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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1947.
This Space Every Day
Women
BEAUTY ARTS By LOIS LEEDS
Posed by Grace McDonald for Lois Leeds.
Here are clever tricits which you can use for your beauty.
"Dear Lols Leeds-What is con- "DEAR LOIS LEEDS"
LAD T." "Dear Lols Leeds-Do you thinicaldered to be the perfect face?
it wise to use up several shades of face powder by blending all the left over bits together?-NELLY."
satisfactory. No, it doesn't prove You can't blend out all of the colour moles, thus your powder will look right strunky. You can't get the shade either. It is wise to use two shades of powder on your face, one over the ather, but don't blend them in the box.
*
"Dear
Lois Leeds-Do powder puffs really wash successfully
-MISS T." You can wash them by plunging them up and down in warm, sudsy water, Dry by placing them on a towel near a sunny window. A soil- ed, greasy powder puit is a to health and beauty.
menace
"Dear Lois Leeds-Please suggest an outfit for me to wear at a noon day wedding. I am 35, tall, fair and like very ultra clothes.
-NANETTE."
A black silk faille suit with Bure back hustle peplum, a hat in Cham- pagne-coloured straw, with piles of
PATENT OFFICE
Indonesians & Dutch DUMB-BELLS Co-operate For Peace
A story of astounding progress in Indonesia since the March 25 signing of the Linggadjati agreement was told in San Francisco by Charles H. Hasporhaven, head of the Public Relations Department of the Netherlands Indies Informa- tion Service at Batavix.
HUMAN ADDING
MACHINE
STILL ACTIVE
Known to the world of our grandfathers for his lightning calculations of tough mathema- tical problems, Inaudi, at 80, is still going strong.
Although he doesn't appear on the stage of the Felles Bergere anly more, Inaudi enn stil multiply In his head a four digit number by n five digit number and come up with the correct answer in six seconds.
The veteran entertainer, who firal appenred before the public in 1080 and retired in 1934, recalled his per- formances before King Edward VII and varlour American Presidents with pleasure.
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do
not
filled
עונן
to
Hasperhoven says order pre- vails where rioting and blood-
recently flourished. Armies that formerly battled over Java are marching together to eliminate the sporadic upris- ing of the irregular troops.
The Dutch and Indonesians, ell- ting together around conference regulate commerce, improve trans- tables, are dmfting programmes to portation, feed and furnish medical oare for 70,000,000 Indonesians, and educate the young islanders.
"This is a
Hasperboven sald: remarkable process now going for- ward in the Indies, and is making astonishing progress at an astonish- Ing speed.'
Under the terms of the Linggad- jati agreement, both the Indonesians and the Dutch are reducing their
armed forces.
Hasperhoven said they are fighting side by side to disarm certain groups of irregulars. 100,000 Irregulars
between
the
80,000 and "There are life," regret the Inaud told United Press. "Before 100,000 Irregular troops still hanging There are the The Oval Face is considered
my on to their arms. write could rend and
with number. Black Buffaloes, the Red Buffaloes, ideal, but any face can be attractive. I
was
and army It is just a matter of flattering the head
Communist read the learned } only hairdos and und face shape by clever
and write after my 10th birthday be- People's army. complementary makeup.
cause all the rest of the time I was calculating sums in my head."
as the Inaudi, who was billed "Human Adding Machine," can even do cube roots in his head,
J
Is
"Dear Lois Leeds-My Jaw square and the lower part of my
Any help? face lools so hard.
MAY." higher-on-one- Yes, a side-part,
and side, hairdo, asymmetric hats necklines, Odd-shape earrings and Die addition of rather Pinky powder, patted on the jawline. And prnetist, need I say, makes perfect!
SINGAPORE
CLOTHES PROBLEMS
SINGAPORE-Letters from readers of local newspapers, criticising the chic and grooming of Singapore creamy pearls wound about your women, have drawn an
Indignant match defence throat, Gloves and hose to
from "Vera Ardmore, your hat colour.
society columnist of the Mulaya Tri- Func.
"In few countries," writes Vera, "do clothes take such a beating as in humid country like Malaya. Some materials, because of humidity. have a disconcerting trick of shrink- ing while on the body and stretching
when hung up. Unless one has a gond ath. one is in a constant state of letting out or lak-
Mindle Makeys 4 GABRIELLE
Just before the colder weather Bots in, condition your skin. This Beauty Mask is a favorite formula. One egg, well beaten; one-half cup of fuller's carth, five drops of tincture of lodine, one ounce of orange flower water. Get the in- gredients from your'druggist. Blend all of them together. Lenve on for not less than ten minutes,
SIDE GLANCES
over-
Coco la Stubborn
His most absorbing pastime, at present is teaching his parrot Coco Coco can already count to to count. 100, but when Inaudi wanted to give a demonstration Coco refused to say "four."
"No, no, Coco." Inaudi said, slight ly irritated. "One, two, three, four."
The bird cocked its head on one side and began again: "One, two, three, Ave."
"But no, Coco!"
