Saturday. JUNE 8, 1940.
“TELEGRAPH" WEEK-END MAGAZINE
How to Be Beautiful, Yet Practical
PAGE 9 HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
"It's a good thing
she said “you're not like my brother. He never makes friends
with people."
HE SAID
“I should say it depends on the people. Fate was very kind to me when I noticed you looking for a cigarello,”
Cosmetology Made Easy By
the New Lay-On Principle
one of Hongkong's toading Speaking as cosmetologists, it is with regret that I have to remark that Hongkong women don't know how to make up..
Quito a lot of women look as if someone had smacked thom in the face with a bag of flour and then followed it up with
a couple of ripe tomatoes.
of you, you haven't taken a However. scrap of notice,
THIS should not be allowed to continue while we cosmeto-
I'm I have given logists look on. you a number of beauty lez- tures before, but, by the look
chance.
giving
you another
For sturl, it will be obvious.
A WIFE
tells you here how she's won a battle against the curse of many women in war- time-LONELINESS
FIVE months ago, when my hus- band was exiled up, I was the lone- Best woman in the world.
To-day. I am happy.
of
be thousands There must women who are feeling as 1 did. That is why I am writing this. I want them to discover what I discovered that there is no reason why they should nope.
I have six remedies for lonel- NICKS.
These I discovered gradually.
You see, I had to find antidotes for loneliness or I would have gone
insane.
The worst period of loneliness is the first fortnight. My husband and I were inseparable. We had been married for four years.
Schlldren......
We had no
Our appreciations were inore or less the same.
We Inughed at the same things.
We enjoyed the country.
We liked the same pictures.
Indeed, after four years, le de-
pended on his being there.
Then came the war.
He was called up.
Our lives were split.
No longer was he there to laugh
or scowl with me.
I was like a brown deprived of
Its handle. I used to sit in my fat and lament or dream about what used to be.
It took weeks of misery to make me realise that life bad to go on.
Then, after much experimenta- tion, I found solution to my loneli- ness,
is
Here are six remedies:-
1. The first thing a wife who husband from her Reparated must realise is that worry won't solve anything. She must fuce the facts.
It is a big mistake to wish for the impossible. It her husband is All the In France, he's there. hoping and wishing in the world won't change that.
She must say to herself: "He is away from me I am by myself. Now I must make the best of it, the same as he is doing."
To attain this attitude of mind is nol easy.
But once it is attained things become better all round.
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2. Once this attitude of mind is reached, the next step is to acquire new habits.
You must ask yourself what you enjoyed most before you were mine- ried. You might have liked read- charities and ing, helping local what not.
It is a simple matter to pick up "the old threads."
In your locality there is bound to be something you can do to help
us to win this war.
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3. At home, you will And that there is something lacking. Nothing in your home seems quite the same. This is due to the fact that your husband is missing.
You will find it almost unbear- able at first to sit indoors at night, But this is easily overcome. Once you have accepted the reality of
enlistment husband's your evacuation, you will find that there la much that still interests you in your horie.
or
Remember all those changes that you intended to make.
You might have wanted the side- “board moved in another part of the room you might remember some- thing which your husband wanted to improve,
t
Do anything that you've thought about.
Never
4. Have a programme, be a foose end.
There is so much you have to do, whether it's kitting yourself a hood or your
husband a pullover,
Your friends are probably experiencing many of your heart- aches. Get together with them.
Organise mything that will in- terest you and them.
You might like bridge or whist. You may have all shared good times in the old days at some roun- try spot. Do it again.
Try to get your friends to forget their troubles.
0. This last antidote to boredom 1-have-found-very-useful Indeed. It is self-improvement.
When I was first married I was Although I had u very "young." fairly good education, there much I had to learn.
was
For instance, I had never mixed nuch with other people. We did little entertaining. When we had friends, I would flounder around and do all the wrong things.
Recently 1 have realised the im- portance of social intercourse. To know how to entertain is something that every wife should be familiar with.
Thus, during my separation, 1 have both thought and studied how I can be a good hostess.
Agnin, I have learnt how to ex- press myself in community.
All these things and many more ure absorbing, and any wife, who Is at a loose end now, might do well to study them.
If you are separated from your husband remember, above-all, thut- your position is not unique.
Happiness lies within yourself--
It is not out there in the world,
1. therefore, you fail to make the best of your life now the fault is yours not the world's,
that the make-up for a blonde would be totally unsuitable for a this next brunette, Remember
thine you change from brunetto to blonde.
The basis of all make-up treat- ment is to give the face a bit of a wash first.
