Women
This Space Every Day
BEAUTY ARTS
By LOIS LEEDS
Pored by Thelma Altman for Lola Leeds.
Here are some short cuts to Benuty!
BEAUTY SHORTS!
After the holiday "stuffing", a day of liquid diet will do wonders of your favourite cologne. Then just
recondition you.
A hot epsom salts bath win "draw out acids. (Soak in it for twenty minutes). And It you are really tired. nap after the bath is a health measure,
Rub a little hair cream over youl hair brush. Then, if your hur i dry, brush it vigorously. You'll get Dshingt
A big froth of suds should be whipped up before, plunging into a beauty bath. Also pour
refux for about will come out smiling!
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1947.
Good Wife Preferred DUMBBELLS
To Glamorous Beauty
Glamour is no longer a prinie commodity on the British marriage market. Take it from a dealer. with 2,000 weddings to her credit, the Englishman of 1947 wants a faithful wife in preference to a beautiful one. And the British woman would rather get a man with a good job and cheerful disposition than a handsome Hollywood profile.
Welsh Newsletter:
THREE VALLEY
FESTIVAL A HUGE SUCCESS
For one reason or another, there is a rising, predilection among the women for Ameri- can males.
The conclusions, backed by statistics, are those of Heather Jenner, who, glamorous herself, operates a marriage bureau in London's swank Bond Street- of all places.
Heather, happily married and the mother of two children, views the matrimonial problem from a strictly By J. C. Griffith Jones
Sho point of view. commercial Held for the first time on a opened her bureau eight years ago chose Bond big scale since 1939, the Three to make money and
Street, the Avenue of exclusivn Valley Music Festival at Moun-shops, largely because
poor folks Sentiment tain Ash was splendidly suc-spend little time there.
For three nights and altruism are not her stock u cessful. minss choir of 1.000 voices, trade.
a dozen South drawn from Wales areas, sang classical and modern works accompanied by the full London Symphony Or chestra.
of
por-
"How is a girl to meet nice men-- men she can know a bit about; the been in- sort of inen she'd have troduced to in the old days?"
The war put a big crimp in British social life and gave the astute Miss The post wor Jenner her iden.
live now has kept it going apace. Dusterity world in which the British "There's no private entertaining these days, to speak of," exclaimed young umarily dressed The famous pavilion was crowd-the tall, ed by an enthusiastic audience for woman.
and on the cach
performance, Saturday night several thousand admission In little
unable to gain people listened in the pavilion grounds and
This final ten minutes. You nearby streets.
Card Indox System Mendelssohn's formance, "Eiljah." was also broodcast.
Miss Jenner clears that hurdle for a card Index Dr Malcolm Sargent returned to her clients, using
that leaves по question conduct Welsh choristers after eight system years absence. He found that the
matchings has ended in the divorce standard of Welsh singing had made swered. So far, just one of her court. The fees, £5 down and £20 considerable advance.
the huyers There
upon marriage, muke is marked
and the
proceed with caution. In music interpretation, vo'ces are as rich as ever" he said. that the most It is unfortunate
of the series successful festival started in 1930 may be the last on such brond lines. The Mountain Ash pavilion-only building of its size
Bind you Black ballet silppers with Gold cord, then wrap the cord around your ankles and tie into next bown. Looks very Gracious!
A drop of Gold paint in your nail polish will give it a Golden shine.
During the Holiday Season be sure n. Red flower and don't house-forget to match your lips and your Dust fingertips to the glowing colour of
the flower.
Never, it you would have stooth to wear white hands, do any dusty hou Utual Winnume gioves, horms the skin of pretty hands, so protect them..
-
Warmed baby all, the kind that you use on your own beautiful baby, is the perfect thing with which to Friassage your orins and shoulders.
Minute Makeya
GABRIELLE
Brush your haly until it snaps and crackles! Comb through the vi- brant hair with a little cologne, tollet water or your special hair tanie lotion. Roll up sections about one incir wide en eniall weds of cos- metic tissues, Pin close to the head. Tightly adjibat a net őr Voil. When You are ready to odial duit your hair, stoff will have deep, frågṣant waves. The longer yöt léave it up the deeper the wave, of coursol
SIDE GLANCES
Now once again it is the fashion to wear an American Beauty rose or pinned to your a bunch of violets muff, just as they did in that won Song-the Gorgeous Gay Ninelles!
i
Improvement
About three percent of the women clients ask for American men, Miss Jenner said, and with the resumption of tourist trade this summer, expects the market to rise.
she
NVOY
in the whole of South Wales-is-for American men, coming this sale, and may be converted into a for a vacation, are making inquiries,
The trouble also, she said. factory this summer.
thousand is that it costa several
was too difficult
take pounds a year to maintain the pavi- American ellents during the war," large-scale festivals are she said, "Now we can, and we've
und
"It
derful period of Wine, Women and Hos held three or four times an-had lots of applications."
THIS WEEK'S HINT FOR DOG-LOVERS
OFF HIS FOOD?
