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Women
BEAUTY ARTS By LOIS LEEDS
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Pored by Maureen O'Itara for Lois Leeds.
Lols Leeds asks some questions but she answers them for you!
DO YOU KNOW?
Do you know that Massachusetts has o law which says that the feel] of school children must be examined by professionals? A good law I think!
Do you know that more people complain of behing feet than of any other ailment except headache?
Do you know that Pink wedding.
are very beautiful? Do you know the Green will make you look cool oft a hot, hot day?
Do you know that Water Lilles re the birth flowers for July-born
Wotten?
Do you know that long scarves re very faltering? And do you know that several different scarves are being
worn - Jarge Black Do you know that for real com-jh:t? And, for fun, wear them all at fore stockinggs
at least onee, twned and draped together, should be half an lạch longer than your long- Do you know thal a molasses est tees? Saves stockings, knot milkshake is good for you? Try one
and find out!
Do you know that culton slips are now à fiochlonable rage? Cool and very comfortable under frocks.
Summer
Do you know that Brown is be- coming a favourlle relour for dinner dresses and houseconts? Wear your Amber bends with Brown,
Do you know that cold cream and fresh strawberry juice will make skin look "good enough to ent"? Combine the cream and juice for a 20-minute refresher.
your
Minule Makija 4 GABRIELLE
Skin sallow? Here's a wonderful home made bleach. Ono tablespoon- ful of almond meal, two table- , spoonsful of strong peroxide, two tablespoonful of rips lemon julec, four tablespoonsful orange flawer water, ten drops of tincture of ben- zoin. Mix all of the ingredients to- gether well or have your chemis mix them for you. Sprend quickly over face and neck (and arms, if you wish) and leave on for fifteen minutes. Use only once a week, not oftener. Remove with warm water, then douse your face and neck with chilled water
SIDE GLANCES
Anni Edwards
OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1947.
Huge Lottery For Britain Proposed
The London Sunday newspaper, The People, whose circulation exceeds 4,500,000; featured as its main front page story a report that a scheme was to be put before the British Government to float the biggest lottery the world has ever known to raise nearly £1,000,000,000 in foreign currency.
RARE TOMBS.
The newspaper said that the scheme proposed the sule all over the world of 2,000,000,000 tickets, at £1 each and the giving away of just over half
FOUND NEAR he amount collected in prizes.
PYRAMIDS
An extensive burial ground in Egypt, stretching from east to west for some two miles and dating between the 26th and 30th dynasties, or between 600 | and 300 B.C., has yielded some remarkable relies as a result of excavations by the Farouk ol Awal University Archaeological Association.
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Some of the rellen unearthed
miles this alte, which is about two from the Great Pyramids of Giza, are of a type hitherto unknown. Four distinct patterns of tombs have been classified.
This offer sellers had. deducted one percent would result in a prófi lo the British Treasury of
£150,000,000, The People said.
Mr Dennis Smith, Chairman of Near the Commercial Bank of the East, who was said to have worlted out the plan, was quoted as saying tint it hud the support of the biggest banks, insurance companies and finance houses.
Lord Calio, Chairman of the Bank
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of England, had also expressed Interest in the plan, which would be put before the Treasury, Mr Smith { was quoted as saying,
DUMB-BELLS
SO YOU AND YOUR BOY LFRIEND DON'T SPEAK!
PATENT OFFICE
“NO, WE HAD A QUARREL ABOUT WHO LOVED] THE OTHER MOST!
• McKENNEY ON BRIDGE
Double Asks For Specific Suit Lead
By WILLIAM E. MCKENNEY £100 Million First Prize
FOR the first time in the history first prize in the foltery of the world championship Mas- would be "the staggering stim uters' pair event, the von Zedtwitz
£100,000,000"
distributed
The
be to
The Arst type has an entrance among the holders of the tekets in gold cup went to the middle ivest, when Frank Weisbach of Cincin- opening on to a short stairway lead-the winning book of 1,000 tickets. Ing down to n spacious vaulted
nal, O., and Allen Harvey of There is at present no reason to chamber. Generally, the lower half
the fold nt of the walls is cut out of the rock, suppose, however, that the, British Louisville, Ky., led
sensions. Today's changed its long- the end of four while the upper half and the arched Government has
lend official hand was defended in the tourn- velling are built of stone from local standing decision not
sanction to the floating of lotteries. ment by Weinbach in the North quarries.
reply to a question in the House and Harvey In the South position. A of Commons recently supported this point of view,
The vaulted chamber lends into a smaller one with a flat celling and a square hole in the centre of the Hoor leading down to the burial chamber.