"They are largely youngsters of were trained und 16 and 17 who
They do but soldiering armed by the Japanese. not know anything and do not want to give up their tommy guns and go back to school," these groups Hasperhoven sald comprise the only threat to pence in the republic.
He said the authorities of the re public are moving speedily to restore the factories and plantailons to the Dutch, British. Chinese and Amerl- enn owners, and are releasing the inmates of concentration camps as rapidly as possible.
Joint councills and committee are formulating regulations for the ex-
What the parrot sald then can be port and import trade, currency: re- storation of conatwise shipping and left to your imagination.
other transport and for the elimina- tion of propaganda,
REIFLER OFF TO AMERICA
No Punishment"
They have agreed that nobody shall be punished for partisanship during the revolution.
When the United States of In- donesia is finally set up next year and takes Its place beside the King- dum of the Netherlands to establish
In answer to an invitation re- the Netherlands Indonesian Union, ceived from the American Ori-Hasperhoven said the situation will ental Society Dr. Erwin Reifter, be similar to the British Common- well-known professor of Sinology
ing in seams and straightening hems. One buys a stiff, lacy frock which at Shanghai's Aurora Univer- hopes will be an outstanding sity, proceeded to Washington little number, and finds after
one
one
wealth of Nations.
is
Hasperhoven sald: "There every assurance that the experiment will succeed. Not the least reason
wearing that it resembles closely recently to attend the annual is the fact that the Indonesians have the black-lace-suitable-for-all-occu- meetings of the Society. sions to which one's spinster aunt was attached.
Black Standby
Thanks to a Foundation Fund crented
former American by his
American students of the
Junior
"White, so ginmorously written Chamber of Commerce the Journey
in the social doings of the was made possible.
·lown,-goes-a-deilento-yellowish-grey.
about
after a few cleanings.
of
The
of
con-
good For many years occupied with the philological black dinner frock, standby for all
Into research smart women, is not Improved by material supplied by Chinese char mildew and the odur thereof. Ad-acters. Dr teiller, with the help milledly it can be put in the sun, comparative philology, statistical re- which eventually takes all life out searches and a simultaneous
the material and adds a nasty sideration of the phonetic, semantis green tinge."
and formal aspects of the Chinese Mildew, mouns Miss Ardmore, also language, has been able to rediscover atineks handbags, belts, gloves and the original meanings and principles have shoes, and stockings are prey to busts at Chinese characters which and roaches. The crowning glory" long been baffling enigmas. of most Singapore women is just a "hank of hair-and a dank hank at that," she says.
Philological Problems
can
a great capneity for give and take." -Associated Press.
EDUCATION RESEARCH
IN CHENGTU
are
IT TOOK
THREE HUNDRED MINK
TO MAKE
THIS COAT
ISN'T 17 WONDERFUL HOW THEY CAN TRAIN ANIMALS TO DO SUCH
WORK!
Efforts To
Cut Indian Birthrate
Efforts to hold down the in- crense in India's population by birth control are reported.
Dr Hriabai Joshi, Indian wo- man physician of Bombay, says the population of her country "has grown so fast that its size is now the basis of most of In- dia's problems."
She is at present in the United States to study social work groups. hen th centres and hospitals and hopes to introduce their methods in her native land.
in
J. Dr. Joshi
the wife of V. Joshi, India's excutive director the International Monetary Fund. "India, ta vlages and its citles, must be taught birth control
keep
check a population which has grown too rapidly," sho said. "I want to spread education in family planning to every corner of my land.
to
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Waste Of Lifo
has Increased "Our population from 280,000,000 in 1901 to Dr. Joslii 400,000,000 today," explained. "There is a tremendous
of shortage
food, clothing housing, resulting in a large waste of life through malnutrition and discase."
and
Concerning Eocial and related conditions in India, Dr Joshi said, "twenty percent of the mothers die In childbirth. They
tired their health is undermined by con- stantly bearing children which are never spaced.
pre
of India's "Eighty-Ave percent population can't get a square ment a day. Only half of the needed clothing is available. Five to 10
are crowded in filthy. persons squalor in one room in city tene- ments. Associated Press.
SORTING OF JAP "DEAD" CONTINUES
Day after day, former Japan- ese soldiers trudge to a dingy Tokyo office and hand back-little white. urns containing the ashes of war dead.
"I am not dead," they invariably to someone say...
