THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH
MAY 18
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
S
LOST! 21 stone in four months
Miss Valenska
(the 11-slono actress who wanted to be slim)
holds the line
by EILEEN ASCROFT
PRING slimming is in many women's minds.
Το
wcar the new straight #lim akirts and sheath. dresses your figure has to be good. No bulges, no Black muscles, all in proportion.
For the over-weight who lose heart when it comes to dieting and exercises hère's a truc-life story of a film jactress who lost 21% stone in four months, with no ill effects, on a strict diet with the help of massage. special exercises, wax baths and roller treatment.
Paula Valenska, a Czech, blue- eyed blonde and beautiful with
a tertdency to put on weight and
n love of sweet things.
When Pouln'started work on
the film "Three Men and a Girl."
In which the plays a triple roir, she weighed 11 stone,
Producer Anatole de Grunwald said: "You will have to take off nt least 2 stor." So Paula was No put on a very strict diet,
bread, no cream or pudry, no sweets. No fattening foods of any kind. For weeks she had only fruit juice for breakfast, a thin slice of veal an anlad for lunch and chicken and green vegetables for dinner.
In the roller
a green
For two weeks the took an Intensive slimming course at o beauty salon, starting at 10:4 41b, 2oz. and finishing al st 12lb. Ten treatments of Wax bath, macage, special deport- ment exercises (half the reusons for overweight are sliting stand-
11 and walking badly) ing
sinn Eensions in the
roller machine reduced her measure-
ments. Dlet did the rest and brought her weight down to 84 stone.
fr
Paulo, now holidaying Bagdad with her surgeon hus- band, reports that "three square meals a day and sweets galore are putting on weight again."
But
should her experlenze
faint to other give courage hearts who know that they are overweight, but haven't got the strength of mind to do anything
about it.
PROGRESS REPORT
Pauta Valenika's slimming chart tells what she achieved
in four montiu:
BEFORE
AFTER
Werest 11 L
33 in.
20 in. 2003 n.
364 In.
Chest
Bost Wals! dlion
HOMERCOLUMN
Don't neglect.
That
Tired Feeling
By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D.
ANY people those troublesome for both doctor and
clases the
Mdays soom to ba con- pallent, because it so often dis
presence
of
atitutionally tired. unsuspected diseases in their bo They go to bed tired, wake ginning stages when they are up tired, and drag through most readily curable. the day under Д great Eye Examination burden of fatigue. Since
The physician who has a tired they have no marked symp. patient to deal with will perhaps toms of disease, they are examine the eyes first. If the often told by some friend pits do not contract when they aro exposed to light, it may in- that nothing irs wrongdicate some nervous system with them and yet a disease. really thoroughgoing phy with paleness
A discharge from the nose, of the lining sical examination would membrane, may indicate allergy probably disclose half A or sensitivity. dozen
may suggest for their Miasing teeth
soma nutritional deficiency or habitual lack of energy.
Iack of vitamina or, perhaps, Indigestion. Infected teeth may be a cause of tiredness brenuse their poisons may be taken up by the blood and spread throughout the body.
reasons
The body reacts to so many many different situations by fatigue, that if the rource of the trouble is to be found virtually every organ must come In-for its share
Such of scrutiny. examination may be well worth while, even though !! Is
You may
by Panga Panga
be floored
INCE restictions
an
on By PAMELA BLAKE store is giving daily demonstra-
Selwood Bucclund, were
and
balance 10
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tions of pressure cooking.
For 2 you can buy a small
lifted in Britain more than the base, never to overcrowd an saucepan, which will cook one 30 lovely Empire woods arrangement, to strip at least Fem at a time; for £125, 17s, Od. have become available. 50 percent of the follage so that you can have a cooker that wil There are varieties with th outline of leaves and colour cook a complete meal for four of berries can be appreciated, It takes about half an hour to romantic names like Panga
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Newest type Rhodesia, correctly.
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(Roughly height of flowers fruit or sterilising 24 baby feeds tralia, and the warm-toned should be two-thirds that of the at one time In advance. Mahimbi from East Africa. vase itself and width of flower Worry of party-giving par- arrangements should be roughly quet floor owners has been that the same as the height.) their guests might drop lighted
clgarette ends From Sweden
on the
cones a
wood PX!W
plastic polish, which prevents burning
ond
other
damage.
Flower decoration
Did you know?