Lots of girls don't think of this, yet It is one of the best things for removing mud, dust, grass-secds. etc., which collect on the face after a few months.
Once it Never use arid-soap! gets into your ears. It's the devil's awn Job getting it out.
If the face is particularly althy blow-lump may be used-but this should be done by an expert.
Having got the face reusonably clean, a good cream should be well rubbed into the skin-not jeg- cream, beesuse it attracts the lies emlaar- and there is nothing more
Woman rassing to a well-groomed than to be covered with flies.
A face-pack may be applied be fore the cream is rubbed in.
A simple method is to make a blancırange, plùnge the face into
It and low the blanemange to set.
1 necessary, get into the ice-chest with it.
The blantmange should be worn After that for a couple of hours. you eat your way out of it.
The face-pack having been re- moved, rub h; the cream. Rub up- ward from the neck. This will prevent that sagging chin.
It is exceedingly awkward to sit down and find your chin darling in your lap. Don't let it happen to yon.
Remove the surplus cream with a pad of eatton wool or the tea- towel or llver-cloth, whichever is preferred, nad dust the face-no- wait a minute!
Touches Of Rouge
THE rouge should always be ap- plied fret. Make up your mind where you want your checks to be und apply the rouge with u circular motion.
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If your nose is red it may be rendered less noticeable if the roupe is put on the checks very thielt.
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A touch of rouge on the lobes of the ears is sometimes used, but don't put it on thickly that people will think your bay-friend "has socked"you ̃one.
11 is best to The lips are next. make your mind up as to what size and shape your lips are going to be and stick to it. Having different sizes and shapes of lips every day is very confusing to one's friends.
Plucking the eyebrows is not strictly necesary, but a good effect can be had by plucking one eye- brow off entirely and leaving the other one on, This gives a roguish look and may be useful as a dis- quise whenever needed.
the Simply turn
non-eyebrow
side
of the face to the observer. then turn the other side, then look him squarely in the eye. If this doesn't trick him, nothing will.
Another method is to remove both eyebrows and pencil in an other sel. A rather novel effect can be had this way by continuing the eyebrows around past the cars and ending on n true-lovers' knot -at-the back of the neck..
This may be varied, of course, With a backless frock, the eye- brows could be down the back in a series of loops.
An eyebrow pencil should be used if possible. An ordinary
FEAR
FEAR sometimes takes the form of strange obsessions.
Montanus, a famous German Monk who lived from 1488
to 1523, believed himself to be a grain of wheat and constantly thought himself in danger of being devoured by a bird.
of this he never moved outside his house.
Because
It would be unwise for man to conquer all his fears for
it has been one of the things that has helped him to out- Because his fears cover a greater distance all other animals.
scope he has survived many dangers that have meant the extinction of other species.
The feeling of fear lasts longer in the human mind than almost any other emotion. It lasts one-tenth of a' second.
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Fear is responsible for a complicated reaction that up-aets the delicate processes going on in our bodies-especially those of the digestive system. At times it stops the flow of digestive enzymes and then will react by causing them to work overtime. This irritates the lining of the organs.
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Since it also affects the circulatory system the skin often becomes light. Because of this it is believed quite possible that one's hair might "stand on end" with fright when the skin covering the skull is drawn into a taut condition.
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The lack of fear on the part of the modern child toward
his parents is conducive to better health.
"A blow-lamp may be used on the face," says our cosmetologist, "but this should be done by an expert."
tead pencil in not much use, and indelible pencil is liable to run down the face in wet weather, undesirable varicose leaving on
veln effect.
If an eyebrow pencil is not nvall- able, a little stove-polish may be used.
I do not favour the too exten- sive use of perfume. A dab or lwo behind the cars and about an egg- cupful down the front of the frock is sumelcnt for the woman of re- finement.
Sickly, cloying scents should be avoided. A mixture of half scent and half run will give one an in- teresting tang as well 03 being distinctive.
Another thing; it's nice to know that there's always something to
drink in the house. Many wo- man has won back her husband's affections by dousing herself with rum occasionally.
The honds are all-important. The Arst step in the care of the hands is to gel someone in to do the washing
Almond all, the oil used for oll-
almonits, is extclient hands, and
for for
of
ing
The softening
a mixture whitening them peroxide and whitewash is advised. Some people wash them, but this is going to extremes.
Good taste must be your guide in the use of cosmetics, says a lead- She's right, ing society waman.
loo.
Before using any cosmetle, laste
If it tastes good, it's- the stuff.
O.K.
