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BEAUTY ARTS
By LOIS LEEDS
Pored for Lois Leeds.
Add pearls to a black dress!, says Lois Leeds.
"DEAN LOIS LEEDS"
"Dear Lois Leeds-Due to a child- hood accident, the third finger of my I UIT left hand was amputated.
Where to be married next month. should I wear my wedding ring?
--A FIANCE." As the wearing of the ring on the
hand third
the left Anger of simply traditional, I would wear it of the right on the third finger hand. You could, of course, wear it on the second singer of your left hand, but it is an awkward Binger for a ring and would call attention use to your disability. I would the right hand. talked with Л clergyman on this and that is also his advice.
"Dear Lols Leeds- have a binck 21 lace dress, floor length. I am years alt and will attend my sister's wedding in January. What should I
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1947.
U.N. ASSEMBLY MAY DUMB-BELLS
MEET IN GENEVA
Geneva, seat of the ill-fated League of Nations, may once again become the hub of international diplomacy.
1
The United Nations General Assembly will hold its September 1948 meeting in Europe. A UN committee will decide Boon in what city the meeting will be held. The choice appears to lie bo-, developed into a centre for the UN's
economic and technical work. tween Paris and Geneva.
As the scat of the newly created U.N. European head- quarters, Geneva has some powerful arguments on its side, The chief points are the ready- made facilities, to which the UN fell heir from the League of Nations.
.Since summer, the Palace has been the meeting place for some 15 conferences, and has become the permanent headquarters of a num- ber of U.N. specialised agencies.
Such bodies have met in Geneva the Preparatory Committee of the Conference on Trade and Employ- ment, the Economie Commission for Europe, 'International Labour Con- ference, Food and Agricultural On the other hand, some see a Organisation, International Passport
International danger in a U.N. meeting where the Conference,
Health
starved countries.
Longue expired. Additionally, Organisation, Aviation Conference, Switzerland's hard, currency-the. and a number of smaller groups. hardest in the world-makes the ploce icas desirable for dollar- Excellent Meeting Centre
The U.N. Commissions on Grecco The Palais Des Nations, former and Palestine wrote their reports at
Palais des Nations. League of Nations building, and its the contents were transferred to the U.N.Economie Commission for Europe, last summer in the Onal liquidation with its various specialised com- askets. Later mitteca, has permanent headquarters
wear with this dress nad should. If the League's make any changes?-MRS L.."
Shorten the drers to thirteen inches from the floor. Wear a small Binek hat with lots of veiling. Wear pearls and Pale blue gloves,
"Dear Lois Leeds-I am to be married in a coffee-brown suit Should 1 wear a hat? The wedding is to be in the minister's parlour at four P. M.-SUE.”
Yes, a hat in important to that Soft Green or well-groomed look.
with
Coffee- Ruby-Red is lovely
EX-NATIVES OF BIKINI STARVING
NEW YORK.
The 161 natives of Bikini evacuated 140 miles
there.
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The
the of With full ownership former League properties, the U.N. acquired a meeting centre compar- Versailles Palace in able to the dimensions.
The Palace was completed in 1938 after nine years of work. It covers an area of 193,752 square feet, with a perimeter of well over one mile.
Built in a Greek key pattern, the Palace centres around the large ns- capacity sembly hall, with a seating of 1,540 delegates and 270 advisers, Brown. A lapel corsage, with ac-atoll cent on flowers to match your hat southeast to Rongerik atoll bentleries for the public and press with adjoining press working rooms, fore the atom bomb test in July booths for radio reporters and photo- colour, will be effective.
1946, are being taken to angraphers, and a telephone system other atoll because they are in for simultaneous translation. danger of starving.
"Dear Lois Leeds-I
nable eyed blondle and so is my husband. Would it be in good taste to have blue cloth suits made alike. of the fame material? We go everywhere Logether in the CAT.
--RANCH WIFE." Yor, husband-and-wife matching outfits look yery attractive, but be;
that your suit sare
has a skirt, not alackat
Minute Makeup Fascinating Fur
GABRIELLE
Learn to apply your foundation evenly. That's the real basin of makeup secrets, If you use a cream blend and smooth it over the sur- face of the skin. Then, after per- fect blending, press cosmetic tin- sue over the skin. If you use liquids, apply them with a bit of damp ab. sorbent cotton and remove surplus lotion with a tissue, If it's cake makeup that delights you, apply it with damp cotton. Stroke and blend and then press lightly with a tissue.
