Women
This Spaco Evory Day
BEAUTY ARTS
By LOIS LEEDS
Posed by Joan Caulfield for Lola Leeds, Lois Leeds gives you, panctient beauty hints. HOME BEAUTY TREATMENTS
It is grand to have a professional
If you are feeling especially wearynicure, Your nulls need profes-
and your skin lento lined ned sallow, squeeze the juice of Purce Temens in- to
pint of carbonated water. This
ix a delightful astringent lotion with which to tone up your skin. It is ala
a wonderful rinse for Blonde hair. puls sparkle in your hinir. We all
..that Jemon inire with soils, bicarbonate is a pleasant, cleansing drink for night and morning.
Fruit Juires lo mundi to old in clear. ing the skin, putting tone in the hair and a brigist sparkle in the eyes. Keep your lemon skins and rub them over your hands, to bleach them." Ala tine the lemon siin on your elbows and knees. But, before you do this, scrub with warm water and soap. Use a gund brush, with Arm bristles. Rinse dry, then use the Inside of the lemon peel. Follow with a bit of cream for amoothing.
Your daily cleansing, toning and wnoothing will do so much to keep your skin in beautiful condition. Your dally hair brushing will help to keep your scalp in'a healthy condition. You may have your shampoo and "set" done at your beauty salon but it's the Jaily buine care that makes your hair lovely and keeps it that way.
Male Malseye 4 GABRIELLE
hath towelg
Sprinkle your with cologne before taking your bath. Buy your own bath no- cessorles in your favourite colour. This stamp them as your very own! When relaxing in a beauty bath, smooth cream throat and face. Lie back attle rubber pillow, close your eyes. and just "float
SIDE GLANCES
sional styling, but It's the bit of oil that you rub in around the cuticl every night that is the most import- ant, the daily brisk nail-scrubbing. the hand cream after washing that keeps your hands in good condition. The occasional face treatment given by the skilled angers of the expert is relaxing 10 ing to your, skin.
your nerves, beautify- Your throat and fare muscles respond to the expert manipulation--but it is
it is the dally plication of creams and lotions that keep you
and your skin Having stimulated circulation.
Go
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1947.
MOVING YELLOW RIVER TO CENTRAL
OLD COURSE- WORK HELD UP
First of a series of four, articles
By JOHN RODERICK Associated Press Staff Correspondent
The Yellow Rivor-China's mightiest ronagado-oblivious to wrangling and warfare among the puny humans who have sought un- successfully for more than a year to shackle hor, wandors to-day, as she has for the past eight years, unchecked and destructive along an aimless southern avenue to the Yellow Soa.
Since June, 1938, when Chiang Kai-shek ordered the grent river diverted from her northern course in order to destroy Japanese armies encroaching deeper into North China, the river has spilled tons of watery destruction on to the provinces of Honam, Kinugau' and 'Anhwei, inundat- ing an estimated 15,000,000 square miles of once-fertile farmland.
At war's end, the task of clos- ing the great breach in the dyke 50 miles west of Kaifeng, restoring the river to its safer northern course and reclaiming these lost Innds became one of the major governmental goals. UNRRA, seeing in this a chance for rehabilitation on a hitherto unheard of scale, earmarked it as its biggest world project.
To-day, nearly 13 months after the project began, and after the ex- penditure of US$10,000,000, it is in- complete and probably will remain no until late. Spring.
The tremendous expenditure, the delays and the bickering are thrown Into sharper focus when they
AMERICAN
bre
WOMEN NOT
SATISFIED
as you can for these face treatments. I heartily approve. The girls they left behind dur- don't think that the beauty ex- ing the war are being left in the Is a miracle worker. YOU lurch now that their men are must help by your daily home treat-home, Mr Eugene J. Benge. of m.nts for Beauty,
FOOD NOTES:
considered againal the performance of the Chinese in 1935 who, unaided into its course in less time and for by foreigners, turned the river back slightly more than US$800,000,
The story of attempts by the three CNRRA, the participating agencies UNRRA, Chinese distributing organ for UNRRA, and CLARA, the Communist China Liberated Areas Relief Adniinistration-to put the river back into its old bed is one of disagreement, miscalculation, politi- and recurrent civil strife. cal manoeuvring, broken promises
on
Fundamentally. like everything! else economic, political and con- struelive in China to-day, it wait's
the termination of the
all-zuri Kuomintang consuming warfare between the and the Communist parlics.
