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What's your brand
of fascination?
THEODORA BENSON'S article for women
YOU know the saying that.
And now, how about it if the hond now, how never sulted 'to his last. It means two and found his last a natural
things.
chemy from the word go?
The sooner ho parts from his Firstly, that it's no good last in that case, the better. dashing away from your real For instance, do you ask the talent, your natural trend, be hairdresser to tone down your cause you strike a sticky patch red hair? You should be proud In your life. Recoup yourself of it. Make up and dress your- with the weapons you know.
self for it then you'll look some- And if you have no striking good point of face or figure? If people think of you as a No-label-or an unsatisfactory shoemaker, they don't give seri- label such as "dim" or "beige"
There's something about you ous attention to your efforts at
which you're wasting. Nice upholstery.
teeth, Smilo more.
Secondly, that to some extent body. you get known by a label.
......
You can see for yourself the Nice eyes? Use mascara. bearing of all this upon the question of your particular kind of fascination, (For, of course, this isn't an article about shoe-
Nice hair, or nice forehead? Try a new hair style.
Invent yourself a line as long it doesn't feel unnatural, makers; it's an article about built it up and stick to it! YOU!)
It's the old question of em. phasising your best points and building up the personality you've got.
If you're a sleck, smart type, it's no good trying to get your. self up all fluffy because some- body's walked out on you with a fluffy girl.
For one thing, you can't do it well, and for another, he's got fluff now and doesn't need any more of it!
Work on the contrast; take trouble with yourself along your own famillur lines. This is the right course, whether you are going to be a strong girl and let him go, or whether you are going to try to get him back.
He didn't always want her type, did ho? If he gets tired of it, he won't be looking for an imitation of it, will he?
Or if you get yourself an other young man, it's going to
be rather a strain if he thinks you're fluffy and you aren't!
Of course, we can't stay quite cut to pattern always. We have to have our moods; we have to break out sometimes.
Saturday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
THE OMINOUS STATE-
MENT MADE RE CENTLY AT: AN URBAN COUNCIL DA MEETING --- that... Cholern is now endemle in the Colony has concentrated atten- flon on this dread scourge of the East. The pestilential discase is no longer an upstart gangster lying in the "bad lands" of the underworld and only raiding us periodically, but has now moved into our midst with the intention to stay i
Like modern "big
shot" gangsters, Cholera is a com- paratively recent recruit to gangsterdom. This scamp, of the bacteria realm first broke Into print, so to speak, in the year 1819 when it decided to "muscle in" on the secure racket enjoyed by other endemic dis cases in the province of Bengal, in British India. Like Hitler, it could not confine its gangster activities to ono country, but had to run amok, and soon it spread over a great part of Aala, But while human gangsters are invariably "bumped off" be- fore they become too dangerous, Cholera has enjoyed a charmed life and, owing to the gross dis- regard of elementary sanitary conditions by the Oriental masses, seems likely to be able foul career in- to prolong its definitely."
This is glamour—
the kind that's out 7100. Your fasci nation is some- thing more real, and "harder-wear-
ing
Good Whisky-
June 14, 1941.
Cholera!
the gangster
of the
FIRST APPEAR- Choleru' was
East
form of blood
auch
By T. Paul
TANCE OF THE DIS. poisoning, and though it is d EASE IN CHINA was in 1820, discase of the bowels, its true when it was introduced into seat was in the blood.
Consequently, the exponents Kwangtung and Fukien by re- turning emigrants from the of this belief prescribed for Straits Settlements. During their patients medicines reputed the summers of 1820 and 1821, to cool the blood, such as saffron, the Middle Kingdom suffered cypress tops, elm root, cinnabar severely, and, singularly enough, and rabbit's flesh. It was the rural areas of the These theories, or rather a country where the mortality combination of them, are still was the highest..
followed by many old-fashioned The Chinese were naturally Chinese physicians. Their ther
methods sometimes greatly alarmed at the sudden apeutic outbreak, and while their phy- prove successful, but it in siclang understood the treatment in the treatment of fever, of ordinary bowel complaints, which occurs in a later stage, they were completely baffled by that Chinese medicine general- This is this fearful visitation from In- ly fails in Cholera. dia. Various explanations.were because there is
wide- advanced to
ignorance regarding account for the sprend cause of the pestilence, and, in the absence of any knowledge concerning sanitation and the germ theory of disease, most conjectures, as might be imagin- ed, were as ridden with super- stition, as a cur dog with fleas. The 'consensus was that the malady, being a visitation from the gods, could only be con- quered by renewed fervour in really effective methods of re- religious worship, and during the ducing fevers other than by the time when the epidemic was at ancient mode of gwant-sa, or its height, temples were regu- "scraping the moistened skin Iarly visited by the kow-towing with a copper coin, jade buckle multitudes.
or porcelain spoon."
Consequently, the mortality is On the other hand, educated classes of the time held that the abnormally large, but with the discase arose from "morbific knowledge of modern methods. cold," which disturbed the har- of medical treatment, perhaps a mony of the powers of the more favourable outcome to aystem, and could only be restor- cholera cases might be expected. ed by administering medicinės increasing the "natural. fire,"
VENERALLY SPEAKING, the such as casaia, cinnamon, aloes-
lack of information among wood, sulphur, asbestos, deer the masses places them at a serious horn tips, dried gop-gaai, or break. This is well
disadvantage during a Cholera out- illustrated by "spotted lizard,” etc.
the revelation that up to date there Another notion was the direct have already been mare Cholera opposite of this, and like it was cases in the Colony this than widely advocated. It held that during the whole of last year. AB the accumulated heat" in the long as anti-Cholera measures are so lightly regarded and the practical body destroyed the equilibrium application of sanitary science re- subsisting among the various mains neglected by the very poor, organs, and that the proper Cholera remain a menace.
the Health Authorities aro
Gregory
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year
method of treatment -consisted tunay striving, by mears of prO
In the use of cooling remedics, paganda posters, free inoculations,
STRANGE
etc., to educate the community along the lines of prevention. Now with STRANGELY. ENOUGH the Government determiced upon this school of Chinese improvement, the dread gangster moy thought anticipated
at last be "iquidated," and the modern Colony no longer remain a focus of medical scienco by realising that infection.
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