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Ask yourself sotne searching questions! ASK YOURSELF?
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Do I know the colours that みずい best suited for my complexion?
Do I ever study the contour of my head before selecting a bat?
Du I know the makeup shades that are not only now but becoming to
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Do I make any effort to walk well? Do I attend to the little rips and tears? Or do 1 just pin things up?
Do I go through my cupboards or closets and try to match up acces sories and clothes? Do I intend t
Improve my appearance--or not?
Do you ever stop and "take stock" of yourself? Do you ask yourself these questions?
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There are so many things you can do to improve your appenr ance. Of course, if you are benuti- ful and have
a perfect figure, this
doesn't even, apply to you-and you
Beauty at shining Perfection auth requires work. It isn't easy to be really well groomed. It is so easy NOT to brush your hair, so cosy NOT to cleanse your skin before suing to bed.
It is easy to pin up the hem of a ripped dress, so easy and NOT to bother about a new Innre becoming hairdo! Well, if you follow the Easy Way you will never improve,
So many women refuse to face the tone-and Gemselves-In the mirror. Da, at least, ask yourself These questions nod follow up on your own answers!
Worth's Week Of Style
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1947.
"TODD ALMIGHTY" DIRECTS YELLOW RIVER PROJECT
Second of a series of four articles
By JOHN RODERICK
Associated Press Staff Correspondent
As an
Religion speaks of the faith which moves mountains." engincor, O. J. Todd, an American, thinks in terms of moving rivers, specifically, the Yellow River, one of the greatest in the world.
Chlef engineer of the great UNRRA project do restore "China's Sorrow" to its pre-1938 northern courac, and thus reclaim millions of acres of now flooded farm- land, his primary interest is that of a technical man. Veteran of 30 years of engineering in China, much of it closely connected with international relief work, he is not' unfamiliar with the human element involved.
Window On
The World
Park--Children watching A
A man of explosive energy, quick but not always infallible judgment, his absorption in the fight to harness the river has yielded him the nickname "Todd Almighty."
On paper, the job he had cut out for himself appeared massive but fundamentally simple. A great breach nearly a mntle wide had been
newsreel in a Brest Cinema sudden-blown in the Yellow River dyke 60 ly shouted, "Look, there's Peler!"
miles west of Kalfeng in June 1930,
They had recognised a former pinyin an attempt to wipe out the mute who had been missing from Japanese. The river, thus unleash- home after air raids on Brest in 1944. ed. had cascaded over millions of Peter had been found wandering by | square miles of land, killing thou- French Red Cross officials who had sands and destroying the means of sent him to Paris Hostel. The livelihood for untold numbers of newsreel showed Peter at a Christ-poor Chinese. ms party in the hostel,
WINDY CITY ANXIOUS
Chiengo.---Chiengo has decided to compete against Athens, dielsinki and Detroit for the honour of Hold- The ing the next Olympic Gamer, clinching argument with Chicagoans was that in 1932 tourisis
pen! A11.10000 in Los Angeles.
JERRY JAMMER
New York. The electron gun is no longer a Ferret, Nearly two years ago the six-foot-high
The problem was to seal this gap and thus force the river, back into its old, constricted course.
UNRRA Matorial
UNRRA was contributing most of the materiais, money and engineer- ing skill for this task. CNRRA, the Chinese distribution agency,
and Chinese CLARA, its
Communist counterpart, were noting ns Italpon and supplying most of the man-
power.
To the three agencies, Todd oul iined his avenue of approach. First, the brench would be
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Further details are now available of the International Festival of Music and Drama to be held in Edinburgh during the three weeka beginning quency tubes censed diffusing bursi
constricted to an opening 1,600
August 24 this year. of electrons to Jam
yards wide with earthen dykes. German cadar stations and let the Laricastery and
dam of piles and rock would at the
The Glyndebourne Opera will Fortresses through.
remaining distance. It seemed 25
Mozart's present
"Le. Nozze di simple as that.
In January 1940 the first trains Old Vic Company will give a two Figaro" and Verdi's "Macbeth," and lond of supplies and men set out from Shanghai to Hua-yuan-ko, the weeks' repertory season of a classi- little village where the breach is cal play and a new play specially Incated. The project umleially had written by the British playwright, begun,
M. Louis Jouvel's Company de la Theatre de l'Athence is to present at least one, French play. The Sadler's Walls Ballet will give a two season of Tchaikovsky's
BUDDHIST COMPLAINT
Colomba. The foxtrot
When Buddha Smiled" bas hurt the sen- sitive Buddhists of Ceylon, A ra- quest has been made for the government to order the withdrawal Britain began to stake her of the sale of the record. Not one claim 1 the world's fashion has been sold in Ceylon to date.
when Worth championship Every wonian must have a cer tain amount of vanity, she must put opened
week of a
style valuation on her Personal Charni, i premieres in late February with If you think that you possess post- a glittering spring collection bilities of becoming a Beauty, your thai drew buyers and clothes goal will be easily reacted.
