1937-11-30 — Page 2

THE CHINA MAIL NOVEMBER 30, 1937

PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES!

HE first boy friend I ever had was to all outward appearan- ces all that a girl could desire. He looked like a film star, danced like a dream, was plus one at golf. plaved the piano beautifully and handled a punt pole with skill and elegance this last a quality in men that "got us in those days because the river was then "the thing.”

I was the envy of all my girl friends and life should have been a packet of fun, but there was a fly in my honey!

Enraged beyo

endurance,

seized me by the shoulders, shook me and gave me a hefty shove.

I have never been very steady on my pins, and I tottered back through the glass doors between the drawing-room and the conser vatory, fell through the conserva- tory windows and landed in the garden beneath, taking with me collection of geraniums and fuchsias

and my green bag!

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This was the first crisis (and I think being thrown through

window can reasonably be

He had a fiendish temper and, la when he lost it, he would jump described

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2 crisis) I had life, about like a kangaroo and bellow ever-experienced in my like a ball which always struck and, while I was thinking it over, I me as being funny, and I used to opened my bag, took out my puff laugh at him, which instead of im- and powdered my nose! proving the situation, seemed add fuel to his fire.

to

This appeared to my young man, who was gazing horror-stricken through the broken window pane, a proof of my infidelity, and he

The final row we had was over a green leather handbag which I had bought in a sale. It was beauti-walked out on me for ever. fully fitted and contained a purse. card case and powder puff sachet. all of which were made in greention, they try to hide their emotion silk, and, in order to keep to the in one waw or another.

colour scheme, the puff was of green swansdown. “

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When people are worried or find themselves in an embarrassing situa-

Some take a drink, others smoke.

ja cigarette but I do my face as I It was the first puff I had ever have always done since that day. It had and I used it far too often is not vanity, because I never look but I was very young then......

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"Where did you get that bag?” he asked the moment he saw it.

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at it while I am doing it; it is my particular way of being nervous.

My "boy" woke me this morning with the news that the boiler had "Nice, isn't it?” I said, waving burst, that a man had called to see

Ime about a it at himm

bill, and that he himself did not feel very well and must go away for a month's rest!

“I didn't ask you if it were nice.

I asked you where you got it.”.

Jittering with irritation I sprang

"I believe it came from a shop in out of bed and went to my dress- High street, Kensington."

"Who gave it to you?""

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ing table in search of a puff. I found lying there a long green tube "What's this?" I asked my boy." "It came for you last night. F'm

I grinned and he began to lose sorry, but I opened it by mistake." his temper.

"Was it a man?”

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I picked it up. It was a lemon magnesia nack. I read the direc tions, and I automatically follower them as rears ago in my first crisis had automatically powdered my

cannose.

I pouted and half nodded - (you know how sickening women be), and I was not exactly lying because the assistant, who had sold me the bag, had been a man.

I saneezed some of the back into la cancer, added enanoh water to moke it into a smooth paste, ***

Then the storm burst! And of read it over me entira fora with course, I laughed.

FOR THE SPORTSMAN. Slip a tie of She ko into your bag, it will come in handy for the treatment of cats

bruises and the many other

juries which are invari

Hot

more useful adjunct to a Composed, of a blend

Imo husband's shaving brush Ther

nattad it in with my knoera

I left it on according to the direc tions for ten minutes, during which time I was only half con- scious that my skin was getting tighter, and that the blood was coming into my cheeks, because all- my thoughts were concentrated on my troubles.*

I washed it off and then, in ore! der to make up, I had to look in the class. When I looked I thought I had gone bats!

I had expected to see a white, wrinkled, haggard face. Instead, a pink, smooth, unlined one met my gaze. The pack had performed a miracle. It had given me a brand new face!

A face that was so good that it zaliseptic drove boilers and bills out of my soothes and head and I went out to a lunch

party feeling grand instead good for skin complaints staying at home like a peevish old

eczema, itch, pim- sores óf all kinds and piles. Medicine dealers every-

SHE-KO

Antises

Soothing

Healing

POIKIZIL.

And, if that pack did all that for me, it will do the same for you. So, if you want a new face, buy the pack and use it, as I am going to do once a week for the rest of my

Middlesex County Selection Committee are busy conducting county net-ball trials at Greycoat School Westminster. Photo shows A strik- ing picture of two young players reaching for the ball. (Fox Copyright).

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