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BEAUTY ARTS
By LOIS LEEDS:
Posed for Lois Leeds,
Here are Questions and Answers of interest to all.
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
Here are some of the questions met often asked by my readers,
"Is a powder foundation necessary for good makeup?"
cream
Auswer. Yes, definitely, foundalion, apolled with the finger. tips and well blended, makes for u smooth makeup. A tatlon is best for an over-oily skin.,
"How can superituous hair be re- moved from the Ince at home? Pro- fessionally?"
iments.
Anacer. By the use of a wax de- pillatory in persistan! home treat- Profesalonul treatments by un gelenowledged specialist in elec trolysis. Even this is not always
permanent in results.
How can salar, dark birthmarks and blemishes be concealed?"
Anser. By the use of a cover- mark foundation. Selected for skin tore and blonded.smoothly, the cours or birthmarks cannot be seen. It Is a great boon
to many
unhappy people. Try this if you have a scar or birthmark of any kind.
"Is it in good taste for men to use perfume?"
} for men.
11 is in excellent taste (und smell!) for men to use them.
"Is dipstick drying?” Answer. I have never found it so in my years of use and experimen- tation. Lipstick is really protective as well as beautifying.
"Must hair bo cut to make it grow luxuriously?"
Answer. No. Look at the bald- cut their hair! haded men-they Cutting the enda of a woman'a ir makes it lock better and gets rid of broken nnds. Massage, brushing and cleanliness these are MUSTS. A good ointmen! to massage into the scalp is important in hair care. Frequen shampoos are necessary. And physical well-being affects the health and beauty of the hair.
Nylon Has Come
To Stay
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1947,
Egypt Is Refuge For Fallen Royalty
Egypt today is the land where Europe's former monarchs while away their throneless and declining years. Most of the members of three former ruling families are there, and a fourth-Peter II of Yugo- slavia-foreign circles say, has been invited to make his home in this ancient land.
A RAW DEAL FOR THE TWINS
Now, in nursery ↑
The Zanure twins are "imall - but aggressive."
King Farouk I, like his father King Fund, who brought Italian architects to Egypt to build with Italian marble some of the country's most modern buil- dings, has extended a welcom- ing hand to fallen royalty. Nearly all members of Italy's house of Savoy and many of their top followers are in the country. Italian, as before the war, again is often heard in exclusive, sections of Cairo and Alexandria..
In a flowery vifin on the outskiris of Alexandria, Vletbe Emmanuel and Elena live quietly. The former Queen is seldom seen in public, but Taly's ex-King, who now uses the name "Count Pollenzo, apend much time dishing as he did off the coast of Naples during his last years there.
The twin armoured lizards known as Lord Derby's zonures, born at the London Zoo reptile house three
Their son, Umberto, Italy's tast weeks ago, have been taken from
who lives in a marby, modest their parents cage and put in an old the Associated Press at special nursery","
the old King and Queen are well. Others ayho have aten Victor Emanuel said that the 77-year-old former monarch is active and quick to break into a cackling and some- what brittle laughter,
Reason: In the parental cage the babies were not getting a "square
The zonures' cage contains a dozen of these spiny African Hizards, and as the repilles are surprisingly fleet of foot they mopped up most of the
mezfworms their
main active twins could get at them.
Nor did the parent zonures worry about this! these reptiles have no towards their protective Instinct
have to end for offspring, which themselves from the start.
Alles which form * dlet, long before the less
MP's ENVY
be
Not Friends
But, they said, it is not true that and ex-King Zug of Allanta, whom the Halians ousted in 1939, They have become companions.
never see each other.
Zon and his wife, once au Amert can citizen, divide their time between Cairo und Alexandria, going to the latter place as do wealthy Egyptians 10 escape the desert heat.
now known Umberto,
as Count went to Egypt from Portugal to visit his parents and attend the wedding of his niece, Princess Vic-
Za
BLACK FEET toria Chivi di Bergulo, to Count
INDIANS
Guglielmo Guarienti di Brenzone, 20. year-old Italian nobleman who fled from Italy during the war.
