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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1947:
THE WORLD OF WOMEN.
BEAUTY ARTS.
By LOIS LEEDS
Pored by Jean Porter for Lois Lecdn.
Lolo Leeds has real information for "Moms" and Tecners!
TEEN TORICS!
"Dear Loin Leeds-My daughter is fifteen years old. Is it in good style for her to wear her hair loose and long?-W. L."
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Our voly Mature Ladies look best with their hinir Up, well off the neckHoe. Gray hair requires special care. A few drops of bluing will keep it from turning yellow. Gray comba and hairpins, to match. show that you have a "hend for harmony"
juntaf.
Young R. K. O, starlet Jean Porter wears the loose bub which the girls And just right for them and many of them copy her natural and effec- live hairdo.
RE women more inclined to criminality than men? is a woman's total nature essentially
that of a pre-adolescent, child? Is it true that women do not really want full equality under the law? Is woman's celebrated progress towards emancipation essentially dangerous?
WOMEN ARE NOT
ANGELIC.
cause more
by
a Psychopathologist
tensions argument
all the provocative ques;|| In building hils argument that his opinion, women are collectively Ttions about wove qued women are more inclined to crimit me
nality thun are men, he declared that than men. le puts one in the paragraph in large it is a gross error to assume that the this way:
"Wo type above the title of this boot is on the other foot merely be-
commonly. And in women recorded crimes article Dr Ralph Banny, noted
are evidences of schizophrenia or split committed by men.
personally, and this arises at least figure in the field of criminal
"Women are protected from the partly from their tendency to rebel
for the function
which consequences of many minor crimes against psychopathology, answers "yes."
He speaks from his experience as by the code of chivalry, which affects Nature designed them. chairman of the American Psychia- the administration of Justice and "Many women have a strong un- tric Association's committee on softens the retallatory actions of conscious wish to be men prisons, as former chief paychlutrist men towards women," he anys. of a strong sense of physiological in-
at the same Dr. Banay protests that a striking feriority. "But nt Sing Sing and as present Director
time of Research in Social Deviations at demonstration of women's insin-naturo has ordained that they shall Columbia University.
cerity In claims to full equality of the yearn for motherhood. This sexes in their widespread inals- flict prodúces troublesome frustra- tence still on old codes of chivalry tlons. A famillor characteristle in codes which themselves bear an many women-hesitancy, indecisive- their implication that women are inferior. ness, Inability to make up
and
соли
because
con-
According to Dr Bonny, wornen have gone too far, too fast in their ascent from constrained Victorianism to maintain their new burdens with- out disaster.
He thinks that where the crimes minds in small matters-may be a "Trouble is already showing In of men are usually the result of surface symptom of this profound The Teeners love the loose Glam- the aggressive, uncontrolled bea single, direct, dramatie outburst, phenomenon." nur bob and on them it looks lovely! haviour of many women, a tendency women often work off their aggres- But tench your teen age daughter which is often manifested in out sive or criminal tendencica In to brush her hair and to massage right criminal conduci," he says in unusun dally current of discontent, Banny makes the generalisa- her scalp. A weekly shampoo is an article in Collier's Magazine, hostility, malice
tion that women consciously or "Women are restless and dissatisfed shrewlshness, nagging, sadistic unconsciously like to punish them-
of children, vielous card-selves, either directly because they cannot, or will not, ae-bullying
or through table gossip.
another. This tendency, he thinks, copt their physical destiny.
"Woman's emotional aspect simply
Is a talisman which identifies women has not gone along with the rest of
with virtually all offenders against her entity. Emotionally she is still
the Inw, who, he has found, chuṛuc- back as the object of the cluse, to be | COMPARATIVE studies made by teristically like to submit themselves captured, and subdued."
