Women
This Space Evory Day
BEAUTY ARTS
By LOIS LEEDS
Posed by Thelma Altman for Lois Leeds. Dramatise your Eyes, but first "frame" them!
EYE TO EYE!
and shaping should be done. It's so easy to keep plucking until you have to Bttle left!
If you have never received a com- pillment on your eyes, il la time to look into your Eyes! Regardless of colour, size or shape, your Eyes are one of your most striking features, They can be pensive or sparkling. lemure or coquettish, but they MUST be healthy!
In addition to being healthy, rest- ed and beautifully groomed. there is also another way in which to focus attention on the "mirrors of. your soul." Just look at the above photograph of Thelma Altman, atari of the Metropolitan Opera and you will see what I mean.
You will notice that your atten-
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Immediately drawn
tu
Thelma's eyes. Why? Because they
For the finishing douch, smooth a very tiny bit of brilliantine on your brows, then brush in the opposite dircetion to which the hairs grow. Then brush the eyebrows into smooth, alboming "frame" for your eyes and hear the compliments!
are becomingly framed by well-de-W
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Table with
a wobble
WHAT ought you to do when you're buying a table or any
cartiers
and test
ined eyebrows, which are shaped other four-legged plece furnilure? without being loo thin, strong with Take hold of it firmly at diagonally out being "bushy." Although they opposite:
it for have been told many Amer that
"wobble." eyebrows must have
definite This tip-taken from a booklet curve, there are stil]
many women who pluck out almost all of mentioned at the end of this, article of-seems pretty obvious, but few of eyebrows and then, to com- us act on it. pensate, pencil in ugly lines. The result iseyra which look hard and aged under such a stid frame! something, or the shape or the size. we forget to check up on the more
their
When you pluck your brows you
We're so taken with the 'colour of
might take a tip from Thelma, who
you practical Issues.
Arst smooths on some cold cream to
On the whole, though, we're better avoid red splotches. Hold the skin to be. Shortages and having to adapt shoppers-for-the-home than we used faut as you pluck, Always pluck in things for various uses have made
discerning.
the direction in which the hairs Krow.
Of course, before you start fou must decide just where the thinning
Minute Makay
GABRIELLE.
If you have a heart-shaped face, you are lucky, but-The Henri- shaped face needs softness cross the forehead. a little belght at the rides, bigh on the hend, And the Heart-shaped Face needs "pretty" makeup-soft, subtle shades. well blended!
SIDE GLANCES
us more
We can no longer go into a shop furniture, unless you're very rich. and order a
a complete roomful of
We have to build up a room bit by bit, depending far more on our per- sonal fasle and eye for colour ihan we used to.
Which means that when the room is finished, it is more expressive personality than our
If we'd bought it "ready-made."
of
that
BUT it also means we are likely to make mistakes. How
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1947.
Split Personality Of General Smuts
What he calls "another side, to the Royal visit to South Africa" is given by a young coloured South African student from Capetown, B. M. Kies, in a contributed article to the Left Wing Tribune, published in London,
LETTER FROM LONDON
BY JOHN SHIPTON
?
"It concerns," he says, "the side of the South African tour which your King and his family will not see and you will not hear about.
"It may not be considered headline news in a country where divords, and murders re Shelley may have derived gularly make front page, but it inspiration from the "cold earth might be just as well for you to sleeping below", and fields of shed a few illusions you may snow, and once compared an harbour about what goes on be iclcle to a tear-drop, but luck-hind the gold curtain.
less Londoners, shivering
non-
DUMB-BELLS
REGISTEREO 4.5LMU PARENT DAKK
THERE SEEMS TO BE
THE SET IS ALLRIGHT
MAY GE
SOMETHING) ITS THE
LOOSE IN
THAT RADIO!
PROGRAMS
"THAT NEED TIGHTENING
UP!
TUTOR TO OCTOPUS WANTED
Would you like to be tutor of
through their fifth successive |・ "There are eight million week of some of the bitterest whites in South Africa, and to un weather for the past half con- seems not a little strange that in order in fecover from the strains of tury, have hardly been moved
Aix years
of war against Nazism, by such lofty thoughts. Nor your King and Queen should choose are they deriving much con- to visit the very country where solution from the forecasts of a
there exists not only herrenvolk, an octopus? rooted in the ideal of its divinely bright Inte Spring and Aracial superiority and the
mission good summer which optimistic to rule, but also a system of govern- biology or medicine, the ap acteorologists are now spread-ment comparable in its essentialspointment is now vacant at
to that of Nazi Germany."
University College, London, at a ing around.
| salary of £800 a year.
of
If you have had training in
The successful applicant will want patience, but he or she (women are "student" eligible) will find the willing to learn; a reporter Wod assured by 39-year-old, Bristol-born Professor JVZ. Ypung, Professor of Anatomy at University College, that the octopus is no fool.