The young couple has returned to Italy, but Calvi di Bengolo, his wife, The
Blackfest Indians at Yolanda of Savoy, and the other
family Gleichen, Alberta,
remain are so members of their prosperous that their lot drew here.
the Also in Egypt are
of
Up till now in Britain nylon the envy of several members at Queen of Bulgaria and widow
former has been associated in people's Answer Pungent, fresh-smelling minds with parachutes, stock recent meeting of the Joint King Baris, Giovanna of Savoy, and Canadian Parliamentary Com- her son, the 10-year-old ex-King colognes, doilet watons, shave lotionsings and tooth brushes. But in
Simcon II of Bulgaria, They live in mittee on Indian Affairs. and perfumes are created especially the 18 months of postwar pro-
duction in the United Kingdomly 1,000 strong, gave up, by a treaty
The Blackfect, now approximate-an Alexandria hotel. many other uses. have been in 1007, 150,000 heres of their rich evolved.
black Alberta soil for a substantial
Minute Makers
GABRIELLE
Let your makeup create the II- lusion of Loveliness? That's all that it is for, really. Beauty tricks with makeup go a long way toward ere. ating the Musion of beauty, "Lift" a sagging chin by using a darker foundation on the lower half of tho face, but blend skillfully! Make a big mouth look smaller by lipstick- ing the center richly and fading it ,out toward the corners.
SIDE GLANCES
DOPA, 1967 WÝ BELA VERTICE, SNG."
Busy women will welcome at tractive nightdresses and lingerie and also children's wear in the new vears open-knit nylon fabrle which wears
so casily and so well, washies
needs no ironing Nylca volic also makes attractive lingerie, practical because of nylon's extra strength. The same hard-wearing quality gives extra length of life to corsets in nylon
satin and not.
Besides being strong, nylon yarn Is extraordinarily light la weight. and makes featherlight swim sults -and-rainecats- which-- pack into B small space. Nylon also makes umbrellas, classic black for men, flowered and gally-coloured for
women.
There are plenty of other things for men, too-ties. sports shirts, underwear, epol to wear and easy to wash, and handsome nylon dressing gowns, Besides clothes, there are ny- lon fishing lines, spinning lines and
tapered
lines. fly
Nylon gloves are from knitted nylon fabrics. There are nylon shoes-besides stockings in new 15 end 20 denier yarn, finer than ever before. The list is almost endless.
webbing and tyre are ropes,
Add to this that besider all its other qualilles nylon resists moths and mildew, and it will be seen that nylon has come to stay as one of the most important texille fibres,
payment. The payment, on which From Here And There:
tie Dominion Government pays in. 10 terest of five percent, has grown
tribe still
Owns 3,000,000. The $3.00 178,000 acres, of which 12,160 acres are lensed to white" farmers, while Indians cultivate another 40,000.
Out of its income from trust funds Blackfeet and sale of produce, the annually spend $30,000 on adminis iration. $25,000 on road and irriga- tion developments and over a period of 30 years have completed a $500, 000 housing project.
GAMBLER'S
DISMAY
Nice-Monte Carlo's fashionable pawnshop, the refuge of thousands of cleaned-out gamblers, was burgled In broad daylight recently of pledged lewellery worth 2,000,000 rancs. Thieves opened iron grids with keys during the lunch-time closing from They cut a showcase containing jewels with dia- extracted the booty and vanished without trace.
Rations of meal, soup, tea, flour and rice are provided as a statutory noon to two o'clock. right, newly-married couples receive allowances for home furnishings monds,
and aged members of the tribe arc supplied with clothing, extra rations and financial assistance,
DECIDE, LADIES! Ometals say that a whole genETU- tion has grown up with nearly com- Boston.-University girls are being plete social security and the problem officially advised not to make a choice now is to develop the Blackfeet as between marriage or a career, but individuals and create within theto prepare for both., POSTSCRIPT: tribe a desire to raise the standard For the first time in Amerlen there
are now more women than men. of living.
The testimony before the Commit- tee led one member to plead: “If you hear of any vacancies in the band, just let me know!"
ROBBED SO HE COULD STUDY
LIFE AND SOUL
BOU! Capetown-The Life and aboard the immigrant ship Winchics- dockid recently ter Castic, which from England, was Andrew Connor, aged 19 and Irish. He organised games, sang at concerts
und was popular with all. But in Table Bay it was found that Andrew was a stowaway who had slept in a life He robbed small loan
com-boat and dined in the saloon. He panies to finance his studies for sald he stowed away at Belfast, walked from Liverpool, and suunter- the Winchester Castle
A longway from Tipperary, Andrew is now in the lock-up.
à master's degree.
That, was the story that Ralph: Chicago criminal cour! as he picad- ed guilty to five charges of armed
By Galbraith, Burde. 31, told the judge in u
pan:for Pushs's just been fighting tooth/" Johnny, and now her volɑs drips mapjo
robbery.
lo
Although he had been receiving t fellowship at the University ot Chichim.
the money was not enough
His plea for probation was turn- ed down. He was sentenced to four to eight years in the penitentiary.