It's that bear aguin
There will soon be a much wider
of cholco
furnishing fabrics on the London market. curtains and divan High price of cotton is giving .... that
hand-made bres. coverings are now being hand- a chatice' to Marks are just wiped off with a painted with dyes by a method Rayon, with a rough finish, is akin to the ancient Easter dye a favourite for the new designs. damp cloth.
technique. Result is colourful One firm tests for colour fast- and beautiful and not too ex- ness in South Africa where the pensive. Curtains cost as little temperature is 100 degrees, the First spring flowers are lovely as three guineas can be safely humidity 30. though
it is laundered and are Individually expensive and
For the nursery there are Bo- important 10 Ket maximum designed.
Brumas and carnival effect from a small bunch. to it until the
...that there is a new gadget Peep,
обь spun rayon. banish cooking Large, course flower baskets to
smells and designs
Jacobean design, hand-printed in are attractive for hal table or flies In Kitchens,
designed for Surrey, has been that n winter replace.
want those who screening
on a "sill-drop" And for tall vase
green domestic help us0
can now easily use
country collagest Regency branches to give bulk, with half engage a German cook-house stripes and flowers replace more dozen daffodils for colour, all keeper or nannie-if they can expensive fabrics In grand ing in the base
vase wait two months and pay about
Paula's diet may be too ex- treme for the average woman, But the main thing is once you embark on a slimming diet or course to stick objective is achieved.
Passive reducing
For the very inzy or self- Indulgent, or those who are, loo busy to take exercise, there is a new alimming method just In- troduced from America. It is called passive reducing and is as easy as lolling in a hammock.
Especially Food for "spot" reducing it gives strenuous ex- ercise ond muscle toning to offending bulges. It is an effort- less way of reducing and costs £ 6s, for a course of eight treatments.
40 soups
Tante Marie is as familiar household name in France as Mrs Becton is in England, and her delectable book of 050 recipes has just been translatea into English for the first time. It is a practical guide for those deceivingly simple dishes for which French home cooking is so famous, Forty recipes
for soup are given, served, of course, with
their accompanying croutons. Tante Marie's book Is called French Kitchen.
now
19
111
A book that will Interest the younger members of the family, especially
that tiny Bats make pet-keeping difficult, Fishponds and Aquariums. It given the simple ABC of sh keeping-in an ordinary bowl the sitting-room, a back garden pond or a real aquarium. Hav- ing spent half-an-hour with this litt book, the result is an out- lay of £1 2 and three golden fish with black toils decorating my sitting-room,
tos
For
violets.
of
the
A
with u solid block of colour, £3 a week (average £3 salary rooms.
Rayon washes and hangs well much or blue scilla or purple and £2 ke:p).
without lining. These designs Most interesting arrival Fr General rules for effect are to post-war kitchens is the pressure will be on sale soon at about 13s. use puler shades at the top of cooker. For the interested but 11d..a rard, 48in. wide. the vase, shading to deeper at unconvinced, one blg London
AND
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the
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-London Express Servire
Sores on the tongue and lip nay indicale deficiency of vitamin D. or a lack of iron.
Thyroid Gland
may
over-active also result
In
An enlargement of the thyroid rland in the neck may indicate thyroid deficiency, which is frequent cause of tiredness. On the other hand, the whipping up of all bodily processes, which resu
from thyroid (atigue.
The pallent's blood pressure should be taken. If it is too low,
it may be a symptom of what is called Additon's dicenze, in which there is lack of secre- tion from the adrenal glands located above the kidneys.
A test known as the sedimenta- carried out. How test may be
This test is done by determining how fast the red cells scifle out of the blood, An increased sedimentation rate may Indicate and д some hidden Infection
search careful
exactly what
order.
to discover it is, is then in
Tiredness may be a symptom of undulant fever, an infection due to germs which may be con- tracted from unpasteurised milk. A test, known as the agglutine- tion test, is helpful in detecting this disorder. The test la carried by seeing if the patient's blood serum will cause stump- ing of the undulant fever germs. Blood Count
counting the rod
out
Of course, cells and determining the amount of colouring in the blood since important anaemia cause tiredness.
are
Chest X-rays and an examina- tion of the heart will help de termine whether or not disorders of these organs are responsible for the dimeulty.
Fatigue may also be due to emotional strain, to the change of
to similar distur- life, and bances.
People who sleep poorly and take sedative drugs may, in a become very tired short time.
For this from the drug itself. reason, these drugs should never be taken except when prescribed by a physiclan.
Tindness is a symptom which demands careful investigation.
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