In reference, to General The tremendous efforts made to
Smuts, produce and move the coal by miners, Kies says: "The split personality of railwaymen, troopa and prisoners of the gentleman may not be known war, and the soving of fuel from the to the outside world, but we non- restrictions on domestic and non-
whiten in South Africa have a characteristic way of describing it. industrial. consumers of electricity, resulted in the steady building up of We say that Smuts has two suits. stocks, und at one time it looked as One is his baller suit, which ho if a restart of industry in the London wears at home while engaged upon arca was imminent. But then just his life's task completing the as bulldozers, snow ploughs, cibow-Hortzog-Smuts master plan for the Ereme and even jet propulsion nero, total segregation and subordination
Asked what was the purpose of motors had cleared the drifts and of non-whites. The other is his the situation was almost normal Sunday sult worn only on a visit to
the experiment. Professor Young and blizzards-reaching a imperial
conferences, sald: peace again, fresh force of 30 mph in London and UNO meetings or any other gather- snowstorms created fresh havec on ings where he may have to make the vital linen throughout the coun- some of his speeches as the Grand
Old Man of the Empire.” irice foes in the North Sea threa-
tened to straddle the shipping routes in the mouth of the Thames, and heavy seas once again closed North- Eastern ports, sealing up coal-ship
for 48 hours.
Fower People In London The freak weather and the fuel problem have naturally thinned out the ranks of the overcrowded me- tropolis. There is less traffic on the roads which are like skating rinks get churned up at night and soon tnto grey slushi in the daytime and it is possible to unfold the evening paper in the Tube even during the rush-hour peak.
There has been considerable cur- tallment of public engagements, and for the first time since air raid days, it is possible to book a room-in a hotel at short notice.
big shops vary greatly, serne have Heat and lighting conditions in the their own generating plants running on oil or coke furnaces and acety- lene lighting, others have been open- Ing only between 12 and 1.45 and from to 5.30. But they are getting some consolation out of the fact that we are nearing the end of the ration period and clothing coupon books are probably empty.
Skating has been taking place on the Serpentine, the Round Pond in Kensington Gardens, the lakes in Regent's Park and St James' Park, while Hampstead Heath, Epsom
pre we to avoid this and yet be in- Downs and Box H dividual in our homes?
Colonel Blimp
oro
The writer concludes: "As yet wo articulate sa the y not be other oppressed
We people. very poor people and our pennies have to go to the building 'up of our movement for full democratic rights.
"And so we have not been able to tell you and the rest of the world much about the fact that to the majority of its inhabitants this much vaunted dominion now honoured by a visit from your Royal family is a spot as black as Nazi Germany was.
"You might remember this when you read the glowing, reports of the tour, or when Colonel Blimp assured you that our people are like hoppy children except for the usual bunch Colonel made the same mistake in of agitators and Communists. The Singapore and Malaya".-Reuter.
INCREASED
MINERAL
OUTPUT
have To meet China's acute sulphur
and furnishing; by learning to de-i-ing. One-still-comes across an velop our taste and eye so that we will know whether a chair.in a shopi window will "go" with, the furniture we already have.
By learning all we can about design been the scene of wing and shortage, the Central China
Common Ground
"We want to find out what makes a human being. Intelligent," he said. "We are going to try to break down the octopus' brain and the brains of other creatures most un- like man because we hope to find a 'common denominator' to all brains which will tie up' with man's brain.
One Failed
an
and
"Motor-car engines, to take illustration, are oll shapes powers outwardly. But they all have a common denominator say, a cylinder or sparking plugs. Thus of
you have a clue to the working,,"
all internal combustion NOTE The cuifle
smatter fish, brother of the octopus, as been tried out already. He falled in his examinations because every time he lost his temper he squirted ink into his tank and disappeared behind it.
Tells You How
To Fast
In India, where fasts unto death are a popular weapon with which to support political or other demands, a noted Indian scientist has issued a treatise on the "chemistry of fasting."
He recommends the taking of mild alkalies to neutralise the body neids
produced by fasting, declaring:
of the
first in three or
four days, leaving fats and proteins to be oxidised. Quick oxidation of generates aceton bedes which aro fats and proteins takes place and
Mining Administration of the occasional snowballer, but even to
"In starvation, glycogen snow has National Resources Commission the children, the thick ceased to be a thrilling novelty. is making strenuous efforts to
body disappears Chilly citizens of Westminster with increase the output of pyrite emply sculties have had a windfall. from the Ma-An-Shan mine near Tarred road blocks, which were Nanking, says a report in the taken up from West End streets Just summer to make way for asphalt, are North China Daily News.
ow belag sold for fuel. Six seiling: depots have been opened and house- Tells you not only how fabrics are holders are lunited to it daily ration made but which are most suitable
of 20 blocks,
Three booklets brought out by the British Council of Industrial Design tell you many of the things you want to know.