Further Excavations
actual
tion to
reintroduce
The double of a three no trump contract usually asks partner to asked The Home Secretary was whether he would consider legisla- lead the Arst suit bid by dummy.
"a system of Many playern employ this con- slate lotteries on a wide and varied vention against slam contracts
and failed scale" so that the large fount of nisa. Harvey In the second type, the
Dritish smaller money which the
people ehamber has no ceiling, but Fools spent annually on games of chance, out into a kind of open courtyard. betting, sweepstakes and pools, might pattern and other
Some of the tombs of this
football
be "en-
bene-
Non-Conformist Opposition
are surrounded by a spacious tun-couraged into moré publicly nel which varies in depth between Ocial chaunels." 12 and 18 feet.
Altered A great deal of sand bas into the tunnel and further excava-
The Home Secretary's written re- tions will be made next season. It ply was brief and to the point.
that all the smaller it consisted of one word "No." is believed burial chambers may be connected,
ASHION. PSYCHOLOGY: Practised by Angele De- langhe, Duchess of Kent's new dress- The third type of tomb consists of taker. She engaged plump man- only one small chamber carved out nequins (from a humpy t# 10 # of the rock and made to hold one
hickening 30) for her dress-show. or Says Delanghe: "My customers want to see what their clothes will look like on themselves-not on a @gure- perfect mannequin."
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No state lotteries have been in Britain since the 18th century. The one objection is believed to be the opposition of the non-conformist were churches, reported to carry several
of votes, to gambling millions Is conscientious grounds. rock,
It was understood in London that the Lord Catto knew nothing whatever
schtine." world lottery
The fourth pattern of tomb simply a recess cut into the with one end curved to take ENTHUSIAST: Pat head of the sarcophagus. " Rae has three hundred
have been Many of the tombs pairs Favourite trick Is sewing pearls, sequins. bears on the back. tampered with, but a few are intact have yielded some fine statuary, skilfully
Latest addition is a pair made from and
She has a little examples
carved.
black ribbon. woman make them up from scraps fmteri so stop worrying your head about her coupons,
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Genuine-blonde
Audrey Kenny, 24, most photographed girl in London: and stockbroker Johnnie Hanson-Law sen. 38. Bride's "samething borrow- ed" was her weed-velvet suit" (she's bon modelling it all week!).
Groom's present to bride, bag of Rolf clubs-he's plus-2 handicap the doesn't play.
FAS
of
PHILIPPINES
AND CHINA
SIMILARITY OF PROBLEMS
آوا
the
Reuter,
HIS JOB IS TO TRAVEL
BACKWARDS
Tournament–Both vul.",
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the bidding. When the opponents reached four spades, he thought that he
could defeat the contract with the right opening lead. He he gambled, therefore, that when doubled four spades, his partner that he wanted the etub suit led,
would read
world.The club happened to be a natu-- pace, ral opening for North to make, and He then cashed back-Harvey trumped.
the ace of hearts and Welsbach week.
gave him the eight-spot; so Harvey Ird a small heart which North won Another club was Jed back, and the contract down one.
was
While the troubled moves forward at a mad John H. Gutson travels wards every day in the He likes it that way. SASHION DICTATOR. Ex-
Gutson is a pilot or "back-up" with the king. fashion coitress of Vogue, The Fukien Times, leading man for the Chicago and North- ex-stylist of Bourne and Holling Chinese afternoon commercial western Railway. His friends call sworth, because virtual Government
and he
If Harvey bad come into the style-buss. Iter job: to pick clothes daily in Manila, recently carri- his "Wrong Way Gutson"
has travelled backward bidding with hearts at any time, accessories, etc. from everywhere ed an article written by Briga is sure he
any man more miles than:
who
as many players would, his part- else in the world, to bring them buck dier General Carlos P. Romulo, breathes.
пер would have opened 1 heart contract would not have 30 and the the distributional
been defeated, Harvey likes to bid hands, but having
to teach British manufacturers their Philippines chief delegate to the
We thought they knew.