But even the Beauty should take ! exports from three continents.. stack of her charns. To keep your
won't be reading this anyhow!
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GABRIELLE
Do you know that cuticle around your fingernails ahould never be out? Cutiele is like selvedge on aloth, ones cut, it "days". Do you know that toe nails must not be wounded or made oval, hat led raight across. This will prevent ingrowing toe nails!.
SIDE GLANCES
Madame Elspeth Champscominu- naf. designer for Werth, filled her strezni and gold salon with a varied collection. that evered everything from
Morning: wear to dinner pawns, including dresses, conts and suits,
WOLVES AT THE DOOR
Madrid.--A wolf pack attacked
the mountain village of Puebla de surrounded three small houses and Sanabria, In northern Spain, *They
tried to force their way in. After a fierce fight, several men, armed with bayonets, broke the siege. Two
killed und
animals were
several
men were severely bjäten.
SMASH BLACK SHARKET
Amsterdam-in
effort to
un
Work proceeded smoothly but with a quick-moving tempo because nature had set a deadline. By the end of June the terrible Bloods
then
had not been completed by most of the travail would be wiped out, the project postponed.
Dykes Constructed
The eartharn
dykes were con-
structed and the gap narrowed to Hs prescribed 1,800 feet. Then, with huge Douglas firs Imported frum Oregon, Todd began to build his great trestle dom. The end loomed in sight.
But there was un obstacle, #
James Bridle.
by
would begin to rise and if the work we sleeping Beauty", beginning August 25. There will also be dis- of Scottish regimental dancing troops of Scottish Command. Performances
nances will be staged in the s Theatre, King's tre, the Royal Lyceum, the Empire Theatre, Usher Hall and the Frecinasons' Hall. Official agents who
will
tial will travelling, booking seats and accein- arrangements for modation
are Mears. Thoning Cook and Son, Messrs. Dean and Dawson and the American Express Company. Festival, which it is hoped will become an annual event in the beautiful Scottish
city, one centres Britain's cher
of art and culture, is under patronage of King Communists organised by a special coun VI and Queen Elizabeth and
of
smusit the black market in efgarettes, which would plague all the prin- cipals in this struggle against nature for many more months and threaten the entire project with failure, old northern river bed.
This problem centred around the
In late spring, the reminded the world and UNRRA in Is particular that this mass of water elt headed by the Lord Provost of could not be diverted into the old Edinburgh, working in association course without a number of drastic with the Aris Council of Great steps to secure the
and Britain. safety
The features of this collection were picture - dresses for
the Dutch have introduced a scheme evening wear with a "Velasquez Hip" effect to sell 20.400,000 ration free smokes ---iufler, squarer panniers as against at the relation price plus a vix
rounded, more
so-called shillings tux per packet of the "French Hip. Pencil silhouettes tox ta go to charity. Even with the for costs and skirts. Short skirts tox, the price is below the old black. for suils. Smaller waist-lines- market rate. Travellers will only "breathless waistlines,
Bime be allowed to bring in 230 cigarettes Champscommunal called them. a month, Shoulders dropping stightly.
"Not yet back t
sleulder," said the
natural
designer, "but
fess artificial than last season,
HER SON EMBARRASSED
Chicago--Mrs Vashi Macrolium).
"Evening gowns showed advancity-n-university professor's wife, sued to decollete-deep V-cut in front and Vor square cut at the back.
collection were
Оле
the
economie life of the river bed set-i
Red-Held Arca Affected
The Communists now made their
Bantamweight Title Bout
Inthe heat-and. high excitement prevent religious teaching to chil- of closing the gap, this was an even- dren in free sinte schools-eventuality which had been almest com- when parents give written consent. pletely forgotten. Her 16-year-old kon is embarrassed, she says, when other kiddies toep OJI
out to services. An Illinois - court argument clear. The river, when threw out the case. The Supreme' It resumed its old course, would be Cour refused to. Usten. Now she la coursing
120
miles to the sea. The British bantamweight appealing 10 the U.S. Supreme Fully 80 percent of the oren affect title changed hands recently. ed would be Communist-controlled.
led when at Belle Vue, Manchester, Natural and man-made dykes had Johnny King, the British cham- fallen into disrepair during the
of the most striking gowns was pinned only on the left shoulder with extreme dec:ilete, right side.
Representative of 50 items in the
"En Voyage"--a coat in
natural amel hair with a suggestion of cane effect on the left shoulder.
