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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 19, 1989.

Beauty and You

by PATRICIA LINDSAY

Chronic Fear Shortens Woman's Life

As spring is usually the season of hope, I want to urge all women and girls who are now unhappy to take a fresh grip! No woman can be attractive if she is going to let fear or worry get her down. If one embraces one's problems logically it is simply miraculous how they become solved!

A great many women (and men too) let fear cheat them of half

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Harmony is that noise you hear about 2.00 a.m. emanating from un- der the lampost just outside your window.

age,

their life. Women fear old sickness, the other woman, that harm might come to their children, that their husbands might lose their jobs. A million and one phantom thoughts disturb their mind and prevent them from carrying on in full capacity.

"I've known women to be chron- ically ill for years yet would do nothing about it because they fear.

Slenderizing Paneled Skirt

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Visions of WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN has made this woman wretched FEAR has robbed her of the happiness she should be having. Dont let that hap pen to you!

she wasted time and energy on FEAR. Absolutely not. she pushed ahead, pushed fear and doubt out of her life. She fashioned

ed seeking a doctor's advice about you think their ailments. The doctor might tell them they had this or that. He might advise an operation and there wasn't money for one. And helon might tell them these wasn't a thing wrong with them! If that was the case they could no longer hang on to the sympathy and help they were mulcking from those around them!

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WHY BE AFRAID?

determination. She ignored minor irritations, stupid accepted limitations. No inconsequential tiff of words ruined her day. No dread of what MIGHT happen to her, slowed her work. She had no time to spend in FEAR and she succeed- ed in not only having a very happy life but she gave some of it to hu Why should. you be afraid?manity 80 millions might be Afraid of anything. The truth is cured of dreaded disease. never so stark as the fear! Isn't it This is the loveliest pos- better to face the issue,"get your sible design for your new mind cleared, and take a new deep print or dark sheer, if

you breath and carry on? What a relief want something for street wear

once you KNOW about a thing. You and informal afternoons both-and usually can kick yourself for wast- if you want to look slimmer than ing hours on FEARING it! you are. A very weight-diminishing detail is the midriff section, cut in one with the front and back skirt pannels. This trick creates a long, unbroken line that is extremely slenderising. Darts on the shoulders and gathers above the waistline assure you comfortable fit over the bust, with no undue fullness.

Classically simple, this dress has

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elegance of line that seems amazing, when you discover how very easy it is to make. The pattern includes a detailed sew--chart. For this choose, silk crepe, georgette or chiffon.

TAKE' NEW GRIP Most of the things you worry about are so trivial when you think of life as a whole that it is silly for you to worry! Why let WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN ruin your to- day? Just realise that you can do Without fear a woman can move what you earnestly want to do-if mountains. Literally! She can feel there appears to be no way, you can within herself the energy to do find one. If you want to begin with whatever there is to do whatever being lovelier than you aré -why she desires to do! And if that driv- just start acquiring beauty to-day. ing energy is directed well, there. If beauty gives you self confidence, is no estimating her accomplish-work for it. Then work for the next goal. Thus, on and on, you will be

ment.

Think for a minute of the many stepping toward a realisation which women who have done things, who you FEARED could never be are going things now! Big things. | realised. Your life can be happy, Things which help our entire civili- your fear dispelled. It's simply up gation. Madame Curie, who dis- to you to take a new grip on life covered radium for instance. Do and head for where you want to go!"

Gland Discovery Restores Youth In 24 Hours

Sufferers from loss of vigour, ner- vousness, weak body, impure blood, failing memory, and who are old and worn-out before their time will be du lighted to learn of a new gland discov- ery by an American Doctor.

This new discovery makes it possible to quickly and easily restore vigour to your glands and body, to build rich, pure blood, to strengthen your mind and memory and feel like a new man in only 8 days. In fact, this discovery which is a home medicine in pleasant, easy-to-take tablet form, does away with gland operations and begins to build new vigour and energy in 24 hours, yet is absolutely harmless and natural in action.

The success of this amazing' discov- ery, called Dr. Nixon's Vi-Tabs has been so great in America that it is now being distributed by all chemists here under a guarantee of complete satis- faction or money back. · In other words, Dr. Nixon's Vi-Tabs must make you feel full of vigour and energy and from 10 to 20 years younger, or you merely return the empty package and get your money back. A special, double-strength bottle of 48 Dr. Nixon's Vi-Tabn costs: little, and the guarantee protects If your chemist can't supply you, to Muller & Phipps (China);

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Oh grandmama! THE tight frilled bodice and the flared crinoline skirt have

straight out of the old family album, but the figure

is her own. Great grandmama could never have achieved this slim athletic line without the high-pressure help of a sturdy lady's maid, but she achieves it by watching her diet and her drinks. Her cocktail for example is always a Gimlet because she knows that the girl who insists on Rose's Lime Juice today avoids a headache and a Rubens contour tomorrow,