SIDE GLANCES
Sketch by Virginia of a Jan- uary outht of three-quarter length black lamb coat whose pockets form a müft. apron Head-dress is a sheer Sheiland wool fascinator. and the ankle socks, of pure ankora, Are a cosy as they look,
By Galbraith
ROTEOME
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"I'm glad to be home! When, after only three weeks," relatives any they can't think of any place else to take you, it's time to leave!"
Investigation reports
of unhap-
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piness among the Bikin! natives on Nine committee rooms on either
Rongerik. U.S. Agricultural speci- side of the assembly hall have seat- alist Dr. Howard MacMillon founding capacities ranging from 50 to them destitute and unable to sup- 500 cents.
themselves on the island's agriculture or fisheries.
port
Many have been poisoned through cating fish from the lagoon. disastrous fire destroyed 30 percent. of the coconut trees, which retarded already deficient food production for 20 months.
Want To Roturn
The desperate Inhabitants and palms were culling eating the palm hearts.
Ujeland, 290 miles southwest of Bikini, is much more lush than elther Bikini or Rongerik. The soil is healthy and copra can be рго- duced there. The fishing is cellent.
cx-
But it is doubtful if Ujeland will Bikini Islanders any appease the more than Rongerik.
Through their chief Juda, they returned to have pleaded to be Bikini but the waters of the lagoon there are still radioactive.
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ball Linked with the assembly through marble halls is the so-call-TODAY'S hand
with ed council bullding, a block seating accommodation for delegates, last August. With a diamond open- The official and ceremonial build- East wins the first trick, and if secretariat and the press.
he returns a diamond, declarer ings are complemented by a third can trump in dummy and take a
the administrative
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group,
take
with 500 offices. The library, bultpade finesse. But who wants to a trump finesse on the first as still another adjoining block, is round with ten trumps in sight?
107 one of Europe's best centres
Look the hand over carefully and political study.
figure out the play you think gives you the best chance to make the jcontract.
BACK SEAT
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Bertram Lebhar, Jr., of New York saya that South, without batting an oye, should drop the king of "dia- monda of East's acc. East then will not return a diamond, believing that it would give declarer a sluft und a ruil. If a club is returned, South The American Public Henith wins, cashies the ace of spades and finds out that West has no trumps. Association has told of a Texan
Declarer now leads the three of husband and wife, both physi- diamonds, ruffs in dummy, and then cians, who allowed their young leads clubs, discarding hearts from daughters free choice of meals his own hand. and found it worked better If East trumps the fourth club, seasoned declarer overtrumps, pleks up the than planned diet
queen of spades, und he stli has with usual parental threats.
From the age of 18 months old, an entry into dummy to take the
Model's Secret lowed the children to beart fincase.
Marriage
eat by themselves without restric- tion, on time or behaviour at the table.
The girls,
лож Elx have
and grown
four and
decay.
one~
A man who used to sit in the respectively, front
of stalla the Tivoli developed normally, with no tooth
The children take about Theatre in Sydney and smile at a girl in the ballet, secretly third of their food between meals, of fruit, raw consisting largely married her after an engage-
vegetables, milk.
Sometimes they have hugo · ap- ment of five years.
peutes for weeks, then slacken off for
no apparent reasoil. Then they go on food lags. eating! at every meal often the same thing for two weeks.
He
33, Is Edward Lofberg. Sydney businessman, and the girl is Pat Craig, 23, well-known Sydney model.
South Put Craig was a New Wales Analist in a beauty contest.
She sold:
Check Your Knowledge
(Answers on Page 4)
1. Name the two largest cities in Italy.
2. What mythological dog three heads?
3. What is an honorarium?
had
4. Which is the right bank of a At one meal they might concen- trale on cucumber, eggs, or bread, river? but their stomachs are never
up-
5. From what animals do human set. Sometimes they eat dessert in beings contract psittacosis? "We planned our wedding for the middle of the meal, but general- weeks but kept it a secret and didly avold mixtures like hash, stew not tell our friends until it was all and fancy saluda, over.
"We thought it would be much nicer that way.
"My husband and I have known ench other for almost nine years and have been engaged for five years.
"I first noticed him in the stalls at the Tivoll while I was dancing.
"He kept coming to the show and always smiled at me.
"One night I worked at a movie ball in Sydney. Ted was there and he made himself known to me;
"That is how we met.
"I hope to continue modelling."
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fuss of hims
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