"Elegance" beautiful white strapless evening dresst making lavish use of embroidery for the first time since the war.
"Enfant du Paradisa full- skirted, strapless, evening gown in pastel blue and pink striped nylon. -United Press.
By Galbraith
"When I said I'd never sat foot in your shop again, I hadn't tried to manage them and a shopping bay on a bus!"""
Gott
SHE WAS 123! Madrid.--Zolla Paredes, who died years after the river had been un- plon, and Jackle Paterson, the rerently, was 123 years old. She
leashed. Thousands of families were Empire champion, met in a 15 did her own housework up to her
threatened with flood if the river round contest in which both should be funnelled back without
titles were at stake. repairing
death, and was never ill in bed for a day during her lifetime. She leaves seven 70-year-old
25 grund- eos and 21 great grandchildren..
SHANGRI-LA Beziers,Two
gangsters walked out the
prison here by ine front door atter drugging all the
Augustin Melo, serving guards, life sentence and Jean-Leon Pujol
daring
the breaks.
slipped heavy sleeping draughts Intoeiple, in which
An agreement was made in prin-
When The guards morning coffee. they were asleep they calmly un- locked all gates and walked out.
GOLD!
Wellington. Coromandel, to miles frcm Auckland, is buzzing with talk of a gold strike. A Maori chip- ped specimens from a reef uncovered by bulldozer operations. He has having the specimens analysed. Men are rushing to stake claims
More important still was the fact King was at a disadvantage, be- that. over the years, hundreds of ing nine years older than his oppon- thousands of farmers had moved ent, and in having" to reduce his into the old bed, built homes and weight by one-und-a-half stones to tifled the fertile land. Those bod come
the within
bantamweight to be removed, and compensation limit of eight stone alx pounds. provided before the waters could be again let louse.
For the first three rounds King showed some of his old form, pro- ducing some skilful boxing, then he the government began to tire, and he was made to would turn over a per capita poy- take Some heavy ment of 100,000 Chinese dollars to the seventh round it was all over. punishment. In each settler. In mid-May the Com- Paterson threw a powerful munists asked for payment, and re- ut King's law, it connected. and. he puncti ceiving no reply blew up the rock dapped to the canvas, where he was quarry 50 miles north of the gap, counted out. kidnapped workers and destroyed compressors.
Later, the workers were return-
Paterson now has the distinction the World, British, and Empire fly- of holding no less than five titles-
weiglit,
taken out miner's rights and ised unharmed and coupresentative weight, British and Empire bantam-
NEW ANGLE
New York-A motherly woman leaned over a counter in the Des Moines Bank ond
Trist Com a hypodermie pany, She held д needio pointed at teller, saying: have enough stuff here to blow this place to picces and myself with it
y." He handed her about, get busy." £500 und she sauntered out, An hour later she was picked up, minjai į tmoney and hypodermic
MAIDEN VICTORY
⚫ Capetown Tho Tour-year-old British colt, Thorlum, which was bought in England for only £000, won the £7,500 Cape Metropolitan Handicap, scoring a runaway vic- tory in record time for
fure nine
Communist CLARA representative, apologised. But the work had been halted, and the Reds had called dramatic attention to the needs of the settlers.
UNRNA appointed a commission to examine the old bed, and this roturned after four weeks, to re- be commend that the gap closure postponed at least six months.
To be Continued Tu-morrow)
Hogs Must Be
Sacrificed
When it's a question of hoga long race one minute fifty and or potatoes in Germany to-day, four-fifths seconds. The race panved | hóga must go.
of
for South Africa's coup
The monthly report of the Ameri- champion fockey, Tiger Wright, can Military Governæ, General and the owner, a Capetown cinema Joseph McNamey, outlined a dras manager, Captain Stodel. His stable to hog reduction programme, calling connections won thousands backing for the slaughtering
all hogs the English horse down from 10-1 over 200 kilos, reports United Press. 10 3-1. Although placed before, The purpore: ““To eliminate sub- Thorium had never previously won etentiel munbers of hogs in order a ruce. It is the first time a maiden to safeguard for human consumption ever won a major handicap in South the urgently needed potato supply Atrica and possibly anywhere else. otherwise used for bøg feeding."
Rupert & the New Pal-1
Autumn is neatly here.. Mr. Bear and Rupert are busy in the garden and the little bear has alerted one of his favourite jobs, sweeping up and collecting the first of the fillab leave. All at once Hire. Dess popa ber head out of a window and cala
•Mummy sounds worried." kinks Rupert, but he aTLEWDER cheerfully and sizer listing an armful of leaves into the garden trolley be en to not what she wants. **Sha'a iure to want me to mo sa errand" oilta.
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