The Yellow River rises in the mountains and plateaus which edge- Tibet and takes its name from the tons of yellow-brown sediment it carries, making navigation along most of its course actually impos- alble except for small bozis.
Alluvial Plain
This sediment has laid down an enormous niluvini plain upon which for centuries succeeding generations of Chinese have built the cites
Tientsin, Peiping,
Tsinon-Which
lisation of the nation.
Because
monuments to the cultural civi-
DUMBBELLS
NORA! WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS
?
SPIDERS
Air Force Mush-hush
The United States Air Force is
concerned about oremature disclosure of in- formation in aviation de.
velopments, particularly in trans-sonic and supersonic
research aircraft.
have
to
With industry's support, Air Force officials started ง campaign restore some of the wartime secrecy regulations.
says Associated Press. years
Chicago believes.
It is a heavy carrier of Nobody seems to want thousands sediment it has tended for of women between 25 and 30 years ¿
2 BUNCTIO
the war, when they were six years reasoit the Chinese, contemplating NEW RUNWAY
Value Of The younger, Mr Benge rald..
Ham Sandwich!
The popular ham sandwich is i given a good rating nutritionally by scientists of the US Department of Agriculture. Other combinations of perk with bread or pastry-park pic, 1 lancet
the same good writing.
The reason is that pork confking nin abundance of one of the amino maid lysine. Wheat flour and cer- in other cereal products are de- dejent in this
constituent. protein When the bread or other cerent pro- anels are comibtned with pork or b, their defriency in lysine is indió up from the abundance of the cheme In the pork. Even a amall arwamt of pork eaten with bread ms the bread much more nour-
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old, who did not have any trouble to wash up natural dykes along its Bides and to build a bed higher than winning popularity contests before
the adjacent countryside. For this
the great water ariery
suspended sometimes 10 feet above the flat- lands, have called It The River in the Sky"
They went to work while Johnny went off to war, and now that he is back, neither the boss nor the boy friend is very happy about having them around, he said.
1
Mr Benge, who calls himself.a "humanagement engineer," said survey of workers had revealed that there women have been left out in the cold and they know it.
Not Stable Workers "They are too old to go to college dances, but they are too young to be regarded by empolyers as stable workers", he said.
Inevitably, It has broken through natural and man-made retaining walls to flood the surrounding ter rain. It has, in this manner, sought and found new courses 15 times in the last 4,000 years.
·
AT SHANGHAI
The
AIRFIELD
runway 011
modern Shanghai's municipal airport, "China's Sorrow"
Lunghwa, is making fast head- way and will be in partial use This terrible capriciousness has of Chinese-from three to six mil- the Shanghai' Evening spelled death and misery to millions by early summer, according to Post the present diversion--and earned it llons are estimated to be affected by and Mercury. a more common nickname "China's Sorrow."
Officials believe that 4,000 of the 0,000 feet of airstrip would be ready When the retreating Chinese de. for the laying of concrete by the end cided to turn the river into an ally. against the Japonese, they had
of the month,
The veterans want the company of frivolous young girls, and employers want to give opportunities only to women they are sure will not pack up and leave at the drop of a mar-hoped to catch him by surprise. It will be the only
The new runway, when completed, riage licence.
one of its sort generally conceded that this grand among China's 300 airfelds. It is stratagem falled because of inability known-technically-as-a-non-rigid to divert the river in time. To spill airstrip. the waters Into a new course, the
is
Experiments showing this were nducted by Agriculture scientists Hrish- Hongland: Mille Ellis, O G-Mr Benge said a survey of the Henklus and G. G. Snider.
sentiments of women who work in Jasting Banks gave a good idea about how Chinese chose a
the girl graduate of 1037 feels about
point near Hwa Concrete to the depth of at least life to-day. As long as she stands a
Yuan Ko-The Entrance of the one foot will be poured over the chance of becoming an old mail she Flowery God"—some 100 miles west rock foundation may being set into Want wants a job with a future, as well as of the northward bend. At first 30 the former macadam strip. security, he said. Eut she is not get channels were dug in the southern ting it. Instead, her morale is slump-dzkes, but because the water was ing and her work is slipping because men are being promoted to the job she was wurking far and her salary is not getting any larger.