FURNISHING
FABRICS
for certain purposes, NEW HOME death with furniture and decoration. And DESIGN QUIZ teats your taste on twelve things which range from an armchair to electric fire.
You may not be able to buy every- thing you want now.
But you can, develop your taste and knowledge so that when you do buy, you buy right.
· 117 BY REA SERVICE, SNO, T. M. RED, C, E FAT, OFF.
By Galbraith
"I'll be back on the job tomorrow with the cold licked if I can avoid a nervous breakdown-from worrying about
what's happening to three familles on the rad
a
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120
The daily production is now tous, and may soon reach 300 tons.
poisonous."--Associated Press.
upon complate restoration of the 1948 Equestrian
mine which was in a badly damag- ed state last July when the Govern-
Among the most publicised casual- ties of the cuts have been the periodiment entrusted the raining property 10 NRC. operation. The mine has cals, which are suffering a fortnight's been in partial operation since Feb- ban, and the BBC's Third Pro- gramme.
rubry.
Events In Olympics
The Buppression of the whole of the British Press Having upwards of 40 percent
Equestrian competition at the outside dally
local news-sulphur content, the pyrite produced and papers has aroused considerable from the Ma-An-Shan mine is highly 1948 Olympics will start with adverse comment; it has even been suitable for making. pulp, sulphuric the three-day endurance and, described by the Manchester neld and ammonia sulphate, which Guardian 43 One of the most are essential raw materials for the arbitrary acts of the Executive yet paper, fertiliser and other chemical
to be recorded.
Industries.
Chinese Magnesite
However, the weekly Journals of China needs considerable sulphur opinion, such as the New Statesman, for industrial purposes, but under Time and Tide, Spectator and Tri- present conditions Chinese pyrite is popular being produced at a rate far short bune, a few of the most weeklies, and church publications, of netual requirements: though have
they
had to put up with break in continuity, have not been completely orphaned by the storm. The National dailies have offered some of the them hospitality, and best-known features of these publi- cullons have been kept before the public in this way-proof that the fellowship of the Press is not im patred by political opinions.
Delightful Nonsense
Chacse mogieslte wii soon, ba available in quantity for export as steps are now taken by the National Resources Commission to restore the rich Tashihchiao magnesite mine in Liaoning, Manchuria, which under Japanese occupation sold to Europe and Amerien 400,000 tons of its yearly 600,000-ton output.
Resumed production is shortly ext peeted with the stepped up repaits of the existing productivé equipment which was heavily damaged during the war,
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Stage show of the work, and for very many weeks to cometa a lively American farce at the Gar- rick, "Born Yesterday," produced by Laurence Olivier. It is most delight ful nonsense about a self-made junk Magnesite is an essential 'raw merchant who goes to Washington material, not only for the fron and to buy a fow senators and some steel industry but also for paper and dublows legislation." Afraid that his enamel manufacturing, and Chinese ex-chorine, sweetheart will impedej magnesite sells well both at home Isla social progress through her and abroad. Ignorance. he engages a Radiest
Journalist to Improve his mind.
Sho not only falls for the were cancelled. It seems inevitable journalist but also develops a social that there will be considerable con consciousness based on Abraham yestion of fixtures at x end of the Lincoln and the Rights of Man and season, unless it is further extended the Age of Reason and wrecks his na is
is now being suggested, to the end corkscrew plans.
May.
of
New star. Yolande Dontan, where Rugby has suffered even more tha first appearance in London this is, steals the show with her mincing Soccer during the past five weeks- the International between Jonven immodesty and dumb finoccace, England and France could not
The
arctic spell did not preventplayed and the Union authori 95,000 enthusiasts from turning on tief have also extended at Ibrox Park to watch Rangers in solton. The postponed interna-
their
the Scottish Cup, but once agaldi over tional will now take place on April 50 percent of the football, fixtures |*19,:
jumping
event either near Windsor or at Aldershot, and conclude with the Prix des Nations in the Olympic stadium.
Three horsemen from each nation will compete in the finale; They will be tested' by from 10 to 20 Jumps, Including o 13-foot wide water obstacle with a hedge in front, on each round of the course,
Germany made a clean'sweep of the equestrian events in the 1930 Its Olympics, but, blacklisted for war role, it will not be represented. in 1018 Associated Press,
Rupert & the New Pal-12
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A the..." shops. Ruperi through the long list and finds that all the things will Gy into the trolley. "Now let's have a bit more fun." says Bill, who has quite encovered. But Rupert stops him. No you don't " he laughs. "Your ideas have brought us enough trouble slready We'll have no more tacks until I've gor the garden trolley and all these pre- cious things, fome. Then wa'll go out together and perhaps we can Besolve the mystery, sỉ that black cat.”
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