meet pisatanes if there difficulty
The latest gold fobwatch looks like a small round lipstick container, and hangs by a chain from a plain gold, pin. The container has a large ruby! at one end, which, when pulled out, reveals a tiny watch set like a cylinder inside" a "tube,
wan ny strength of cluracter, the end you will help your son best by showing sane aympathy over hi first venture into romance even if you do not think much of his girl friend.
ve them both a chance. At the same time treat your on more as an adult train now on so that he may gradually acquire a sense of responsi bility towarda y ant towards all | worden generally,
Cocksil prints are the fatest linen and eatton unterrals for pleysunts, I should encourage him to take the blouses, and house conta Different | DoJected hiking four on the Con coloured corktatis, each with tent with the two older men friends nurse in block capitals written neatly whom you mention. It will widen his underneath, are spattered all Over the material. One attractive house cuol pale blue linen Ban ittle buttons shaped like cocktaila glasses to go with the pattern
over
honzoni considerably.
Self-Conscious
Sully, aged 1, very stout for her the age. She looks definitely lumpy fr material. Other buttons carved out summer trucks and is self-conscious
resemble Į about her appeuraner. of wood and thick bone cherry stleks, olives, anl almonds, and can be found in colour.
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every
This And That
"OLOUR is being successfully intro- duced into fine lei lace nei table mats and dressing-tabile, sets.
American women have Hiven defulte lead to British housewives ja the use of
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THE sudden increase weight
which often accompanies 1 early teens has brought misery to many young girls who find it hard to realise that most of this puppy- fat" will be reabsorbed later in their development.
Sensible dieting and right excrebe will do much to shorten their time of trial and I will gladly send you a good let chart which will support hergy while avoiding deposits of unhealthy fat and an exercise chart for improv
lace tablecloths. Pro-25、、、、、、、、$93448/49125218115118211 bably eight out of every ten house- wives in America use Ince cloths. When cloths are not in use they have sets of "shawis-the American name for a lace runner--with matching | Jable mats.
The half-curtain is providing wo- men with an opportunity to kerp abreast of modern furnishing style at surprisingly low cost. Where need for economy h the home budget does not permit a fuller use of attractive store curtains, lace panel curtains, or long nets, the windows can be delight- fully curtained with a length which runs ncross the lower half of the window or the lower pane
A win- dow three feet in width requires a 1% to 2 yards length, this means that a house with say eight windows- to the front requires no more than about 15s for thoroughly up-to-date and attractive matched curtainings.
Y'S MEN'S TIFFIN Instead of the usual tiffen meeting. next Thursday, members of the a Chinese dinner at the Chinese
MIDGE: Always Awkward
"Hiss Auntie, Midge." *Must 17"
ing young Agures with a tendency to unwickly bulk.
With regard to her clothes, let her be sure that you are interested in her problems. She will look best in fairly quiet self colours or stripes for the present, but avoid a drab effect by introducing a tourh of colour in scarf, collar or bell.
Painfully Shy
Ay Afteen-year-old son is painfully thy and so abrupt at times that he is considerad rude.
SHYNESS coupled with the boister qua outbursts which you describe later in your letter are common among boya of this age. They are Towing fast, are conscious of their awkward limbs and uncertain voices and find i difficult to adjust themselves to the company of any but their own immne. dinte associates.
Ile will outgrow this quickly if you give him certain responsibilities in the home, consulting him on inatters of family concern and making it clear that you no longer regard him as an Irresponsible child but as one who has a certain dignity to maintain.
Ungrateful Daughter
We have left no stone unturned to give our 16-year-old daughter every opportunity, but she is proping most ungrateful, and refuses to give us the least consideration,
Alf afraid that you placed too much weight on giving your daughter "extma," such as music and dancing Jossons, instead of insisting that she learnt obedience and respect for her parents, Now. for her own safety's sake, you can only insist that she should be home at a reasonable hour. and that she should make her mind up to keep her next job.
Get her father to talk the whole matter over with her quietly without any show of temper. Let him make It quite clear that you have now both
Tomboy daughter enjoys a rido on the soo-saw with Toby, the dog.
reached the end of your patience, and that she must either pull herself to gether, or else leave your home so that you may have the peace which you deserve after this long struggle. It.is possible that a quiet talk on these inen will have the dealred effect.
Highly Strung
I am worried because my daughter, aged thirteen, has developed a habit of blinking constantly. The oculist states that no glasses ure needed,
TN that case Ignore the habit, for it la of nervous origin and will pass more quickly if no comment is made. She should lead a very regular life with phin. nourishing meals and few late nights."
Choosing a Career
We want our son to sit for a scholar ahip examination which will take him to the university if he is successint. He dislikes study, but has always been fairly quick ut school. He wants to go straight to toork now.