In a typical experiment 3 dny, young rats that derived their protein frọn white bread guin- ed-22 grams; those led white bread plane percent of lysine gained 17 grama, and those receiving various cuts of pork together with bound gained a
the Kroms, on Average. (A m is about thirtieth of an ounce).
one-
The biological value of the pro- tein De nisures containing equal parts of pork and brend protein- Paughly equivalent to a well alled nicat Landwich-wah equal to
that
By Galbraith
Bosses Nagged
As the women's morale falls F.wer,
low Bu diversion falted. Then, 11 retion a mile wide was blasted, aditional channels dug and the water
hegan its new southward Now I flows southeasterly, jolning the Yandise river in its Anal exodus to the set.
Cap Stand Impact
the On engineering calculations
with- runway will be capable of
latest standing the impact of the four-motor airliners. now being
How, catching Tallions unawares produced.
The problem of
(To be Continued To-morrow)
The Impact strength is fixed ut about 120 tons, which permits land- la pork alone. The investigators they begin to nag the bosses Instead
Ings and take-offs of such well- found nho that the protein consti- of the husbands they might have had,
UNIRA's chief known "big ships" as the Constella tuents in fresh ham, loin, plente Mr Benge sald. They start complain-gineer, D.
J. Todd. was to seal tion, Stratocruiser
and the Sky- shoulder, and shoulder butt were of ing because the office is crowded or this breach,
causing the yellow master. almost equal nutritive value. drafty, or the lighting is bad, he add torrent to flow once more in the
dyke channel where now only oc rd.
The airlines currently are using "The women who worked
hard Csional pools of muddy water tes- the en:ss-runway of Lunghwa while during the war are suffering, but into ita cariler presence,
the main strip in being rebulit. It many cases the businesses are suffer-
understood that as soon as. 4,000 ing, too, because they are giving opi-
feet of the runway is ready and portunities to men who are inferfor
hardened the airlines will use workers," Mr Benge said.
Immediately. "Every worker, man ar woman, wants to feel that he belongs to his Job, but many women do not belong anywhere. They really want the kind of security they would get from a husband, but they will take the ce- curity of a job with a future, if they can get it."--United Press.
"Before you start your next snappy story, I have a brief message from our sponsor!'”
Editors Urge
Civilian Regime
For Japan
NEW CRUISER Four American · newspaper
editors; who returned from a
INDONESIAN
LABOUR
MOVEMENT
it
In the 18 months since the HAS GREATER tour of the Pacifie recently, revolutionary Republic of In- urged that the United Statesdonesia proclaimed its indepen- withdraw all but a token force dence, a labour movement,
FIRE POWER of occupation troops from Japan whose unions claim $3,500,000
One of the "heavirst of the heavies**
the, sleek new American cruiser, istration.
and substitute a civilian admin-members, has mushroomed in- to existence within nationalist- Newport News, whose armament in-
held areas of Java and Sumatra. novation in the main battery will They claimed the Japanese people give her three times the firepower were reacting favourably to the It covom 26. major fields of econo- of other eight-inch-gunned ships, occupation, was christened at a Newport News Stats efforts to establish democracy and tea plantations.
and welcome United fields and refineries to rubber, sugar mic endeavour ranging from the oil-
(Virginia) shipyard last week:
US Navy Under-Secretary John L.
In their country.
"When a political agreement finally Sullivan told the audience that in
is reached and Europeans return to modernity, efficiency and scaworthi- They are S. Brown, editor-pub- their estates and industries, they will ness, the new cruiser "will be un-lisher of the Providence, R.I, find that the days of Anlatic coolie surpassed by anything aflost.” Journal; Erwin Canham, editor of the Jono Hardjokoosoomi, strong man of
Labour have Although classed as a
disappeared," said Har cruiser, the Newport News 17,000 Christian Science Monitor, Wayne the. Indonesian labour movement, in tons and overall length of 718 foot Coy, assistant publisher of the Wash- an exclusive interview with
with Associated editorial writer on the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
heavy
make her comparable to battleships) ington Post and Ralph J, Donaldson, ↑ Press reconesians which exist
of the first World War.
The nine eight-inch guns of bor main battery will operate automall- cally, which is something new in fire control and gives about, three timca the firepower of ananually- operated, eight-inchers--Acsociated Press,
tho same working conditions for Roy Howard of the Scripps Howard wook. We will not permit children
in other co
countries 40-hour, six-day Newspaper Alliance left the party under 15 years old to be put to work at Hawill, while the other four of outside their homes and farina.; Night the original nino editors are touring work for women will not be permitted the, Western States.
by the unions," he added. “
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