"I had a blameless record up to the time of these offences," Burde told the police.United Press,
CHESS PROBLEM
By A. J. FINI Black, 12 pleces
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White to play and mute, in tros,
Solution to yesterday's blom:
1, 9–83; threst; 2, K-12. K+-K16, P--B5; 1, D~BJ (ok);
rd aboard with no trouble at Southampton.
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and
DUMBBELLS
PATENT OFFICE
FREGISTERED USI.
WHAT I WANT IS A CRACKERJACK,
GALESMAN!
WELL I NEVER
SOLD
POP CORN BUT I DID SELL PEANUTS
FIRES KEEP ·
BURNING
MANILA ANEW
Although reconstruction in war-ravaged Manila is in full swing, it is barely keeping pace with the rate of destruction by fire.
a
For the six-month perind starting November
Manila Inst year, averaged two fires a day. And thus, for every building that went up, one went down,
According to a Manila Fire De- partment officials, the high number of fires in the city is attributable to the following factors:
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1. Lally in granting building permits, Mana ja in suel dire need of reconstruction that Public Works officials often grail permits to In- dividuals where plans are not Lo standard, Furthermore,
unscrupulous building recommend the approval of appli echiory whose owners are willing to pay coffee money." Such buildings. when completed, are usually poten- tal fire hazards.
soma inspectors
Inferior Materials
2. Inferior building materials and
equipment. Manila was no de-
pleted of lumber and other ballding materials during the way that haise builders have to content themselves with whatever materials they can get. While new imports have been pouring into the islands, because of high pricns most house builders resort to cheaper, home-made pro- ducts.
3. Argon. Setting fire to highly buildings, Investigations insured have disclosed, is a commun prac- ice In Manila, a Fire Department ofletul sold. He added, however, that due to the intricacles of the Philippine arson law, many culprits Jave
escaped arrest and prosecu- Lion.
The enormous inercase since the war is emphasised by the fact that the total Are loss in Manila in January 1947, was equal to fire luss for the whole year of 1941-$350,000.
There
the were 0. fres during" month of March, the highest num- ber in any one month to date. Total 1040 was more than fire loss for $2,000,000.
The average Manila Areman re-
basic ceives a monthly
salary of US$50. He may receiv US$17.50 more in the farm-of-a-bones-for service rendered.
Out-Dated Appliances
fire the
Prewar fire engines and fighting equipment were of highest quality, but the sack of Mantle left nothing but a few out-dated fire engines. These, plus low water pressure in the city, hamper the work of combatting fires.
The United States Army has con- tributed greatly in <quipping the Fire Department, but it is still in need of better and more engines and equipment.
The Fire Department inst month held a fire prevention campaign. No decrease in fires, however, has been noted to date. United Press.
FLIGHT SAFETY
DEVICE
THEIR REASON
Ceilometers, electronic de- Moscow.The only reason why Russia is not attending the Geneva vices which provide weather Trade Conference, says New Tunca, data as a flight-safety aid by is because "the problems discussed measuring accurately and con-
directly there do not
concern us tinually the distance from owing to the slate monopoly of our foreign trade which is an unshake ground to clouds, are being able element of our system. Izvestia produced for both Army and says that world trade is one-sided and Navy at the General Electric insecure. The U.K., U.S.A.. Canada have 50 percent of world ex- Company's plant in West Lynn, ports, against 30 percent before the Massachusetts. war, and in 1040 the US.A. export- ed twice as much as she imported.,
ONE OR THE OTHER Washington. The reason that all American presidents take u fishing, according to.
Herbert Hoover, only living ex-president, is that it is the only way for them to get away Said her "There are from it all. only two ocensions when Americans respett pristacy-praying and fid- ing."
The cellometer consists of a pulsat- ing light device which throws a beam, invisible to the human eye during daylight, vertically into the A detector unit, placed 1,000 feet from the projector, detects the so-called "scatter energy" produced an cloud layers above. The in-. formation is transmitted to a record- ing device, and can be relayed to a pilot in short order-Unlied Press.
Rupert and the Young Imp-7
:
Rupert doesn't wait to be helped out of the tree, bat jumps down With something in his arms, "Look, Daddy, two beautiful big apples. The cries. They must have been
hanging there since last autuma: 1 wonder how we managed to raise them. Hia, father takes one and, stares at it in amazement.Na #isn't "last year appla” he says, at lengthenkt fan! shrivelled, it's tramooth and newly grown. And yet Hit can't be "Apples don't come as
the same time of the blossom (***
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