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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 81, 1989

Beauty and You

by PATRICIA LINDSAY

Protest Your Child's Beauty By Checking On Health Now

Many a mother has wept when a needs day by day. But it takes medical authority. has told her, special knowledge to find out from "Nothing can be done now, but your time to time how a small boy or girl child could have been spared this is weathering the experience of misery had we seen him when the meeting life. thing first started." It may have been a physical deformity, a. mark

"It also takes special knowledge which could have been removed, to discover and remove any physi- crooked teeth which might have cal or mental handicaps which threa- been straightened. Too late! "Why ten દ child's well-being. Such oh why, didn't I have him examined knowledge is possessed by a quali- earlier!" she moans.

fied physician. Parents can help to give their children a fair start There are various reasons why by having a doctor check their phy- she didn't. Perhaps the child was sical progress at regular intervals. not obviously ailing. Perhaps the It is important for children to be family funds were low. Perhaps taken regularly to a dentist for the the child rebelled when he thought detection and correction of tooth of an examination. There are a defects." hundred or more reasons any one of which may have caused the de- lay. But the wise mother will ride over all of them, and have her child examined periodically so she will not have a "too late" verdict to face

later on,

GOOD TIME NOW

The beauty and youth of young girls may be preserved through help of a physician, LINDA DARNELL epitomizes

youth at its gayest.

are at hand, overexertion in vigor- "The day comes when a boy or ous and exciting sports, staying up girl passess out of the sheltered late at night, and he natural dis-

dies and whirlpools of adolescence. body's defenses against disease may channel of childhood into the ed-turbing emotional upsets of youth all use up so much energy that the

This is a time when sex changes and be weakened. It is between the rapid growth place an extra strain ages of 15 and 25 that tuberculosis on the body," continues this candid

survey.

WHY NECESSARY ¦

"A child is constantly trying out his body to see what it can do. At the same time he is learning to con- "It is also a time when young trol it. He, cannot do this without people are apt to "burn the candle help," reads a very instructive surat both ends. Sudden spurts of vey on health and beauty.

hard study which often come when "His parents can give him the boys and girls realize that gradu- protection and

guidance helation and the choice of a career

the

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BUTTER

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begins to make heavy claims. For boys and girls in the 'teens, a yearly medical examination may mean the avoidance of a long fight against] disense.”

AVOID ACCIDENTS

"Accidents take the greatest toll of life among young people. Many ac- cidents happen because the persons involved have some physical defect. A medical examination, which in- cludes a check-up of the eyes and ears, will reveal a hazard of this kind."

little tricks

T is an excellent precaution. to have covers over your up- holstery. When fixing a cover on to a chair-back slip a sheet of blotting-paper under the cover. It will absorb any grease.

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TY mud that is splashed on

Co stockings has eucalyptus

oil dabbed on and around the splashes has been found effec- tive. Use blotting-paper under- neath when dabbing.

WHEN washing a hair-brush. that has a wooden back," smear vaseline over the wood before applying water.

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