Dr Baney of the personalities of to self-imposed pains and auffer- all classes of women and men con- ing.,
"Women's craving for security victed of crimes show great simila- DR Banay expresses the opinionit, especially in such traits as self-should be switched from an entirely centredness, superficiality of feelings, materialistic viewpoint toward the that the outstanding charae- acquisitive drives,
her her own and materialistic gratification of teristic of children-the narcissism viewpoints, a sense of insecurity and family group's emotional and Intel- or self-love of their Stone Age guilt, and liability to emotional up- lectual strivings. And as a primary counterpart was the complete set.
guide to serve her best interests in absorption, In the chain of desire Both men and women often dis-all things, she might post this slogan and fullment-is all but surpassed charge such tensions in crime, but, in a conspicuous place: "Women are
Dr Banay proceeds to show why, in not angelic." by the majority of women.
"Dear Lois Leeds-I have
We look daughter of 14, I am 20.
Please alike, both blonde and stim. muggest a 'twin' outfit to wear at my sister's afternoon wedding,
-YOUNG MOM.” A jacket suit of Sapphire Blue velvet with White satin ascot. A large velvet berel would look charm ing for both of you.
"Dear Lola Leeds-My skin is very dry. I have been ill and my hair is also dry and it snaps. I am 10 years old. In there a cream that I could use for my skin?—TOTS."
Use a good cleansing cream and a urod cold cream to soften the skin. Mussage the scalp with a pomade "for dry hair." And talk to your doctor about a diet to add some ints und give you more vitamin content,
"Dear Lois Leeds-I am 16 years old and short. I wear sports clothes and lots of black and white. Would red ballet shoes be O.K. for me?
CHUBBIE."
Yes, and very smart with your Black and White sports clothes! White socks, with Red and Black checked tops are new for school wear!
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days. And they do not want our cheaper clothes; they make them far better themselves."
Most admired by America is a fine worsted frock in his present collec tion in lime green, paisley-printed in scarlet.
Digby Morton likes combining blue and brown, puts a bluc twood top- cont over a brawn and white check wool shirtwaister, frock, slightly draped in front.
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" he says "should not wear fussy things: either they don't quit the clothes or the clothes don't suit them."
Drawn by Virginia from Digby Morton's own sketch.
PAGEANT AT THE RACES
BY QUIZ
an Indian lady. Tall and Another lady sported somewhat
QUEEN OF TOMORROW
RINCESS Elizabeth hates
PRI
the gossip about who and when she will marry and wants the right to make that decision privately, a veteran reporter at Buckingham Palace discloses. This statement is included in a book called "Queen of To- morrow," by Louis Wulff, a cor- respondent at the Palace for 18 years for the Press Association.
Idle talk about the future consort of the future queen of the world's Kreatest empire was practically the only thing the princess resents about her public position, he said.
The plain fact is that up to present there is and has been no
for basis whatever
any of these rumours
They about marriage. serve no good purpose but only tend make
to distress the princess and
the
her all the more determined to in- sist that her right to some privacy of her own shall be respected.
20th CENTURY PRINCESS Whether she will morry,
where
she will marry and whom she may marry are matters on which she may justly claim the right of a 20th cen- tury princess to decide for herself when the time comes, Wulff said.
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He pointed out that there is restriction on her marriage except that the man be of the protestant falth. Wulff said there is nothing in law to stop the princess marrying a national of any other country from Denmark to the United States.
In a generally approving survey of the Princessca' ifte and upbring- ing, Wulff recounted that the Queen Mother once ushered her out of public place for daring as a small alrl to enforce her demands by in- sisting upon her royal position.
He said that once someone had naked her if court ilfe was dull and- she replied, "Not at all....to me it's like history coming to life.”
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Chinese girls, too, the keynote of the ladies who had There were Clad in sheath-like tunics, they brought the latest postwar hinted delicately
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Soviet War ON CANCER
The Soviet Ministry of Public The Kyodo news agency states Health recently adopted a ave-year: that Professor Shigetaka Shimura, of plan of cancer research and decreed: the Tokyo Imperial University's tho struggle against cancer to be the
tasks of engineering department, has deve principal
Soviet public
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as good as the last Japanese 12-year- A fur саре worth a fortune acquaintances, wartime comrades children try
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