He's been United Nations, in which he
joh.
a
backing up for years, piloting trains from
ding.
NON-SPILL: A bump on the said China and the Philippines station to the yards on the west side both majors, he left there was no ON head for baby in the had similar aims in the global of Chicago for servicing and repair: reason for hurrying into the bid- Berner family of Bromley, Kent,
In all that time he has travelled organisation. started un iden which ended up
$5,000 miles in reverse-equal to over the counter last weelt. Father
"China and the Philippines are twice around the world. Berner, a mechanical engineer, put
sisters, no! merely because of on sale a safety device to prevent
rams tipping up.
By Galbraith
COPK, 1947 KY MEA BERVISTIMO 7, 1, 270, 0, 1. PAT, OFF,
"Wo'd bottor try again-you know how cross he gets 17 wo let him oversleep on Saturday!"
geographical reasons, but only be-" Added up, that is more miles than cause part of Philippine culture his railway. which is going on 100 Onds Its antecedents in Chinese years old, went forward during the
bo Brst 10 years of its existence, classical civilisation, but also
Fascist cause both have suffered
endured invasion and have
long Heartbreaking years of occupation." Romulo sald.
"It doesn't bother me," he said. "As a matter of fact I don't have any trouble at all walking forward when I get off the run."
"China and the Philippines can The 54-year-old Gutson, although work together to help realise the he is on the job seven days a weekt, aspirations of their Eastern brothers. But great as is the influence of both rides only about 15 miles a day on countries on events and movements
the job.
The back-up man has been on the
in the East, neither China nor the job 38 years, and during the first Philippines can afford lo overlook
the magnitude of the task in this eight years on
postwar Shoulder
the rond he went those days he was
which they must "straight." In with the rest of what is loown as a "freight brakter." He added that he didn't think he would be able to push a train for- ward anymore.
. For if the war
their sister has taught us anything it is this that no issue, however local it may
"Besides," he, added; "When you seem to be, is in reality so. The problems that beset the West con- have that kind of a run you-are-on cern the East too, and must in the road a lot. I get home every not even evitably have repercussions in our night in the week. I'm
part
Press.
of the worldAssociated sure I could go straight again. I'd
probably foul things all up,
"Let the world roll forward. Everybody concerned "Is safer with me running things backward. I know my way around that way."
Check Your Knowledge
1. What name, is given to a bottle-nosed dolphin?
2. In what waters is pearl fishing
carried on most extensively?
3. Locate the Mona Passage.
4. Who were Paolo and Francesca
da Himin!?
5. Name the first place seen by travellers approaching Hawail..
6. Is Bermuda part of the West Indies?
(Answers on Page 4)
CHESS PROBLEM
By C. SCHAFERLING Black, 3 places.
White, & places.
White to play and mate'in three. Solution to yesterday's problem:
1. K93, any; 2, 4, or B (ch, or dik ch) mater.
Rupert and the Three Guides 38
When he has finished speaking the tiny king and, his guarde turn and diappear. The young friends are disappointed that only one ca go up to the crowning place, bur Rupert unselfishly turns to Beryl. You're the eldest." he says "! wouldn't, you like to go up?" Then the Guides all insist that. Rupert himself must go, and there in quit en argument until the first squirrel returns, and anys that the spot is only strong enough to bear the lightest of them.
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CONSCIENCE DOES MAKE COWARDS OF US ALLUS
FILM STUDIO IN | They A CELLAR- Gave What is probably one of the most their
original film studios in the
world
started recently in London in the Lives.
cellar of a bombed building,
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Little else but cellar is left and the company, International Motion Pictures, is the latest and youngest It producing company in Britain. means the realisation of a dream of two young men."
Harry-Reynolds, a producer who was working with the American Army Film Unit-during World War II, and Cyril Bristow, cameraman on war, documentaries, are the two who have for years been planning
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We, too, may give through the
HONGKONG WAR
to show the world that films coula MEMORIAL
bo produced without tremendous costs; that moderately priced, modest pictures could bo just as good and successful as the super- mammoth epic of the year,
Although the sela are cramped. and stuffy, the company nevertheless plans to produce four feature -Alms. 'n year at a cost of something like
£30,000.
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