"This belongs
else.
wor
The urns had been delivered to At present there
in their families
notl- with ofcial
wor death. But Chengtu two representatives fication of their
3,000 of these "living from the Missionary Education ove" have returned since the department of the United ca
occupation. Church of Canada. They are They And family shrines dedicated This has led further to the dis- Dr. Kenneth J. Benton who spent to their memory, and relatives. re- to bellove they are still "In view of these difficulties I'm
comparative some years in missionary work luctant
alive. Many have discovered that often amazed at the very pleasant, covery that just as
pro-in Chengtu, and Rev. Anson C. their "widows" have remarried. sometimes alluring and often smooth philology can throw light on
It will take years for Japon to appearance turned in by many blems in Chinese philology, so like Moorhouse, whose special inter-
Chinese philology, for
Ead sorting of the on this trip is in photo- | complete the Singapore women night after night" wise
More than 10,000 uncialmed --Associated Press.
which the characters being originally eat
Д Shanghai
omce- pictures supply a most excellent graphy, reports
urns remain in the Tokyo in Evening Post correspondent. many problems material, solve
part of the Arst Demobilisation only world philology, problems which in Tome cases have as yet not
Their purpose is to get information Bureau, Many are identified suspected as being such.
and photograph material, specifically by name and cannot be delivered for what has to do with the Christian lack of address. discovery Church It is this most recent
In China. They have Indiscriminatoly Placod that Dr Rolfler intends to discuss at brought with them 30,000 feet of the meetings in a lecture on "The colour Alm and 20,000 exposures for Importance of the Chinese Language sulll pictures in colour as well as in for World Philology".
black and white.
By Galbraith
COPR. 1967 BY NEA BERVICE, ING TẦM, RTG, LÀ, B. PAT, OFF, "Aunt Minnia is smart enough to know that anyone who'd hang that thing in the living room to only Interested in her money!"
been
Іл
Dr. Relfier plans to remain
They also have brought a tape America until the middle of August sound recorder, the first when he will return to Shanghai for into China. Sound is recorded
to rome
оп
are
Under Shinto, the deceased cremated and the family keeps the nghet.
Military authorities had promised to ensure that each family received the proper ashes. But in battle breas Ashes were Indiscriminately
the autumn term at Aurora Univer a paper tape, one side of which has placed in urns for the homeland. sity. While in the US he hopes to been coated with fine Iron illings, be able to lectura on his new findings The recording is done by the prin- and ideas on the Chinese language to cipio of magnetism. When the re- the different universities,
the tape cording is completed,
Military authorities have often sent death notices and urns when. missing
is the Individuals were only
During his absence his Chinese supposed to hold its magnetism in- or captured. Usually their records
are definitely.
courses at Aurora
University being conducted by his wife, Henrietta Relßer..
Mra
were 50 cluttered addresses were lacking.
that
proper In the Demobilisation Office there
If it is desired to use the tape over again, it can be de-magnetis-aro 500 urng bearing the name of Miaoru Tanaka and another 475 with ed and a fresh recording, made. desired, a double recording may be the name of Kiyoshi Sato. made on the same, tape. as, for and
LCC SCHOOL example, to get more variety
PLANS
A book outlining future plans for the 1,348 London County Council's schools portrays a completely new scheme of schools for six categories of handicapped children for whom special provision must be made.
Highlights of the plan are that an building operatives average of would be needed to carry out the work in 18 years. are planned for
Boarding schools
partially deaf Paywolind and
volume In a medley of street sounds. Their purpose in having this re- corder is to picks up choir and con- gregational singing and solos, well as street sounda
to peculiar expect to be **in China. They Chengtu for about six weeks.
BIRDS ATE
CHILD
*18
.FOR CANCER
RESEARCH
research
An appropriation of $1,550,025 for expansion of cancer has been announced by the Ameri can Cancer Society, which said it made the allocation from public 1045 contributions received during and 1940.
:
It was reported that the new ap-
Than
130 projects of scientific re search which might load lathe
A perplexed visitor at the Zoo in propriation would "Annno more
pointed to a new schools Cordoba, Argentina, are planned on the fringe of London neat heap of shiny bone in a condar county for delicate and physically engo and asked why the birds were handicapped; hostels are planned for fed with so much ment dinbelle children; child guidance The keeper, equally puzzled, inves services would Le
and tigated and found a email luman homes provided for maladjusted orakull and banas. The condors had "problem children Associated feasted on a small child United
Press.
Presa
extended
determination of the causes of can- cer and the development of tech- niques of control of the disease."
Twenty-four fellowships, to help. train scientists in advanced methods; of research, nlao will be provided. Associated Press
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YEAR'S MOST
TERRIFYING MYSTERY IS VAR
Thrill-Successor To The Maltoso
Falcon'!
MASK
OF
MITRIOS
Love in his eyes....
Murdar in his hent,
with SYDNEY GREENSTREET, ZACHARY SCOTT - FAYE EMERSON - PETER LORRE VICTOR FRANCEN
Directed by JEAN NEGULESCO » Screen Play by John Gruber From Novel by Eric Ambtar
NEXT CHANGE
WESLEY RUGGLES'
LONDON TOWN.”
(IN TECHNICOLOR). Starring
Kay KENDALL »
Tessio O'SHEA
Sonnio HALE · Petula CLARK
Sid FIELD Grota CYNT
ALHAMBRA & CENTRAL
COMMENCING SATURDAY
ERROL FLYNN
ANN SHERIDAN
in love inspired...in.
EDGE of DARKNESS
til bly and important from WARNER BROS.
Mighty
WALTER HUSTON NANCY COLEMANI
JUDITH ANDERSON · AUTH GORDON -kken. LEWIS' MILESTONE Belaun Play by Robert Rossin --Based on the Reve) by William Woods