Dogs often miss a mical or
two for no apparent Ferson
If they do not show any other symptom of illness, mailers often right them- solves in a day or so and the dog may be the better for his partial fost
Dog books eften say that if a dog refuses food ho should be given the same food again next day and eventually hunger will make him eat it. This is true if the refuzal is not dua te illness;-but-there-is- a point to remember in giving a dog left-over food It should be uncon- tamtanted.
Few owners would give their dogs food that has gone sour or rancid, but many might think that it does not matter if rats or mice have had access to the food. Leptospiral jaun- dico is transmitted in this way. If it is not caught in time, this disease is 90 per cent ratel. But an inocula- tion can be given as a pre-- ventive. The cost is small and it is worth while having the treatment car fied put on any dog which bts direct or indirect cop- tect with rodents.
LEO C. WILSON, FZB.
gel okie Imagine why the bills are so
Cainless it could be that new pair
By Galbraith
only
nually so that revenue is limited.
to Welsh-
cultural activities.
Dr Sargent vilon for music |
men to save the
and other
It
pric!
should be done if only as a memorial to Sir Walford Davies, pioneer of the Three Valleys Festival
Weish benefactor to
musle, he said. It may yel be possible to raise a to keep this building public fund as the cultural centre of the indus- trial valleys of South Wales.
Mumbles Lifeboatmen
to the appeal for funds in aid of There was magnificent response
to
FLOATING
DOCKS TOWED FROM INDIA
.
to
MILLIONS OF GERMS CAN LIVE ON A POINT
OF A NEEDLE!
WHAT' A STRANGE
DIET.
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America's Divorce
Rate Down
The divorce rate in the United States has dropped abruptly, a survey reveals.
The postwar boom in divorces reached record proportions last year, but during the first three the United Press survey showed that months of 1947.
decline had set in.
A
Authorities on divorce, including Judges, lawyers and sociologists, at- tributed the decline lo these factors: 1. Most of the hasty, ill-advised wartime morria zes already have been dissolved.
women
.
2. Many
Avho gained economie Independence by earning high wages in war plants have re- turned to housekeeping, cementing family relationships,
13. Less easy money for both sexes bos made for fewer divorUES.
In many elties, the survey show- ed, the react on bud se; in. Judges strict, and were becoming more church groups were crusading against divorce.
At Memphis, Tennessee, Mrs, M.V. Smith, prominent divorce attorney, said last year's divorce boom largely was a case of "loose money, Joase morals,”
When They're Hard Up "When men and women are hard adjust their up." she said, "they dimculties."
Joseph A.
At. Detroit, Judge Moynihan said that the "gangplank marriages" of wartime. "didn't work He said the divorce out so well." rale would declina even more with adequate housing.
two or three "You can't have women running one house," he said. Bven in the divorce mecca of
Reno, Nevada, there was a down- ward trend. During the first three months of the year there were 1,32 divorces, compared with 2,251 for the same perlod last year. Lawyers said fewer people could afford Reno "quickes" now,
"The survey showed the following comparisons:
New York-Diverees for the first quarter of 1940 totalled 1,160; for 1947, 1,171 New York-was-a-pro- minent exception to the rule.
Boston-In the first two months
The first voyage in history of tering its final stage with the a fleet of floating docks is en- dependants of the Mumbles fcbont- rendezvous of three of the docks
preparatory men who lost their lives in a herole at Gibraltar, attempt to save the crew of a tramp their passage through the Bay steamer during the April gaks. Donations flowed in from all over of Biscay to Britain.
In all, four Admiralty float- the world, some 12,000 people sub- scribing a total of over £80,000.
A sum of £100 has been put at ing-docks, together costing the immediate disposal of each of nearly £2,500,000, are involved the families. A Committee under in the movements, and three of of the Mayor of them have negotiated the Suez the chairmanship Swansen (Alderman Harry Davies) Canal on their way from India. of last year divorces totalled 1,055
months of this year. two is preparing a scheme whereby the
The operation has been officially compared with 762 during the first money
will be equitably distributed christened "Snow White" because
Philadelphia.Divorce sus fled over a period of years.
seven tugs were engaged during the during the first quarter of last year Mumbles men have paid their major part of the voyage. AFD. 35 toned 2,058; for the first quarter own special tributs to their fellows the largest of the docks, who sacrificed their lives. The overall length of 850 feet and a litt of 1947, 1,343.
Pittsburgh-Divorce petitions fled has been a rush of volunteers for
ing ca
capacity of 50,000 tons, has
will in the first thred months of 1946 service when a new lifeboat becomes arrived at Malte where sho
numbered 1,003; for the first quarter Inia undergo
lifting trials. She was avaliable.
Far this 1,158.
yent,
Arst three down in 1943 for the war in the
Cleveland-For the East, but when Japan surrendered
1,042. With band playing, bayonets fix work on her was eased and she has months last year, 2,721; for the same
the
year, completion period this ed, and battle standards flying only just reached
Delrot Divorces granted in the proudly the "gallant 24th Foot stage.
first quarter of last year, 3,001; In the same period. this year, 2,031.