AND NOW
Big Emmy
(Remember
11
50 Big Bertha has daughter. Let us call her Big Emmy.
Her Mother?)
After #ll, Field-Marshal (Guns before Butter) Goering is the gun man-of-the-moment. Frau Bertha Krupp gave her name to the big gun of the last war, It is fitting that the Field-Marshal's actress wife, Emmy Sonnemann, should give hers to the big gun of to-day.
Big Emmy was born some time ago, in secret. She has not yet reached the coming-out nge. But, of course, she will.
She is being watched with care. Her behaviour is being noted in high places in fact, at her mother's home. In Krupp's.
It is hoped that she will be much more worldly success than her famous parent; that she will wear belter and outwit the ravages of time.
In Big Emmy the firm of Krupp is attempting to produce a gun with an extremely long range that will rival the range of 80 miles achieved by Big Bertha. It also wants Emmy to give longer service than her famous parent.
Do you remember Big Berthe and her record in the last, war?
This technical monstrosity, which broke most of the previously. re- cognised laws of gunnery, was sei up by the Germans at Crepy, in the Leon salient, early in 1818. Crepy was the nearest and most suitable point behind the German lines Poris. That from which to shell was the intention-and I was ̄ue- complished, although, Paris at 80 miles away.
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height of 28 miles before falling on its objective.
But Big Bertha found the task of hurting a projectile 80 miles was somewhat wearing. Every shell that was fired wore away the metal of the gun-barrel. So every shell was carefully graded mid number- ed. They varied in diameter from one 8.2 to 8.4 inches, and each used was slightly bigger than the one before. Each shell weigher! 2361b.
After Bring about 80 rounds. Bertha had to roll out the barrel and take in a new one. That is the wear-and-tear strain that the train- ers of Big Emmy are hoping to avoid.
every
A
shell Big Bertha could fre aboul
20 minutes. Ench sonn accompanied by a round.
salvo from about simultaneous
to 100 guns of nearby batteries ét
position. her excel disguise Squadrons of planes patrolled the sky over Crepy. Spies, in a link
Paris
via to Germany, Switzerland, recorded the hits that were made.
щолу
And the result? The gun fred at Paris, on and off, for three
Three months.
hundred Rnd twenty shells fell on the city and suburbs. They killed 25 people and wounded 65.
On Good Friday, 1018, one shell hit the church of Saint Gervais during a service and killed 88 worshippers.
BIR Was it worth while? No. Bertha, for all the skill, during, and
her make-up. surprise In complished practically nothing. She did not terrorise the people of Paris. She cost fabulous sums and did not achieve her purpose- the winning of the last war for
Kaiser Wilhelm II. WAS
feet
The gun's barrel was long, nearly twice the length of a cricket pitch or two-thirds of the Nelson monument. It was
marc
than a yard in diameter, although
ac-
Nor will Big Emmy achieve any may become an purpose. She element in some coming Blitzkieg but she will not win a war for Hitler.
the bore was only just over eight W. M. Towler
inches. So the walls of the gun-- barrel were 15 inches thick.
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The gun-barrel weighed 40 tons, the mounting weighed 50 tons and it was set up in a bed of 00 tons of concrete.
It was hidden in a dense wood, carefully camouflaged and guard- ed by milltary cordon. It was however, classed as a naval guri and was manned by a crew of 60 An admiral was seamen gunners, in command.
The Grat shell was fired on the 1018, when March, 23rd of Ludendorf launched his lost and biggest offensive, the Second Battle of the Marne, The ring, ut range of 80 miles, was based on elaborate calculations which took Into account the barometric pres- sure; the force of the wind, the weather and the curvature of the carth's surface.
Six hundredwolght of explosives was needed for each propelling charge. Two kinds were used and before aring they had to bo hented In an underground chamber. Each shot cost nearly £2,000,
The gun's nose stood in the air at an angle of over 50 degrees. The shell took one minute and a half to-travel the 10 miles to Paris and H new into the stratosphere, to a
Vienna Women Mourn Loss
Of 6,000 Men
BUDAPEST-Frantic wives and the mothers called and telephoned military authorities in Vienna when news spread that 4,000 young Aus- trian soldiers were drowned in one
gunk of the troop transports
by British worships while on the way to Norway.
The women Invariably received the lists laconic answer: "No casually have so far been received from Nor- way, but the losses will be announced, when available,"
Was
At the same time, attention drawn to previour Gestapo orders forbidding relatives of dead soldiers to wear mourning, or to speak about the deaths to anybody outside their own families, threatening any offer- "ders against thur bider-wit-heavy|
punishment.
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