A this university career would
mean self-sacrifice for you, nut- withstanding the scholarship. I advise you to let your son go into his father's business as he himself suggesia.
In this case, I see no point in foreing a univeralty career on a lad who is not interested in that kind of life.
Using Hot Water Beauty For The Woman
Hongkong Y's Men's Club will have To Advantage
Merchant's Club, China Building, in HAVE you ever tried giving green
vegetables their last rinse under
Motorist
is
honour of Messrs. W. G. Por. Richard Shim, Dr. Y. L. Lee and Dr. Arthur, the hot tap just before putting them 70 preserve one's complexion one's roughness and redness and a 100 rapid Woo, four Y's
on to boil? Men who recently chill down the boiling water in the by spraying the face with cold water, secreted in the pores.
In his way they won't pores should be closed against dust drying of the natural oil returned from abroad.
cooking Dr.. Woo will give further Impres-saucepan, so that the
is then saturate a plece of lint in a good slons of his trip around the world. quicker, and the green colour of the astringent lotion and apply
vegetables is thus preserved.
freely.
Root vegetables may be treated In this
his way too.
In
this Where there is a long hait In the middle of the day's run. I find nothing more helpful than slipping One of hte best home-made astring into my handbag a tiny amount of If you have the misfortune to trap ents for this purpose is to take equal cleansing cream and fresh supplies your fingers in a door or
part of rosewater, witch-hazel, and of protective cream and powder. drawer, Uncture of benzoin. This astringent this way I am able to keep my com plunge them quickly into water, as is most beneficial to the fale, delleste plexion always fresh and dainty; and hot as you can bear, and keep them type of skin. there a few minutes.
For the thicker skin without that "made-up" look one use two parts of pure alcohol, one often sees on the faces of girls as they part of eau de Cologne, and one part step out of a car. dose of distilled water,
pain magically.
It anges the
When you give your dog a
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of castor oil, stand the measuring |spoon in a cupful of boiling water.
When my day's motoring is over 1 Should your skin be very sensitive never put anything on my Lace for Let it become thoroughly hot, and so that it Rushes and "burns" easily at least half an hour after going in leave it in the hot water till you the application of the astringent doors. Then I thoroughly cleanse the are ready to measure the oil. In should be preceded by a light applica- skin, bathe in luke-warm water and, this way none of the oil will adhere ton of any soothing cream or com say, a tollet sachet, dry on to the spoon.
plexion milk. Remove after a few wel, then apply a good sitin food When candle won't fit its stick,minutes, then apply the astringent dip the end into boiling water till that best suits your skin.
or a cooling liquid emulsion. If you softens slightly. If the stick is
try this trick you will find that by the time the evening's "make up" is abe applied, your skin will be none the worse for a long day's run in the
Don't be content with
It
an old fashioned kitchen!
A new one can be installed complete for less than you'd expect.
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too small the melting will slim down | General Applications of Creams the candle; if it is too big the softened candle may be pressed down
At bedtime, after a run in the car, car. firmly so that the base spreads out it is best to be rather lavish with a to fit.
good greasy cream. It will all wipe
No girl who values her complexion Isobel. off after you have left it on long can afford to neglect her eyes after a
enough to do its work.
long run in the car especially if the BLACKOUT ON FRIDAY If the weather be cold or windy, weather proves disappointing, since it before going on a long ride in the car, is ten to one the rushing air will nip use a greasy, not a vanishing, cream one's, eyes and give them a watery
To Cover New Territories And Islands
A complete blackout of the Colony, including the New Territories and lalands on territorial waters, will be held on Friday.
The exercise will be mado realistic
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on your face, and after most of it has look that is rather unbecoming. been removed dust on a generous When my eyes look at all "caught" supply of powder which exactly suits I find nothing so helpful as a bathe your skin. In this way the come with a warm boracic lotion. plexion will be fortified against
Beauty Expert.
Force planes will stage mirate raids GAMBLING IN STREET keeping a common gaming house, and
on the city, 1,500 air raid wardens
two others wore fined $1 each for
will be on duty, decontamination Seventy Men Play Under gambling.
squads, will engage in a practical
exercise, and the Volunteer Fire
Brigade force, Civilian Medical Ser-
vice Corps and A.R.P. Despatch Corps will be on service. All
Special Light
September 18, 1939.
Brush Your Way To Smartness
TOW oflen a woman's appearance
His spolit by the lack of a little!
brushing! Her hair is dull, her shoca dusly, or she has atray bales an her shoulders,
It is a good idea to keep a special brush for your bags. One with soft bristles keeps your leather bags shining and bright, and remember to brusk inside all the folds and crevices where dust collects. A wire or rubber brush should, of course, be used for suede bags.
