1937-10-06 — Page 2

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 6, 1937.

RED TOENAIL ADORNMENT

IN HONG KONG

The painting of toenails and sɔ on is the subject of comment in St. John's Review which says:-

One of the striking developments in Hong Kong in recent years has been the multiplication of druggist| stores and of beauty parlours. .

The painting of the lips and of

TERRORISM OUTSIDE JERUSALEM

Jerusalem, To-da

Rifle shots were fired yester-- day from the hillside on a lorry travelling along the highway out- side Jerusalem. -

The Arab driver was wounded." -Reuter.

the fingers and toenails has now EMPIRE

become quite a common method of adornment.

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Red is the dominant note, because it provides or helps to convey the idea that the person is red-blooded and not anaemic, full of vigour and not. sexless.

It is said to have some power of excitation, as the red cloth of the matador on the bull

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for

FLYINGBOAT

SERVICES

London, To-day

Direct Empire flyingboat service

Some manufacturer of cosmetics between London and Karachi was opened yesterday by Imperial Air- ways, when the fiving Calypso left Alexandria for Karachi with pas-

sengers

and mails according to

an-

or editor of the trade journal toilet table articles learnedly nounced that the Chinese in distant ages did these things.

the

HARDLY FAIR

¡schedule.

A regular service between London fand Alexandria has been in existence

Unfortunately he was asked by a for some time. Sinologue in the Times to quote! Plans of Imperial Airways en- chapter and verse. That was hard-visage the extension of their flying ly fair. The trade journalist and boat services later to the Far East. propagandist might have cited the

In the near future, Australia is cases of more primitive people whose idea of personal adornment also to be linked up to the general is even more extreme, but the idea regular network of Empire flying- boat services operated by Imperial of dragging in the Chinese that a civilised community of deli-Airways Trans-Ocean

was

cate and refined, tastes did these things and that was a justification for doing them now. It is not, however, so much a question of the expense in money though that is considerable, since fifty million pounds per annum are spent on these things in England, which is a good deal more than half the na- tional expenditure on education per annum, but the expense in the timel which is involved in the process of producing these bizarre effects. Is! it another form of escape, like the novel or the cinema, and is it the result of the existing malaise which such interests indicate? The young ladies might justly retaliate on the men by pointing out the extrava- sant use made of tobacco, were it not for the fact that so many of them also indulge in this vice or is it also a virtue?

Inspired by the barristers and magistrates' wigs used in the "Parnell"" film, Miss Judith Allen caused quite a stir along the Holly- wood Boulevard when she appeared wearing a wig with her bright red tailored suit. A rage is predicted for these wigs, which Miss Allen says solves the coiffure and hat problem. Her wig, made by Max Factor, the make-up expert, cost £65. It is made of white horse hair and is similar to the wig worn by British judges (Fox Copy- right).

TO-DAY In Every City on THE GLOBE

Quarantine restrictions have been imposed by the Customs authorities. at Chefoo against arrivals from Hong Kong on account of cholera.

TELL THE

WORLD

if you

have something worth selling

USE

KELLY'S DIRECTORY

Agents for China:

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Some are enjoying perfect health others are in hospitals fighting for life. Millions start off in the morning feeling fit and bright but without the slightest warning there comes an attack of pain in the form of Headaches, Neuralgia, Nerviness, etc. Cold and Flu infection is as sudden as an accident.. For these ailments the popular world-wide medicine is "ASPRO. Its success is due to re- lief results that are quickly proved, and the fact that ASPRO is safe, because it does not harm the heart or have any injurious after-effects. Always use ASPRO' according to the directions to relieve Pain and Headaches, Colds, "Flu and Rheumatism.

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