Women
This Space Every Day
BEAUTY ARTS By LOIS LEEDS
Pored by Pattie Brady for Lois Leeds, Here's good advice!
MAN'S EYE VIEW
Here is a Man's Eye View with which I heartily #gree and 1 passing it on to you for your guid- ance.
"Permanent waves should not be given to little girls under the age of of twelve years,” is the opinion Wally Westmore, director of make up und hairstyling for Parament studius. The only exception," he says, "is in the .case of
of professional children and then, more often than not. It is not necessary.
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"With all the attractive, demure hairstyles for youngsters it is crime to foist upon them the arti- flelality if early permanents. After twelve years and up, children have pretty well developed the faculty of taking good care of their own hair
arranging and
12 attractively," continues Westmore. "Then, if they themselves long for a permanent, by all means see that they have a good ine.
"Too many mothers talk their daughters into permanents when the children themselves do not pre- fer them. The decision should be on to the young girl herself at such time as she is old enough to make
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100%
Costume colours should be worn
to complement Red hair.
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Blueg
are the most flattering it eyes are Bluc. Browns are best if
you Brown-eyed .Redhead. are Green, of course, Ice Green eyes. Remember-if you have an urge 1o wear Red go ahead, just for a change. Bu, change your make- up accents! Rouge and Hipstick should match exactly, whatever shade of Red you wear.
SIDE GLANCES
her own decision on the matter. Prior to fat time her hair should be kept simple, charming, shining and healthy".
care.
S take good
of your daughter's hair or teach her to do which is a much this for herself, better idea, and don't worry about permanents when she is very young. She will have a long time to wear permanents, so there is no necessity
for rushing things.
100-Year-Old Silks Used
For Tapestry
Silks from China 100 years old were used in making the Yattendon Tapestry, containing 108 badges of the Eighth Army. which was presented to Field Marshal Montgomery at the War Office.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1947.
KETCH TO CRUISE ROUND THE WORLD
The 44ft. ketch Kathleen, which left Sydney recently to cruise around the world, will search for survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in the Indian Ocean.
Best-Seller,
A Pen Pal And A Home
A Victorian author of best sellers remembered in his will a 16-year-old pon friendship with an American woman he
never anw.
He left to her 13-year-old son who lives in Brooklyn, New York, his bungalow at Horsham. Sussex, local baker had hoped to buy it.
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Matthew Phipps Shiel, who died In February, aged 31, and wrote Vic torian scientific thrillers le "The Purple Cloud" and "Tie Yellow Wave," received a fan-letter which began a long peu-friendship
with Mrs Hannah Miller Gross, of East 40th-street, New York, who recived more than 50 letters from the auther, as a result of wiricli he remembered in his will Patrick Cross, and left bir his six-roomed bungalow, L'Abr. New-rond. Hershamn, which the baker, 24-year-old Mr
been
Francis Gerald Vean, hog patiently waiting to buy and now finds belongs to Patrick in Brooklyn.
Mr Venn has been living in the house for three weeks with his 30- year-old wif: Stella and their three sons. Barry, azed nine, Brian, six, and Andrew, two,
Mr Venn said: "We got notice to quit our other house. I scoured the country for a place to live, saw this house and found the owner had died.
"The huusing officer could do no- thing about it becaure it was furnish- cd. The salleitors' could not dispose of it until the will was proved."
First Option
"But they gave me permission to move in and look after it on the understanding that I would get first
option to buy.
"I have been waiting for the will to be proved to ask the new owner for permission to buy or rent it. It
is a bit of a shock to And It now belongs to a boy in America. I hope with him and can get in touch WIND
that we will be able to stay on."
Mr Venn will probably be lucky Mrs Gross is thinking of selling although Patrick says: "Hold on to
The badars
worked by Service pallents of the Frisham House Red Cross Axiliary Hospital: As far as possible the men worked their own regimental badg the
man who had been shot through the spine worked two. badges with lis ms above his head while lying on his back with his neck and spine in plaster.
The border, corners, and centre pieces of the lapestry and all the Tuking-up were done by members
Berkshire 11 Red
Cress
of the Detachment.
The coat-of-arms, the four corners and part of the blue border were
it until 1 gil married."
When the steamer Tulagi was sunk by enemy nction during the war, two raft loads of sur- vivors. managed to get away.
They stuck together and drifted due West for 50 days, after which they were separated,
Two days later, one of the rafts landed on an uninhabited island in the Seychelles
group. (off Madagascar).
The men lit.a bonfire and were eventually rescued.
What became of the second raft, however, remains a mystery
Relatives of some of the missing men
bolleve survivors may have landed on another uninhabited island in the
group, In the hope that some of these still be alive, they have men may asked the skipper of the Kathleen Sydney artist Jack Earl to search along the Seychelles Islands,
The Kathleen was given a rousing farewell when the left on the first leg of her 30,000-mlic trip.
Crow Of Four
The Kathleen carries a crew of four-Don Angus, Mick Morris, Jack Day and Keith Humphries.
Only 12 skippers of vessels under 55 feet have ever encircled the globe. Earl hopes to become the thirteenth. He expects to complete the cruise in about two years,
Mrs. Earl, who has been living aboard with her two children for seme months, is disappointed that ake cannot make the trip.
Her husband decided the cruise would be too rough and hazardous
for a woman.
Mrs Eart insisted, however, that her husband should go as it meant the fulfilment of his life's ambition.
Mick Morris said: "We have had hundreds of people wanting to join us. Most have been ex-servicemen with a bit of deferred pay, but many women applied, too.".
The crew realise that five men confined in a small space, perhaps for a month at a time, will undergo some trying times.