If you keep a wire brush for your suede shoes, be gentle when you use it, or your shoes will get a bald appearance! Keep a hard brush for brushing all the dirt off your shoes before you start to put any polish on them the leather will keep much botter, and the shoes chine more casily.
A special brus! should be kept for suta. Tins should be amati, not too hard,
and slightly curved. It will then go inside the brims where dust seems to collect in no time. Try to get into the habit of brushing your hat as you put it away, so that it will look fresh next time you want to put
un.
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Prince Nicholas of Rumanla appears in news pictures fur less than his brother, King Carol. But here are. he and his wife on a canal in Venfee. King Carol formerly disapproved of his brother's inarriage, to Mme. Lucin Deletz,
WIFE IS WILLING
Do you hastily try to brush your shoulders with your lund us you dash out, or do you use the clothes brush that you
have tucked away somewhere? Try a brush with u long handle, that will reach the bits of your back that you can't get at really well with an ordinary brush. Another very hard brush will pick up hairs and obstinate bits of luff where sometimes a soft brush fails. | 667
Most people have really good brush for their hair, but seem to be,
TO BE THRASHED
"REMEMBER you are a woman, not a dog," said the chairman of Watford magistrates recently to a afraid to we it. Fifty strokes night woman who declared that she was willing to allow her and morning should be your minimum. Wash the brush at least husband to thrash her if she gave him "sauce." every time you shampoo your hair, and keep it in a drawer out of the cust.
Another brush the chic woman
Mrs. Florence F. Starkey, of Escort Road, Watford, said she wished to withdraw a summons for assault
should have is an eyebrow brush against her husband, Frederick Starkey (40).
The magistrates refused to give permission; and bound over Starkey for 12 months.
another one besides the one you use for mascara, Try dipping it in little easter all, and brush your lashes and brows with this after powdering. It makes them beaull- glossy, and castor oil was one of grandma's favourite eyelash powders! Many people leave their tooth- brushes out in the dust all day.
"You can get small cases for them, or
keep
them in your bathroom cupboard, It is a good idea to have two brushes, and to use them alternately. They last longer, and the bristles dont
get soft.
One more hint-keep your old toothbrushes. You'll find many odd uses for them, and they are splendid for cleaning your combs, nud also for cleaning silver, The bristles go into
When Mrs. Starkey asked to withdraw, the Clerk told the Bench that she had complained that her husband had benten her on the body with a whip.
"A NEW CODE"
Mrs. Starkey: I had my clothes on,
The Clerk: I understand it was on your bare back and that he put you out into the garden.
Mrs. Starkey said she gave her husband some "sauce" and he threatened her and then hit her with a whip. She wanted to withdraw the summons and forgive him.
The Chairman (Mr. D. Blackley) asked whether, if she "sauced" her husband, she was willing that he should thrish her.
Mrs. Starkey: Yes.
The Chairman: It seems to me
every soolt and cranny where an that they are arranging a new SOS För A.R.P.
ordinary cloth is useless.
F. M.
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HOME HINTS
WOOLEN garments will be
mune from attack by moths if they are stored in a bag of unbleach ed calico which has been previously wrung out in turpentine and dric out of doors.
When feet are troublesome on hot day, try rubbing in the juice of a lemon, allowing it to dry in. This banishes the pain almost immediate
ly.
Before gardening, rub the hands over with wet soap, paying particular attention to the anger-nails; allow the soap to dry in before tackling the work. This prevents the dirt becoming
The hands ingrained. should afterwards be washed in cold water.
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When washing soft polishing slightly dusters, rinse out with soapy water. This makes the dusters. much softer and they polish better. After washing your dog, try rub
bing its coat with a slightly damp chamols leather instead of ↑ towel, and it will dry in half the time.
To treat linen which has become salt and mildewed, rub in damp leave the article in strong sunshine If the stains are very bad, it may be necessary to repeat.
Woollen Odds And Ends
code altogether outside our law here.
Starkey said they had been mar- rd years and he had hit his wife "only twice."
"On Saturday she challenged me. I had a whip in my hand, hit her with it and caught her across the back."
"NOT A SLAVE"
The chairman: You cannot treat your wife us if she is a slave and You cannot thrash her with a whip.
He added that the wife's state- ment that she was willing for her husband to thrash her if she an- swered him back would not work in a free country like this. und the Bench were not going to endorse it.
After the hearing Mrs. Starkey said: "My husband and I are friends again. At the end of to-day's pro- ceedings he kissed me.
"He had told me that he is sincere- ly sorry for what has happened, and, I believe, him."
