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EFFECTS OF ALTITUDE

Commercial airplanes of the near future equipped with cabins which will maintain sea levei conditions regardless of what altitudes are down will add to passenger com- fort, but will produce no marked change in the already high effi- ciency of conditioned flight crews.

This is the considerable opinion of Dr. Ross A. McFarland, of Co- lumbia University, who in company with Dr. H. T. Edwards, of Har vard University, recently made a round trip flight across the Pacific and back in order to complete a series of studies on altitude effects. The series includes a study made over the Chilean Andes in 1935.

Altitude effects noticed in some persons only accustomed to see level conditions and in mentality and physically exhausted passen- gers do not

in seasoned pilots.

occur

of

"On the contrary," states Dr. Me- Farland, "our experiments on the Pan American Clippers flights, which were made at altitudes from 8,000 to 12,000 feet, have shown that the flying crews of the clippers maintain a high degree of psychological and mental efficiency

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS EXHIBITS

THE CHINA MAIL,

The German inventor of this weird-looking gyraplane ties. The plane is shown about to land at the conclusion of a

DEVELOPMENT OF AIR SCHEMES

of urgent

ext possibili-

How Actress Keeps Hair Gleaming

Commercial air reports, received, facilitate the dispatch

Egg shampoo and regular brush- from various parts of the world, all freight by a combined use of airing keep Miss Katherine Hepburn's indicated the energy with which airways and railways. In Australia lovely red hair gleaming, bright, transport schemes are now being plans are being completed to extend healthy and easy to manage. Dur- developed. In Canada there is to be the operations of cargo-planes being the day if not working before an increase in mail services to re-tween rail-heads and remote sta the camera, the attractive actress mote areas. In the United States tions.

uses little or no make-up on face further steps are to be taken to From a good many areas come and neck, but she always give me

reports as to amplified facilities in ticulous attention to her hair. models. These include a demonstra-respect to the chartering of special tion, with sound, of the system by aircraft, while land-planes, sea- Miss Hepburn uses two eggs for which an aeroplane flying above planes, and amphibians are being every weekly shampoo. The whites. cloud checks its position by wire-used to an increasing extent in ex-and yolks are beaten separately un- less signals exchanged with ground ploration and survey work with a til they are foamy, then the yolks stations, also a working model of view to opening up, commercially, are rubbed into the scalp for five In addition to the Exhibition how landings can be made in bad regions which have hitherto lain minutes. The whites go on next, Train which is now touring Eng-visibility by means of short-wave dormant owing to the primitive and and these are massaged in, too. land, Wales, and Scotland, Imperial wireless.

undeveloped nature

of surface Airways have just placed a special At the Canadian National Ex-transport air transport exhibit in the New hibition the exhibits will include a Increasingly valuable work is serveral times with wazn (not hot) York Museum of Science and In-model of a tank for testing the being done by commercial aircraft water, once in a bowl of water to dustry, while the company will also hulls of flying-boats, a model wind-in forestry patrols; also in sowing which the juice of two fresh lemons be showing again this year at the tunnel, and a model of a combined seeds from the air, and in dropping has been added, again in clear Canadian National Exhibition. land and sea air-port. Large route chemicals for the destruction of in-water.

maps will show the extent of the sect pests. services now operated by Imperial

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Afterward, the hair is, rinsed

Miss Hepburn does not have fm- ger waves, preferring to leave fist the hair on the crown of her head. The ends are wrapped on paper

until the curls are loose and soft.

YOUR DAUGHTER'S rolls and, when dry, are brushed

HAIR

Scalp Massage

a

A little girl of six criticised me

Every third week, prior to the kindly but firmly a short time ago for not getting the parting in her egg shampoo, the actress has hair quite right. Taking the comb, scalp massage with ice water to stimalate circulation. Her hair is she corrected the faults of my parted in sections, pads dipped in

handiwork It was a disconcerting

experience, not so much because office water rubbed maly on the failure in a simple task as because scalp, the massaging continued for the amateur hairdresser realised ten minutes. Brushing is the next the wide gap

between the child's step. Then a shampoo. generation and her own.

You can, of course, combine an In her own childhood, when masses egg cleaning with a regular wash- of hair were the fashion, there was ing. Massage a lightly beaten egg often no need of a parting. One into hair and scalp, rinse out with confined beneath a neat lukewarm water, shampoo, using li-

*vice-in-Wonderland bandeau or ar- quid soap, rinse several times.

ranged in a deep wave over one

brow and fixed in that position by

a large bow of taffeta ribbon (black

for schoo' white for parties), and from as early as her fourth birth- although for this style a parting day a little girl has the parting in was more or less indicated it was her hair restored by periodic visits often an irregular one, especially if to the hairdresser. one's hair was curly and "rebel- A natural wave is treated perio- dically to make it more luxuriant lions."

and to lie perfectly, while straight The division of the hair into two hair is “moulded” into the correct parts, each secured by a side-comb line of beauty.

enables

or gathered into plaits at the back, This early training has another often brought about a clearly de-advantage. fined parting, but even a pig-tailed dresser to dete girl sometimes had one side of the th

hair draped partly across it.

To-day it is the fashion to train life the, hair in the way it is intended an

to go in womanhood, and sometimes long before

hair beginning of which Fin adult fades with white