South Wales Borderers
with ab
Regiment" the South Wales Bor- From paris fabricated in Calcutta
people...
deners, marched through the main she was assembled in two parts in was towed 'Each part streets of Newport (Mon) recently Bombay, arald the cheers of thousands of separately to Malta, where they are
now being put together.
The other two docks from India, On the town athletic ground the
both 380 feet in Itegiment received the freedom of AFD. 22 and
and the
borough in recognition
"glorious traditions and devoted service for over 250 years."
Three VC's were on parade
of
capable
Spin of lifting ships of destroyer size, have made rendez-
vous, at
at Cibraltar with A.F.D. 40, 210 feet in length and
of Major-General D. G. Johnson, Co-lifting ships of trawler size.
The dimculty of manoeuvring the lonel of the Regiment, ex-Company two parts of the largest of the docks Sergeant Major J. H. Williams, who through the Suez Canal was COM- gained the supreme honoursiderable in view of the fact that France in 1918, and Sergeant E. her overall width is 185 feet. This Chapman who gained his VC left only about 15 feet to spare In Dortmund-Canal in parts of the canal.
Commander H. N. A. Richardson, Ex-Private Fred Hardiman, aged H.N., flew to India to take charge of BD, was the oldest S.W.B. man pre- the operatiori. sent among a big contingent veterans. His service dated back to 1870.
action
1843.
on the
Shoop Dog Trials
of
DIPHTHERIA JON INCREASE
New Oricans Exact figures were unavailable, but divorce clerk George P. McCarthy of the Civil District Court said divorces had decreased 35 to 50 percent from last year.
STATE-WIDE X-RAY OF CITIZENS
A campaign to X-ray every person in Massachusetts over 14 years of age in an effort to curb tuberculosis has been started in Watertown.
and the old grand stand extended the world. He said the success. in | z- Sponsored by the State
jor
for the occasion. When
trials were last hold supreme Cardiff in 1937 all attendance
chosen cam-
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THEY BUY COAL
IN SUMMER
Advartisora, NE
This city of 35,000 was to start of the state-wide Extensive preparations are being
paign because of the compactness made to stage the International
Dr Franklin Top, of Detroit, re-
of its population, its proximity Sheep Dog Trials at Cardiff next
by Part of the old Fly ported to the fullnois State Medical Boaten and the interest shown September,
residents.
Public racecourse is being specially adopted Society that a slight rise in diph
theria cases has been noticed around
Department ond local
"requested to these preventing the disease during the boards of health and health asso-
at
* had Te takt 20 years
a killing ciations, the drive will be extend- effect on some communities with à
ed to
other communities as 6001 This is the time of the year when note that no advertisements Watertown project is com Parisians count up their franca more with the exception of urgent Uor.
carefully than ever. Summer holl notices) will be accepted ba- X-ray equipment
will be
moved day trips cost money-but that Als swean the hours of 12.30 noon frotn one
It more accessible and time to buy fuel for next winter.
days Scotland, and Wales will attract even the team that did so well vigne examinations will be by appoint- wlill Wordle, fast Exeter winger who ment. New type equipment
official ration The the peak pre- bigger crowds than
Than at war events. Daa
cords for the series were eclipsed. resultant lukewarmness in proven Fos:
Public interest in sheep-dog con- tests has intensified since the war.
in
the populour South Wales areas' and'
it fa bolleved that the year's classic
contest between the stars of England, player who was a regular member of to, makalic building to another only part of the reason. This is the Saturdays, and 9 a.m. on Mon«?
Park
..
rate is 400
Cardin City received their biggest takes. Clarke place had a balistic be wary so the It will not pounds of coal per person in each From and including Mondays
first for new club, head the transfer fee ever for Roy Clarke, ing brillant goal, and, sanerally extried to curobe, person being home: Black market coal answers to Fridays, Copy for the following
the purpose for any who can afford their 23 years old outside-left, trans-showing thrust against
the City's chist siebie ER,
The examination is entirely it but it costs from 9,800 francs day must be submitted not later. ferred after all to Manchester City. Rangers, A cheque, for over 210,000 changed were well, held and a vanquished on ntary and the eastery health de 7USST) up to almost 12.000 francs than 4 p.m..
partient? said i would dried, two ($100) fon. A ton of wood costs hands, Clarke i will thie Divi- their own
purpose simplify treatment by 3,500 francs (almost $30) jogokka grotund. tion J. South Championship
medal,
At least two more important signs, wirly diagnoms, and provent: conta- one wonde wurden of courier for the city, had made inks are xpected at Niniang Park @glöte from persons, who, don't realise Those who wait until midsummer sure of k top place, and promotion before the new campaign in Divi they hayo? the drenge-United or longer have trouble, buying their before parting with this fal Young (alon 2 begins.
Prom
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