EARLY MORNING FIRE Matsheds in Flames On
Stonecutters Island
Its bluze clearly visible over a wide area of Hongkong, a fire broke out on Stonecutters Island at 2.30 am. yesterday, Firefloats from Hongkong and Kowloon rushed to the Island and after an hour and 37 minutes of strenuous work, frenien, policemen and military people quelled the con- ftogration.
Trousers
THE War Office will have to
make a pair of trousers to fit Councillor A. J. Blake, of Hornsey, who weighs 18 stono and measures 50 inches round the waist. He is known in the borough as "John Bull." At a parade of Hornsey Air Raid Wardons ho was givon the largest sizes in A.R.P. equipment, but none of the trousers would fit,
"His wife said: "I suppose his weight is due to my cook- ing, for when we were married he weighed only 10 stone. His clothes are mado for him, and the War. Office will have to make him a special pair of trousers."
EMPIRE NEWS
KENYA RAIDERS
ROUTED
The fire began in a contractor's
NAIROBI. matshed and spread to an adjoining one where coolies were sleeping.
A column of the King's
of regarding them as so much waste. area of 120 by 20 feet. No one was
The matsheds destroyed covered an with raiders of the Merriles African Rifles has been in action
F you are a knitter you can turn source of great satisfaction, Instead your woollen left-overs Into e
pot you can, for
Very pretty cosies for tea or coffee Instance, maice from any wool in any colour. newest have rows of fluffy feather- trimming running along their sur
face.
Injured.
tribe, who have been giving much trouble lately on the northern frontier by attacks on peaceable tribes.
Another Outbreak
The Much excitement was caused in
Wing Lok Street, near the Western Market, at 2.15 am. yesterday when the ground floor of an oll dealer's
The raiders were repulsed, suffer- establishment caught fire. The fire in severe casualties. Large herds If you have left-overs from rug-began in the cockloft at the rear of of stolen stock were recovered by making, cut them up, mix them, and the house and was confined to the the you have material for a little rug ground floor. with an attractive flecked surface.
H. W. S.
Defied Doctor To Save Girl
to
the
troops. Further engagements are expected.
More European Bettlers-Wide- Residents close
house spread satisfaction has been caused evacuated hastily, fearing that their by the
that the announcement own premises would be affected. Secretary of State has agreed to the However, fire appliances arrived Kenya Government's early and stemmed the outbreak be- the encouragement
proposals for of more Euro- fore it could spread. The stock of pean settlers. The Government is the shop, which was said to be in- now empowered to borrow £250,- sured, was damaged by
and 000. This will enable large un- water.
developed estates to be sub-divided.
NEW ZEALAND
fite
DOCTORS ACCEPT
CONTRACTS
AUCKLAND.
FORBIDDEN to bathe by a
doctor because he was sub-INTERNEES RELEASED ject to cramp, 21-years-old Ben Robinson, of Marine-parade, Eight More Discharged The sum of 39.14 picked up was Lowestoft, awam out to given to the Poor Box. Among the recently and saved nine-years-
From La Salle trestle A Kowloon gambling school consist Paraphernalia seized was
Eight more internees were released The medical profession has op- Internment Camp on Sunday. Four-contracts for maternity services un- She had been carried out to see on liberty.
teen in all have now been given their der the Social Security Act.
threw her in the water. a rubber raft which capsized and
This step does not dispose of the The eight released yesterday were: ment and the New Zealand branch
larger issue between the Gover Robinson swam. In his clothes, and Erich Porges, Maurice Appel, John of the British after some Lime was seized with Haynemann,
Medical Association Kart Elkan, Fritz regarding the medical provisions of cramp. He struggled on and suc- Szanto, Edgar. Laufer, Adorjan the Act. The doctors maintain their ceeded in bringing the girl ashore.
Fekete, and Gustav Wolfgang Amann. opposition.
traffic on ing of from 80 to 70 people who, were table and a board about 10 ft. long/old Pamela Gowing, of Church- on parole from the La Salle College proved by ballof the acceptance of land and water will cense for twenty playing in the middle of the street by 3 ft. wide with dice markings on road, Pakefield, Lowestoft, minutes.
with a special electrte lamp hanging Lighting restrictions will begin from the verandal, was raided by from sunset and will probably con- Felice on Friday at 7 pm, and seven of the school was under the verandah Sgt. J. Johnston said a large part tinue, until after the "all clear" siren players were arrested. Three sp-of a house-in Sa Po Road. A large is sounded.
Deared before 'Mr. Himsworth at number of the players escaped. Instructions to the public will be Kowloon Magistracy on Saturday, issued during the week.
when La Tak, 29, was anod $50 for had their bail of $4 each estreated.
Four players who did not appear