Voluntary workers helped to outfit
the Kathleen,
Glider Into Lifeboat
NEW YORK NEWS
HAIR NETS
FOR MEN
TEW YORK. In the
NEW
window of Du Brin's cosmetic store
on West 57th Street, New York City, there's a sign that would make your hair stand on end.
It says: "Men's hairnets for sale."
Laside. Mr. Burnett Du Brin nssures Inquirers that 12a cus- lomers have hair on their chests as well as on their heads,"
"Real he-men," he rays they are. He explains:
"They wear the nets while dressing. so that they won't muss-up their hair-say, by pulling their shirts over their heads. And they wear them nights for the same reason."
Mr Du Drin says the nats are in common use lif Europe,, So for, he admits, he's gained only three customers out of New York's 4,000,000 males; but he's hoping.
THE men whose job it is to
erase moustaches from the faces of ladies in New York's subway posters and biot out obscenities have a new worry.
There's a gent spending a lot of time on the line to Jamalea writing "Annie Mosity" on every white surface he can find.
Mr William Frazee, chief bill-posters and censor of way- ward ast, commented:
"Every day when I come in, this guy's got Annie Mosity, Annie Mority written
up ali over the place.
"When he marries her," 119 give him a fifty-buck wedding cake with 'Annie Mostly on it in letters half an inch wide."
Deterrent To
Suicides
In un effort to end suicides from the observation tower of the Empire State Building. world's tallest, General Hugh A. Drum, president of the Empire State, Inc., has announced that an additional barrier will be constructed around tho present breast-high parapet.
General Drum said the barrier probably would
of be fashioned steel and would not interfere with the view from the tower platform.
The present parapet ranges from are feet six inches to five feet six
"fly-inches in height,
con-
Air chiefs in America watching experiments on a ing lifeboat" now being
Nino persona have jumped from lucted for the U.S. Coast the tower and six from offlees on Guard. They believe the glider various floors since the building was might be adapted for use when opened. 10 years ago. Associated airliners are forced to crashland in the sea.
The "ying lifeboat" is designed wings as a glider with detachable and tail, and can be towed behind a Starch aircraft,
Mrs Gross, wife of a Brooklyn car repairer, sald: "I wrote the novelist fun letter in 1931 after reading is book The Lord of the Sea.'
"Mr Shiel wrote back and asked for a photograph. I told him was marred, but he continued the
The gilder is freed over the scene friendship and wrote more than for a seu disaster, and piloted to, the 50 letters."
sea, where is wings and tall are Mr Shiel had a colourful life. At released-
The seaworthy hull, powered by a warked-in-silks brought back from the age of 15-he-was-crowned King small petrol engine, is then operate Ching in 1823 by Captain Charles Philip the First of Redonda when Otway Moyne In his frigate, The his father annexed the square-mile ed as a motor-boat.
silks were then 100 | islet in the West Indies. Nine years Atlas. These years cld, and are now the property age he was given a Civil List pen- the glider lifeboat is feasible. of Mrs Alix Farmer, grea
great grand daughter of Captain Mayne and Commandant of the Berkshire 4 Red Cross Detachment. In
the
same cargo the frigate brought to England the first
first goldfish from mulas and the
People of Yattendon contributed frocks and coats to provide material, Even
was a choirboy's cassock sacrificed for the blue of the border, Net one coupon was spent in the making of the tapestry, which took first prize in the Guild uf Needlework . muition for Hospitals in England When the hospital closed in August tite men decided that 143, .We tapestry should be presented Fier Marshal Montgomery,
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YOUR DOG HEALTH RULES
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Mony medicines" on the market are very useful when used for the right purpoke. but wärecessary dosing may be harmful and habit-form- Ind. Unican Were are delinits aliqua of m dog being off- colour the best plan is to Icave well lose and when vet's be ONENT A favourite remedy, with many people is tog castor oil botife, nod usually a dose will do more good than harm: but, in the rate of some troubles, such as diag tempor, the purging caused by caster oil is weaktening and might even be fatal,
the need
advice should
the
Internal disinfectants aro sometimes, given at preven Lives-garlic is an example and they ara, nnt, without their uses, but if a dog nas « balanced diet, and 10 kept under healthy condillora nature will not need any baristance In keeping him well..
LEO C. WILSON.
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CHECK YOUR
KNOWLEDGE
1. Name the author of the-play "Cyrano de Bergerac,"
2. Name the man who signed Germany's unconditional surrender for the Allies.
3. What rivers form the longest river system in the world?
4. From what is coal formed?
Where is the largest pipe or-
5.
Za in the world?
G. What is a repatriate?
(Answers on Page 4)
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1948 B.L.F.
The 1048 British Industries Fair will be held from May 3 to 14 in London and Birmingham. This will be the second Fair since World War II; the Rrst was held in the spring of this your und attracted thousands the of buyers from all parts of world.
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ever have.vou been "Where
she cries. "And where did you get those fine chestnuts so early in the year?' Rupert grins happily. "It's a great story, and. I've solved the mystery of our apple tree. The chestnuts are fo: dardy." he says as they go indoors.
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When the last plates. of the first aircraft carrier ever de-· signed are being sold early next year in a northern shipbreaking
her predecessor, sunti off Gibraltar yard, the Queen will launch in November 1941, Britain's latest and greatest aircraft carrier, the Ark Royal, to-date aircraft-carriers in the world, at Birkenhead,
Now being dismantled 1s the carrier Argus, known throughout
She will be one of the most up--
'and will embody many Improvements on the result of wartime expeflence. She is the longest ship to be built
the Navy as lie "Ditty Box" because on the Mersey. Owing to the length
she resembled the shape of a sailor's box for his private possessions,
of her hull, which extends from the river's edge to the workshops of the top of the stocks, a portion of her. The new. Ark Royal, whose keel bow has been left unplated to give
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